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- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
in higher education. We have the largest school system in the world, one that’s complex and was already underperforming, especially on learning dimensions. See more from the online-only March Alumni Bulletin Impact section’s exploration... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Eight Join HBS Faculty
teaches the first-year course Technology and Operations Management. His research focuses on techniques to evaluate and improve the performance of complex systems in the airline and sports industries. Fearing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
"The professors at Harvard don't try to tell us how to run our schools like a business. They push us to consider possible applications of business models and methods in our work, but they understand that the organizational complexities we... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
military, legal, and humanitarian strategies. Brain Gain: Technology and the Quest for Digital Wisdom by Marc Prensky (MBA 1980) (Palgrave Macmillan) Both the human brain and technology have strengths: cognitive function for sense-making and View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Education: Investing in the Next Generation of Workers
colleges to develop programs to meet specific needs. There is still some distrust on both sides: Higher education institutions see their mission as instilling skills for lifelong learning, not to pursue a good salary, and businesses can be daunted by the View Details
- 09 Sep 2024
- News
Basket Chase
through this very long search. You described yourself as being quite particular about the company you bought. What was it that arrested your attention at Baskits? You certainly have told us one thing, which is there are big barriers to entry here. It’s a View Details
- 08 Jan 2025
- News
Mapping Pain Points at the IRS
Initiative is a project I’m particularly proud of. Our ambitious goal was to redesign the long, complex notices we send. We made simple but high impact changes like putting a headline up front, converting paragraphs into action-oriented... View Details
- 05 Oct 2016
- News
Harvard to Open Life Sciences Lab
provide an experiential, educational environment in which students and faculty can put classroom ideas directly into practice. The 15,000-square-foot facility will have fully equipped and permitted laboratory and office space for early-stage companies. It will be View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Competencies and Credentials
to better navigate the complex landscape. The research focuses on technology trends such as artificial intelligence, changing workforce demographics, the middle-skills gap, global talent, and the tensions between urban centers and rural... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Case Study: Let’s Dance
markets and coordinate the expansions there. Based on my own experience, nothing beats spending in-person time in the new markets. —Matias Recchia (MBA 2007) is the founder and CEO of Unlock, a real estate technology platform with View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA: Lance Batchelor (MBA 1993)
talked for 10 minutes with the benefit of real, personal experience about what it feels like to be on a ship at sea, operating a complex weapons system. The ex-military guys and girls brought something... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
What You Know Depends on Where You Go
associate professor Walter Kuemmerle, who developed the elective course International Entrepreneurial Finance by writing cases that involve about twenty different countries. “The largest group to take the course are actually American students — some don't intend to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
principals at the school level, so the challenge was to create the operations to match.” Kete has recently been chosen for the selective two-year “resident executive” program of the nonprofit Broad Foundation, whose goal is to attract... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
term familiar to every good HBS student. With its relatively low price tag (about $2.8 million) and low operating costs (40 percent less than existing small jets), the twin-engine Mustang and other “very light jets” (VLJs) represent a... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
the second day of the workshop, Popik met Steve Mott, a nuclear engineer who works at the Palo Verde Generating Station, in Arizona, the largest nuclear power complex in the United States. Mott told Popik about a particularly terrifying... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
Finally Peter said he would do it,” reveals Baer, “but only if I would be the day-to-day operating person. Neither of us had any prior intention of leaving our jobs, but that’s how the deal went through.” A Likable Leader Baer Facts —... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
on the Special Ops Battlefield by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (MBA 2006) (Harper) In 2010, the Army created Cultural Support Teams, a secret pilot program to insert women alongside Special Operations soldiers raiding insurgent compounds in... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Meeting the Challenges of Third-World Development
Nations Operation in Somalia and was stationed in Mogadishu. A year after graduation, she accepted a six-month position as director of enterprise development in Tanzania with an international nongovernmental organization called... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Alumni Books
Catch Up and Win by Steven J. Spear (DBA ’99) (McGraw-Hill) Spear finds that the internal operations of such market leaders as Toyota, Alcoa, and top-tier teaching hospitals have one thing in common: the skillful management of View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
New Releases
authors. The chapter on Technology and Operations Management (TOM) opens with a vignette that illustrates McArthur's ability to "think big." After a meeting in 1984 with Kim Clark, his future successor, McArthur asked the young professor... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young