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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Early Impact
Thierry Porté (MBA 1982), enable HBS to advance its international priorities by expanding opportunities for the faculty to test new ideas around the world, by enriching classroom learning with new cases, and by attracting students with a...
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- 01 Sep 2012
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Rebel with a Cause
environmental sustainability efforts, serving as executive director of Ceres, a coalition of environmental groups and institutional investors; initiator of the Investor Network on Climate Risk; and cofounder of the Global Reporting Initiative, the world’s leading View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
although we set the standard in South Africa and everywhere else we operate, we’ve got to do better. The second area that needed improvement was government relations. Starting first in South Africa, we’ve worked to upgrade that...
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- 03 Apr 2012
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Just Compensation
years, we developed a model—the Alignment Model—that provides a market standard against which to analyze a company’s pay relative to its performance,” Ferracone says. “So, for a given company, in terms of its current revenue size, its...
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- 01 Jun 1996
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GMAT Added to Admissions Criteria
In April, Dean Kim B. Clark announced that Harvard Business School will add the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT) to the portfolio of criteria used to evaluate a candidate's application to the MBA Program, effective for...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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Sam Hayes
interest, and we've seen companies stray over the edge of ethical impropriety before. This time, however, the tendency to test the limits was exacerbated by the enormous surge in stock values, profits, and economic activity during the...
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Garry Emmons
- 23 May 2018
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Christopher B. Howard, MBA 2003
University When the head of the presidential search committee for Robert Morris University (RMU) came across Chris Howard’s résumé, he thought the search firm was testing him. Howard was a sitting college president, veteran, and Rhodes...
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Susan Young
- 24 Jul 2020
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Reimagining Chicago’s Schools
Photo courtesy of Melissa Zaikos Back in 2011, when Melissa Zaikos (MBA 2000) began digging deeply into the standardized test scores of the Chicago Public Schools, she saw some concerning trends. Elementary...
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- 10 Mar 2021
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New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
mission interrupts his search. Fighting unjust forces, Joe is swept into an evil plot that neither can elude. Their struggles against machines, men, and nature test the resilience of the human spirit. Set in a richly imagined near future,...
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- 19 Jun 2017
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Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
telling you that you're good or bad, right? I think it's just-- school drives that home. Standardized testing drives that home. And from the beginning, pymetrics has always been around, no, it's about...
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- 01 Sep 2007
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Riding It Out
20, 2007, while Gisholt, Minard, and their three young daughters were waiting in line for Test Track, an auto-testing simulation that advises riders to “Strap yourself in to race up bumpy terrain, roar through hairpin turns, speed into...
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- 08 Mar 2013
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The Accidental Innovator
through software, and I “write” on it as the lesson develops. Actually, my cousins have told me they like this “virtual Sal” better than the real-life me. They can start and stop and repeat me at will. How does Khan Academy change the View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
educate people about the Coronavirus and offer advice on testing and treatment. He’s now involved in “supporting the scaling [of] a COVID-19 testing prototype for faster/quicker View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
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Conducting Business
In 2015 I moved from New York City to Madison, Connecticut, where I met, quite by chance, Ginny Vancil and her brother, Richard. I thought, How many Vancils can there be in the world? I asked if they knew Richard “Dick” Vancil, who was my first professor for my first...
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- 01 Mar 2012
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The Accidental Innovator
better than the real-life me. They can start and stop and repeat me at will. How does Khan Academy change the standard classroom we all know? The nearby Los Altos school system, for one, is using Khan Academy on an experimental basis....
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- 03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet
MORE Behind IBM's High-Risk Decision to Put Watson on Jeopardy MORE Behind IBM's High-Risk Decision to Put Watson on Jeopardy One day not long ago, a Japanese woman in her 60s walked into a hospital in Tokyo, worried she might have cancer. Doctors ran View Details
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Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Dec 2002
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Bad Times for Business
their employees, their communities, the financial community, and the public, as to what they stand for and what they're really about. Make it not only a touchstone for how a particular company conducts its operations but, more broadly, the View Details
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2015
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Case Study: Bionic Banking
hope of digging into Wall Street’s high profit margins. Current robo-advisors focus on passive “buy-and-hold” strategies, selecting a handful of low-cost exchange traded funds (ETFs), investing the funds according to a standard portfolio...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
and WorldCom. I think all of us felt a sense of downright anger. From the School's perspective, these events reinforced in my mind the importance of the work we have been doing for many years. At HBS, we have a long-standing commitment to upholding the highest View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
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An Eye to the East
auditing standards in China, while Associate Professor Huang Yasheng closed the first session with a detailed briefing of his ongoing study of foreign-invested enterprises on the mainland. The afternoon concluded with an open discussion...
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Alejandro Reyes