previousnext 50 years of women in MBA 30 Dec 2012New York Times
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Kathryn Giusti (MBA ’85) & Paul Giusti (MBA ’85)
In late 1995, I was feeling tired and went in for a physical. Blood tests found that I had multiple myeloma, an incurable blood cancer. I was shocked because I was only 37. My grandfather had had the disease, but I wasn't in the usual demographic or age group. The scariest part was that there were no drugs in the pipeline to combat the cancer. full story Entrepreneurship
Founder Sal Khan (MBA '03) said he developed his YouTube lessons from tutoring his relatives.
Field 2 Global Immersions
First-year MBA students participate in Dash Day, a simulation event to help them prepare for their FIELD 2 global immersion trips abroad.
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FIELD is the latest curricular innovation from HBS
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In the News07 Jan 2013Poets & Quants
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Nitin Nohria
When he became dean in July of 2010, it would have been tempting for the leadership professor-turned-dean to go slow or to play the role of a mere steward at Harvard where nothing was broken. Instead, Nohria has aggressively pushed through an overhaul of an already world-class MBA program, adding experiential learning to Harvard's dominant case study method of teaching. He astutely used the convening power of the school to get into the center of the debate over U.S. competitiveness, leveraging the star power of HBS' faculty, its alumni and the Harvard Business Review to bring attention to a crucial full story 07 Jan 2013HBS Working Knowledge
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Mukti Khaire
Professor Mukti Khaire's challenge to management students is lofty, even by Harvard MBA standards. Don't just change the way people live, change the way they think. Change culture.
In her new elective course, Creative High-Impact Ventures: Entrepreneurs Who Changed the World, Khaire looks at ways managers can team with creative talent in six "culture industries": Fashion, publishing, art/architecture/design, film, music, and food. Her subjects include fashion pioneer Chanel, publishers Penguin and Atavist, film icons Variety and the Sundance Institute, Indian art auction house Saffronart, and full story 09 Jan 2013HBS Working Knowledge
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Multiple Faculty
02 Jan 2013HBS Working Knowledge
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James Heskett & Amy C. Edmondson
31 Dec 2012HBS Working Knowledge
Health Policy Management The focus of our research is on teaming - the interactions through which interdependent actors get work done in complex organizations. We're particularly interested in how organizations can support teaming in situations where stable, bounded teams are not feasible or practical. Increasingly, teams in today's workplace confront shifting (rather than stable) tasks and members.more Paige Arnof-Fenn (MBA 1991)
Alumni Realistic goals promote incremental moves; only unrealistic goals provoke breakthrough thinking.
more No matter how fast you're paddling, stay calm on the surface.more
“You usually find things that are unexpected.” Jennifer DeWhitt, MBA 2013 Seattle, WAUniversity of WA, Business Admin/Commerce, 2009 “I wanted to take a big risk and fail spectacularly.” Matthew Wyble, MBA 2013 Wallace, MI, USAUniversity of MI, Economics, 2008 “I heard from friends that it was the best two years of their lives, and I wanted to experience it, too.” Paula Lara, MBA 2013 Caracas, VenezuelaUniversidad Metropolitana, Engineering, 2005 “The section experience is a forcing mechanism that expands your understanding of the world.” Andrew Kinard, MBA 2013 Spartanburg, SCU.S. Naval Academy, BS Mechanical Engineering, 2005
19 Dec 2012HBR Blogs By:teresa amabile & steve kramer
Here leadership education will challenge your assumptions, disrupt the usual ways of doing business, and introduce you to unexpected ways of thinking. As a senior executive, you will do more than prepare for the next step in your career. You will return to your organization with fresh ideas, new skills, and a greater capacity for addressing the challenges your company faces.
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