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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
focused on helping nonprofits operate more effectively by adapting private- sector management practices. SPNM was developed both to share that information with nonprofits, which could test and refine these methods, and to provide faculty... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
until we had refined it,” says Hill of the process. Having such a wealth of examples and diversity of perspectives, says Hill, allowed them to create a much more powerful book than any one of them could have produced alone—their own bit... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
to refine the concept, inviting friends over to test and retest the game. The two colaunched the game, Cranium, in 1998 and found an unlikely initial partner — Starbucks — to help market and distribute it. Two more unconventional game... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
FIELD 2: Global Intelligence
a new concept for a product or service for global partner organizations around the world. In January, they spent a week in the region conducting market research and meeting with the organization to refine their ideas before making a final... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
its pipeline, Moderna had refined its development process—which begins with an analysis of a virus’s messenger RNA (mRNA)—and it had improved its production capabilities. Two months earlier, when he'd met NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
with asked tough questions that made us think about the critical issues and figure out if we had a viable business.” “John Deighton was — in a very positive way — a healthy skeptic,” says ZEFER’s Tjan of his faculty advisor. “He helped us push and View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
plus Crop One is constantly refining its design to increase efficiency, adds Deane Falcone. Scaling up will be a big help. He contrasts the climate system they use for the larger model in the corner of the facility to the individual... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
alumni, and other social enterprise practitioners has allowed us to continually refine our research and teaching and, in turn, add value to the growing field of social enterprise. With the anticipated growth of the Initiative, the School... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
preferred to recruit straight from a school’s admission list. In an increasingly globalized world, deans and recruiters generally believe that business schools have not gotten globalization right. They want students with heightened cultural awareness and a more View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
that, the company had a proof of concept: It had successfully built and nurtured an online ecosystem of enthusiasts who pushed the idea to the top of the heap, refining it along the way. The design was then produced in its own... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar
increases - instead, the institution will bear the risk. Corporations are also using contract technologies for strategic purposes. To illustrate, Merton cited a hypothetical example of a company with widespread crude-oil reserves and a major distribution system for... View Details
Keywords: Elizabeth McNair
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
A defining global experience before college can unlock a lifetime of potential
involved in projects in Asia, Latin America, and Africa and another 200 alumni already making a difference as leaders on college campuses nationwide. Falik conceived the idea for Global Citizen Year after high school, when she moved to Latin America. She later View Details
- 25 Sep 2009
- News
HBS’s Oldest Class Secretary
are interesting and very cosmopolitan and keep my spirits high. I spent 36 years with what is now Exxon Mobil, the last 15 years in Venezuela, where I served as mgr. of its refining operations. My time at AMP was a treasure in developing... View Details
Keywords: Keith Larson
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Classroom Hijinks: Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
them featured in the Bulletin’s “Last Look” photos), and serenades of professors in the last class. The most common game played during class was Bingo, called Section Bingo or Turkey Bingo. It was begun by 1972A in their first year and was still being played in 1990H.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
New Venture Winner Mines E-Waste
consumers to access core components. Take circuit boards, for example. The process would begin with grinding up the circuit boards and would end with a yield of refined commodity-grade metals.” Modeled after the School’s student Business... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
New Virtual Classrooms Expand Digital Learning
upcoming programs,” notes Nancy DellaRocco, executive director of Executive Education. “We could not have reopened our doors virtually so quickly without the new classrooms. The timing was fortuitous.” In recent years, Chandler explains, HBS has been experimenting with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Strategic Networking
“By the time they zero in on those final few names, they’ll have refined their information even further.” That makes it easier to ask more specific questions, and the bank of knowledge accumulated from earlier conversations increases a... View Details
Keywords: Networking
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Innovation: Revenge of the Nerds
of Cambridge and Boston, approaching any independent business owner who might have a business problem the “nerds” could help them address. They also convinced Professor Lynda M. Applegate to allow them to pitch the idea to her Executive Education class, an exercise... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Cathy A. Nichols
and several other potential sites in Asia and Europe are being investigated. For Nichols, who is responsible for 8,000 employees and capital expansion projects exceeding $4 billion, overseeing this phenomenal growth, continually refining... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
support the clubs’ administrative functions. Substantial progress was made, and we look forward to announcing significant improvements in these areas in the coming weeks. The Communications Committee, chaired by Byron Carlock (MBA ’88), spent the majority of its time... View Details