Outcome-based Technology Education - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2015
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015

Every School: One Citizen’s Guide to Transforming Education by Don Nielsen (MBA 1963) (Discovery Institute) How would an entrepreneur reform education? Nielsen draws on his business career and two decades as a school activist to offer... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Mar 2005
News

In the Blood

question about it.” Clay also attended the HBS Executive Education course Families in Business with his wife, Blythe, whom he refers to as “my board of directors”; daughter Heather; son Case, who acts as codirector of sales; and Case’s... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; horse racing; Animal Production and Aquaculture; Agriculture; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

27 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

Report From Egypt: Studying Global Influences

government to create a new educational program that happened also to make new relationships and gain new business. One of the companies gave employees two hours a week to tutor at a school and was influential in raising standards for... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

30 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 30, 2008

operational, financing, and investment decisions of firms. We develop a model in which product developers can play a useful role in monitoring the deployment of their technology abroad. The analysis demonstrates that when firms want to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 1999
News

The Way You See It

appeared in 1925, Harvard Business School has sent forth tens of thousands of MBA and Executive Education graduates into the world. As managers, leaders, and entrepreneurs, the School's alumni body collectively has had an impact on... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons. Data collection by Ericka Webb.

01 Sep 2013
News

What's Trending at HBS?

With the start of the new school year, HBS faculty are preparing several virtual programs for alumni through the Trending@HBS webinar series. In hour-long sessions, they will discuss their research and views on timely business topics, as well as take questions from... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services

18 Mar 2013
News

Sheryl Sandberg: The HBR Interview

Keywords: social media; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services

04 Sep 2020
Blog Post

Advice from a Career Switcher: The Value of Informational Conversations with Alumni

Career & Professional Development (CPD) industry education programs, company presentations and company conversation events. “Hearing what companies had to say about their business and their impact gave me a sense of what I could learn... View Details

11 Dec 2018
Blog Post

Recap of the 4th Annual Women in Investing Summit

entrepreneurial spirit. After graduation, I entered strategy consulting to learn how companies run – from developing pricing strategies to winning customers – then joined a middle-market private equity firm, where I focused on the consumer, healthcare and View Details

25 Aug 2022
News

Turning Point: Dream Weaver

four decades ago, there’s been a technological shift from a local delivery platform to one that is global. In tandem, we’ve seen a transformation from a culturally and ethnically centralized world of actors, writers, and directors to one... View Details

Keywords: career; life experience; Hollywood; movies; film

13 Nov 2020
News

Insatiably Curious

experience was exactly what she needed. “I was drinking from the fire hose,” she says. “At MIT, I learned how to problem solve. At HBS, I got a framework that allowed me to see the bigger picture.” The School also facilitated her career transition—from View Details

15 Feb 2012
Op-Ed

Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point

failures of education and public health, state capitalism, radical movements and terrorism, and pandemics. The Eleventh Disruptor The business leaders also identified an eleventh disruptor: the inadequacy of existing government and... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard & Lynn S. Paine

02 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: The Business of Crowdsourcing

Boston predict which places might be violating public health regulations. And it is working with an education nonprofit in Watertown, Mass., Education Resource Strategies, to study how school districts spend... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Jan 2002
News

Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)

Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, The Esquel Group Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Earlier Education MIT, 1974 B.S., Mathematics Other Jobs Jardine Fleming, January-June, 1974 Having whizzed through MIT in 3 ½ years, Yang... View Details

16 Apr 2013
News

A Walkabout to the Ocean

understand how the world works, I'd better get a crash education in management and finance." HBS professor Jonathan Tiemann's class in finance changed everything. "I was a total idiot, with absolutely no experience in finance," says... View Details

Keywords: Ocean; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government

01 Apr 1997
News

Manager's Notebook

technologically advanced product money can buy, right? Not necessarily, says Associate Professor Clayton M. Christensen. Sometimes a cutting-edge item is more than people need or want. "When does the customer view something as 'new and... View Details

Keywords: Judith Ross

01 Mar 2007
News

The Plight of the Global Poor

QUEZON CITY, THE PHILIPPINES: On the edge of this municipality of Manila lies the Payatas dumpsite, the home and sole provider to thousands of scavengers. Payatas and places like it are symbols of a glaring inefficiency: Amid the global economy's great riches, billions... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; bottom of the pyramid (BOP); Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services

01 Sep 2008
News

Mara Aspinall

physicians are skeptical of recent innovations. Their “first do no harm” training favors a trial-and-error approach based on treating for the most likely diagnosis first, and moving on to something else if that doesn’t work. Third, physician View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

March 2008
Course Overview Note

Dynamic Markets

By: Joshua D. Coval and Erik Stafford

The Dynamic Markets course at Harvard Business School is organized around the hands-on application of financial decision making in a wide variety of capital market settings. The course relies heavily on in-class simulations of a range of market settings where students... View Details

Keywords: Value Creation; Decision Making; Capital Markets; Competitive Strategy; Profit; Applications and Software; Information; Strategy; Price; Outcome or Result; Curriculum and Courses; Theory

Citation

July 2022 (Revised February 2024)
Teaching Note

The DivaCup: Navigating Distribution and Growth

By: Ayelet Israeli

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 519-055. When the mother-daughter founders of DivaCup set out with a mission to disrupt the menstrual care industry with an innovative product form, they initially struggled to gain legitimacy and convince retailers to carry their unique... View Details