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- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
on an island, so I flew over the island and said, ŒI'll buy it.' " In 1972, Nanuya Levu, as it was then known, was an uninhabited paradise lost, overgrazed by goats and battered by tropical storms. Undeterred, Evanson methodically went... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 01 May 2015
- News
Celebrating and Supporting Leadership
innovation in the MBA Program, such as the field method and HBX, the School's new online education platform. Intellectual Ambition—Pursuing cross-disciplinary faculty collaboration, generating important and relevant scholarly work focused... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity
that the effectiveness of the case method depends on students coming in with a variety of experiences. If we only had one industry, geography, culture, or socioeconomic experience represented in our classroom, that’s going to give a... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
enterprise run out of cash.” Over the past three years it seems like a lot of people missed that lesson. Looking ahead several decades, do you think the case method of instruction will remain a firmly rooted part of the HBS experience? I... View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
of business, and it taught me how to think as a businessperson,” says Fisher. “The case-study method is fantastic at making you assess all the factors you have to deal with. It says, Here’s the situation; what’s the action plan? And... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
phase along with Stanford Business School professor Charles O'Reilly. The case method is the primary learning tool; overall, cases used in EDP range from an examination of General Electric CEO Jack Welch's management style, to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
on financial history or indeed any kind of history. Finance is often taught as a branch of mathematics in a rather technical way without adequate reference to past experience. I think HBS is actually in the best position here because the case View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
the physiological state of the human body. A much better method is to get information about the DNA, RNA, and proteins. Understanding that information will help us detect a disease before it becomes symptomatic." "It's a way of thinking... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
"The professors at Harvard don't try to tell us how to run our schools like a business. They push us to consider possible applications of business models and methods in our work, but they understand that the organizational complexities we... View Details
- 17 Jun 2021
- News
Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity
Eisenmann analyze, methodically and with a very practical framework, why startups fail, was both convincing and enlightening,” says Etienne Deffarges (MBA 1985), cofounder and partner at Chicago Pacific Founders. “Starting the conference... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
with a “what’s in it for me attitude” and little patience. I have found that there is really no shortcut to success, and learning business takes time. Companies are different, industries are different, and the case method recognizes this.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
that point and have tried to use that lesson throughout my life. See Every Side Jacqueline Beato (MBA 2009) THE GREATEST LESSON I took from the case study method at HBS is that opposing viewpoints are all based on different experiences;... View Details
- 11 Apr 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)
all comes together. “I also rely on tools I learned in the Marine Corps to empower my team members to excel in their jobs without micromanaging them. I believe in setting expectations and milestones and then letting people work within their own style and View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
globe for a weeklong intensive education in building strategic perspectives. And intensive it is: Participants address everything from establishing methods of fiscal accountability to assessing organizational performance to mobilizing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
(INSEAD), today’s leading European business school. Scaling each of these peaks, Doriot bucked the prevailing system. Although he helped implement HBS’s famous case study method early in his teaching career, after the war Doriot... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
efforts, with satellite stores outside the museum and Web and catalog sales bringing in significant income. Sensory overload can easily sap a museum-goer's energy, and taking a break from the collections to eat is often an effective View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
minority college juniors and seniors to general management issues through the case method and encourages them to consider careers in business. A Saturday morning packed with sessions covered topics ranging from consolidation in the media... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
will have to grow, says NFL executive vice president Eric Grubman (MBA 1987). A 10-year veteran of the league, who in 2013 was ranked the ninth most powerful man in the NFL by Sports Illustrated, Grubman says the league must add millions of new international fans;... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
mistakes, and all the while they fed it books, dictionaries, the Bible, encyclopedias, everything. They tested it, endlessly, reinforcing the methods that had led to correct answers and amending the mistakes, which meant tweaking the... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
it always takes double, he explained to Rogers. When they say it will cost $30 million, it ends up costing $60 million. “I wish we could be better predictors,” said Immelt. “Could your method apply?” Yes, said Rogers, but when the... View Details