April 2015
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30 Apr 2015
Incoming Harvard Law Students Will Be Offered Harvard Business School's Online Courses on Business Fundamentals
BOSTON— April 30, 2015 — HBX Credential of Readiness (CORe)—the online business fundamentals program launched by Harvard Business School (HBS) last year to provide a strong foundation in the language and tools of business—will now be offered to entering students at Harvard Law School (HLS). Read more.
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27 Apr 2015
HBX, Harvard Business School’s Online Education Initiative, Announces Agreement with Amherst College
BOSTON—HBX, Harvard Business School’s online digital education initiative, announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Amherst College to provide additional benefits for Amherst students participating in the Credential of Readiness (CORe) program. This is the first of several similar agreements with other colleges and universities that HBX expects to announce in the coming weeks. Read more.
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27 Apr 2015
Harvard Business School “Topping Off” of the Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center
BOSTON — Harvard Business School (HBS) held a “Topping Off” ceremony at the construction site of a new Executive Education facility—the Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center—on Friday, April 24, 2015, signifying the completion of the structural phase of the project. The 30-minute ceremony began at 11:30 a.m. with remarks by Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria; former U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao (MBA 1979); Ms. Angela Chao, Deputy Chair, Foremost Group (AB 1994, MBA 2001); and Robert C. O’Leary, Senior Vice President, Lee Kennedy Company, the construction firm building the Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center. Read more.
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24 Apr 2015
Learning and Leading in Space
BOSTON—Speaking to a packed auditorium at Harvard Business School on Wednesday (April 22), Terry Virts, a 2011 alumnus of the General Management Program (part of the School’s Executive Education portfolio) had the audience transfixed to their seats. He, however, was literally floating in space, as part of a live video chat from NASA’s International Space Station (ISS). As the station’s commander and pilot, Terry, a colonel in the U.S. Air Force, has been aboard the vehicle since Nov. 23, 2011. Read more.
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24 Apr 2015
Harvard Business School Stages Finale of 18th Annual New Venture Competition
BOSTON—Food production and emergency phone calls may look very different in the near future thanks to the student grand prize winners announced at the 2015 Harvard Business School New Venture Competition (NVC) Finale, which took place Wednesday (April 22) before an enthusiastic audience in Burden Auditorium on the HBS campus. Read more.
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01 Apr 2015
Scott Cook, Cofounder of Intuit, to Address Harvard MBA Students on Class Day 2015
The cofounder of Intuit and HBS alumnus will share lessons from his success in the world of high-tech entrepreneurship. Read more.
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01 Apr 2015
Three Harvard Business School Faculty Named 2014 HBR McKinsey Award Finalists
BOSTON—Harvard Business Review has announced the winners of the 2014 HBR McKinsey Awards, which commend outstanding articles published each year in the magazine. Read more.