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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Class of 1949 Gift Supports HBS Faculty Development
Harvard Business School's mission to bring cutting-edge business practice to the classroom." According to Dwight B. Crane, senior associate dean, director of Faculty Development, a number of factors are exerting new pressures on the HBS... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
Ina Foalea leads a brainstorming session in Morris Hall during this year’s Startup Lockdown. It is 6:30 p.m. on the Wednesday of Spring Break. But Ina Foalea (MBA 2018) is in work mode as she stretches out on the couch in the first-floor lounge of Morris Hall, biting... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
Professor of Management Practice Vicki Sato, led a discussion on “Emerging Models of University Research,” with cases that looked at the Harvard-affiliated Whitesides Lab, Stem Cell Institute, and Broad Institute. Sato, a Ph.D. in biology... View Details
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
reduced wait times in salauno clinics by using Lean and Six Sigma methodologies to change clinic schedules, optimize operational flow, and improve communication. These practices have resulted in a 20 percent drop in the number of patients... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
me is the ability to communicate in a compact, compelling, and concise way. When you’re in a class with super-smart MBAs, and you have maybe 45 seconds to air your point of view, that’s a unique exercise in concentrated analysis and charisma. It’s fantastic View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
molecules, you actually have to make sure that they don’t get released again in the future, or else all that good work and all the costs that you incurred are for naught. So we’ve got to find a way to sequester, store, or reuse carbon in such a way that it can’t be... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
of personalized medicine into clinical practice. Why does it seem that science is often so far ahead of practice in the medical field? Science has moved especially quickly in the last five years with the completion of the Human Genome... View Details
- 25 Mar 2021
- News
Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy
members pursue innovative and practical research and course development, including through cross-disciplinary projects that bring new insights to complex issues, as exemplified by this recent work: “How Businesses Can Find ‘Hidden... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Marking 10-Year Connection with Japanese Earthquake Region
With the help of HBS’s Japan Research Center, Professor Hirotaka Takeuchi hosted a virtual reunion to mark the 10-year anniversary of an annual Immersive Field Course in Japan. A decade ago, a group of 22 MBA students from Japan asked Professor of Management View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA
Gene Markowski Unlearning some of the lessons of the military Unlearning some of the lessons of the military Richard Kondo Blending military leadership and private industry best practices Blending military leadership and private industry... View Details
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Book Smart
technology to deliver books to children all over the world. “I always think life is this combination of romance and practicality,” he explains. “And the romance was, maybe we can do something really big and really affirming and life-changing for millions and millions... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Vision: Sound Science
meaningful work that I enjoy,” says Simons. “Hearing loss is one of the greatest unmet challenges in medicine. It’s an amazing privilege to be involved in this field at a time when advances by Akouos and others could improve the practice... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Come Clean
restore the garment. We have a cabinet full of dye pads and specialty tools to aid us in our cleaning and restoration processes.” Check in: Some 25 employees work at Parkway’s newly restored 10,000-square-foot operation. “The first thing I do when I come in is View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
All Hands on Deck
aspects of each class so that professors could focus on their students and the case discussions. To help faculty with the unique challenges and opportunities of teaching online, the Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning compiled best View Details
Keywords: Jen Mele
- 14 Aug 2019
- News
Leading from Within
look at business development and values, management practices and ethics, and their roles. And that’s all well and good, says Lim, in that CEOs typically walk away renewed and clear-headed about their next steps within their... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
How Deep Brain Stimulation Could Change Medicine
he performed in the operating room as doctors tinkered inside his brain. All the while, Bennet and his team monitored the tremors as neurosurgeon Lee inserted the electrodes, making sure that each found its target. The procedure was a success; Frisch was View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Short Takes
argued that they cannot realistically or financially be held responsible for the labor practices of their foreign suppliers." This hands-off stance has been changing, Spar observes, "as a direct result of heightened human rights activism,... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Books
This book offers practical, nonpolitical, and nonpartisan solutions to the problems of public debt, the environment, and international relations that business leaders can implement today for a better tomorrow: practical steps to limit... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
entrepreneurial activity is both practicable and desirable within the existing larger organization have been significant HBS contributions to the emergence and evolution of entrepreneurship as a fully accepted discipline in both the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
Students take part in "living cases," where they work with an active social entrepreneur. The course concludes with an exploration of the role of business leaders on nonprofit boards. Offered three times since the spring 1995 semester, the course has received high... View Details