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- 01 Mar 2011
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Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution In his new book, Seven Strategy Questions, Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration Robert Simons explains how managers can identify holes in their planning processes and make smart... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
HBS Alumni in Harvard Leadership Roles
With new and continuing appointments, HBS alumni are playing key roles in the governance structure of Harvard University. In September, Theodore Wells (MBA 1974/JD 1976) was elected to the Harvard Corporation by members of the Corporation and with the consent of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Mission in Motion
Since its beginnings 20 years ago, the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative has been a focal point for applying innovative business practices to drive sustainable, high-impact social change. Conceived by John Whitehead (MBA 1947), the SEI was founded at HBS and brought to... View Details
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Students Assist Needy Family
A Boston family threatened with homelessness got a financial lift from more than seventy HBS students just before Thanksgiving. In response to an e-mail campaign launched by roommates Grace Simmons and Jennifer Kelm (both HBS ’10), their classmates used the charity... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Celebrating Women at HBS
Activities marking the 50th anniversary of women in the two-year MBA Program are continuing on campus and through HBS alumni clubs and associations. Photos courtesy of Baker Library Historical Collections Throughout the year, a number of HBS clubs—including the HBS... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Entrepreneurs-in-Residence
Entrepreneurs-in-Residence at HBS this year — and their entrepreneurial ventures — are Jeffrey Bussgang (MBA ’95), cofounder of UPromise; Jeffrey Glass (MBA ’94), former president and CEO of m-Qube Inc.; Chris Michel (MBA ’98), cofounder of Military.com and Affinity... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Innovation Lab to Open in ’11
Related Links Dean Nohria on Innovation at HBS (video) - June 4, 2010 Harvard Business School is working to launch a lab for innovation and entrepreneurship in the building that housed public broadcasting’s WGBH on Western Avenue in Allston. The Harvard Innovation Lab... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
HBS Annual Report for FY ’10
HBS’s Annual Report for fiscal year 2010, which details the School’s budget and finances, will be available in January. The report also includes highlights from a wide range of accomplishments in various HBS programs and initiatives. View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Hardymon Receives VC Award
Felda Hardymon, the MBA Class of 1975 Professor of Management Practice, has received a Lifetime Achievement in Venture Capital Award from the National Venture Capital Association. A member of the HBS faculty for more than a decade, since 1981 Hardymon has also been a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Showtime
CNBC’s morning business show, Squawk Box, set up on Baker Lawn September 16 for a live broadcast that tapped faculty and alumni views on the U.S. economy. Host Carl Quintanilla and University Professor Michael Porter, who served as cohost, talked with Dean Nitin Nohria... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Condo Mania
STERNLICHT: Waiting for the dust to settle. John Vanbeekum A self-described “distressed-real-estate guy,” Barry Sternlicht (MBA ’86) has some vacant condos to move, and that’s a problem he’s glad to have. Consider the unfinished and unoccupied 47-story Paramount Bay... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Portrait Project’s 2010 Edition
For the past nine years, scores of graduating MBAs have taken the challenge to write 200-word essays in response to one simple question: “What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” The students’ revealing essays are paired with black-and-white... View Details
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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
The Evolving Case Method
Simulations and role-plays complement and reinforce the power of traditional case method instruction and have become fixtures of several courses. Professor David Garvin explains how this has worked in Leadership and Corporate Accountability, a first-year required... View Details
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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Welcome to the Future
Batten Hall, on Western Avenue, is the totally renovated and redesigned building formerly occupied by the PBS television station WGBH. Batten Hall’s top two floors, reserved for HBS, are devoted to 10 curved, modular learning spaces (called “hives”) and other areas... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Happening Fast
Erdoes: "There is a little luck on the way, but there is no substitute for really superhard work, first in, last out." Photo courtesy J.P. Morgan Overseeing some $1.3 trillion as CEO of J.P. Morgan Asset Management, Mary Callahan Erdoes (MBA ’93) is “one of the most... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
In the wake of the financial crisis and the massive federal response, it has become fashionable to declare that “too big to fail is too big to exist.” Powerful lawmakers and popular commentators regularly endorse this notion, promising to end “too big to fail.”... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Goldman Supports Case Method
The Goldman Sachs Group will fund outreach and scholarships to bring a dozen or more senior faculty from leading Indian business schools to HBS this summer to participate in the School’s two programs that teach how to teach the case method. HBS began offering... View Details
- 14 Oct 2014
- News
Banking on social impact by brokering public-private partnerships
Maureen Harrington (MBA 2001), director of the International Development Group of Standard Bank, describes the role of a traditional bank in providing funding to social impact projects in developing countries, including supporting partnerships to provide electricity to... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
MBAs take their business acumen on the road
H icham Mhammedi Alaoui (MBA 2014) didn’t want to spend the summer of 2013 working in a corporate office. Instead, he and three HBS classmates cofounded MBAs Across America (MBAxAmerica), a movement to send teams of pioneering MBAs out on the road to learn from and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Business Plan Contest Has Many Winners
With its ninth annual competition last May, the HBS Business Plan Contest has become a well-established start-up that hits “home runs” every year. This year’s traditional track winner was Karen Grajwer (MBA ’05), founder of Uplift, an Internet and retail-store venture... View Details