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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
Illustration by Martin Leon Barreto In a lot of ways, it didn’t seem like a very good experiment to run. A young HBS professor—a rising star in the Finance area, an economist by training, by then already looking down the road at an... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
choices we face. Regards, Dean Nitin Nohria I suspect there’s a great deal that most of us can agree on about capitalism. The free enterprise system, of which HBS is an essential part, has lifted billions of... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Three Promoted to Full Professor
business school faculty at the University of Chicago, where he created a new course titled Entrepreneurial Finance and Management. Gompers joined the HBS faculty in 1995. His research focuses on the structure, governance, and performance... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act
another HBS case discussion in the spring of 1978, calculator in hand, Bricklin (MBA '79) had an epiphany: there should be a computer program that could speed up the tedious computations case analysis often demanded. His concept, the... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Turning Point: Sum of the Parts
mother’s norm of doing what you can to help others. Hoping to also satisfy my father, I applied to HBS in the spirit of kaizen. Being admitted promised to change my life in many positive ways, but I felt out of place as a former barrio... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Corporate Governance Conference Addresses Global Challenges
Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Indonesia, India, and the Philippines. Professor F. Warren McFarlan, senior associate dean and director of the HBS Asia-Pacific Initiative, credited the School's... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
pretty businesslike in your judgments,” he says, noting that even a backup player generally earns an annual salary of $1 to $2 million. “The financial skills I learned at HBS have been extremely useful in that sense. You need to be able... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion
every class since the first graduation in 1975 gathered with their families at Orlando's Dolphin Hotel in late October to observe the program's milestone with the first-ever OPM All-Class Reunion. OPM graduates from 17 countries attended the five-day celebration, which... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Screen Tested
been anything but a shower singer, but I’ve always loved musical theater. I was in the HBS Show my first year and co-wrote the show in 1999, BGIE Nights, which was a takeoff on Boogie Nights.” HBS takeaway:... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Q & A: Gustavo Herrero
Gustavo A. Herrero (MBA '76) heads the Latin American Research Center (LARC), located in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The School's third off-campus research facility, the LARC will officially open in August with a research conference in Buenos Aires that will be attended... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Tech Trekker
In the middle of her second year at HBS, Ilene Lang sat in the MBA Program Office trying to convince an administrator to let her take a documentary film course at MIT for credit. As she made her pitch, then Associate Dean of Student... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 19 Aug 2010
- News
Classroom Hijinks: Catchphrases, Mottos, Cheers, and Mascots
Let me sing the praises of the unknown genius who devised the system in which an MBA section is taught all its first-year courses in one classroom. According to A Delicate Experiment, Jeff Cruikshank’s history of the early years of HBS... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Ink: Comfort in Discomfort
creativity and flexibility, sparking innovation. The book is based on 25 years of research. (Smith began hers at HBS and is now a professor of management at the University of Delaware’s Lerner College of Business and Economics; Lewis is a... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Right Stuff: Getting the Word from MBA Admissions
The Bulletin recently asked Jill H. Fadule, director of MBA Admissions, and Professor Steven C. Wheelwright, senior associate dean and MBA Program chair, to discuss some of the criteria the School uses in considering applications to the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
In an interview in last December's Bulletin Dean Kim B. Clark talked of launching "a profound transformation around information technology (IT)," an initiative that would earn for the School an unequaled reputation for intelligent,... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Exploring Big Issues at the Intersection of Business and Society
John Shad Professor of Business Ethics. Student feedback on Viewpoints was very positive. “It shed light on a lot of wider political-economic issues . . . [and] encouraged us to think about what we, as HBS students and future leaders,... View Details
Keywords: Educational Innovation
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
Street, raising the specter of a credit market collapse that would cripple the economy. “It is an anxious time. It is probably even a dangerous time. It is a historic time. And it is a time that we’re going to be teaching about in our classrooms for years to come,”... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Class Day and Commencement 2001
presidents Mini Desai and Stephen Moret, two of six students who received this year's Dean's Award, opened formal remarks on Class Day with their amusing descriptions of the HBS experience. They then reflected more seriously on some of... View Details
- 12 Feb 2016
- News
Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict
I felt there my first sense of being an entrepreneur.” Mendhro left Microsoft for HBS in 2006, but struggled with the adjustment while facing an acute health issue, which led her to take a break to return to Pakistan. “HBS was a dream. I... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 27 May 2014
- News
Crowdsourcing the Capitalist's Dilemma
The next time Professor Clay Christensen (MBA 1979) has a dilemma, he knows where he'll go for a solution: to HBS alumni. Christensen, Senior Lecturer Derek van Bever (MBA 1988), and alumni of the Building and Sustaining a Successful... View Details