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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Rebooting Europe
says. “The question is, why don’t they take those kinds of risks in Europe? That’s because the barriers and frameworks and bureaucracy don’t give them the incentives.” One solution, he notes, is bringing innovation into View Details
- 05 Oct 2016
- News
Harvard to Open Life Sciences Lab
The Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab is the newest addition to the growing portfolio of innovation facilities on Western Avenue in Allston, joining the Harvard Innovation Lab (i-lab), which opened in 2011, and the... View Details
- 16 Mar 2018
- News
Douglas Spreng (MBA 1967)
sat back and observed before finally taking the leap and getting into the mix.” He grew to enjoy the classroom discussions and learning how to verbalize the analysis and arguments that he was comfortable making on paper. “HBS taught us... View Details
- 27 May 2014
- News
Crowdsourcing the Capitalist's Dilemma
discussion of "The Capitalist's Dilemma"—the challenges of innovating for long-term growth and job creation—in the Harvard Business Review. The team of more than 150 people (see below) collaborated using the OI Engine platform developed... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
don’t have a clue. “What kills me is that there are all these companies using buzzwords like ‘innovation’ in their annual reports. And I believe that 98 percent of them don’t know what innovation really means,” says Ross. “It’s not as... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Thirteen years ago, Marcelo Claure, founder of wireless services company Brightstar, discussed with a reluctant Steve Jobs the idea of launching a trade-in and recycling program for iPhones. It was a business move that expanded the market and created a new profit... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Meyers
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Examining Climate Change From a Business Perspective
opinion and climate policies, and the relative cost of various energy sources. “There is always lively classroom discussion about whether industries that pollute are paying a high enough price for their trans- gressions and whether View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
ISSUE FOCUS: EDUCATION INNOVATION Bright Idea #1 Training the Global Workforce, Gratis Mike Feerick (MBA 1993) FEERICK: At the grade school he attended in Ireland. "Knowledge and understanding," he says, "are being unleashed via the web... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
The charter school movement was supposed to transform American public education. So far, though, the results have been mixed. But HBS grads nationwide are offering new approaches, innovative methods, unique models—all of them begging the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Far-Reaching Impact
are designed to create a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive community. In addition, HBS now provides full-tuition scholarships to students with the greatest need, nearly 10 percent of the MBA Program's student body, and more support for students from middle-income... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 24 Jul 2020
- News
Reimagining Chicago’s Schools
that could better personalize middle and high school education, closing the gap between students who excelled and those who needed support? So, in 2012, Zaikos launched the Intrinsic School—a network of public charter schools with an View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
Australia, and Wichita, Kansas. "Boeing Company: Moonshine Shop" - A case by HBS professors Robert Austin and Richard Nolan details front-line innovations implemented at Boeing by a small group of creative generalists. Sailing instructor,... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
The second in a series of occasional reports on current research from some of the many faculty members whose classroom presentations to alumni have been a cornerstone of recent HBS reunions, this month we report on Professor Howard H.... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
dramatically. In a talk on March 20 titled "HBS @ the Frontier: The Future of Management Education," Dean Kim B. Clark brought conference-goers up-to-date on HBS's newest innovations in the use of information technology. Clark declared... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
technology that offers personalized instruction, is what I hope will come out of this. Do you see online learning dominating the education sector 10 to 20 years from now, or will there be a more blended approach given that socialization and coaching in the View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
innovation within such a structure. In the 1930s and 1940s, Deans Wallace B. Donham and Donald K. David oversaw significant research on the importance of innovators to business. Much of this material was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
all the time.” He cites a quote from famed racing driver Mario Andretti that came up during an HBS classroom discussion: “If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.” “I found the case method very pragmatic,”... View Details
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
A Bridge to the Future
Returning to the place where their HBS experience began, students in the MBA Class of 2015 convened with sectionmates in their first-year classrooms in late April to participate in an innovative new capstone... View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- News
Using Technology to Tailor Learning to Each Child
Heather Staker (MBA 2001) is president of Ready to Blend, a firm that works with K-12 teachers to combine educational technology solutions with classroom instruction to accelerate children’s ability to learn and achieve. In this... View Details
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
Giving millions of students a new path to learning
Sal Khan (MBA 2003) is the founder and CEO of Khan Academy. In this video, he talks about his path from hedge fund analyst to education innovator and the explosive growth of his online learning platform. “I’m the founder and executive... View Details