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- 31 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
5 Things on My Mind in the Second Year of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program
remember that it took me a while to become comfortable with the case method. As an engineer, I was trained to look for the right answer and to prove it with formulas and theorems. However, in an HBS classroom (and in real-life business... View Details
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Commencement 2016 Address | About
leaders’ virtues was Humility. Humility is a broad quality, but it has a few important dimensions. Intellectual humility is the virtue of knowing that no matter how smart you think you are, you can always learn something from other people. Harvard Business School is an... View Details
- 09 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools
as improved teaching and leadership talent, the use of technology in personalized learning, the Common Core State Standards Initiative, wider school choice, and a dramatic upgrade in the quality and use of data analytics to determine what... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer Merck & Co., Inc. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Earlier Education Union College, 1963 B.S., Electrical Engineering Other Jobs Eastman Kodak Company, 1963-66 "I was the first View Details
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
training program, and now just became employee number one at Microsoft's development center in Nigeria. And he's an amazing person, I mean with or without Andela, he would have been fine. When you meet him, you'll know, he's on a mission.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
article about Ted Levitt. I personally felt a special connection to him, perhaps as a result of our shared immigrant roots. We argued at length the concept that America was moving away from the melting-pot tradition he so much believed... View Details
- 24 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Trailblazing Success with Global Reach and Impact: Scott Wallinger (AMP 82, 1979)
Learn about the career resources available to HBS alumni through HBS Career & Professional Development I didn’t have any formal business training when I came to Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program (AMP) Executive... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency
deliver everyday tangible results. To that end, Meyer, deputy director general for The Private Office, has guided Mbeki's merger of the president and deputy president offices to form the Office of the Presidency. The new entity, which Meyer oversees, provides daily,... View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
- 12 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)
break out the most authentic Bhangra moves, you wouldn't guess that many of them were not exposed to South Asian dance styles before training to become instructors. "Another key aspect of our fitness program is that it is truly gender... View Details
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Case Method 100 Years | Baker Library
Faculty writes 600 cases for classroom instruction of military personnel 1946 to 1947 Industrial Films Introduced in the Classroom HBS introduces the use of industrial films into case teaching. 1951 Task Force Created for Case Writers The Central Task Force for View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
coded by the operator — to understand the area’s emergency needs. The third component, the institute portion of EMRI, organizes emergency medicine conferences and helps to focus attention on the need for India to develop emergency response systems. Last spring, it... View Details
- 24 May 2022
- Blog Post
Get to Know 2022 Class Day Student Speaker Peter James Kiernan
director of state operations, he was charged with keeping priority projects on track and handling any related crises. A year and a half into his job, the pandemic hit, and he became the point person for the state’s COVID response efforts.... View Details
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Figuring Out Her Mission | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
“Overnight,” Ming says, “we experienced a complete channel shift in terms of ticket purchases, school registrations and donations; with a corresponding lift in revenues.” On a personal level, Ming experienced a shift herself. “A lot of... View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
services enabled anybody having a baby at any hospital in the world to bank the cord blood. Trained obstetricians treated the procedure like an organ transplant, with all of the systems in place. Medical couriers transported the blood to... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Comfort Zone
comfortable, that task has to fall to the airports. “Travel was stressful already, and even more so after COVID. The airports need to respond by making this time as relaxing as possible,” says Fraser, who is also a trained architect,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
After the Revolution: Putting the Internet in Perspective
hours a day, has a development team instead of a staff, and has no checkout lines. Bricks-and-mortar firms such as Walgreens, on the other hand, must build physical stores and employ and train store staff. Customers have to show up in... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 25 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
Michael Schrader (MBA 2012) on Finding Entrepreneurial Success with HBS Resources
or for lesser trained medical professionals to administer them. It also makes the vaccines more compact and easier to ship. What started as a four-person operation in 2011 has bloomed into an enterprise that employs 19 people and has... View Details
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Design: At, Into, & Beyond - Race, Gender & Equity
belong. Maybe you’re mission-driven with a mind to tackle a deeply entrenched social issue. The interactions we have serve as a significant source of information that can propel personal and professional change. When we put design in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
are trained to make a difference in the world. Such stories inspire the School’s majority of alums to feel more connected and akin to each other, to HBS, and to the mission we all share. Lorne Adrain (MBA ’83) Providence, RI How to Make... View Details