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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Porter Appointed to University Professorship
wonderful tribute to Mike, who during almost three decades on our faculty has been a pioneer in using economic principles to solve important problems in competitiveness. In an array of groundbreaking books, articles, and papers that combine deep and View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders
transparent spirit of Kickstarter with the rigors of Securities and Exchange Commission oversight. The world of so-called equity crowdfunding holds the promise of democratizing both ends of the earlystage investment game, its advocates... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Realizing The Potential Of One Harvard
HBS, notes Kim: “In order to fulfill its mission of educating leaders who make a difference in the world, the School needs to produce educators who can disseminate relevant and rigorous research.” PRIMO administrator Marais Young,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Natural Fit
the age of 14. Now an incoming freshman at Dartmouth College, she saw no reason to choose between academics and competing in the sport she loved. At the time, however, few supports were in place to help athletes navigate the dual pressures of a View Details
- 04 Feb 2020
- News
In Harmony
students, who range in age from 12 to 28. “When they arrive at Brevard, there are a lot of kids who are younger than they are, who are better than they are, for the very first time.” It can be daunting, but students who apply to Brevard also know the benefits of the... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 05 Aug 2014
- News
A Diversified Portfolio
range of metrics, including their overall returns on sales and investment capital. But knowing all this didn't guarantee investors would be interested in their fund. To find that out, Dodi and Dorsen scheduled a roundtable discussion at their 25th HBS reunion. To get... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Andrea Silbert
many people who were living on the margins of society.” She also found the work at HBS challenging. “I think HBS is a very rigorous place academically, and I think that’s what makes it great,” she observes. By the time she graduated, with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Case Study: The Speed of Light
perfecting the process of entering a market. Take on only as many new markets as you can open while rigorously following your process to make sure you do it right. — Dan Wallace (MBA 1986) My recommended four steps are: (1) Ensure that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
Bureau of Economic Research. I also participate in an FDIC program that funds consumer finance research. It’s all part of a broader effort to legitimize this field as an important and rigorous area of research and teaching. Fortunately... View Details
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
good candidates for the program? Falik: Global Citizen Year is a leadership program, so we are looking each year for the highest-potential young people we can find. We take everyone through a rigorous selection process where we’re not... View Details
- 02 Jun 2019
- News
A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy
Goldston Professor of Business Administration (photo by Evgenia Eliseeva) The researchers worked with two MBA students—a liberal and a conservative to ensure diverse perspectives—to document existing gun policies, and to determine which had been effective, how View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program
In August, about one hundred students from the September cohort were able to sharpen their analytical skills, review accounting, and get ready for the rigorous program to follow. We'll have a similar program for the January cohort in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing, 21st November, 2003
rigorous case discussion at any HBS section including people with knowledge of Iraq and the Middle East, we would never have gone to war. The best way to avoid post-conflict problems is to avoid conflict. If conflict were forced upon us,... View Details
- 30 Oct 2017
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success
School. In retrospect, Rice realizes that he made a number of avoidable mistakes. “I probably didn’t manage the college-to-first-job transition or the B-school application process as rigorously as I should have,” he recalls. “I applied... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Rethinking the MBA
overemphasize rigor and underemphasize relevance. Does your research bear that out? Garvin: We frame it a bit differently, but in general we agree. We use a trilogy that we borrowed from West Point to describe the essential components of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
portfolio of businesses, each of which might be grown or harvested, bought or sold, in service to a larger corporate purpose. Most dangerous of all, the prestrategy worldview lacked a rigorous sense of the dynamics of competition — “If we... View Details
- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
things. Even when I was young, I started a landscaping business that I ran for several years. It taught me customer service, following a rigorous schedule, buying and maintaining equipment, and dealing with employees—all of which have... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
across a far-flung network of operations, and motivating everyone with a clear understanding of the new company’s mission. Add to those formidable tasks the steep learning curve Parker faced by moving from the service-based rigors of... View Details
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
someone who is more precise and rigorous because I tend to be a somewhat vague, speculative thinker.” Secret sauce: “Three of my students have won the Nobel Prize, but when these brilliant young people pass through our program, it’s not... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
that were presented and discussed at the colloquium. Globalization’s complexities and nuances, compared with twenty years ago, were analyzed and debated with a rigor and enthusiasm that doubtless would have pleased Ted Levitt immensely.... View Details