• 10 Sep 2020
• Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

very well might have– occurred.” Perry Evans, President of ThriveHive, stated in the New York Times, “In any transformation I’ve seen, the winner is always the one who takes out a clean sheet of paper and says, ‘This is how you would do... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

• Web

2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Srikant Datar + More Info - Video Recording – Less Info - Video Recording Dean Srikant Datar kicks off Reunion Weekend by sharing his key priorities, which will strengthen and accelerate the School’s impact in the world. 10:00-11:15 a.m.... View Details

• 01 Dec 2018
• News

What a Difference a Community Can Make

financial goal but, in true HBS fashion, to exceed it. It has been a joy and a privilege to take part in such a broad, collective effort to ensure that HBS has the resources to remain the standard-bearer in management education for years to come. READ MORE HBS Campaign... View Details

Keywords: John B. Hess (MBA 1977), Chair, The HBS Campaign

• 09 Mar 2021
• News

Bridging the Gap

limited student access to technology, and lack of family support and essential services all have had an impact on the world’s children and those who are trying to teach them. The pandemic has laid bare and even exacerbated inequities in... View Details

• 01 Oct 2021
• News

No Time Like the Present

Reunion. Now the subject of an HBS case study himself, Delle still regularly reviews his collection of cases from his days as an MBA in order to glean new insights. He was initially interested in earmarking his support for research and fellowships at HBS, and over... View Details

• 13 Feb 2023
• News

Alumnus Gift Will Nurture Basic, Therapeutic Science

Swiss biotech executive, entrepreneur, and philanthropist Ernesto Bertarelli (MBA 1993) has pledged $75 million to advance basic scientific discovery, therapeutic science, and a culture of entrepreneurship at Harvard Medical School. The gift will set in motion plans to... View Details

• 01 Sep 2024
• News

Fueling Innovation

By giving to the HBS Fund, alumni and friends support the School’s core priorities and help catalyze the launch of new programs and initiatives and sustain their growth. Featured here are a few key examples of innovations at HBS that would not have been possible... View Details

• 01 Sep 2016
• News

Advancing the Vision for HBS

As chair of The Harvard Business School Campaign, I have seen firsthand its impact on advancing key HBS priorities, including field-based learning, HBX, global research, the Harvard Innovation Labs, and financial aid. The philanthropic... View Details

• 24 Jul 2018
• Op-Ed

4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World

among graduates aiming for both success in business and beneficial impact on the world around them. They have come to believe that one can either succeed in business or enhance society—by expanding economic opportunity or by improving... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

• 01 Jun 2022
• News

Making It Count

by 2025, which would amount to a third of all assets under management around the world. But sandwiched somewhere between the high hopes and higher stakes of sustainable investing looms the big question: Will it ever be enough to solve the problems of our times? For its... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

• 01 Jun 2016
• News

The Difference Fellowships Make

The Transformational Power of Diversity Each year the School welcomes more than 900 MBA candidates from all over the globe. These dynamic young people hail from a remarkable range of industries, regions, and life experiences. Some are the... View Details

• 28 Oct 2021
• News

Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity

when half of us are held back. The data are clear: Empowered women transform societies.” The discussion was moderated by Jennifer Openshaw, a MarketWatch columnist and the CEO of Girls With Impact, which she co-created with Applegate.... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

• 10 Oct 2018
• News

Building Paths to Success

team with 100 people, SVA partnered last year with 17 nonprofits focused on reducing economic and educational disadvantage among Australia’s neediest populations. Traill, who details his personal transformation and SVA’s rise in his new... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

• 23 May 2019
• Book

These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems

In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Green Technology

• 01 Mar 2014
• News

Social Enterprise Initiative Marks 20th Anniversary

Professors Leonard and Rangan One of the benefits of starting a new initiative within an academic institution is the chance to set transformational ideas into motion. In 1993, when then-Dean John McArthur and John Whitehead (MBA 1947)... View Details

Keywords: SEI