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- 18 Aug 2014
- News
Fighting income inequality with early education reform
mother of three has been using her business acumen in a partnership with the University of Chicago through the Chicago Heights Early Childhood Center (CHECC), an experimental school program Dias Griffin founded in 2010 that has now helped...
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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Clubs Hopping
the Skills Gap Project, the college debuted a new health-care curriculum designed to meet the skill needs of a nearby medical center. Their next project: encouraging other HBS alumni clubs to tackle the issue in their communities. “We can...
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April White
- 29 Jul 2008
- News
An Educational Start-Up
case, this particular class was being led by HBS professor Bill Sahlman, and the students were in fact professors, representing a Rand McNally of institutions: St. Petersburg State University, the University of Malta, the View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Groundwork
In the foreground of this fall 1926 photo, workers construct the Weeks Bridge; in the distance, the HBS campus takes shape (Harvard University Property Information Resource Center) Except for the brief reign of commencement mortarboards,...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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Innovations Under Way Will Shape HBS’s Future
by Lisa Skeete Tatum (MBA '98), Alumni Board President Tatum I can’t remember a more exciting time at HBS. There is innovation happening in all facets of the School. First and foremost, we have a visionary new leader in Dean Nohria. His five priorities for HBS — View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Innovation Imperative
for HBS: curriculum innovation, internationalization, intellectual ambition, inclusion (diversity), and integration with Harvard. “The capacity to innovate was vital to the success of American universities...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
James McKenney Remembered
Born and raised in Chicago, McKenney graduated from Purdue University in 1952 with a BS degree in mechanical engineering before receiving his Ph.D. from UCLA. Shortly thereafter, in 1960, McKenney was the first information systems expert...
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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Four Promoted to Full Professor
served as assistant to U.S. Transportation Secretaries Drew Lewis and Elizabeth Dole. Christensen holds a BA with highest honors in economics from Brigham Young University and an M.Phil. in economics from Oxford University, where he...
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- 01 Jun 2003
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HBS Releases First-Ever Financial Report
expenditures and innovation to the extent such projects are not specially funded by gifts. Revenues from Executive Education and publishing activities help fund research and curriculum development. As in any large service organization,...
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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Liberal Smarts
May's Harvard Commencement was a special one for Anand Mahindra (MBA 1981), chairman and managing director of the Indian conglomerate Mahindra & Mahindra, as the University used the occasion to recognize him and two others with the...
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- 01 Dec 1996
- News
October Reunions Break Records, Strengthen Ties
Burden Auditorium. In his remarks to alumni - including many of his former students - in the Classes of 1951, 1956, 1961, 1966, and 1971, McFarlan set the tone for a reunion that highlighted how much the HBS curriculum has changed to keep...
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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
MBA curricula. Do you foresee any changes here at HBS? We are always evaluating the MBA curriculum and looking for ways to innovate. In recent years, for example, we’ve launched three new courses — Finance II, The Entrepreneurial Manager,...
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- 20 Sep 2013
- News
Connections Add Up
personal finance curriculum to 5 million students, who range from kindergartners to high school seniors across the country. Morrison says her charge is to prepare the organization for the future. "I need to make sure we're doing the right...
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- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we're going to highlight another one of the great podcasts here at HBS: Managing the Future of Work, hosted by professor and visiting fellow at the...
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Shape of Things to Come
I think we can deliver to students. Felix Oberholzer-Gee on introducing empathy into the curriculum How do you maintain curricular innovation? FO: Every year we write 250 cases, and those cases are entrepreneurial, bottom-up ways in which...
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- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Support for a Common Theme
support its success. We are, after all, One Harvard." Patty and Lincoln Benet (both MBA 1989), members of HBS’s Global Leaders Circle and supporters of the HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation and the Harvard University President’s Fund...
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- 18 Aug 2014
- News
Closing the Education Gap
gaps.” The mother of three has been using her business acumen in a dynamic partnership with economics professors John List and Steven Levitt at the University of Chicago and Roland Fryer at Harvard University, through the Chicago Heights...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2009
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Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support
support. And the Rwanda-based staff traveled to India to procure machinery to make sanitary pads. Meanwhile, a team at North Carolina State University has developed the fiber process for the filling of the pads, and the Rwanda Workforce...
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- 20 Jan 2011
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A Precursor from the 1930s
In his State of the School address at last fall’s reunion, Dean Nohria laid out his vision for HBS organized in what we can call the Five I’s: curriculum innovation, intellectual ambition, internationalization, inclusion (making the HBS...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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A Conversation with Dean Nohria
cases written were global in focus. Beyond that, we think we can offer a unique depth of insight on a global scale. Consider, for example, an annual conference for Brazilian leaders we've been hosting with some of our University...
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