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- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Moir Donelson
own academic difficulties was not lost on him. "If I was one of the better students to come out of the Chicago public schools and I was struggling, what did that mean for the rest of my class?" he asks. Having taken that question to...
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Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Stephen M. Moret: A Campaign for Positive Change
systematic way for students to voice their concerns,” says Moret, a soft-spoken Mississippi native. “We created a process for identifying student priorities and worked with the administration to address those concerns.” The poll, which...
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- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Investigation Leads to Sanctions, Recommendations
This spring, while the Class of 1998 was preparing to leave HBS to launch promising careers in business management, they, along with the entire HBS community, were also struggling to come to terms with a disturbing situation that existed within one section of the class...
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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Pearson Hunt
Industrial Administrator Program, the Army Quartermaster Corps School, the Navy Supply Corps School, and the Army Air Forces Statistical School (where I did my teaching), as well as the Navy's Contract Termination course in the ending...
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Pearson Hunt
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Doing Something Real
tedious administrative jobs in organizations." But I found the teaching at HBS a lot more animated and accessible than the teaching at Harvard College. The College was relentlessly academic, and few View Details
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Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
Vocational and academic education programs in US correctional institutions have been around for more than a century. They have also achieved some success. In fact, a 2013 study by the Rand Corporation found that prison education helped...
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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
vision," they say, "is to be the preferred provider of food for West Africans." Ndidi and Mezuo, both children of university professors, approach the ambitious challenge with a combination of academic rigor and devotion to social justice....
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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Q&A: John Quelch
John A. Quelch, Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration and senior associate dean for International Development, became the leader of the School's Global Initiative last August. A veteran HBS faculty member who recently spent...
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Deborah Blagg
- 13 Dec 2022
- News
The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith
Christine Keung (at podium) and Reginald Smith (both MBA 2020) present recommendations for economic development to the West Virginia State Senate in May 2022. How did you meet? Reggie Smith: "We first met before classes started RC year at a big social event in...
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- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
School in the fall of 2008, he had been a US Army captain serving in Iraq, but it wasn't until his second year at HBS that a chance conversation directed him to a Veterans Administration program that ultimately paid for his MBA. Motivated...
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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Leadership on a Global Stage
visits for a mix of friendship and advice whenever he gets back to Boston. Jefferson has put his unique mix of military and academic leadership training to work in a variety of positions. His career path demonstrates his instinct for...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
great business cultures, building on over a century of academic thinking. They share a simple, highly predictive measurement tool, the Total Motivation (ToMo) Factor, which enables managers to measure the strength of their business...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
banking panics roughly every fifteen to twenty years,” explains Moss. When the Great Depression struck, it was “in a league of its own” in severity and governmental response, he continues. With the banking system near collapse, the Roosevelt View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Vision: Sound Science
as sound. Getting a healthy copy of the critical gene to the appropriate cells is a solution, but precision inner-ear drug delivery has been a historical stumbling block. An early breakthrough for us was figuring out a way to pair gene therapy with a one-time surgical...
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Deb Blagg
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age
administrative support. And we need to be sure the Institute doesn’t get frozen in time by constantly asking: How do we keep ourselves current? How do we make sure we are addressing the right problems and communicating our findings back...
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April White
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
Christensen For the past several years, in his last class of the academic calendar, Professor Clay Christensen has made life after HBS the topic of discussion. Why is it, he asks, that despite considerable professional accomplishments, so...
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
and develop leadership and ambition for a career by practicing real science in an inspiring natural environment. Evaluations to date show that students who complete Connections modules have a better grasp of academic principles; and...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
China has announced its plans for a “New Silk Road” (NSR) and is developing its higher education and research systems at speed. In this book, an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars from Europe, China, the US, Russia, and Australia investigate how...
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- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
of their goals, write the authors, is to correct the mistaken belief among some entrepreneurs, corporations, and academic institutions that "venture capitalists can add little value to young firms aside from money." After a historical...
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Amy E. Dean
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
waited seven to ten years before setting up their own shops, today’s graduates are taking the plunge much sooner. In 1997, the first-ever HBS Business Plan Contest yielded a formidable number of participants and mobilized a strong contingent of entrepreneurs who turned...
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