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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Nurturing students who can think outside of the box
says. “That’s different from the traditional definition of top students. People who can think outside of the box need to have a lot of courage.” Xing Wei College was recently accredited by the Ministry of Education as the first Chinese... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
ISSUE FOCUS: EDUCATION INNOVATION Stacey Childress (MBA 2000) Deputy Director of Education, Next Generation Learning, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington Illustrations by Peter Hoey TAILORED TEACHING "One of our anchors... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
High-Level Impact
enjoy special benefits connecting them more closely with the work of the School. The establishment of this new society reflects the critical role that annual gifts, particularly at higher levels, play in driving innovation and new... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA
later that she fully recognized that the decision-making skills she learned as a young Marine officer were not all that different than those valued in a CEO. The stakes on the ground in Iraq were higher than in a boardroom, but in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
classroom was, in the words of former American Association for Higher Education president Russell Edgerton, like watching “Rostropovich and Bernstein conduct a symphony.” Six feet tall and loose-limbed, he... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Improving the lives of underprivileged children in rural India
children. “We need to ensure that India’s children have access to quality education to help them realize their true potential,” says Mittal. The foundation has also set up specialized centers for higher... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
have a seemingly insatiable need for good managers, one that will only grow in the years to come. To meet that demand, business schools around the world turn out about 500,000 MBAs a year, with upwards of 150,000 of those in the United States alone. At HBS, the... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Empowering women to lead
Katie Hood (MBA 2001) uses the same results-oriented business philosophy in her philanthropy work as she does in the course she teaches about educating the next generation of women leaders. A visiting lecturer and senior fellow with the... View Details
- 08 May 2015
- News
A new view of the cost of equity and capital requirements for banks
possibly substantial downside of heightened capital requirements. “Over the last 40 years, lower risk banks have higher stock returns on a risk-adjusted or even a raw basis, consistent with a stock market anomaly previously documents in... View Details
- 14 Nov 2012
- News
Remembering His Roots
invest in the educational and professional potential of men and women whose young lives were spent as migrant farm workers. Living by the cycle of fruit harvests, a basic education for these kids was often... View Details
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
interested in supporting the project.” Spangler — whose multifaceted career spans banking, construction, real estate, and higher education — chose Class Day 1998 to announce that he and his wife, Meredith,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Liberal Smarts
talked to Mahindra about higher education, his passion for liberal arts, and his grand plans for an American-style university in India. What gap did you see in education that required this new school? In... View Details
- 06 Jun 2012
- News
Fellowship Funder
my sister and I could go to college and graduate schools. I’m sure there are many prospective HBS students today who will appreciate Sam’s fellowship as much as I did the financial support I received.” In addition to his career at MDP, Mencoff is involved in board work... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
HBS Issues Upbeat 2006 Annual Report
million. These and many more details are laid out in charts, tables, and narrative in the recently released HBS 2006 Annual Report. Revenue from all sources for fiscal 2006, which ended last June 30, topped $368 million. HBS is unique in U.S. View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
self-awareness. It’s a bold endeavor rooted in HBS’s long history of educational innovation, says HBS Dean Nitin Nohria. The vision, he explained in September to a standing room–only crowd of reunion attendees in Burden Hall, is based on... View Details
- 16 Sep 2013
- News
Canada’s Native Son
smarter about how we produce and distribute food globally." It's one of the issues that Favel has made a priority for his new position. The other is the education of the First Nations people. "Saskatchewan has a View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
chief Arne Duncan his secretary of education in 2008, there was great optimism in the charter school movement. Duncan, after all, had long welcomed charters—public schools operating outside the education... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Reza Satchu (MBA 1996)
off going with really smart investors, even if it costs you more, because they're going to increase the probability of success. It's better to own less of a business that has a higher likelihood of success than more of one that is going... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Research Brief: Ending the Legacy of Poverty
open doors, making professional and personal lives easier to navigate and translating to higher earnings. As a result, 36.5 percent of children born to parents in the top 20 percent of income distribution remain there—twice the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
inculcate a higher sense of ethics in the national and international leaders it anoints. There must be a countervailing force to compensate for the all-too-often glorified notion of profit at all costs — now. Growing the pie for the... View Details