Press Releases

23 Oct 2024

Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows

26 students from the MBA Classes of 2025 and 2026 have been named recipients of a Recognizing Individuals Seeking Equity (RISE) Fellowship. Read more.

09 Oct 2024

Harvard Business School Announces 2024-2025 Cohort of Executive Fellows

Harvard Business School has announced a cohort of 75 Executive Fellows for the 2024-2025 academic year. The Executive Fellows program leverages the expertise of outstanding practitioners—many of whom are alumni—to enhance teaching and learning at the School. Executive Fellows are sponsored by and partner with at least one HBS faculty member to bring their business experience into the HBS community. Read more.

23 Sep 2024

Now at Harvard Business School, “From Concept to Product: Meroë Morse and Polaroid’s Culture of Art and Innovation, 1945–1969”

Harvard Business School’s (HBS) Baker Library has opened a new exhibition, “From Concept to Product: Meroë Morse and Polaroid’s Culture of Art and Innovation, 1945–1969,” which draws on the library’s extensive holdings of the Polaroid Corporation Collection to celebrate Meroë Morse, a key contributor to the development of instant photography. Read more.

13 Sep 2024

Harvard Business School Rock Center for Entrepreneurship Announces 2024-2025 Entrepreneurs-in-Residence, Venture Capital Advisors, and Lawyers-in-Residence

The Harvard Business School (HBS) Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship has announced its Entrepreneurs-In-Residence (EIR), Venture Capital Advisors (VCA), and Lawyers-In-Residence (LIR) for the 2024-2025 academic year. Read more.

04 Sep 2024

Harvard Business School Announces 2024-2025 Institute for Business in Global Society Fellows

For the 2024-2025 academic year, Harvard Business School (HBS) is proud to announce its third cohort of visiting scholars in collaboration with its Institute for Business in Global Society (BiGS). This year’s cohort will concentrate on how business intersects with the two critical issues of climate change and racial inequality, advancing HBS’s commitment to encouraging pioneering research that shapes the future of business leadership. Read more.

28 Aug 2024

Harvard Business School Announces 2024 Goldsmith Fellows

Harvard Business School has announced the 2024 recipients of the Horace W. Goldsmith Fellowships. Established in 1988 by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation and Richard L. Menschel (MBA 1959), a former director of the Foundation and a limited partner at Goldman Sachs, to encourage students from the nonprofit and public sector to attend HBS, these fellowships enable the School to award $10,000 to a select number of incoming MBA students for each of their two years in the MBA program. Read more.

24 Jul 2024

Harvard Business School MBA Is Now STEM Designated

Harvard Business School announced that its MBA Program has been reclassified to qualify as a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) degree, effective this fall for the class of 2025 and onward. Read more.

17 Jul 2024

Harvard Business School Announces Its 2024-2025 Blavatnik Fellows

Harvard Business School (HBS) has named its 2024-25 Blavatnik Fellows and the program’s eleventh cohort. Launched in 2013, the Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship is part of a gift from the Blavatnik Family Foundation to Harvard University. The Blavatnik Fellowship offers HBS alumni and Harvard-affiliated postdoctoral researchers the opportunity to advance new ventures around promising life science technologies and develop their leadership talents during a 12-month fellowship year. Fellows work closely with leading biotech industry and biomedical authorities, receive programmatic guidance and mentorship, and join a community of entrepreneurs who have created 45 companies and raised over $520M in funding to impact the business of science. Read more.

24 May 2024

Professors Receive Wyss Awards for Excellence in Mentoring Doctoral Students

Two Harvard Business School (HBS) faculty members, Professor Ryan Buell and Associate Professor Eva Ascarza, have been awarded Wyss Awards for Excellence in Mentoring Doctoral students. Every year, HBS doctoral students select faculty to receive Wyss Awards for their work in the Doctoral Programs. Read more.

24 May 2024

Harvard Business School Celebrates 114th Commencement

Harvard Business School held its 1134h Commencement exercises with a diploma ceremony on its campus in Boston. Read more.