May 2016
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26 May 2016
Distinguished Alumnus Tom Tierney (MBA 1980) Addresses Harvard MBA Class of 2016
Thus might begin the glittering résumé of Tom Tierney, the Distinguished Speaker at yesterday’s Class Day ceremony for the Harvard MBA Class of 2016, presided over by student government co-presidents Anya Hayden and Brad Minkow and held on the great lawn in front of the School’s Baker Library/Bloomberg Center. Read more.
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26 May 2016
Five Graduates Receive the 2016 Harvard Business School Alumni Achievement Award
BOSTON—The Harvard Business School MBA Class of 2016 concluded their last day on campus as students this afternoon by seeing five distinguished graduates receive the School’s Alumni Achievement Award, the highest honor HBS can bestow upon an alumnus or alumna. Read more.
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26 May 2016
Harvard Business School Celebrates 106th Commencement
BOSTON—Harvard Business School (HBS) held its 106th Commencement exercises this afternoon with a diploma ceremony on its campus in Boston. Following an all-University celebration in Harvard’s Tercentenary Theatre this morning, nine hundred and twenty-two students received their MBA degrees in front of the School’s iconic Baker Library | Bloomberg Center. Read more.
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26 May 2016
Student Speaker at HBS Class Day Ceremony Recounts Her Year of Sadness and Success
BOSTON—Marcelle de Souza Goncalves Meira, who was chosen by her peers in the MBA Class of 2016 to be the student speaker at yesterday’s Class Day ceremony at Harvard Business School, has experienced the worst and best of times during her days as a second-year student. Read more.
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26 May 2016
Harvard MBA Class of 2016 Honors Excellence in Teaching
BOSTON—Harvard Business School prides itself on its world-class teaching as well as it leading-edge research, so that the teaching awards that honor excellence in both the first- and second-year curricula, determined each year by voting by members of the graduating class, are highly prized. Read more.
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25 May 2016
Former HBS Dean John McArthur to Receive Harvard Medal
BOSTON—Harvard Business School (HBS) Dean Emeritus John H. McArthur (MBA 1959, DBA 1963) will receive the prestigious 2016 Harvard Medal during the University’s Commencement exercises tomorrow. Read more.
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23 May 2016
Three Members of the Harvard MBA Class of 2016 Recognized for Service to School and Society
BOSTON—Three members of the Harvard Business School MBA Class of 2016 — Abdulaziz “Aziz” Albahar, Sara Gentile, and Needham Hurst — have been named recipients of the School’s prestigious Dean’s Award. They will be recognized by HBS Dean Nitin Nohria at Commencement ceremonies on the HBS campus on Thursday, May 26. Read more.
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23 May 2016
Meet the 2016-2017 HBS Leadership Fellows
The Leadership Fellows Program gives nonprofit and public-sector organizations the opportunity to maximize their effectiveness by leveraging the experience, energy, and analytical skills of MBAs for one year at a salary partially supported by HBS. Read more.
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20 May 2016
MatchMiner Wins Harvard Business School Kraft Precision Trials Challenge
BOSTON—Today marks International Clinical Trials Day, the day Scottish physician James Lind conducted the first clinical trial in 1747 aboard the HMS Salisbury of Britain’s Royal Navy. His systematic trial, which lasted six days and consisted of 12 sailors who were grouped into pairs and given a variety of oranges and lemons, developed the theory that citrus can cure the deadly disease scurvy. Through Lind’s pioneering idea, the importance of research in health care became a standard for drug discovery. Read more.
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12 May 2016
Online Students Reunite at Harvard Business School for First Ever Gathering
BOSTON—This past Saturday, nearly 500 students from more than 20 countries gathered on the Harvard Business School (HBS) campus to meet their classmates from HBX online programs and visit the Harvard Business School campus, most for the first time. Read more.