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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
of pages of regulations. Time and again the regulatory status quo blocks entrepreneurship. No wonder the twenty or so doctors enrolled in my Innovating in Health Care course at Harvard Business School are ruefully driven to earn MBAs once... View Details
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Departments | Employment
programs) Executive Education Harvard Business School (HBS) Executive Education brings together senior executives from the world’s most influential organizations, resulting in unparalleled diversity. We achieve this mission by working closely with faculty to design and... View Details
- 06 Sep 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mixing Students and Scientists in the Classroom
As an example, we had a discussion of medical ethics where I asked one of the physicians to role-play a doctor trying to convince a patient to enroll in a study. Not one of the fifteen physicians in the room would do it—even after a cold... View Details
- 12 Feb 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students
stress frequently, but it's a hard thing to teach in a classroom. Each year, thousands of business school students enroll in courses on finance. Their sights set on a career in money management, they dutifully study theories such as the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
he says. He also points to booming enrollments in the impact courses and clubs at HBS, as well as the proliferation of purpose-driven companies founded and led by students and alumni, globally. “Tremendous energy is being unleashed by... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
Ministry of Trade when his government sent him to study at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Duch enrolled at HBS because he wanted “to have both sides of the river as an experience, understanding the business side from the public... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
products. As the firm’s chief executive officer, she’s overseen the development of several new products, such as Pulse, a jump rope that can generate and store enough power to charge a cell phone. At the same time she was running Uncharted Play, Matthews View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
stint at Ford Motor Company and with the network equipment provider Linkabit, he decided to enroll at HBS. "I wanted to get the best education, and I felt that Harvard was the best business school," Ranadivé states, citing the case method... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
others have zero case discussion experience. As an example, we had a discussion of medical ethics where I asked one of the physicians to role-play a doctor trying to convince a patient to enroll in a study. Not one of the fifteen... View Details
- 30 Apr 2019
- News
Leading Schools That Change Lives
result of a recent $10 million gift to Salesianum’s endowment. “A $10 million gift is rare for any secondary school,” Kennealey observes. “The impact was tremendous and has gone a long way toward making our experience affordable for all qualified students.” View Details
- 05 Jun 2017
- News
Women on Boards: A Course Becomes a Movement
to complete the inaugural weeklong session of Women on Boards in the fall of 2016. When it launched, the course had the quickest enrollment of any Executive Education course at HBS. Now, with an even larger class anticipated for the... View Details
Keywords: Margaret Kelley
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Steven Rogers
taught me how to take the analysis I learned at HBS and apply it to real-world situations," notes Rogers. "I learned to be very comfortable solving problems." Meanwhile, Michele worked in the Harvard Development Office and then enrolled... View Details
- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
inconvenience, or risk to the veteran. And that is just the beginning. Hall is working with Veterans Affairs, which has integrated Troop ID to deliver benefits to veterans applying remotely and to reach out to the estimated 13 million veterans who are not View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
students, some 80,000 teachers, and an annual budget of more than $12 billion. Bloomberg’s commitment to change helped convince Shannon D. Kete (MBA 2000) to make the leap from investment banking into the public sector last February. Kete, who had View Details
- 29 Jan 2021
- News
Holding Business to Account
the naming rights to the team’s Maryland stadium and, in 2003, FedEx’s CEO became a minority owner in the team. In protest of the shipping-services giant’s involvement with the football team, a group of impact investors—including the Oneida Trust View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Measured Approach
the Free Senior High School (FSHS) program, which made tuition-free high school available to all students. Before that, even government-run schools were cost-prohibitive for many families. So students enrolled in significant numbers when... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 27 Mar 2014
- News
From Marx to Marketing
Admissions, made the overseas connections that led to the admission of the first MBA students from the former USSR, four of whom enrolled in 1990. More would follow as Vlachoutsicos continued his travels to Central and Eastern Europe,... View Details
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
Hospitals have the option of enrolling only their hard-to-match patient-donor pairs, while conducting easily arranged exchanges internally. This behavior has already started to be observed. We show that the cost of making it individually... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
schools are public schools of choice that operate outside the governance and policies of their local school districts. In nearly all states, charter schools must be open to all students, just like traditional public schools. Families choose to View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Keeping the Faith
It has been said that the note of a Tibetan singing bowl is the sound of inner peace. That’s not something you might expect to hear in the MBA classroom. But it rings through Hawes Hall at the beginning of each session of The Spiritual Lives of Leaders, a second-year... View Details