Business Education - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2003
News

Business Answers the Call

Despite increased attention to public education in recent years, today’s schools are still not producing graduates equipped to meet the demands of the 21st-century economy, many business leaders contend.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Educational Support Services; Educational Support Services

05 Oct 2010
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Harvard Business School Introduces Executive Program on Risk Management

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Clubs - Business & Environment

MBA Experience Clubs 2ms Student-led clubs and activities give students the opportunity to become better informed about and engaged in issues and possible career paths. A number of clubs focus on the link between business and environment... View Details

02 Nov 2021
News

Harvard Business School Professor Alvin J. Silk, Dies at 85

27 Mar 2024
Blog Post

Video: Inspirational Women in Business

was the first cold call in my section. So, my excitement was on another level talking about her. Whitley Cargile: Sandra Horbach, the Americas co-head of corporate private equity at Carlyle. I chose to join Carlyle to work with her. I also trusted her advice to go to... View Details

01 Sep 2004
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HBS Business Plan Contest

The School’s eighth annual Business Plan Contest proved that entrepreneurship is alive and well at HBS: Close to forty teams entered plans to be judged by a panel of experts. This year’s traditional track winner was Extend Fertility,... View Details

01 Sep 2008
News

Business Plan Contest Winners

The 12th annual HBS Business Plan Contest winner in the social enterprise track was Diagnostics-For-All (DFA), a nonprofit launched to develop a disposable, low-cost, paper-based “lab-on-a-chip” for use in diagnosing liver, kidney, and... View Details

Keywords: awards; Educational Support Services; Educational Support Services

01 Sep 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces 2023 Goldsmith Fellows

Harvard Business School (HBS) has announced the 2023 recipients of its Horace W. Goldsmith Fellowships. Established in 1988 by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation and Richard L. Menschel (MBA 1959), a former director of the foundation and... View Details

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The Business of Entertainment, Media, and Sports

driving revenue and success in today's entertainment environment. Through an up-close examination of why some creative businesses thrive while others fail to survive, you will learn when to make smaller versus blockbuster bets, the best... View Details

Keywords: Media & Entertainment; Media & Entertainment

08 Feb 2016
Blog Post

Applying to Business School as a Couple

sell-side deal and started dating shortly after the deal was announced. Though Kate had plans to move back to her home in Seattle, after meeting Patrick she stayed in NYC and worked in education reform in New Jersey. We checked in with... View Details

March 2023
Article

Developing Moral Muscle in a Literature-based Business Ethics Course

By: Inge M. Brokerhof, Sandra J. Sucher, P. Matthijs Bal, Frank Hakemulder, Paul G. W. Jansen and Omar N. Solinger

Moral subjectivity (e.g., reflexivity, perspective-taking) is a necessary condition for moral development. However, widely used approaches to business ethics education, rooted in conceptualizations of ethical development as objective and quantifiable, often neglect... View Details

Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Business Education; Growth and Development; Teaching

01 Mar 2004
News

The Business of Babies

“We have a business that doesn’t feel like a business,” she noted. “Nobody wants to acknowledge the extent of commercialization.” Yet Americans alone spent $2.7 billion on fertility treatments in 2002. Procedures such as egg and sperm... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services

Business of Emerging Markets

economies, including issues of corporate reputation and responsibility in business. Right now I’m working on business involvement in education CSR initiatives, using the unique dataset from the View Details

06 Jul 2014
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Business must align with schools to close "skills gap"

10 Sep 2020
News

The Business of Access

her business know-how—revenue generation and growth in the private sector—and apply it to nonprofits rooted in social services. She was brought aboard to assist San Mateo–based Shelter Network implement a merger with another homelessness... View Details

June 2024
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Oral History and Business History in Emerging Markets

By: Geoffrey Jones

This article describes the motivation, structure and use of the Creating Emerging Markets (CEM) oral history-based project at the Harvard Business School. The project consists of lengthy interviews with business leaders from emerging markets. By June 2024 183... View Details

Keywords: Emerging Economies; Oral History; Emerging Markets; Business History; Research