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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ready, Set, Launch
critical feedback about the features they do want—and reduces the possibility that the startup will waste time developing features no one wants. Based on this feedback, a startup can then decide to adjust or abandon a concept or, if it’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Escape from Alcatraz
Conquer: To escape from the first room of the Spook House, team members have to divide up tasks, each taking responsibility for observing and reporting on a different part of the room. Fail to Succeed: What can you learn from sand, shells, and doubloons? How to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Global Leadership Initiative's Director Focuses on Technology
Kotter to share ideas and receive feedback from alumni on cutting-edge leadership questions, concerns, and issues in real time. Another project seeks to simplify the rhetoric and scholarship surrounding leadership and to make the ideas... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Ready for Takeoff: Web Portal Enters Second Phase
increasing the number of "what-do-you-think" feedback sections, allowing users to be active participants, not just passive readers. "We want to take better advantage of the Web as a medium," observes Silverthorne. "We plan to add the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Case Study: Declawing the Competition
into a community of cat lovers. — Doris Banchik-Moxley (MBA 1984) 1) As a subscription service, invoke a simple recurring mechanism to allow faster feedback on your customers’ preferences. This will allow you to improve products and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
New Venture Winner an Undercover Success
excellent teams to Boston and gave them the opportunity to meet with faculty members, network, and get valuable feedback from our judges.” Regional finalists included Little Teacher (Sophia Shing, MBA 1997); Pixie (Jennifer Lee Koss, MBA... View Details
- 31 Mar 2017
- News
Turning Teachers into Leaders
innovative technologies, for implementing higher standards, for providing better feedback and support to teachers. “HBS gave me the skills by helping me to think as a systems thinker. By that I mean to consider the marketing angles, the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
3 Minute Briefing: Y Combinator’s Qasar Younis
experience we can put a comment box at the bottom, and you can get feedback instantly.” And they were like, “Oh, that’s what we want. We don’t even care about the mobile wallet.” Once you set your assumptions it is very hard to come up... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 14 Jun 2024
- News
Highlights from the Spring 2024 Alumni Board Meeting
Harvard Business School hosted its annual spring Alumni Board Meeting in late May, bringing together its members for a two-day event that included interactive sessions with faculty and HBS leadership on the School and its programs, updates on Board working groups, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
José Royo
MBA Program. "The Academic Committee has had broad impact in areas such as course development, where we have advocated more international cases and more cases with women protagonists," he says. Royo has also worked with Professor Ed Zschau to integrate student View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
John (“Bo”) Kemp
policies concerning take-home exams, feedback from faculty on student grades, and the disclosure of grades to prospective employers. In addition, he chaired the committee organizing Class Day, a pre-Commencement celebration at HBS for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
loyalty) into a full-fledged management system that results in extraordinary financial and competitive results. They define the fundamental concept of Net Promoter; explain its connection to a company’s growth and sustained success; demonstrate the power of the... View Details
- 02 Sep 2016
- News
Mentoring Is ‘the Best Part of the Job’
feedback to make you better—and doesn’t hold back. “I oversee 22,000 people, and if I could be a mentor toward all 22,000, I would. But you can’t. So being a mentor is finding the people where you have enough interaction with them where... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Exploring Big Issues at the Intersection of Business and Society
John Shad Professor of Business Ethics. Student feedback on Viewpoints was very positive. “It shed light on a lot of wider political-economic issues . . . [and] encouraged us to think about what we, as HBS students and future leaders,... View Details
Keywords: Educational Innovation
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Transforming the IRS
feedback from taxpayers and employees as well as measures of meaningful business results, was a critical step in changing attitudes. How did you improve customer service? There were no quick fixes or silver bullets. The IRS had to... View Details
- 21 Sep 2018
- News
HBS Association of Southern California Boosts Support for Startups
says McCulloch. That effort, says McCulloch, extends to alumni mentors as well. Some, like Joseph Grimes (MBA 1988), are new to the entrepreneurial space, but are able to provide significant feedback just the same. "I greatly enjoyed the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Thorborg (12th ISMP), chair This group is in the process of analyzing the results of a survey sent to all international alumni in an effort to understand their connectedness to the School as well as their needs and expectations. Preliminary View Details
Keywords: Cathy Connett
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
for the Millennium Building on the work begun in 1998, this committee will continue to look at the viability of offering continuing education to HBS alumni. Feedback tells us that alumni of all ages are looking for opportunities to tap... View Details
- 19 Dec 2019
- News
A Ranch of One’s Own
that. You could walk around and everyone would be there. But studio lots aren’t as much fun anymore. They can feel corporate.” In addition to workspace, Rideback Ranch offers three script-development programs and other offerings to support the work of writing and... View Details
Keywords: LEGO
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
What’s in a Name
injustice in the United States, the company recognized that its name—with associations with the Confederacy—was at odds with its goal of bringing people together. As Chugh explains in the edited excerpt below, the company solicited View Details