Tertiary Education System - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Oct 2019
News

Preparing Leaders to Leverage Artificial Intelligence

self-driving cars to robots mopping up spills at the grocery store. As computer systems increasingly perform tasks that people once did, the implications for business are enormous. Although more than 80 percent of executives believe AI... View Details

Keywords: Intellectual Ambition; Pathbreaking Research; Artificial Intelligence

01 Apr 2002
News

Insights into Business in Islamic World

Bridging differences in political and economic systems has always been one of the challenges of international business. Where religious beliefs influence those systems heavily, as is increasingly the case in... View Details

Keywords: Islam; Educational Services; Educational Services

01 Mar 2009
News

A New Approach to Health-Care Reform

that is affordable and simple to use. In your book, you identify fee-for-service reimbursement as a “runaway reactor” in accelerating the rise in health-care costs. Why is this system such a problem? By some estimates, 50 percent of all... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2024
News

Far-Reaching Impact

Above: Teachers in India's daycare system draw on Rocket Learning's digital platform to enhance learning. Photo courtesy Rocket Learning When the news reached Namya Mahajan (MBA 2022) as her HBS graduation was approaching that she would... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Oct 2000
News

Faculty Retirements

Robert H. Hayes An expert on industrial management and competition, Robert Hayes, the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, joined the HBS faculty in 1966. He has taught numerous courses and thousands of students in both the MBA and the... View Details

01 Sep 2009
News

Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut

consumer finance? The household sector in America is huge, representing approximately $61 trillion of assets. And consumer finance businesses are the touch points between the financial system and millions of consumers. Despite its size... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services

25 Mar 2021
News

Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy

campus and the launch of new educational programs. Nitin Nohria, the 10th Dean, who served for more than 10 years, continued this trend. Harvard Business School Online, the Harvard Innovation Labs, the field method, and new MS/MBA program... View Details

01 Jun 2001
News

Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century

different could things be?” It’s only been thirteen years since I graduated from HBS, and we in the Class of 1988 were remarkably forward-thinking about technology. Ours was the first class to have a subject called Management Information View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services

December 1997
Case

Making the Grade (A)

By: Robert L. Simons

Focuses on the dilemma of a young professor at a graduate school of business. He must decide what final grade to give a student who has worked extremely hard, but he is constrained by the school's "forced curve" grading policy. Designed to explore the multiple purposes... View Details

Keywords: Design; Management Systems; Performance Evaluation; Motivation and Incentives; Education Industry

Citation

Educators

Purchase

29 Apr 2022
News

Clean Slate

build toilets, but then use it. JH: The coalition tries to educate the public with several kinds of outreach methods—from town meetings, to videos like these cartoons you can find on their YouTube channel. In this clip, a mother nags her... View Details

Keywords: Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems

01 Dec 2010
News

One-Time Update for Alumni Web Site Access

Editor's Note: The new log-in system has been delayed until January. Beginning in December, visitors to the HBS Alumni Web site will experience a one-time change in the log-in procedure to access the Alumni Directory, Class Notes, Giving,... View Details

Keywords: meta

01 Mar 2009
News

Letters to the Editor

untested, financial system,’ one that has proven to be unexpectedly fragile in a way that nobody really understood.” This is the Harvard Business School? If the basics of the financial system are not understood here, then perhaps the... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services

01 Jun 2016
News

Imagine an Economy Without Wall Street

and capital only serve to stifle economic growth and opportunity, Nohria wrote. He also took note of critics who point to instances of global financial misdeeds, mistakes, or crises over the past decade and attack Wall Street for its apparent “greed” and self-interest.... View Details

Keywords: Wall Street; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

12 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Facing the New World Order

Interestingly, what I think we're arguing in the end is that innovation and commitments to research and development and high levels of tertiary education can, to an important extent, although not entirely,... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

02 Sep 2021
News

Back to School

Nick Simmons (MBA/MPP 2019) was no stranger to the principal’s office as a student. “I was definitely an active, energetic young person who wasn’t always paying the closest attention,” says Simmons, currently senior advisor for school reopening and recovery under US... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

15 Dec 2024
News

On The Case

Professor Linda Hill first met Tom Mihaljevic (GMP 15, 2013) when he came to campus to participate in a fireside chat that Hill unexpectedly wound up facilitating. At that time, he was the CEO of Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, and the pair found they had a lot to talk... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Mar 2017
News

Promoting a Deeper Understanding

Sherri and Jed (MBA 1975) Bullard One of HBS’s greatest strengths, says Jed Bullard (MBA 1975), is that it trains students to appreciate different perspectives, in particular, how people brought up in different countries, cultures, and political View Details

August 2023
Teaching Note

Kunshan, Incorporated: The Making of China’s Richest Town

By: William C. Kirby and Noah B. Truwit

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 313-103. The case is designed to give the students an understanding of the local Chinese entrepreneurial state and how foreign and Chinese firms have worked with it to create China’s richest small city. The major themes are—local state... View Details

Keywords: Higher Education; Entrepreneurship; Economic Growth; Economic Systems; Business and Government Relations; Development Economics; China