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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
China Dominates HBS Business Plan Contest
The economic power and emerging opportunities in China inspired winners in the tenth annual HBS Business Plan Contest last April. Tingting Zhong (MBA ’06) won first place in the traditional track for 8Baorice, a company that aims to create an online community focused... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
HBS's Unique Economic Model
Rick Melnick Harvard Business School is renowned for educating leaders who make a difference in the world. Less well known is the economic model that enables HBS to do this—model that is unique in higher education. HBS is a living example of what it teaches: For a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Class Day/Commencement 2013
Class Day/Commencement 2013 Photos by Russ Campbell "With meaning, any job can become a calling," former Time Inc. chairman and CEO Ann Moore (MBA 1978) told 901 MBA, 7 DBA, and 8 joint PhD graduates during Class Day ceremonies on May 30. Moore's call for the newly... View Details
- 01 Aug 2013
- News
A Cure for Cold Storage
Michael Schrader The measles, says Vaxess CEO Michael Schrader (MBA 2012), is the perfect example of what's wrong with the modern vaccine. Despite the fact that a measles immunization has been available for more than 40 years, there are still several countries around... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Save the Dates
Cyberposium (Sponsored by the HBS High Tech & New Media Club) HBS February 8–10, 2002 Spring Meeting of the HBSAA Board of Directors/Club Officers Roundtable HBS May 29–30, 2002 Spring 2002 Reunions/MBA Classes of 1927, 1932, 1937, 1942, 1947, 1952, 1982, 1987, 1992,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Terrorism, Insurance, and Uncle Sam
In the wake of the September 11 attacks, business in general and the insurance industry in particular are examining ways to manage the high cost of insurance against acts of terrorism. Appearing before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation last... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
HBS Expands Global Presence
Following the successful launch of research centers in Silicon Valley, Hong Kong, and Buenos Aires, HBS has opened the European Research Center (ERC) in Paris. With Vincent Dessain (MBA '87) serving as executive director, the ERC will continue the School's initiative... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Design Fair
Second-year students in Associate Professor Stefan Thomke's elective MBA course Managing Product Development presented their final projects at the tenth annual Design Fair in December. Among those who displayed their wares at the Spangler Center were Calona Chan, Mira... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Insights into Business in Islamic World
Bridging differences in political and economic systems has always been one of the challenges of international business. Where religious beliefs influence those systems heavily, as is increasingly the case in Islamic countries, the sensitivities can be even greater.... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Dot Vertigo
In Dot Vertigo: Doing Business in a Permeable World, HBS professor Richard Nolan shows how the next shift in Internet technology - the I-Net - is helping both bricks-and-mortar and first-generation Web companies stave off the competition while meeting the challenges of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Faculty Debates Lessons from Enron's Collapse
In early April, nearly ninety HBS faculty members came together for a half-day symposium on “Strategy, Values, and Governance in the Rise and Fall of Enron.” Organized by the School's Division of Research and moderated by Professor Krishna Palepu, senior associate dean... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
MBAs by the Numbers
A snapshot of the MBA Program’s newest students reveals that this year’s incoming class — chosen from a pool of 6,552 applicants — represents a select, diverse group of individuals hailing from 68 countries around the world. “We’re excited to have this very talented... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
New Corporate Leader Program
Executive Education has created The Corporate Leader program to focus exclusively on the most important challenges facing the corporate office. Joseph L. Bower, the Donald Kirk David Professor of Business Administration, is the program’s faculty chair. Scheduled for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Faculty Research Online
The Best Place for Retirement Funds Location, location, location isn’t just about real estate. Assistant Professor Daniel Bergstresser discusses his research on optimal asset-location strategies. The Hard Work of Failure Analysis We all should learn from failure, but... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
HBS Issues Upbeat 2006 Annual Report
As a business, HBS had a banner year in fiscal 2006. Demand for the School’s Executive Education programs was up, sales of cases and other print products grew, the MBA Program attained a 91 percent admissions yield, and total revenue advanced by 11.2 percent, exceeding... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
The Nature of Change
Before this year’s class of MBAs departed Soldiers Field, they sat down one more time and prepared for a ritual now in its fourth year. For this “Cap-stone Class,” all graduating students read an annually updated case that compares data from their own class with that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Trouble in Mouse Land
In 1984, two board members of the Walt Disney Company (WDC) — Stanley Gold and Roy Disney — mounted a targeted campaign to convince major shareholders that Michael Eisner and Frank Wells were the right team to lead the faltering entertainment giant. Gold and Disney’s... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
New Art
GERALD SCHWARTZ with art lovers Supriya Menon (MBA '05) and Avid Larizadeh (HBS '06). View art purchased on this year's trip When Gerald Schwartz (MBA ’70) attended HBS, the walls of Aldrich Hall were bare. As a longtime art lover who began collecting in his early 20s,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Clark Bids Farewell to HBS
CLARK: "It's been a great job and an intense learning experience." In July, after ten years at the School’s helm, Dean Kim B. Clark stepped down to assume the presidency of Brigham Young University–Idaho. During Clark’s decade of leadership, the School became a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Make Plans for Washington GLF
When I left Soldiers Field thirty years ago as a young MBA, I never dreamed that I’d be back one day as president of the Alumni Association. But here I am at the beginning of a two-year term as head of a very dynamic alumni group — nearly forty strong — dedicated to... View Details