HBS Dean - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Apr 2000
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Highly Recommended: Leah Modigliani

On the 41st floor of the Morgan Stanley Dean Witter offices in Times Square, Leah Modigliani (MBA '95) stops at the receptionist's desk. Every window showcases a panoramic view of Manhattan skyscrapers and the Hudson River beyond. It's a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jan 2017
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Improving Health Care Delivery

by Dean Nitin Nohria’s leadership and the fact that health care is becoming an important part of the vision for the future of HBS,” says Mary Ellen, who with Jeffrey served as gift cochairs for their reunion. The research fellowship fund... View Details

14 Jan 2022
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Nohria’s Next Move

In a message to the HBS community this week, former Dean Nitin Nohria shared his next chapter. “I am pursuing a new adventure as the Executive Chairman of Thrive Capital, a firm that invests in and builds... View Details

01 Jun 2023
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An Engine of Innovation

Startup life can often feel like a solo sport, says Matt Segneri (MBA 2010), the Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Executive Director of the Harvard Innovation Labs: “What the three labs in our ecosystem do is to make building a venture something that happens within a truly... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

14 Jul 2020
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Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experience from Around the World

Keywords: COVID-19

07 Oct 2021
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Planning Ahead

the John C. Whitehead Society, the School’s planned giving society. As he crafted his will, Ketchum recalled a conversation with former Dean Nitin Nohria who asked whether HBS had changed his life for the... View Details

03 Nov 2023
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Global Networking Night; Sweden Club Holds Climate Forum

range of global statistics and to drive home the dire climate situation. “One thing we can’t buy is time,” he said. “We believe we can solve this, but we are running out of time.” Stockholm Climate Leadership Forum HBS Professor and... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

09 Jun 2015
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Yat-Pang (MBA 2000) and Helina Au

Yat-Pang (MBA 2000) and Helina Au “I remember Dean Kim Clark greeting us on my first day at HBS,” says Yat-Pang Au. “He said, ‘This will be a transformative experience in your life.’ Fifteen years later, I can confirm the truth of that... View Details

01 Aug 1998
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High Honors

Field remain strong. From 1994 to 1997, he headed the HBS Canadian Initiative, a program conceived by former HBS Dean John H. McArthur in part to enable a geographically and... View Details

24 Jan 2020
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Clayton M. Christensen Dies at 67

his loving family. Christensen was 67 years old. Christensen joined the HBS faculty in 1992. He earned a BA with highest honors in economics from Brigham Young University (1975); an M.Phil. in applied econometrics from Oxford University,... View Details

15 Sep 2017
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Christopher Harland (MBA 1984)

avenues and think about what I wanted to do next,” he explains. He especially enjoyed being able to choose which courses to take in his second year. Reflecting on his HBS experience, Harland believes that the School taught him to be a... View Details

01 Jun 1998
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Simmons Family Endows Professorship

Dean Kim B. Clark noted, "Roy and Tibby Simmons have been wonderful role models for their children, community, and business associates. It is a privilege for HBS to have a chair that recognizes this truly... View Details

01 Sep 2010
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James Has New Role

(photo by Susan Young) (photo by Susan Young) Ralph James (MBA 1982), who previously headed Executive Education at HBS, became executive director of External Relations in July. In his new role, James is responsible for development and alumni relations. “As an View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2019
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Developing Leaders Who Bridge Business and Engineering

will provide financial aid for students in the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program, offered jointly by HBS and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). The gift reflects the Boston-based donors’... View Details

01 Dec 2017
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A ‘One Harvard’ Perspective

David Tunnell (MBA 1997) David Tunnell (MBA 1997) is a longtime advocate of crossing traditional academic boundaries at Harvard. For his Harvard College senior thesis on efficient markets, the economics major conducted most of his research on the Allston side of the... View Details

01 Apr 2000
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Student "Treks" Lead to Jobs and Opportunities

Eurotrek program also featured opportunities to make contact with major companies and entrepreneurs from a number of countries on the Continent. HBS Dean Kim B. Clark is an enthusiastic supporter of the... View Details

07 Sep 2021
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Building New Connections

Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean of Harvard Business Publishing, championed lifelong learning and advanced alumni engagement, recognizing both as critical components of the View Details

01 May 2013
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Thompson Dean, MBA 1984

Growing up as the son of a foreign service officer, Tom Dean spent much of his youth in Asia and developed a curiosity about American business. After graduating from the University of Virginia and working at Irving Trust Company in New... View Details

01 Mar 2018
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Excellence At The Intersection Of Disciplines

Professor of Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean for University Affairs Harvard’s Evolving Western Avenue Innovation Corridor Harvard’s expanding campus in Allston will create exciting opportunities for View Details

01 Jun 2017
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Developing Insight that Has Power in Practice

the world. It enables us to tap into new methodologies and develop ideas that have power in practice. HBS has an ambitious intellectual agenda, and I believe, in many ways, the most exciting years of research at the School lie ahead.” Jan... View Details

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