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- 09 Mar 2021
- News
A For-Profit Business That Makes Education Accessible
asked to pay their $20,000 fees even though they are also required to study from home using video they could probably get on YouTube,” he says. “That can’t last.” Alison also now provides free psychometric testing and cognitive skills... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Measured Approach
Ministry of Education mine its existing data around its students, test scores, and teacher allocations. The organization also did site visits to high schools to assess the programs’ overall success. Paul says that they are also helping... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 18 Aug 2014
- News
Closing the Education Gap
performance test scores. By June that number had jumped to 53 percent. “In nine months, we can effectively close the gap between poor and average performance on pre-K tests,” says Dias Griffin, “and we can do it for $6,000 per child,... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
"Pilots Push 787 Dreamliner to the Limit" - Watch some take-offs and landings best left to the test pilot professionals. "Capturing the Birth of the Dreamliner" - Photographer Ed Turner documented the global effort of manufacturing the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
where analysis of the facts and data fails to provide a clear answer. Gray areas test managers’ skills and humanity. Badaracco presents a five-question framework offering a way for managers to balance their analytical work with the human... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
and IBM tested such a concept in the early 1990s but terminated the project after failing to receive commitments from major record labels and retail franchisees. Perhaps more immediately on the minds of record executives is how to use... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
search for mineable asteroids. While their first few spacecraft will be used to test these capabilities, they will also observe Earth and collect data—ranging from oil and gas exploration to crop growth—to be sold to industry, academia,... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 30 Jun 2016
- News
Sal Khan Takes Innovation Offline
multiple languages on subjects ranging from trigonometry to grammar to organic chemistry. In addition to its recent partnership with the College Board to offer free SAT test prep, the organization also educates students at its... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
mission interrupts his search. Fighting unjust forces, Joe is swept into an evil plot that neither can elude. Their struggles against machines, men, and nature test the resilience of the human spirit. Set in a richly imagined near future,... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Reinventing Marketing
such as telecommunications and financial services are replacing the consumer goods industry as the testing ground of marketing innovation. To keep pace with these dramatic shifts in the business world, says Quelch, "marketing researchers... View Details
- 14 May 2014
- News
(Re)moving the Needle
second company, SynapDx, launched in 2009 while he was still at HBS, is developing a blood test for early diagnosis of autism. "With autism, there is a small window of opportunity," he says. "If you can give a parent a diagnosis when the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Richard J. Stillman (MBA 1940)
high-pitched speaking voice, he made a powerful impression. I next encountered him in March 1944. I was chief of the Third Army’s Test and Inspection Section, and our unit had been ordered overseas. At his headquarters in an elegant... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989
on the entire mining industry as well. Carroll’s mettle was tested early on when she was visiting South Africa and learned that another death had occurred in a nearby platinum mine. “That’s enough,” she said, and ordered the mine closed,... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details
- 04 Jun 2025
- News
Slice of Life
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In 2018, Bill Crawford (MBA 2006) founded Righteous Slice, a pizza restaurant in Rexburg, Idaho that has been steadily earning critical acclaim. It has... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
The Art and Science of Teaching
techniques” is Lemov himself, according to a lengthy article on teaching in the New York Times Magazine in which Lemov was featured (March 7, 2010). And no one is more surprised than Lemov at his own success. Noting that a Myers-Briggs personality View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
chairman of the privately held S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. (more popularly known as SC Johnson Wax), thinks of the story as more than a charming anecdote. "In my dreams I fantasize that someday Johnson Wax will be able to conduct a white-flannel View Details
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
well, but it was manual, requiring several redesigns and tweaks to perfect the models. It was frustrating. So Sabin designed a machine learning program that would test all of various parameters of club head design, iterate countless... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
school, it had the biggest improvement in English test scores among all middle schools in the city and the biggest uptick in math scores in the state. "We've had a strong start," says Given. "Our schools are high-performing schools, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Road to Recovery
withdrawal) and other incentives for remaining substance-free and engaging with a treatment program. The company currently offers programs for alcohol, opioids and heroin, and stimulant addiction. Participants can be prompted at random intervals to take an alcohol or... View Details