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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Innovation: Revenge of the Nerds
business owners in need of strategic planning and competitive analysis. When the team pitched the HourlyNerd model to classmates at FIELD 3’s simulated stock market, which allows peer “investors” to evaluate the business plans, the stock... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals
being. In higher education, historically we’ve been really good at the first aspect, and we’re starting to develop simulations and external activities to take some of this into practice. Where we haven’t been so great is being — having a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: Auto Pilot
McAllister (MBA 1965) KAPOOR: We think these fleets will be a game-changer for people with disabilities. The question is really when that will happen. The challenge is that the vehicles have to learn all the possible scenarios they’ll encounter on the roads, and they... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Scott C. Bolick
twice the 67 days usually needed to complete the arduous battery of simulated combat missions. The ordeal left Bolick 36 pounds lighter than when he started and further weakened by viral infections that required two overnight... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 02 Jun 2011
- News
Serious Fun
The educational power of video games and simulations to teach everyone from fighter pilots to senior managers is well documented. Games, after all, are fun. Our competitive instinct kicks in, and before we know it we’ve lost an hour to... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Past Informs the Future of Work
roles requiring different skill sets. In comparison, by 2018, Vodafone had installed chatbots—software applications simulating interactions with people—where one bot may replace three workers, but it hadn’t yet significantly altered its... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
between the academic and the practical, case and theory, a curriculum that’s both broad and narrow in its focus. There was a competitive spirit in the classroom that simulates the way business is the WAC Written Analysis of Cases was not... View Details
- 27 Apr 2023
- News
Life Preserver
Harvard/Mass General Hospital partners' laboratories, they've demonstrated success with human livers, frozen, thawed and, when hooked up to a simulated transplant model, fully functioning. "This could become the new way of doing... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
engineered our way into the problem; we have to engineer our way out of it. How do we find these new molecules? Unfortunately, we can’t simulate molecules the same way that we simulate larger physical... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
reverberate through a supply chain, causing huge swings of inventory and production levels. That's a difficult idea for a faculty member to convey at the blackboard. This year, we used our wireless network to run a simulation exercise,... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
MBA Program:Rapid Innovation in '96
Foundations is organized to build community by allowing each student to meet virtually every other student in the cohort. Foundations begins with a simulation in which students inherit a failing business and must turn it around using... View Details
- 04 Dec 2014
- News
Hacking Health Care
way: a project leader pinpoints problem areas and organizes a hackathon that is attended by an audience of 200 to 300 participants. Doctors and nurses on the front line engage with software developers who are eager to break through the industry morass—resulting, for... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Nietzsche said it first: What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger. There’s a reason that saying has legs, nearly 140 years later. We all, at some point... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
interactive analytical module that allows students to simulate factory scheduling and operations. Upton then demonstrated the School's revolutionary Web-based video system that provides full-motion digital video on demand with random... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Reinventing Marketing
Professor V. Kasturi Rangan, the required Marketing course has been revamped to include new initiatives such as a marketing-strategy computer simulation (called "Pharmasim") and a module on new product development, developed and taught... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
summary of Satyam’s activities. Then, in 1991, Raju suggested to an Illinois client that Satyam move its twenty associates back to India, where they would perform the same work but be paid in rupees, at a savings to both parties. The client requested that Satyam first... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
20, 2007, while Gisholt, Minard, and their three young daughters were waiting in line for Test Track, an auto-testing simulation that advises riders to “Strap yourself in to race up bumpy terrain, roar through hairpin turns, speed into... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
on shared terminals in Baker Library, the game required first-year students to put their newly acquired knowledge of marketing, control, finance, and operations to the test in a simulated competitive business environment. In addition to... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
teach, particularly quantitative courses, has been changed immensely by technology. We continue to experiment with simulations and other tools we think can enhance the learning experience. That said, the basic interaction in the classroom... View Details