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- 12 Mar 2013
- News
New Thinking for China
China’s educational system is undergoing a radical transformation—from an emphasis on rote memorization to teaching styles that emphasize critical and creative-thinking skills. And Chen Weiming is at the forefront of that change. Chen is founder of Xing Wei College, a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The World’s Littlest Book on Climate: Ten Facts in Ten Minutes About CO2 By Mike Nelson, Pieter Tans, and Michael Banks (MBA 1983) Independently Published In this updated edition of the world’s smallest book on the world’s biggest... View Details
Keywords: podcasts
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
create the illusion of higher quality. I’ve always bought the cheapest vodka I could find, but my kids insist on the expensive brands. Great lesson in the realities of marketing! —Howard (Ted) Greene (MBA 1967) Back to top “Ant Financial”... View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 25 Jul 2013
- News
An Engine of Education Innovation
organization functions as an "an engine of innovation," working to define the nature of good teaching, determine the role of technology in education, and influence change in the country's graduate schools of... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
An investment of time to advance education
investment in Facebook when it was still a start-up. He is also founder and CEO of Breyer Capital, a global equity investor focused on catalyzing high-impact social and for-profit entrepreneurs in the media, technology, View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
change,” says Childress. Why the shift in attitude? “Some people point to 9/11 as creating a heightened awareness of the world as an interconnected system and spurring a search for meaning,” observes Childress. “It may also be generational. View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA '77)
at Shearson Lehman Brothers when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. The life-threatening ordeal inspired her to make a pact with a higher power: "If You get me through this, I will give something back." After recovering fully from her... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Faculty Books
and become mere purveyors of a product, the MBA, with students treated as consumers. Moral ideals that once inspired business schools have been replaced by the view that managers are merely agents of shareholders, beholden only to the cause of share profits. View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rwanda Provides Students with Hands-On Learning
The 2010 January Term break at HBS was no time to kick back for the 403 first- and second-year MBA students who signed up for the Immersion Experience Program (IXP). In search of the kind of deep understanding that can come only from being there, the students joined... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
Administration, chairs the School's Initiative on Social Enterprise, teaches the MBA elective Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector, and is the author of numerous articles and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
multilateral trade mechanisms in the aftermath of the Second World War, is changing rapidly and creating waves of uncertainty. This is especially true in higher education, a field increasingly built on... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
for the government, of course, is that it doesn’t really want the independent thought and social disruption that can come along with that kind of education. Where is China in terms of developing its own education resources? Fifteen years... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Dean Clark Reflects on the School’s Key Initiatives
passionate teaching, the building of intellectual capital, and the broad communication of ideas, we are advancing knowledge of how organizations and institutions can perform more effectively and, ultimately, benefit people in every sphere... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
a little deeper. The students pointedly but diplomatically inquire how CB can create positive social change with a program that charges annualized lending rates as high as 78 percent and offers no support or business guidance to a largely... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
what we have done thus far and think about, ‘How do you make this a truly transformative experience if we need to continue with online learning in the fall?’” says Kim, who teaches the second-year MBA course Transforming Education through View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
students, some 80,000 teachers, and an annual budget of more than $12 billion. Bloomberg’s commitment to change helped convince Shannon D. Kete (MBA 2000) to make the leap from investment banking into the public sector last February. Kete, who had enrolled at HBS to... View Details
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
cultural norms, et cetera. And one of the biggest things that comes to mind, to your question of what's the biggest barrier there, it's disentangling the types of knowledge that have to get conveyed to a learner. Institutions of higher... View Details