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- 16 Mar 2018
- News
Douglas Spreng (MBA 1967)
surrounded by technology in other ways, he applied to business school. After four undergraduate years of problem sets and lab work, he found the class participation required by the HBS case method a bit daunting. “I was nervous about... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
A Roundabout Path
much more restricted.” —Jonathan Friedlander (MBA 2017) The fellowship that is helping Friedlander might help our planet as well, because he is focusing on the critical issue of “green transportation.” He points out that even if we maximize the use of solar, wind, and... View Details
- 07 Mar 2017
- News
From Harvard to INSEAD: Change Management in a Disruptive World
general director. With a lengthy career in industry and politics as well as academia, Giscard D’Estaing is a former mayor and member of the French Parliament and is chairman of the Committee for a World Parliament. He is also honorary... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Feb 2013
- News
Growth Strategy Has Double Bottom Line
generates returns for investors through timber harvesting, recreational leasing, and in some cases, by subdividing the properties for development or non-timber uses. Lyme Timber, however, is unique among TIMOs by virtue of its commitment... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
John A. Paulson, MBA 1980
business, across the different types and functions of business,” he says. “The case method made learning exciting and instilled a problem-solving focus.” After earning his MBA as a Baker Scholar and spending two years with the Boston... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 21 Jan 2014
- News
Climbing to New Heights
woman who had climbed Everest," he recalls. "She drew a lot of parallels to business, including team effort and setting goals." Analytical and methodical by nature, and a mechanical engineer by training, Petzel began thinking about making... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Design Thinking: Hands-On Learning At The Harvard Innovation Lab
at the i-lab are open to students from across Harvard as well as from Tufts and MIT. Course projects have ranged widely, but most solved problems through the innovative use of technology. One team, for example, developed an app that provides a more efficient,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Extraordinary People
that experience,” he adds. A devoted father of three, over the years Klarman has made family a top priority, taking time to coach his daughters’ soccer teams and attend his son’s piano recitals. Together with his wife, Beth, he has also given View Details
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- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
markets that don't yet exist. How then can managers identify and assess market potential? The simple answer is that you must "sense" a market's potential by actually being where the technology is emerging. More traditional market research and planning View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
was on the Al Faw Peninsula in Iraq, in the office of General Joseph Medina to talk about his future. In addition to leading a multinational unit on everything from reconnaissance to route security, Rogers was serving as a general’s aide,... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Transferring Skills From The Military to the Private Sector
she was 18 she’s mostly been surrounded by people in the military. “The case method challenges me to speak up; it forces me to be a contributing member of the class,” she says. “I’ve been extremely impressed by my fellow classmates, and I... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
phase along with Stanford Business School professor Charles O'Reilly. The case method is the primary learning tool; overall, cases used in EDP range from an examination of General Electric CEO Jack Welch's... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
less than $1 million in sales and 28 employees. But by 2007, Barker Steel was one of the largest independent rebar fabricators in North America with 12 locations throughout the Northeast, generating in some years more than $200 million in... View Details
- 17 Aug 2022
- News
To Serve and Protect the Markets
“I’ve had a lot of unexpected twists and turns.” While preparing to attend law school, Jones discovered business classes as an undergraduate at Emory University and was hooked. “I fell in love with the qualitative aspects, the judgment... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 18 Jan 2012
- News
Charter Supporter
they want to be.” A few years ago, Burke was asked by Wisconsin’s governor and Milwaukee’s mayor to analyze the finances of the Milwaukee Public Schools. About the same time, she got involved in an initiative that helps students who are the first View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
three years' service in Poland and Russia as a top-level advisor to those countries' market-oriented reformers. Sachs's methods are often called “shock treatment,” but Djelic begs to differ. “It's not shock treatment,” he declares. “It's... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
VC Luminary John Doerr: Education Reform Critical to Success of New Economy
with start-ups such as Amazon.com, drugstore.com, Netscape, Excite, and Sun Microsystems. Through the years, Doerr and his partners have invested more than $1.3 billion in 250 technology ventures in the United States, creating companies that have View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
FIELD 3 Tests Students
In an innovative complement to the case method of instruction, the entire Class of 2013 spent the 15-week Winter Term practicing what they were learning from their required courses as they worked in small teams to build viable... View Details
Keywords: FIELD program
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Reinvigorating Democracy: A Vote for Change
Professor Michael Porter and Katherine Gehl, Photo credits: Stu Rosner, Neal Hamberg The American political system, contend Katherine Gehl and Michael Porter (MBA 1971), is broken. Their evidence: a 2019 HBS US Competitiveness Project survey of alumni and the View Details
Keywords: Young, Susan
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
1971) launched into a treatise on income statements and balance sheets and generally accepted accounting principles, and that’s why there are auditors, and the sandwich shop is clearly losing money, losing even more than the bank manager... View Details