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- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Innovative Course Brings Students and Alumni Together
In the fall of 1996, HBS professor David A. Garvin was searching for teaching materials for his elective course General Management: Processes and Action. He wanted to help his students understand the pitfalls and opportunities that... View Details
Keywords: Meg Gardner; photo by Joshua Lavine
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
David B. Price, Jr.: Aiming High
Monsanto, moving up the ranks to president of its Performance Materials division, a $400 million enterprise. In 1997, he left the company to become president and COO of the Performance Materials unit at... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Reinventing Radio Days
musicologists to codify pieces of music, ranging from classical to unknown indie bands, according to 450 distinct musical characteristics. This digital “Music Genome Project” matches the musical “DNA” of pieces listeners say they like with kindred View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?
first identified eligible recipients using data such as a home’s roofing material to measure need. In many Kenyan communities, permeable, hard-to-maintain thatched roofs distinguish the poorest residents from better-off neighbors with... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Class of '97 Placement Statistics Similar for September and January Cohorts
Average number of offers 3.3 3.3 3.5 Percentage of students returning to previous employer 18% 18% 19% Employment by Industry** Median base starting salary $82,400 Consulting 32% Investment Banking 18% Venture Capital 8% High Tech/Telecommunications 9% Equipment &... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
directly with smelters, eliminating the need for a middleman. Think of it like eBay but for million-dollar shipments of raw minerals. Intermediaries have long played a key role in these deals because the market for metal concentrates—the raw View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course
but much too dense, and ludicrously unsuccessful." Even rewriting the case and dividing it into two sections, one a broad look at German capitalism and the other an examination of Thyssen Steel, did not make the material much more... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Christensen Center: Open for Business
Technology at work: Willis Emmons and Assistant Professor Li Jin review a video of Jin teaching. Every day at HBS, several professors bring their unique teaching skills to the same material in the required MBA curriculum. So Willis... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Think Globally, Teach Locally
international student body — 33 percent of the MBA Class of 2003 — that our course materials are drawn from diverse country environments that illustrate cross-border and cross-cultural issues in business management,” notes HBS professor... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Survey Spotlights HBS Experience
“favorable.” Case method of teaching 86 % Case materials 84 % Faculty 84 % Elective courses 81 % Other class members 78 % Section experience 78 % Required courses 75 % Grading system 67 % Study groups 57 % Extracurricular activities 56 % View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Start It Up
MOOREHEAD: A green start-up designed to reduce the human and monetary costs of war. While serving in different parts of the world as a Navy SEAL, Doug Moorehead (MBA 2007) observed firsthand the human and material cost of energy... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Faculty Research
How to Avoid a Price Increase Manufacturers usually pass on any cost increases in their materials to consumers. The result is often a price increase (gasoline) or, less often, a smaller amount of product at the same price (potato chips).... View Details
- 17 Apr 2014
- News
A Family Investment
Reunion. “I wanted to help HBS continue to have an impact on people,” says Özyeg in of his gift, which will support the School’s new research center in Istanbul. “Turkey is a region ripe for study,” he observes. “I have no doubt that incredible case View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Health-Care Initiative to Leverage Ongoing Efforts
capital and innovation are among the topics related to health care for which case and course materials are now being developed, Clark noted, adding that the student-run HBS Healthcare Club and the Health Industry Alumni Association are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
A Safer, Smarter Future for Tech Trash
Africa, and India, where workers, frequently children—with no safety equipment—tear the electronics apart, exposing themselves to lethal doses of toxins. Then the raw materials are shipped back to where they are needed. Prior to founding... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
From Das’s Desk
reunion, you can sample what took place in one more way. All alumni are welcome to visit the reunions homepage on our website and click the presentations heading to explore the range of sessions and presenters’ materials and videos that... View Details
Keywords: Das Narayandas
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
New MBA Leadership Course
point of view, which was derived from my own environment,” says Pogossova, adding that class discussions helped everyone form an international framework. “The students find the material very engaging and provocative,” says Paine, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
Everest tragedy, to our collaborative work on the multimedia case on NASA’s 2003 Columbia tragedy, and to his recent book, Why Great Leaders Don’t Take Yes for an Answer. The course I teach today, General Management: Processes & Action, draws heavily on the View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Key to Innovation: Flexible Funding
business and other sectors so that we continue to produce and disseminate research and teaching materials with power in practice. To fulfill the School's enormous potential, a larger portion of the HBS annual budget will be invested in... View Details
Keywords: Robert Steven Kaplan
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
creating educational material around that is going to be another big step forward. SC: Another hope is that some of the material that we teach in this course could eventually move into the first-year finance... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint