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...program that HBS hopes will help China and other Asian countries meet their demand for effective business managers and leaders. The intensive program focused on the participant-centered learning model and the case study method of instruction, which differ greatly from the usual lecture-based format of most Asian MBA courses, according to Baker Foundation Professor F. Warren McFarlan, who was one of 10 HBS professors who taught the program. Participants in the program attended at least six classes and seminars a day, in addition to the out-of-class preparation and exercises they were required to complete, according...
...There, he put his expertise in business communications to use in a compulsory course that gained notoriety amongst HBS graduates, “Written Analysis of Cases,” or “WAC,” as it was known for short. The course required first-year MBA students to submit biweekly papers, to be dropped off in a slot on the side of the library by 9 p.m. on Saturday, although this was later changed to Friday under pressure from students. “It forced each of us as students to integrate all of the course...
...hour seminars on topics relevant to start-ups including venture capital, finance, law, and intellectual property. Besides the symposium, other groups at Harvard promoting technological entrepreneurship, include the weekly lecture series sponsored by the Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard (TECH). TECH’s “mini-MBA program” brings in Business School and FAS professors to talk to interested students about their companies and offer advice on relevant issues. Chris Sacca, who is a principal for new business development at Google talked to the crowd about Google’s mission. “There...
...This school has a unique approach to education, and it has a unique approach to development of intellectual capital and research,” he says. “What worked in the past is not necessarily what will work in the future.”MBA Class of 1954 Professor of Management Joseph B. Lassier III says that the HBS faculty do not seem to be near a consensus on the school’s direction, but he observes that a dialogue has grown among the faculty.“There has been a huge amount of discussion involving...
Raymond was born in Newark, New Jersey, on June 19, 1917, and graduated from Montclair State Teachers’ College in 1942. He served in the Army Air Corps during World War II and then went on to receive an MBA from HBS in 1947 and a doctorate from the Harvard School of Education...