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- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Fueling Innovation
By giving to the HBS Fund, alumni and friends support the School’s core priorities and help catalyze the launch of new programs and initiatives and sustain their growth. Featured here are a few key examples of innovations at HBS that would not have been possible... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
Case Study: Mind the Gap
the shortage of skills isn’t going away quickly. Berendt cofounded Talent Alpha in 2018 to fill that gap. The Kraków-based startup is building a marketplace to link Central and Eastern Europe’s software houses with global enterprises in search of talent—connections... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Escape from Alcatraz
Conquer: To escape from the first room of the Spook House, team members have to divide up tasks, each taking responsibility for observing and reporting on a different part of the room. Fail to Succeed: What can you learn from sand, shells, and doubloons? How to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 08 May 2019
- News
Lessons from the Ashes
really where it all began. Dan: I wonder, you have these four pillars refine, design, vision, and reality. How would you apply those four pillars to your own experience? Warwick: Yeah, certainly in terms of refine it was the take over and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
MBA Cohorts Will Merge Next Year
since the initiation of the system," he stated. "There have been scores of changes, experiments, and refinements that have made the first year of the MBA Program better and stronger, and we remain dedicated to delivering an extraordinary... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Innovation: Revenge of the Nerds
of Cambridge and Boston, approaching any independent business owner who might have a business problem the “nerds” could help them address. They also convinced Professor Lynda M. Applegate to allow them to pitch the idea to her Executive Education class, an exercise... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Cathy A. Nichols
and several other potential sites in Asia and Europe are being investigated. For Nichols, who is responsible for 8,000 employees and capital expansion projects exceeding $4 billion, overseeing this phenomenal growth, continually refining... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 05 Oct 2021
- News
Launch Signals
moment of uncertainty,” added Fitzgerald. The pair spent four years interviewing assault survivors and refining their product before launching in February 2020—and relaunching in June 2020. “Honestly, we were very concerned initially that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Nonprofits: Choosing a Path for Growth
growth and is interested in testing and refining its model in new locations; or when a nonprofit has less ambitious, less geographically dispersed expansion plans. We were not surpised that our research suggests that there is no single,... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Understanding Business Firsthand in South Korea
launched an upscale version of the cake and enlisted a team of first-year MBA students to help refine the product’s marketing strategy. The six-person team was among a group of 180 students, led by two HBS faculty members, who worked in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
An Exceptional Faculty of Scholars and Teachers
supporting them as they identify and then realize ambitious research agendas—requires significant investment. Teaching is a skill that is developed and refined over time. Few new faculty members arrive at the School with experience in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Drawing on the Crowd for Innovative Problem-Solving
model where people can assess the different approaches and collaborate on refining the best solution.” Interactions with a variety of crowds — including students and exec utives in his classrooms, fellow researchers, and the HBS alumni... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Christensen Center: Open for Business
and refine their teaching techniques. After he analyzed the tapes of the first-year courses, for example, he worked with the professors to help them learn from videos of their teaching and from each other. Videotaping classes is one of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
HBS Issues Upbeat 2006 Annual Report
125 new and experienced faculty members to help them refine their case-method teaching skills. HBS also invested nearly $84 million to support faculty research and course development, among the School’s highest strategic priorities. View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Big Ambition Behind Educational Innovation
Elective Curriculum, with both immersive and extended field course offerings that require students to deepen their understanding of the “knowing” and “doing” of business leadership. Innovation can also happen on a smaller scale, through gradual but persistent View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
New Magazine Makes Its Mark
Phillips and Nelson: Book reviews are their business. Courtesy Allison Nelson and Jon Phillips Three years after launching Bookmarks magazine, a bimonthly guide to new books, Allison Nelson and Jon Phillips (both MBA ’95) are still View Details
- 28 Feb 2025
- News
Alumni Startup Enters the Shark Tank
comfortable with technology. We also refined our AI-powered “Speech-To-Story” engine, which transforms spoken words into beautifully written stories. Finally, we’ve added features that make it easier for families to share these recordings... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Fellowship Campaign Approaching Goal
(MBA ’81), recently established a fellowship fund. “I hope our fellowship will inspire someone who has demonstrated strong leadership skills to come to HBS to refine those skills,” she said. Fellowship Dinner The significant impact that... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Cultivating the Next Generation of Thought Leaders
Curriculum or in Executive Education, where the synergies with their own work and deeper interactions with students give them a platform for refining their ideas. For Serafeim, teaching Reimagining Capitalism: Big Business and Big... View Details
- 01 Apr 2011
- News
My First HBS Class
used in the class discussion (like WTP, “meet” products, and “friend” products), much of it slipped by without my understanding, but I was interested to learn later that small teams in the class were using these concepts to help organizations (including HBS’s External... View Details