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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rwanda Provides Students with Hands-On Learning
organize into effective teams and have the chance to work on a problem for several days, as opposed to the length of an Aldrich class period. They also have to think about how to communicate their recommendations in a sensitive way and in... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
This spring marked both the end of the academic year and a new beginning as HBS graduated more than nine hundred MBA students. These extremely talented young graduates joined the ranks of over 65,000 fellow alumni, located in 89 countries... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
The US Patent System’s Uncertain Fate
court for patent cases. That sounded reasonable on the surface, but it ended up making more stuff patentable with more remedies for patent holders. It has led to a flood of patents. LC: The research that I’ve done has focused on the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Profile
James Reinhart
Old clothes, it turned out, was not nearly as big a problem for men and women as it was for young kids — and their parents. Children’s clothes did create a significant problem for consumers because... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
One-on-One with Grover Norquist
Retirement Savings Accounts, making RSAs available to all Americans and the contribution level as high as possible. That would begin the process of ending the double taxation of savings and investment. Year three, go to first-year... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 25 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity
economic construct; it’s a psychological construct—the happiness one gets by being close to family and friends—and it needs to be taken into account.” By giving workers the flexibility to take vacation time when it is most meaningful to... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 04 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is E-commerce at Risk in Apple's Security Dispute with the FBI?
because of national security, and Apple can easily open up the storage closet (or in this case, the cloud service) and give it to them, they’re happy to do so. But the FBI is asking them to write a specific code to unlock their... View Details
- 21 Nov 2024
- Blog Post
Thoughts on the JD/MBA From a Recent Grad
administrative law class at HLS. Additionally, I completed the JD/MBA seminar that all JD/MBA students take during the third or fourth year of their program. The JD/MBA seminar is a student-driven course that functions as a capstone experience at the View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
getting his MBA in 1963, Platt joined Doriot at ARD. I was shocked and very upset. Doriot continued, “Did you know of any problems with investments or circumstances of his employment at ARD that might have caused him to take his own... View Details
- 10 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Perspectives on Anti-Racism in the HKS Curriculum
technical understanding of how race and racism have shaped the most pressing problems of our time. How effective was the course? Morgan: The course crucially broadened the perspectives of students who were new to considering how dynamics... View Details
- 18 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool
the problem owner (in this case, LISH) only pays for winning solutions with the platform acting as the broker. In simple terms, the intellectual property is transferred from the winner(s) to the platform, then onto the View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
Building a Startup at HBS
certainty for anyone admitted to a hospital, still involved a great deal of guess work and discomfort. We reached out to staff at a number of leading hospitals in Boston and learned that the problem is especially severe in neonatal... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Innovation: Revenge of the Nerds
of Cambridge and Boston, approaching any independent business owner who might have a business problem the “nerds” could help them address. They also convinced Professor Lynda M. Applegate to allow them to pitch the idea to her Executive... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
tendency to prefer poor agents as they are easier to monitor. More generally, we describe the basic problem of choosing agents and monitoring consumption with the aim of reducing corruption and discuss features of the practical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2015
- Op-Ed
The Fall of Greece
and, in any case, did not manage to reform the country in a fast enough pace. Driving from Athens to Thessaloniki in 20 hours is hardly an achievement—even if there is a lot of traffic. Moreover, I am happy to see old faces go: I am a big... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
improve inner cities a decade ago. In the early 1990s, with support from then HBS Dean John H. McArthur, Porter oversaw a series of field studies that looked at potential solutions to the problems facing America's inner cities. This... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- Blog Post
Weekend Sprint: Accelerating Climate Solutions
in early-stage ClimateTech companies. To start off the day, Professor Jim Matheson provided critical background knowledge on the context of climate change, exploring both the key problems and opportunities that climate change presents.... View Details
- Profile
Dan Lennox-Choate
anything else." Day after day, Daniel created step-by-step to-do lists that assigned specific tasks to specific people at exact times. "No strategy," says Daniel, "just putting out fires." Unfortunately, Daniel's approach created new View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Preparing Future Leaders for Tomorrow’s Challenges
Enriching the MBA Experience Through Curricular Innovation In its first century, Harvard Business School created the pedagogy that has come to define management education around the world. The case method, adapted from Harvard Law School, brings real-world business... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
those fears with some of these kind of analytical approaches but I find, generally speaking, people want to sensationalize things and they want the scary stuff to emerge. So, even if you counter it, we don't get quoted as much in those things as the people who are... View Details