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30 Nov 2019
News

Land of the Rising Scrum

Old Boys team photo with the Keio Rugby Club (photos courtesy HBS Rugby club) John O’Donnell (MBA 1977) was in his first year at Harvard Business School when he heard a New Zealander trying to recruit new students for the rugby club. The... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Feb 1997
News

HBS Introduces Global Networking through Technology

alumni. "The plan is for each graduate to be assigned an e-mail 'address' based on name, HBS degree or program affiliation, and class year," explains Susan Rogers, the School's chief technology officer. "The 'address' is really a pointer... View Details

01 Oct 1998
News

Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship

United States but have nonetheless benefited greatly from an education at this eminent worldwide business school." Initiated last year to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Marshall Plan (announced at... View Details

01 Dec 2016
Blog Post

4 Reasons College Students Apply to 2+2

As a college student you’re probably thinking about your future, what career path might interest you, whether an MBA might be worthwhile to pursue. For most top MBA programs you’re going to need some work experience before coming to View Details

01 Jan 2004
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A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977

historians—not just modern business gurus—if you're interested in mastering the power of strategy and the power of execution in your job." CURRENT READING Bush at War, by Bob Woodward A.G. Lafley has been credited with turning around... View Details

18 May 2023
News

Cultivating Can-Do Attitudes

Two days before Thanksgiving 2002, the 4th graders of Irving Primary in Peoria, Illinois, gathered in the school's gym for an assembly. The students were restless, Jen Wilfong (GMP 3, 2007) recalls. They were chatting and jostling one another and had little interest in... View Details

Keywords: April White

25 Aug 2014
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Sheila Lirio Marcelo, MBA 1998/JD 1999

crafted her business plan for Care.com, which she launched in 2006. Care.com brings together Marcelo’s passion for helping others and her entrepreneurial and management skills, to enable working families to... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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Authentic Leader Development - Course Catalog

Should Take this Course? The purpose of ALD is to help you become more effective, authentic individuals, and leaders. We do this by carving out some sacred time and space in your busy lives to engage in a rigorous,... View Details

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Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Job (MDD) - Course Catalog

role-plays, multimedia cases, and visits from case protagonists, in addition to the usual HBS written case studies. Settings are varied as well. They include a wide variety of businesses and industries, ranging from startups to large... View Details

14 Feb 2019
News

Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change

inaction. That was the message delivered on February 12, 2019, at “Confronting Climate Change: Boston-Based Ideas that Can Change the World,” a panel discussion at the Spangler Center moderated by HBS Professor Michael Toffel and organized by the HBS View Details

19 May 2022
News

Leading to Salvation

lead to the chapel’s revitalization, calling on help from a local lawyer, Steve Kaplan, and reaching out to Michael Noonan, a senior planning manager with Hennepin County. He hadn’t spent much time in North Minneapolis, but knew there was... View Details

27 Mar 2019
News

Life Is a Startup

to do some of the things that we want. A lot of people who are graduating from business school, they might dream about making an impact on the world through working for a nonprofit, like the social enterprise side of them, or that they... View Details

07 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

Electronic Health Records Were Supposed to Cut Medical Costs. They Haven't.

Despite the promise that electronic health records would cut billing costs, savings have yet to materialize, according to a major new study by researchers at Harvard Business School and Duke University. “The theory was that part of... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health

07 Sep 2021
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Alumni Perspective: The Morning After 9/11

revealing a vulnerability that students at Harvard Business School were unaccustomed to seeing in their faculty. The previous day, all classes had been cancelled as news broke of the terrorist attacks on the United States. Two of the four... View Details

08 Mar 2019
Blog Post

“There’s no quick shortcut to success:” Zorpads takes off

a social media presence. Those weren't the only connections they used in building the business. The pair tapped into their networks to try and land a spot on the hit television show, Shark Tank. They got the idea from pitching their View Details

01 Dec 2019
News

John McArthur

above: photo by Bill Gallery John H. McArthur, a member of the Harvard Business School community for more than six decades—as a student (MBA 1959, DBA 1963), as a faculty member (beginning in 1962), as Dean (from 1980 to 1995), and as... View Details

Keywords: Dean

04 Sep 2019
News

Deep Dive

just after a successful dive in the South Sandwich Trench. He had the experience. Since 2002, he has been a managing partner at Insight Equity, a private equity firm he cofounded, and currently serves as chairman of four companies. This was, at its core, a View Details

Keywords: April White; photo by Jeff Wilson; Scientific Research and Development Services

04 Oct 2018
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“A Shout Through Time”

Therese. Morrell: Therese Perzyk was 88, the youngest of 10 children in the Perzyk family of Detroit, and the last living sibling. Quickly, a plan began to form to have the Perzyk family visit Zavattrello and receive the bracelet. And so,... View Details

17 Aug 2021
Blog Post

New Associate Director: Courtney Fairbrother

engagement to help reach the University sustainability goals (you can read about the HU Sustainability Plan here). Prior to working at Harvard, I worked for a number of different entities on renewable energy policy, analysis, and... View Details

01 Apr 1996
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"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs

development, and review in quantitative reasoning, accounting, computer skills, and business writing and logical expression. From January 8 to January 30, they became the first group to encounter "Foundations" - the "sequel" to Essential... View Details

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