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- 23 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method
to make up relevant stories of their own,” she says. “This is not prescriptive. I’m not a child development expert. I’m deploying the case methodology to help parents engage with their child. The goal is to engage your child so he/she can become a thoughtful View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Dream Job: Higher Ed’s New Hire
interesting to research. What comes out of this is that you could be looking at one thing, and it will infuse your decision-making in a completely different area. It’s never a waste of time: If you are making your brain bigger, then that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
provides practical advice on creating successful decision-making governance to reduce errors and correctly assigning responsibilities and incentives; dealing thoughtfully and effectively with governance challenges; building the right... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
value, to promise so much more good than harm. Such is the sobering message about the high stakes of technology decision-making that rings in the ears of tomorrow’s managers as they leave the classroom. Rocket Science and Socrates Taking... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Past Informs the Future of Work
economies that are facing shrinking workforces due to aging demographics. But we must navigate the transition well.” Gross agrees: “As I discuss with students, these technologies are more likely to complement their skills as View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home
propelled Henry Ford to create the $5-a-day wage decades ago, and that kind of holistic competitiveness continues to influence the company today.” Asked if there is a civic duty to have an “America first” approach to decision-making about... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
what separates a practical approach to business decision-making from a more theoretical approach that says, “There is a right answer, and you just have to find it.” Life isn’t like that in my experience. LIGHT: “If there is an overarching... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
single largest reform initiative is the Strategic Compact. Its goals are to make the Bank more user-friendly and client-responsive by moving more resources, personnel, and budgetary and decision-making power into the field. Along with... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
innovations may have been -- whether it was Ray Kroc's refinement of franchise economics or Henry Ford's perfection of assembly line production -- every organization faced the key business problem of determining where to place the View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
improve productivity and efficiency in their daily operations, so did HBS faculty find themselves in the position of trying to determine if and how information technology could add value in a curriculum deeply rooted in a tradition of analysis and View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
practices, such as the use of outsider-only boards. Acknowledging the difficulty of teaching ethics in a culture that increasingly views morality as private and relativistic, Mills still advocates a role for business schools in raising the standards of View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges
you to approach these challenges more formulaically, with a sound, proven rationale and strategy behind your decision-making process,” she explains. “That’s been critically important as we work to find that balance between high... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
coauthored two books. But his longest sustained commitment has been to help public and private decision-makers more fully understand the causes of black poverty in the United States and underdevelopment in Africa and the Afro-Latin world.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
core skills they need to become integral members of their company’s decision-making teams. It emphasizes decision making and the implications of decisions. While many texts teach the theories and frameworks of management education, this... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
for every grade K–10, and recognizing that some students need a longer day or extended school year to meet those requirements; decentralizing decision-making and removing seniority from the union contract in the hiring of teachers;... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Open Market
battle-tested process for effective decision-making that generally starts with a six-page document. “You write your hypothesis, provide context and data to back it up, and you articulate a few different options with the pros and cons,”... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
day I took over. I told [the host] Miss Jean to sit down, that I would run the show for her.” Case method prep: “The exercise of being a decision-maker in a pretend environment 15 times a week teed me up to do it in a real environment.”... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
think even the graduates who enter an industry at precisely the wrong time end up suffering too badly: resilience and decision-making on the fly are two traits we try to inculcate in students before they graduate. Describe your version of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
people collaborate better on decision-making and create more discovery-driven learning?” As Hill and her colleagues researched these diverse leaders and sought to learn what they could from their leadership, they found themselves... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963
parents—or "customers," as Nielsen likes to call them—a greater say in their child's schooling. It also decentralized both decision-making and budgeting to empower principals. "Before that, principals had no authority over money, staff,... View Details