Filter Results:
(112)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(644)
- People (4)
- News (112)
- Research (278)
- Events (3)
- Multimedia (3)
- Faculty Publications (161)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(644)
- People (4)
- News (112)
- Research (278)
- Events (3)
- Multimedia (3)
- Faculty Publications (161)
Sort by
- 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
- 25 Sep 2009
- News
HBS’s Oldest Class Secretary
are interesting and very cosmopolitan and keep my spirits high. I spent 36 years with what is now Exxon Mobil, the last 15 years in Venezuela, where I served as mgr. of its refining operations. My time at AMP was a treasure in developing... View Details
Keywords: Keith Larson
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Classroom Hijinks: Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
them featured in the Bulletin’s “Last Look” photos), and serenades of professors in the last class. The most common game played during class was Bingo, called Section Bingo or Turkey Bingo. It was begun by 1972A in their first year and was still being played in 1990H.... 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
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Harvard’s Future in Allston
f44a2f21f41f1b61595fd016e6eaa7c7 Harvard University’s proposed expansion across the Charles River onto land flanking HBS has entered a new phase, with four task forces hard at work on refining planning assumptions outlined by President... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
New Venture Winner Mines E-Waste
consumers to access core components. Take circuit boards, for example. The process would begin with grinding up the circuit boards and would end with a yield of refined commodity-grade metals.” Modeled after the School’s student Business... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
New Virtual Classrooms Expand Digital Learning
upcoming programs,” notes Nancy DellaRocco, executive director of Executive Education. “We could not have reopened our doors virtually so quickly without the new classrooms. The timing was fortuitous.” In recent years, Chandler explains, HBS has been experimenting with... 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 Jun 2003
- News
Strategic Networking
“By the time they zero in on those final few names, they’ll have refined their information even further.” That makes it easier to ask more specific questions, and the bank of knowledge accumulated from earlier conversations increases a... View Details
Keywords: Networking
- 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
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
you're actually hitting the mark. The greatest learning arises when you find that you're not achieving the results you hoped for. It's an opportunity to refine your hypotheses about what works and what doesn't." Even as the MCC moves... 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
- 28 Feb 2025
- News
Alumni Startup Enters the Shark Tank
This Friday night, Remento enters the Shark Tank. The startup, cofounded by CEO Charlie Greene (MBA 2021) in 2021, will be featured on this week’s episode of the long-running business show, pitching its “no-write life story book” vision to Sharks at 8/7c on ABC. We... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Students craft their post-HBS lives
distance with you. The advice I received was so much more valuable than anything I ever could have asked him about my career,” adds Danziger. The fall 2020 offering of the course was one of the first to fill during registration. Perlow View Details
- 01 Jul 2013
- News
The Nature of Business
their input as we refined our new conservation framework. Those conversations made a big difference in strengthening the plan and building the support to implement it." Given that TNC was his first CEO role, Tercek said HBS prepared him... 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 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