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15 Aug 2005
HBS Case

Classic Cases Live On at HBS

to leave, all in about one hour." More than thirty years later, Professor David Upton makes Benihana the very first case he teaches in his Technology and Operations Management course (POM's successor). Explains Upton, "After... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

01 Mar 2004
News

Leadership Project Codifies Elusive Traits

U.S.-based companies. Whether looking for education levels, company tenure, industry affiliation, or key accomplishments of founders and CEOs, users of the database can quickly find what interests them. The database is the result of... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Support Services

01 Sep 2024
News

Far-Reaching Impact

Above: Teachers in India's daycare system draw on Rocket Learning's digital platform to enhance learning. Photo courtesy Rocket Learning When the news reached Namya Mahajan (MBA 2022) as her HBS graduation was approaching that she would receive financial assistance to... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Sep 2014
News

Groundswells

Executive Education needs while increasing the vitality of the southern part of campus. BLOOMBERG COMES ONLINE Completed in 2005 under the stewardship of Jay Light, the renovation of Baker Library to include the new Bloomberg Center... View Details

Keywords: George F. Baker III; Read Estate Development

01 Jun 2013
News

Five Bright Ideas

ISSUE FOCUS: EDUCATION INNOVATION Bright Idea #1 Training the Global Workforce, Gratis Mike Feerick (MBA 1993) FEERICK: At the grade school he attended in Ireland. "Knowledge and understanding," he says, "are being unleashed via the web... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services

01 Mar 2012
News

In Memoriam

approachable—even humble—exemplifying in everything he did the true sense of what it means to be a teacher.” An authority on the management of technology and innovation and an HBS faculty member for 41 years, Richard Rosenbloom (MBA 1956,... View Details

Keywords: obituraries; Educational Services; Educational Services

January 2001 (Revised January 2004)
Case

Ninth House: e-Learning Software

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Frances X. Frei and Corey B. Hajim

Jeff Snipes, CEO of the Ninth House Network, a San Francisco-based E-Learning company, considers a strategy shift to address a recent slump in sales and to attract more customers. The revised strategy would require creating shorter, more directed content that could be... View Details

Keywords: Internet and the Web; Service Operations; Organizational Structure; Groups and Teams; Corporate Strategy; Organizational Culture; Learning; Sales; Service Delivery; Entrepreneurship; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; San Francisco

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01 Sep 2010
News

Dean Nohria Looks Ahead

Instead, he applied to the Ph.D. program at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and was accepted. Once at MIT, Nohria realized that in management education he had found his true passion. After completing the program, he turned down offers... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson

04 Sep 2019
News

Impact: Where Science and Business Intersect

The creation, commercialization, and scaling of science-based enterprises will be a crucial segment of the global economy in the decades to come. Harvard Business School—through its educational programs, the research of its faculty... View Details

August 2024
Article

Heuristics on Call: The Impact of Mobile-Phone-Based Business-Management Advice

By: Shawn Cole, Mukta Joshi and Antoinette Schoar

There is growing evidence that business training for micro-entrepreneurs can be effective. However, in-person training can be expensive and imposes costs on the target beneficiaries. This paper presents the results of a two-site randomized evaluation of a light-touch,... View Details

Keywords: Training; Entrepreneurship; Mobile and Wireless Technology; India; Philippines

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01 Dec 2009
News

Rolling on the River

graduates of the Executive Education Owner/President Management (OPM) program, with nearly 500 alumni and guests making the trip back to Soldiers Field for a full roster of activities inside and outside the classroom. A number of alumni... View Details

Profile

Ralph Johnson

project was in education; we were given a free hand to design the ideal model school of the future, one focused on entrepreneurship and able to incorporate new technologies into its curriculum. We even changed the teaching training model,... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

01 Jun 2008
News

HBS Creates Life Sciences Fellowship Fund

Next fall’s entering MBA Class of 2010 will include up to ten students who have received $20,000 fellowships based on their academic or professional excellence in the field of life sciences. Financial support from the Life Sciences Fellowship Fund will be awarded to... View Details

Keywords: Admissions; fellowship; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services

01 Oct 1999
News

Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act

An extraordinary career based on the development of innovative, cutting-edge technology products was launched twenty years ago from the front row of an Aldrich Hall classroom. Crunching numbers for case studies late into the night was... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs

01 Sep 2010
News

Big Turnout for Business Plan Contest

27. The winner of the business venture track, OsComp Systems, is commercializing an innovative technology that forces natural gas through pipelines at lower cost and with greater efficiency. The social venture track winner, Urban Water... View Details

Keywords: contests; awards; Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities

27 Jan 2014
Blog Post

Opportunity Abounds

the US, with our global partners on a pressing business issue. The project concludes with a 10-day trip to work in the FIELD with our partners, formally ending with a business recommendation from the HBS team. I traveled to New Delhi to work with a start-up in the... View Details

Keywords: Technology

May 2024
Supplement

gWorks (B)

By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff

In January of 2019, Joe Heieck, CEO of gWorks, was deciding whether to proceed with his acquisition of Data Tech, that was a business roughly the same size as gWorks. gWorks, which provided geospatial software to small city and rural county governments, was acquired by... View Details

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01 Sep 2011
News

You’re Never Done Learning

The popular Career Webinar series returns this fall with a full slate of targeted, practical sessions presented by Alumni Career & Professional Development. Hoping to increase your personal engagement at work? Looking to launch an independent consulting business? These... View Details

Keywords: webinars; Educational Support Services; Educational Support Services

01 Dec 2010
News

Money and Markets Dominate New Course Offerings

and rational process but through a subjective process. Launching Technology Ventures is for students who plan to work at start-ups and at established companies launching information technology products.... View Details

Keywords: curriculum

January 1999
Case

Bell Atlantic and the Union City Schools (D): Results and Replication

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Ellen Pruyne

The last in a five-part series about Bell Atlantic Corp.'s technology-in-education partnership with the Union City, New Jersey school system. Reviews the various outcomes of the partnership called Project Explore, from the perspective of Bell Atlantic managers and... View Details