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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
NFL Players Hit the Books
Thirty-five NFL players traded their shoulder pads for notepads in late February to participate in an Executive Education program designed by the HBS faculty to help them prepare for careers after football. The NFL Business Management and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Baker’s Man of Steel
cabin. “When I get out, I still don’t feel like talking.” Some of the newer cranes are computerized, but Delaney prefers to do the job by feel — something he’s well qualified to do. “Too long,” he answers, when asked how long he’s been a... View Details
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Classroom Hijinks: Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
In the first part of “Classroom Hijinks” last week, I discussed catchphrases, cheers, and mascots as examples of section spirit engendered by the fortunate decision to have a first-year section’s courses all taught in the same classroom.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
Photos by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard University News Office Jay Light, the School’s ninth dean, retires in June after a distinguished forty-year career at HBS. As a young mission analyst at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Had to Be There!
Spirits were high as MBAs ranging from the Class of 1938 to the Class of 2003 gathered on the HBS campus for spring reunions. Alumni and their guests were treated to talks by HBS faculty, including Warren McFarlan, André Perold, and Tom... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
To Market, to Market
patients, too long. Announced earlier this year, a $50 million gift to Harvard University by the Blavatnik Family Foundation, headed by Len Blavatnik (MBA 1989), addresses that challenge head-on. Building on... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Survey Spotlights HBS Experience
Although HBS is widely known as a training ground for leaders of established firms, a new survey reveals that many MBAs are entrepreneurs too, with nearly half (49 percent) launching their own companies at some point in their careers. Once bitten View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Professors Recognized with New Chair Appointments
Professorship was established by Meredith and C.D. “Dick” Spangler Jr. (MBA 1956) to honor Dean Clark’s leadership and to support the School’s efforts in building an outstanding faculty. Clark, who served as Dean from 1995 to 2005,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Dog’s Best Friend: Jim Hawes’s Charles River Rescue
It was a Friday afternoon on a weekend when no "WAC" (Written Analysis of Cases) was due in the deposit slot by midnight Saturday, so a number of us were preparing to go skiing. I was with sectionmate Fred Marshall, when we noticed a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Be Our Guest: HBS Show 2002 Goes Off without a Hitch
This year's show played on a challenging 2002 job market. (photo by Thomas J. Fitzsimmons) This year's show played on a challenging 2002 job market. (photo by Thomas J. Fitzsimmons) Amid the usual opening... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Rowin’ on the River
(HBS ’09), Crystal Cline Halbmaier, Courtney Hughes, and Erika Mills (all HBS ’08). Despite having only five practice sessions and rowing in a borrowed shell, the women finished 19th out of 32 boats, with Halbmaier declaring it an “extremely fun race.” Photograph View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Allston to Get Harvard Museum
Construction on the 125,000- to 135,000-square-foot, three-story museum is expected to begin in the fall. When completed in late 2009, it will house modern and contemporary art and include retail space and a café. Construction of the 530,000-square-foot life-sciences... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Showtime
in business. Later, Dan Smith (MBA ’76), president and CEO of Sycamore Networks, and Steve Pagliuca (MBA ’82), managing director of Bain Capital, discussed their views on how government regulations put U.S. businesses at a disadvantage in global markets. Photograph... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Alumnae Chart Career Choices and Transitions
focused on future direction rather than past achievements and was attended by fifty women, primarily from the 10th, 15th, and 20th Reunion classes. This new HBS lifelong learning program was designed to bring alumnae together to discuss... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
says. “There’s always going to be a pure technology component, but that will often be overwhelmed by a managerial component.” This morning’s case, “Rich-Con Steel,” proves his point: A steel distributor attempts a company-wide conversion... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Forestalling Terror
intelligence community doing on that score? Intelligence issues are enormously complex, and I should say right at the outset that Mike and I are only beginning to learn about these matters. And by the way, we don’t have security... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
What Fellowships Make Possible
large. Fellowships at HBS are established and supported almost entirely by alumni and friends — donors who have created named funds as well as those who contribute annually to the HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation. These gifts have a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Bright Future for Green Business
venture capital panelists tackled two questions posed by the moderator, HBS professor Bill Sahlman: What are the opportunities in clean, green energy? And what big issues stand in the way of those opportunities? There’s no shortage of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Social Enterprise Celebrates Tenth Year, Looks Ahead
seven social-enterprise electives in 2003Ã2004. In its first ten years, the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) developed executive education programs attended by over 2,500 nonprofit leaders, published more than 200 cases, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: The Money of Invention
by Paul A. Gompers and Josh Lerner (Harvard Business School Press ) Did venture capital cause the explosion in innovation in the last thirty years, or did innovation jump-start venture capital investing? This is just one of many questions... View Details