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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
“Englishnization” requirement—the subject of an HBS case study—includes programs designed to help staff pass proficiency tests. Admitting the policy is “drastic” and “controversial,” Mikitani says simply: “If we want to have one single... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Christensen and Vernon Remembered
will soon open the C. Roland Christensen Center, a facility designed for case-method teaching that was the vision of one of his former students. A memorial service was held for Christensen on November 5 at Memorial Church in Harvard Yard.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
integrative courses that reflect real-world complexity. In 2004, the School inaugurated its most ambitious leadership course ever. Leadership and Corporate Accountability, a first-year requirement, presents managerial challenges from a... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
country where women hold only 5 percent of senior leadership roles. Her strategy is radically simple: fix the system by designing for the patient. She’s leading a quiet shift, not a noisy revolution, but in Japan and particularly for... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
bank-within-a-bank, FCB, which was designed to serve urban communities. The first part discusses issues related to founding FCB and achieving profitability, while the second details the struggles of View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
554, with billings for 2006 estimated at $1 billion. The agency’s client list now includes brands such as Volkswagen, Burger King, and Virgin Atlantic, among others. “The business I loved is the business we’re in now — being completely View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
more activist, informed patient, particularly around choice when buying health insurance, and in asserting that the health-care industry must be more innovative. She has long advocated for “focused factories,” health-care providers that would View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
even in 1955, the system was not ‘entirely satisfactory.’ ” Integral to these report-writing courses was the corps of red pencil–toting young women who were hired to assess students’ papers. It was Copeland himself who “in desperation”... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
the global component of the new Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development (FIELD) course comes in. A yearlong required course, FIELD is designed to hone first-year students’ skills in leadership, global understanding, and... View Details
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
organizational size.” While roughly two-thirds of its clients are nonprofits, Bridgespan also works with philanthropists and foundations. The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, for example, was an early Bridgespan client and has been at the forefront of implementing... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
their best moments, can lift people up, and in their worst, let them down.” Teaching by Heart isn’t designed to be an academically rigorous analysis of teaching, he adds. It’s personal, based on decades of classroom experience and his... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
world-class athletes. Successful marketing of the Olympics - which is essential for financing the Games - depends on the Olympic movement's continued integrity, reputation for excellence, and "goodwill." That inherent value, Frazier emphasizes, "is only as sound as the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
killing of Native American children in compulsory “residential schools” designed to destroy their culture, and the incarceration of Japanese Americans, you are not alone. The seeds of today’s inequalities were sown in events in the past... View Details
- 28 Feb 2025
- News
Joy to the World
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010), CEO of East Boston Social Centers, spent time in foster care as a child, living in more homes than he can remember,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
(MBA 1989) (St. Martin's Griffin) The story of a French woman perfumer who escapes from Europe at the beginning of World War II and seeks (and finds) success in Los Angeles as a perfumer and fashion designer to the Hollywood elite. Lenses... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
being brought on by the board at Liz Claiborne as vice chairman and COO in 1994. Founded in 1976 by fashion designer Liz Claiborne, her husband, Arthur Ortenberg, and two other partners, the tiny shop had rocketed to success in its first... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
your mouth unless you're absolutely sure of what you're talking about," she explains. Patricia K. Light, director of MBA Program Support Services, notes that in the United Kingdom and European cultures, "class participation is not an View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
parents than men. Women are eager to find a way to integrate their personal and professional lives. Electing to leave the corporate world and pursue entrepreneurial careers can make it even harder for women to fulfill their personal... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
Graduate School of Design and who later became an adjunct professor at HBS, he wrote more than sixty cases, created two new courses focusing on real estate, and developed a new conceptual framework for the study of real-estate management.... View Details