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- 01 Dec 2022
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A Quiet Force: Remembering Jay Light
Jay O. Light, Dean of Harvard Business School from 2005 to 2010, died on October 15, 2022, at his home in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts, of cancer. He was 81 years old. Light served on the HBS faculty for more than four decades. He loved being in the classroom and was... View Details
- 23 Feb 2022
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Rethinking Low-Wage Work
- 15 Mar 2019
- News
A Model of Drive and Impact
Pablo Fernandez Alvarez (GMP 17, 2014) is cofounder of Clicars, an e-commerce platform in Spain that allows users to buy and finance refurbished cars hassle-free. In this interview, Fernandez explains the business model, the reasons behind the company’s rapid growth (... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
image by Edmon de Haro image by Edmon de Haro Boris Eykher (MBA 2009) and Ilya Chernilovskiy (MBA 2013) watched the 2015 global price slump in commodities with horror. Prices for commodities fell to their lowest levels since the financial crisis, sending mining... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
Above: photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images On a late summer day in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in a large carpeted room with a colorful cloth tacked over a dropped fiberboard ceiling, Bob Vaccaro (MBA 1970), short white hair, eyes crinkled with smile lines, sits easily,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
Nayana Mawilmada (MBA 2005) is seeing things. Standing at the edge of Beira Lake, an algae-choked body of water in the heart of Sri Lanka’s capital, Colombo, he envisions people and restaurants—like New York’s South Street Seaport, he says, or Singapore’s Clarke Quay.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
A Club for the Cosmos
In May, as Khaled Al-Hashmi (GMP 11, 2011) was introducing the UAE Space Agency at the Global Space and Satellite Forum in Abu Dhabi, another launch was taking place inside the confines of the larger conference. The Harvard Business School Aerospace Alumni Group, the... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Measuring Impact
Nearly 40 percent of Harvard alumni from across all schools have founded for-profit and nonprofit organizations—launching more than 146,000 active ventures with an estimated $3.9 trillion in annual revenues and creating 20.4 million jobs across all sectors and around... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The End of Cows?
Price is a market barrier for lab-grown beef, with production costs currently exceeding 250,000 euros per burger. (Photo courtesy of Cultured Beef) Price is a market barrier for lab-grown beef, with production costs currently exceeding 250,000 euros per burger. (Photo... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Research Brief: Capitol Gains
FOR MORE INFORMATION Legislating Stock Prices Psst looking for a hot stock tip? Forget the Wall Street Journal. Try the Congressional Record. HBS professors Lauren Cohen and Christopher Malloy, with Dartmouth's Karl Diether, analyzed the complete legislative record of... View Details
- 19 Mar 2014
- News
Canada Names New Finance Minister
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Music & Activism: Market Research Resources
scores and labor data like unemployment, crime statistics and city crime rates. US Census Data provides to data about the United States, Puerto Rico and the Island Areas. The data come from many censuses and surveys including... View Details
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MBA Key Dates & Calendar | MBA
petitions accepted for EC Fall Term 2 SEP Labor Day 3 SEP Required EC Kickoff 4 SEP EC Fall Term courses begin 6 SEP EC Open Day 18 SEP EC Open Day 21 SEP Weekend Sprints (special on-campus academic programming, optional) 27 SEP RC and EC... View Details
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Brett Lindsay Laffel
three days after graduation." At MLB, Brett joined the Labor Relations department while the collective bargaining agreement with the players' association was taking place in 2006. Later, she joined the Baseball Operations department... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
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Eight Among Many: Charles W. ("Bill") Cassell
graduate school, earned a master's in education, and is currently substitute teaching in anticipation of a full-time position. As the father of now seven-year-old Alex, Cassell has already found satisfaction contributing to his son's "confidence and interest in... View Details
Keywords: Eileen McCluskey
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Four-Letter Word
Miller: Rolling up the TARP at Treasury. Other Newsmakers Bob Gannon (OPM 16, 1990) Diana ("Dido") Harding (MBA ’92) Allison O’Kelly (MBA ’99) Amos Schocken (MBA ’70) Mike Stone (MBA ’88) Tom Tiller (MBA ’91) Bill Wyman (MBA ’65) Ammara Yaqub (MBA ’05) Scorned and... View Details
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Manuscript Collections - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
Securities and Exchange Commission (1934-37), the U.S. Emergency Board, convened to resolve the wage controversy between railroad management and labor during the 1938 railway strike, and; and his work as a special trial examiner for the... View Details
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FAQ - U.S. Competitiveness
skilled labor and logistics infrastructure, were historically American strengths but are now in decline. The U.S. retains some core strengths in clusters, entrepreneurship, and other areas. What can business leaders do to improve U.S.... View Details
- 11 Feb 2015
- News
Dedicated to a public service mission
Wrendon Hunt (MBA 2012) was raised to be an upstander. “My father always talked about serving causes greater than ourselves,” says Hunt, who is a 2014–2015 White House Fellow. He describes his yearlong appointment at the Department of View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
UNC's “Accidental” Dean
figured that his impressive business credentials and international perspective would serve the school well. “They were as open to a practitioner for the role as they were for an academic,” Jones told the Herald-Sun. Thrilled to be back home, Jones aims to lead the... View Details