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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Constant Inspiration
partner organizations to work with students in Chile, where she has lived since 1997. In the second module of the required yearlong FIELD course, small teams of students develop or improve a product, service, or experience for their View Details
- 10 Jan 2017
- News
A Voice for Women Leaders
Laura Liswood (MBA 1976) is cofounder and secretary general of the Council of Women World Leaders, an international network of current and former female prime ministers and presidents that aims to have impact globally on issues of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
HBS Professors Pearson, Thurston Remembered
wars” and aggressive global expansion. Pearson left PepsiCo to join the HBS faculty in 1985. He taught the first-year course Competition and Strategy and the elective Management Policy and Practice. “Andy brought an extraordinary amount... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Faculty Books
International Finance A Casebook by Mihir A. Desai (John Wiley & Sons) These case studies, by Associate Professor Desai, consider how major financial and investment decisions must adapt to the opportunities and obstacles in a rapidly View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Christine Fairchild to Head External Relations
scope and professionalism. They include the annual Global Leadership Forum, career services and lifelong learning programs for alumni, and a vibrant reunion program that is the envy of other professional schools and undergraduate... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
history courses today. The first HBS course designed specifically to teach entrepreneurial management - The Management of New Enterprises - was introduced in 1947, one of several HBS initiatives undertaken to address the unique circumstances presented by the cessation... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
HBS Fund Helps Fuel Faculty Research and New Learning Experiences
capital from a global vantage point. The course exceeded students’ expectations. “We were able to talk with real estate and investment people who shared their perspectives on what’s going to happen with the economy during a tumultuous... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
many other matters that should be possible to handle easily becoming intractable.” For Bok’s benefit, McArthur reviewed problems with the School’s appointment processes. He listed faculty areas that had grown unproductive and suggested “emerging fields” that the School... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
HBS Opens Shanghai Office with Harvard China Fund
Harvard University has opened a new office in Shanghai that will serve both HBS and the Harvard China Fund (HCF). The HCF was launched in 2006 as a University-wide “academic venture fund” to enhance Harvard’s teaching and research in and about China. The office will... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Bert W.M. Twaalfhoven (MBA '54)
In June, the School conferred its highest honors, the Distinguished Service Award and the Alumni Achievement Award, on four professors emeriti and five alumni, respectively. This is a profile of an Alumni Achievement Award honoree. Sitting in his sun-filled office in a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Joint Venture
global reach and impact, that effort has been not only an enormous success but also a ringing affirmation of the School’s mission to “make a difference in the world.” Over the decades—from field-based work such as the Hawthorne studies,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Richard Edelman (MBA 1978)
social ills than government. Trust is the central issue for global institutions. CEOs have to speak out on societal issues, because their employees expect to work for a company with values consistent with their own. Wolverine, the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
A Roundabout Path
entrepreneur intends to make a difference with his business education. “In 20 to 30 years, I hope to have created a venture where people have meaningful work making a product that helps solve global problems,” says the ambitious... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Innovative Loan Fund Yields Big Returns
HBS has achieved approximately $300,000 in annual operational savings and earned $330,000 in rebates and grants from utilities and from the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative. The projects have also offset HBS’s greenhouse gas emissions — the main human-produced... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Gore All Business at HBS
levies on pollution, which is by definition an indicator of waste and inefficiency. Gore, who has long argued that carbon dioxide emissions contribute to global warming, said that solving the environmental crisis represents “the greatest... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Fiscal Year Ends on Upbeat Note
HBS entered fiscal 2010 with an aggressive plan to reduce costs in anticipation of a prolonged period of diminished revenue in the wake of the global financial crisis. But when the books closed last June, the School’s financial... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
manifesto for turning snooze-inducing annual reports into engines of sustainable capitalism, Eccles gave a big push to the nascent global effort to take sustainability to the next level. The problem with sustainability today, Eccles and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
crowdsourcing, correct? Yes, you can post any sort of task—whether it's editing a document, providing website copy, or verifying directory entries—and people with the abilities and time available will bid on it. Companies like Elance and oDesk make it possible to find... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
10 percent of GDP, per capita GDP is just shy of $500, and it has slightly more than one billion people. It is a relatively closed economy without a great deal of foreign investment. Today, the globalization imperative is driving Western... View Details