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01 Apr 1998
News

World Class Learning

Turkey. When the video ends, Janice McCormick, director of Academic Services, flicks on the lights and leads the group on its first foray into case method learning. Despite McCormick's encouragement, it is an awkward exercise, marked by... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

03 Mar 2017
News

Big Blue’s Big Bet

secondary leukemia caused by myelodysplastic syndrome, a group of diseases in which the bone marrow makes few healthy blood cells. The doctors changed the woman’s therapy plan, and her health improved considerably. She was discharged from... View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

01 Sep 2006
News

Down the Memory Chute

member would select three to five papers for grading by the entire group of readers. We would use those benchmarking sessions to try to assure that evaluations were consistent from reader to reader.” Wailes later became one of only a few... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Jun 2022
News

June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

Tales, author and retired group vice president of General Motors John Smith tells the story of how he and his team sprouted new life and purpose into the storied Cadillac―once the quintessential expression of accomplishment and success in... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2004
News

Retirement's Changing Face

time, Fidelity sent Terrana to the Odyssey program, a “School for the Second Half of Life” offered through HBS Executive Education. “It was a form of self-examination I’d never been through, a kind of group therapy for type-As like me,”... View Details

Keywords: Personal Services

12 Apr 2023
News

Step Change

for trade liberalization who worked to reform Egypt's social security and pension systems, among other innovations. Six months after Enan joined the ministry, in early 2011, the Arab Spring swept through Cairo. Many of her friends from... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

01 Jun 1996
News

Four Professors to Retire

Christenson was, for example, among the first to bring the social sciences into the mainstream of practical business studies in the MBA Program. In 1976 he also developed a teaching program that brought HBS methods to the training of... View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage

12 May 2022
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Onboarding

to all the national security agencies, if they want it. We’re a whole different group of business people. And so we help on things that are not in the hard core of national security, but are in things like finance, like HR. JH: Can you... View Details

01 Jun 2009
News

Inside the Partnership

author of fourteen books, including Winning the Loser’s Game, Joe Wilson and the Creation of Xerox, and Capital. An updated paperback edition of The Partnership will be available this fall. In addition to writing, consulting, and board activities, Ellis is managing... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

25 Aug 2022
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September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

him to beautiful, aristocratic friends at parties in chateaux across Europe. However, Mason discovers that not everyone in his new friend group is who they appear to be. Framed for a crime he didn't commit, Mason finds himself completely... View Details

30 Jul 2024
News

Reddit’s Rise

of consumer media, you know how important Reddit is because it’s where all your editors are finding ideas. It’s where they get their memes for the social handle. It’s where they do quick surveys. It’s when they see trends, like cultural... View Details

01 Oct 1996
News

Lasting Impressions

those in the Class of '71 were destined to earn their MBAs during one of the most turbulent social and political eras of our times. Turbulence within the class, in the form of widely divergent views on the day's events, was also in... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

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