Pilot Program - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2012
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The School of Life

important roles for a parent. Is It Really the Right Stuff? In 1979, writer Tom Wolfe captured the public imagination with his depiction of one of the most competitive professional environments in the world: the screening of American fighter pilots. To find out who... View Details

Keywords: Professor Clay Christensen; Educational Services; Management

01 Sep 2020
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Giving Amazon the Boot

2016, and last November, Nike announced that it was ending a pilot program with Amazon Retail that it began in 2017, opting to focus on “elevating consumer experiences through more direct, personal... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

01 Dec 2017
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In Service of Others

Armed Services can add to—and gain from—the HBS experience. To encourage more veterans to apply to HBS, he recently funded an MBA pilot program that waives the application fee for anyone who has served in... View Details

11 Feb 2021
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Retraining for a Post-COVID Workforce

Tracy Palandjian (MBA 1997), could create a lifeline for many of these low-wage workers, according to an article in the Boston Globe. Social Finance’s pilot program helps train low-income people for jobs... View Details

01 Dec 1997
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1997 Placement Data Reflect January Cohort's Success

and September cohorts would fare differently in the job market after graduation, since the January cohort proceeded straight through the MBA Program without the traditional summer work experience. Placement statistics for the Class of... View Details

01 Jun 2022
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Closing the 'Network Gap'

of 2021, the Equity Network launched a pilot program with 37 Black and Latinx college students and recent graduates and 55 HBS students as advisors. About 90 percent of those involved in the View Details

Keywords: April White

19 Jan 2016
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Electric Avenues

the Complaint Department The municipal needs of Boston residents vary by the season. “In winter, it’s snow,” says Lauren Lockwood (MBA 2014), the city’s chief digital officer. In spring, it’s potholes. In summer, it’s potholes and student move-in.” Six years after... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Apr 1996
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Stewards of the Seventh Generation

Rowe explains. "The challenge was to find ways to conserve energy and make a profit." In the mid-1980s, New England Electric initiated pilot programs for its commercial and small industrial customers to help... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb

29 Apr 2025
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Challenge Accepted

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Nietzsche said it first: What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger. There’s a reason that saying has legs, nearly 140 years later. We all, at some point... View Details

Keywords: challenges; failure; advice; experience

01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership

people’s lives for the better.” Photos Courtesy Toby Johnson A standout high-school student-athlete who turned down Ivy League schools to attend West Point (its education of the total person beyond academics appealed to her), Toby Johnson (MBA 2007) was deployed to... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Feb 1998
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Innovative Course Brings Students and Alumni Together

online dialogues with students via the Internet. Forty-three alumni - all with vivid and fresh insights into their own successes and failures - agreed to participate in the innovative pilot project, which proved to be an extraordinary... View Details

Keywords: Meg Gardner; photo by Joshua Lavine

01 Feb 1997
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Conversing in Cyberspace: Students and Alumni Talk Management

such questions to people with some real answers - HBS alumni who have made the transition themselves. Making innovative use of technology to involve HBS graduates in the classroom, Garvin conducted a pilot View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

01 Sep 2017
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What Fellowships Make Possible

education — engage with one another they get a better sense of themselves and a deeper understanding of the complexities of our global society. With a commitment to attracting the most talented students to Soldiers Field, HBS periodically View Details

Keywords: budget; need-blind; Admissions; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Jun 2006
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Bridging the Success Gap

explains that he didn’t so much leave his career but start on his longtime dream. “I was coming back home,” he says. Navarro launched the program with private foundation support after spending a year researching the concept and View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Dec 2018
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Alumni Are Integral to HBS

preconceived notions about doing business in the continent. “At the end, I had this feeling of wonder and excitement that I probably haven’t had for years, which is why I’m looking forward to doing it again!” —Hakeem Belo-Osagie Africa Rising was one of seven Short... View Details

08 Dec 2015
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Living the Legacy

HBX CORe, a three-course online program that teaches the fundamentals of business, he knew his children would benefit from the content and the high quality of instruction that had set the foundation for his own career success. Ray... View Details

09 Feb 2017
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Turning Disorder into Opportunity

program became a HBS case study, published by professors Gary Pisano and Robert Austin. It was also honored by the United Nations on World Autism Day. Fieldhouse is currently piloting a work-experience... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

22 Nov 2024
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Deep Reading

type of artificial intelligence program trained on gigantic amounts of data that can perform natural language processing tasks such as summarizing content and answering questions. A pilot View Details