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- 01 Jan 2010
- News
Susan L. Decker, MBA 1986
Decker has put her analytical skills to work as a director of three major companies — Berkshire Hathaway, Intel, and Costco — and as a trustee of Save the Children. Her interest in entrepreneurship led her back to HBS, where she served as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Uncovering The Secrets of Mittelstand Success
HBS professors Ramon Casadesus‐Masanell, left, and Sunil Gupta, listened to a presentation about the layout of the Siemens Electronikwerk Amberg manufacturing facility during the faculty immersion in Munich. (photo by Willy C. Shih) The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Exploring Global Business Practices
today’s classrooms reflect our global society. In the MBA Program, all students in the first year get hands-on exposure to organizations in emerging markets through the January module of the FIELD (Field Immersion Experiences for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
FIELD Updates Greet Class of 2014
transforming a set of blueprints into a stunning new Executive Education facility. Tata Hall is scheduled to open in December 2013. As the second class to experience the new, yearlong required curriculum of FIELD (Field Immersion... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Enhancing Students’ Cultural Intelligence
his classmates’ FIELD Global Immersion (FGI) projects. But in retrospect, he says, conducting field research in Mexico and developing and presenting innovative product ideas to senior executives at Colgate’s Consumer Innovation Center... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Classroom Lessons Put Into Practice Abroad
discovered while doing fieldwork in São Paulo, Brazil, in some countries, proximity to one’s neighborhood can be a more influential factor when deciding where to shop. During FIELD 2, part of the Required Curriculum course Field Immersion... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Murray Named Class of ’08 Fellow
here are immense,” says Murray. “Last summer I was reading Professor Bill George’s book on leadership, and two months later I was having lunch with him!” Murray was equally enthusiastic about the winter break trip he took to China with the MBA View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Opening Doors
MBA students receive each year. Monne Williams (MBA 2012), a former fellowship recipient, began making gifts to the HBS Fund shortly after graduation. She allocates her gifts for financial aid in order to pay it forward. “My fellowship reduced the economic pressures so... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
and faculty to share best practices and interim learnings; use channels like Harvard Business Publishing and Working Knowledge to reach wide audiences. Other HBS Resources—Leverage opportunities such as MBA Program Independent Projects and FIELD View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Inbox: From Das’s Desk
local HBS club, a webinar, or an HBX Live discussion led by a professor. The following year, you volunteer to join other alumni for a daylong mentoring exercise with first-year MBA students. Then, a year or two later, you take part in a three-day View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Jennifer L. Scott
Jennifer Scott doesn't just have a knack for turning an idea into a reality, she has a passion for it. "I see myself as a builder," says Scott, "someone who takes ideas and makes them happen." A former Bain consultant, Scott has spent the last six years View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
and international negotiator, has crafted a thought-provoking thriller that immerses us in one of history's most pivotal moments. In this novel inspired by two true stories from the Second World War, a young British nurse and a seasoned... View Details
- 23 Sep 2010
- News
How Did You Spend Your Summer Vacation?
there, nor will she be the last: A student-led Immersion Experience Program (IXP) to Haiti is scheduled for January 2011. Organized by second-year students Andrea Ellwood, Brent Gibson, and Kathleen Hebert, with the assistance of HBS... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Making Progress on Strategic Priorities
Fund for Leadership and Innovation has an immediate impact on the School’s ability to pursue new initiatives, and is the cornerstone of HBS’s economic model. Field-Based Learning FIELD 2 global immersions offer first-year MBA students a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
No Time Like the Present
give its leaders what they need to lead,” says Delle, who had the opportunity to work with his former Design Thinking professor, Dean Srikant Datar, when Datar led a group of faculty members on an immersion trip to Africa in 2019. Delle... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Hong Kong Club Thrives, Plans Next Global Alumni Conference
capitalism.” In Hong Kong, Teo immersed himself in the local club, where Philip Leung (MBA '76) and Hamilton Ty Tang (MBA '90) currently serve as copresidents. “Before I knew it,” he says, “we were in charge of putting on the 1997 HBS... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
In emerging economies, business opportunities provide lessons in leadership
Even before a weeklong trip to Accra, Ghana, as part of the required MBA course Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development (FIELD), Australian Tim Leach (MBA 2015) knew that exposure to doing business in emerging markets would... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
MBAs mobilize to assist small business owners
immersed themselves in each city to work with entrepreneurs such as Sebastian Jackson, founder of the Social Club Grooming Company, in Detroit. Jackson worked with the team to create a new compensation structure, implement a CRM, and plug... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
continue executing the School's mission successfully: "We have been committed for more than seventy years," he said, "to a model of education in which we bring the world into the classroom - we immerse our students in the context of... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 12 Jan 2010
- News
Tweet, Tweet
It’s strange to think about (with Boston temps stuck below freezing) but this time last year I was in Monterrey, Mexico, wrapping up a 10-day Immersion Experience Program (IXP) with 48 HBS students. (You can read about that trip, and the... View Details