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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Faculty Books
Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael B. Horn (MBA ’06), and Curtis W. Johnson (McGraw-Hill) Taking a cue from Bill Gates’s 2005 critique of the American school... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni Connections: Photos of Recent Alumni Events
questions. 6 Jeff Immelt, then-chairman of General Electric, and Professor Emeritus Ben Shapiro on stage in Burden Hall. To learn about upcoming events, please visit alumni.hbs.edu/events. View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Raymond M. Jefferson
reassess my priorities. I always believed that with perseverance and hard work I could achieve anything. Now I had to prove that I could live up to my ideals." To regain his confidence and renew his spirit, Jefferson began a journey around the world alone. "I View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Alumni Luminaries Discuss Careers, Values with HBS Students
students an opportunity to learn from the experiences of this remarkable group. (Award recipient James E. Burke [MBA ’49] was unable to attend.) During the one-hour session, audience members asked panelists for their views on a range of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Christine Fairchild to Head External Relations
Rapier (MBA ’92), formerly the School’s associate dean for External Relations and chief financial officer. Rapier recently became Harvard University’s vice president for alumni affairs and development. Richard P. Melnick (MBA ’92) has... View Details
- 11 May 2011
- News
The PMD 70 Tree and Other Memorials at HBS
or renamed after HBS deans (George P. Baker, John McArthur, and Stanley Teele), prominent alumni (William Connell, MBA 1963; Robert Greenhill, MBA 1962; Rodney Hawes, MBA 1969; John Loeb, MBA 1954; Gipp Ludcke, MBA 1925; Arthur Rock, MBA... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
learned about the effects of one-to-one tutoring—that in a live environment with one great teacher and one student, you get amazing outcomes relative to group instruction. The challenge is that we can't afford one great teacher for each... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Taylor R. M. Keen
adolescence into the Omaha Warriors Society. "That's where I learned manners of humility," he says. He attended public high school in the cities of Omaha and Tahlequah and then Dartmouth College, attracted by the school's strong Native... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Steven C. Watson
schools — were having limited success,” he explains. “My take is that with the huge bureaucracies in public education and the teachers' unions, reform needs to happen from the inside out. To make a difference, I knew I had to start my View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
be. From outsiders we learn that she is a very industrious & prudent old lady, well meaning & will not bargain for more than she intends to pay for, that she is doing a snug business (which is managed by her son ‘Herman,’ aged 24, who has... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Global Leadership Initiative's Director Focuses on Technology
As the first director of the HBS Global Leadership Initiative, Alan Price is working to extend the School's reach in the teaching of leadership. Launched in 1999 by Dean Kim B. Clark and headed by leadership expert Professor John P.... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Mary Quin: A Life-Changing Story
When she describes the experience today, Mary P. Quin (MBA '88) remains composed and thoughtful. Yet four years ago, Quin, a seasoned world traveler who had visited over sixty countries, was taken hostage in the desert of Yemen and faced... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
process large amounts of data. But how can the strengths of each be combined for maximum benefit? Citing the latest neuroscience and his research with experts in mind-machine combination, Prensky shows how smart people are learning to... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
help them with the nuts and bolts of starting their own business, and pitching their final plan to a panel of real-world venture capitalists and entrepreneurs, HBS Business Plan Contest participants gain a unique, out-of-classroom View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Faculty Symposium Honors McArthur
presentation and discussion of papers written to mark the event were conducted as a tribute to McArthur's academic leadership. During these sessions, HBS faculty participants assessed the progress of their own research and course development efforts, View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
visits often require bus fare—while the Barared booths can be accessed on weekends and off-hours. And customers feel safe topping up their mobile phones here, says Reyes. They tell her that other companies take their money but fail to deliver the credits. View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World
Jensen chairs, Organizations and Markets. Each of the unit's five faculty members brings specific expertise to its mission - "to develop a modern theory of organizations and markets that is useful to both social scientists and managers." Professor George View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
says Kendall, executive director of the Henry P. Kendall Foundation, his family’s philanthropic organization, which is dedicated to creating a “resilient and healthy food system in New England that increases the production and consumption... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
and the Underground Economy edited by John Edmunds (DBA 1977) Greenwood This easy-to-use guide covers the history, development, and current workings of cyber currencies and the underground economy, both in the United States and around the... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
1911; Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, the first to stand atop Mount Everest, in 1953; and Neil Armstrong, the first on the moon, in 1969. But Vescovo hadn’t gotten there by himself. To send one person to the most remote places on the... View Details