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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Action Plan: Horse Sense
breeding, and temperament. He sometimes uses an outside firm to take a horse’s measurements and conduct a biomechanical analysis, including a sonogram of its heart to evaluate size and efficiency: “You don’t want a horse with a Ferrari View Details
- 11 Jan 2019
- News
Case Study: Beating Bias
establishing an audience, then adding targeted ads and affiliate marketing, Patel aims to build a “commenting platform 2.0,” he says: Media companies could license the product to enable more robust user-generated discussion within the View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Class All His Own
lived in the basement of the Dean’s House. His job was to keep Dean Donham’s car clean, put wood on the fire, do chores, and wait tables in the dining hall for his meals.” He also reminisces about fellow classmates like Robert McNamara and HBS professor emeritus... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Back to School
leave them behind, they need to be placed in a different setting. As for the rest, most students feel that showing up for class, at any time, is sufficient to pass, and if they participate, they’re thinking honor roll. The attrition rate is high: The student View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Alumni Books
Press) Faced with thousands of studies, theories, frameworks, tools, and best practices in the discipline of leadership — an enormous, confusing body of knowledge — how does one learn to become a better leader? To find the essentials of... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Turning Point: Into the Wild
body—you’re constantly reading the environment and the animal’s cues. It forces you to let go of your mental preconceptions and work on an instinctual level. In the same way, when I’m in a contentious situation at work, I selectively shut out some of the words being... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
the School and their fellow alumni. I wanted to take a moment to update you on the work of the Alumni Board, a group drawn from the greater pool of HBS volunteers who represent the interests of the alumni body and those of the School. As... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Andrew H. Tisch
of the hotel school's student body and organized protests against U.S. involvement in Vietnam. He credits his parents with his abiding interest in leadership and social issues. “They provided us with a moral compass and emphasized the... View Details
- 27 Apr 2023
- News
Life Preserver
lifespan of an organ after it is removed from the body is measured in hours, which means that transplants are more available in densely populated areas within easy reach of medical care. But what if the viability of an organ destined for... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Action Plan: Rapids Growth
you’re basically wearing it and using your entire body to control it.” Learn from a pro. “Lessons are vital. It’s tempting to look at someone kayaking and say it looks easy, but knowing what to do if you lose your balance, if you go over,... View Details
Keywords: Ryan Jones
- 27 Mar 2023
- News
A Sporting Chance
as a young HBS grad working for Boston Consulting Group in San Francisco, Perez de Leza was mostly looking for ways to strengthen his body and stay healthy. He took up hand-crank cycling, and then discovered adaptive skiing at a program... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Generation Next
the governing body of the Stroh family. "Attending the program was something of a departure for us - we're not used to going outside the family for answers. But it proved to be a wise decision. We gained a tremendous amount of perspective... View Details
- 03 Mar 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Pamela Meyer (MBA 1986)
(photo by Cade Martin) At my 20th HBS reunion I heard faculty member Michael Wheeler describe behavior people engage in when they’re being deceptive. The room was transfixed. No one was on their phone! It turned out there is a robust, well-funded View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 04 Sep 2013
- News
From HBO to HBS
join the faculty. "I'm thrilled to be coming to HBS at a time of great change," says McGee, citing innovations to the curriculum such as FIELD. "I'm also struck by the diversity of the student body in nationality and ethnicity. The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Batteries Included
airplanes. But maritime shipping has begun—slowly—to consider alternatives to fossil fuels. The body in charge of decarbonization in maritime shipping, the UN’s International Maritime Organization, has set a goal to cut the industry’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Victory Lap: Frazier, Olympics COO, Reviews the Games
body in the world is heavily sponsored by commerce, and commercial sponsorships are part of every major sporting event on the planet. The Olympic Games remain the only major competition of any sort that doesn't allow in-stadium signage.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Batteries and Chocolates
Illustration by Adam Niklewicz/theispot.com by Debora L. Spar In 1991, when I joined the HBS faculty, men outnumbered women by two to one in the student body and four to one among the senior faculty. Back then, male students saw nothing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
AI Enhances Diagnostic Care
exposure by distinguishing the thicker parts of a person’s body from the thinner areas that need less radiation. This limits exposure and thus, provides a safer and better service to patients,” Tantawy explains. “Also, in whole-body... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Transitioning Students into Alumni Ted Fischer (71st PMD) galvanized his committee to focus on improving students' understanding of the resources available to them as alumni as well as the School's financial needs and organization. The committee's research with the... View Details
Keywords: John Hoffman
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Dog’s Best Friend: Jim Hawes’s Charles River Rescue
to me as I approached it through my path in the ice. As a Navy Seal officer (and Vietnam vet prior to HBS), this was not my first ice-water swim. I was well aware of the amount of time a body can spend in ice water before conditions get... View Details