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- 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 2010
- News
Students Serve as Consultants
Twelve HBS students spent their January Term as volunteer consultants to USAID projects in Bangladesh, Jordan, Morocco and Uganda. Only in its second year, the student-led Global Impact Experience program, the brainchild of Rich Chung (MBA ’10), screened more than 100... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
which is the ability of computer systems to learn from a language as it is spoken, in all its idioms, colloquialisms, and technical-ese, and without having to be explicitly programmed to learn these things. The IBM computers answered... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity
Black applicants as well as applicants from other underrepresented minority groups. While admissions are based on merit, financial aid awards are based on demonstrated need, and in recent years, HBS has... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
employer so that you are getting the skills they know you will need in their setting today and tomorrow. And I think that's something that's applicable well outside of K–12. What we hear from employers in every sector is that higher ed... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Future Source
applicants the most in-demand programming languages and provides living expenses in exchange for contracted developer time with client organizations. Its acceptance rate is less than 1 percent, but the open... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 21 Sep 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
technologies. “Innovation should be part of the mission of every physician,” says Amadio, currently chief resident in the neurological surgery residency program at Emory University, in Atlanta. “We have been at the medical game for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
MBAs by the Numbers
With a record number of applicants — more than ten thousand — to the MBA Class of 2004, it seems that the acronym “B2B” could now stand for “Back to Business” School. From this impressive pool, MBA Program... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
A Force for Good
the practice known as “résumé whitening,” are more likely to get through a recruiting process than those whose names clearly identify them as a racial minority. Ananth Kasturiraman (MBA 2017) says that employers are missing out on a rich pool of talented View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
MBA Cohorts Will Merge Next Year
outstanding educational experience, stimulating innovation and change in the MBA Program, and providing valuable experience and learning about program delivery." While the decision to discontinue the cohort system was based on a number of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Mission in Motion
then-Dean John McArthur, and Professors Jim Austin and Kash Rangan. That commitment confirms a strong strand that has run through the School's DNA since the 1970's—in fact, every year more and more MBA applicants are drawn to HBS for its... View Details
Keywords: summary
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Robert Buzzell Remembered
Buzzell Photo Courtesy HBS Communications An expert in strategic marketing, Robert D. Buzzell, the Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing, died last November in Virginia. He was 71. Buzzell was perhaps best known for his role in the formulation and analysis of a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
team, an experience that convinced him that he needed more management skills. By his own recollection, he was virtually “clueless” about the very special place to which he was heading. His application to the MBA View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Back to School
World War II,” says Thomas. It was assumed then that applicants for a teaching position didn’t want to do anything else, or that they didn’t have many other options, conditions that clearly don’t hold in today’s world, where vacancy rates... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
new initiatives, including the California Research Center (see the feature in the December 1997 Bulletin), an effort to increase the pool of outstanding women applicants to the MBA Program, and new Executive Education View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
US Navy, works as an application research engineer, and then attends Harvard Business School, where he finds that the financial industry is his true calling. So begins his rapid ascent in the corporate world, which includes senior... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
An Investment in Tomorrow's Leaders
Understanding that for many prospective students the greatest barriers to attending graduate school are financial, HBS is taking proactive steps to make the MBA Program more affordable. The School has held tuition flat for the past five... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Students Start-Ups Tap New HBS Fund
Nine HBS student-led teams received grants in March averaging $5,000 to $7,000 to launch and test their start-up business ideas. A total of $50,000 was made available through the pilot Minimum Viable Product Fund program run by HBS’s... View Details
Keywords: awards
- 30 Oct 2018
- News
Paths of Victory
each category—met in mid-April at the Rock Center to give one last 90-second pitch to the judges and audience. In each category, the Grand Prize winner took home $75,000; the Runner-up $25,000; and the Crowd Favorite $5,000. Applications... View Details