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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
The first charter school law was passed in Minnesota in 1991; by 2011, there were 5,275 charters nationwide, making up more than 5 percent of all public schools. In June 2009, however, the movement hit a bump. Stanford University's Center for View Details
- 04 Sep 2014
- News
Our focus was to get drug companies to invest money in ALS
could convince them that ALS is a good investment, market forces will do more than all the ALS foundations worldwide can do.” In 2011 and 2012, Prize4Life awarded million-dollar prizes for tests that measure the disease’s progression... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Developing Insightful Global Leaders
venture capital in Israel, and in August will add China to its portfolio of new function-driven Senior Executive Leadership Programs. The global centers and offices established by HBS around the world over the past 20 years are the nexus for the School’s international... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
Kathleen McGinn, senior associate dean for Faculty Strategy and Recruiting. A key goal of the program is to increase the amount and depth of research conducted at HBS on diversity, equity, and inclusion. We hope to attract to this... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Virtual Plant Tours and Beer Game Dysfunction
required mini-lectures. Class time thus can be fully devoted to discussion, with this foundation allowing it to take on new depth. “We’re able to home in on what the ‘magic’ really is in the classroom,” says Applegate, noting that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
influence an organization can have on social factors beyond its boundaries." Most research on organizational performance focuses on cause-and-effect situations that assume degrees of linearity and control that exist only in limited... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Bert W.M. Twaalfhoven (MBA '54)
has practiced as an entrepreneur, Twaalfhoven cofounded the European Foundation for Entrepreneurial Research (EFER) in 1987. That organization oversaw a series of influential View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
Amabile's classroom help him to walk the fine line between guiding his company's creative team down the path recommended by market research and stifling their creativity by giving too much direction. "What Professor Amabile's View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Stevenson Named Director of External Relations
easier than ever for alumni to stay connected to the School." Stevenson is the first incumbent of the Sarofim-Rock Professorship of Business Administration, a chair established in 1981 to provide a continuing base for research and... View Details
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
the end of their lunch meeting, the pair had committed to research investing in African universities. Today, Maarifa, which translates as knowledge in Swahili and Arabic, has plans to invest in and/or acquire a dozen universities over the... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 17 Dec 2018
- News
Tomorrow, Transformed
our day with research and teaching that will help prepare the next generation of leaders for the coming century. Here we offer a glimpse into some of the ways in which HBS is already expanding the notion of what’s possible across the... View Details
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
time she’s been doing research in this area—and what has remained the same. Lynn Paine: Probably the most obvious thing that has changed is the attitudes toward women and towards diversity in general. You know, back when Tosh joined her... View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
- News
Spreading the Seeds of Entrepreneurship
recruiting manufacturing firms into rural communities and helping them create jobs," explains Schultz. "As a result of this work, in 2001 I embarked on a three-year research project that began by looking at 15,800 small towns across... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- News
Latino Alumni Banquet Marks 20th Year, Atlanta Club Celebrates 90 Years of Connection
and stewardship of those programs. During dinner, Neil Ashe (MBA 1996), Chairman and CEO of Acuity Brands, presented the club’s Social Impact Award to Dean Crowe, Founder of the Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research. In 2014,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
A Message from Dean Clark
have just expanded our reach with the opening in August of the Latin America Research Center in Buenos Aires. The center will support our faculty's research on important business issues in South America,... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
doctors treating the woman. Watson had already ingested millions of oncology papers and volumes of leukemia data from research institutes around the world. Now, the doctors in Tokyo fed Watson the woman’s genetic information, hoping it... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 07 Oct 2014
- News
Network Effect
someone who was entrepreneurial, a self-starter. HBS teaches quite well the entrepreneurial spirit,” McCance said. The CAF partners asked Tanzi to recruit a dozen other researchers they had identified as standouts in the field and to urge... View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Who Owns Yoga?
Rohit Deshpandé, the Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing, often asks his students a show-stopping question: Is everything brandable? And next: Should everything be brandable? In “Branding Yoga,” cowritten with HBS Global Research... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals
spring Harvard Business Press will publish an edited volume of the colloquium papers, which we expect to serve as the foundation for a doctoral course on leadership research and scholarship. We’ve also... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Porter Directs New Institute at HBS
A new Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness (ISC), directed by Michael E. Porter, opened at HBS in July. The interdisciplinary ISC is dedicated to enlarging and disseminating the body of research on competition and strategy pioneered... View Details