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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Jay Light Named New HBS Dean
the announcement of his appointment as the School’s ninth Dean. A member of the HBS faculty since 1970, Light, 64, was named Acting Dean last August after the departure of Kim B. Clark. Summers noted that Light “has done an outstanding... View Details
- 29 Jan 2021
- News
Holding Business to Account
weeks later, the team abruptly announced it would abandon its controversial name and logo. The decision was so sudden, in fact, that the organization offered only a temporary replacement. It would be known, in the interim, as the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Delta’s Flight from Bankruptcy
September 2005 and was about a month away from its announced plan to emerge from Chapter 11 when Whitehurst visited the campus. Observing that a key to any turnaround is identifying the problem correctly, Whitehurst explained that Delta... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Christine Fairchild to Head External Relations
the School. It’s a very exciting time at HBS.” In announcing Fairchild’s new position, Dean Kim B. Clark praised her leadership and extensive knowledge of the Harvard Business School community: “I am confident Christine will bring her... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Forward Thinking
You can ask the internet anything, but getting an answer via generative artificial intelligence consumes about 10 times more electricity than a traditional Google search. Consequently, the data centers where AI tools are trained and run are guzzling more and more... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Raising the Barrio
after taking office, Rodríguez Larreta pledged to change that, announcing a plan to integrate Villa 31 and an adjacent area, Villa 31 bis, creating a new, formal neighborhood, Barrio 31. His first step: establishing a mayoral office in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Innovation: Frozen Assets
Starbucks and Lululemon, Day wants to shape Luvo into a lifestyle brand, one that provides “nutrition solutions.” Luvo meals—most under 500 calories and trans fat–free—are currently in 6,000 stores, and a partnership with Delta Airlines was View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Action Plan: Role-Play
When you encounter the phrase private investigator, chances are good the character you conjure up in your mind doesn’t resemble Sarah Carson (MBA 1971). So much the better for Carson, whose work has often required convincing people she was a small-business employee... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
Image by John Ritter On March 8, in the early days of the global COVID-19 pandemic, Stack Overflow, the world’s largest online community for software developers and technologists, announced that its nearly 250-employee workforce would be... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Research Brief: Subject Expert Matters
the first step toward breaking that code. In 2017, the team conducted a field study in collaboration with Harvard Medical School, which announced a call for research proposals for solutions to human health problems. The researchers... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
Case Study: Mind the Gap
that you would hail an Uber ride,” Berendt says. Software houses across Europe meanwhile will be able to grow their sales pipeline, access new markets, and create economic opportunities locally. The Question: With $5 million in seed funding View Details
- 18 May 2011
- News
U.S. Manufacturing Comeback?
recently announced it would invest $2 billion to add up to 4,000 jobs at 17 American plants. The Los Angeles Times reports that chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will open a $4.6 billion semiconductor factory north of Albany, New... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Allston to Get Harvard Museum
A new Harvard art museum will join the University’s planned life-sciences complex on Western Avenue across from HBS — the first two structures in Harvard’s long-range expansion plan in Allston. University officials announced the selection... View Details
- 08 Jun 2021
- News
New Funding for Female Founders
Jessica Assaf (MBA 2016), Andy Coravos (MBA 2017), and Amrita Saigal (MBA 2014) There’s been a wealth of good news for alumnae entrepreneurs in recent weeks, with founders Jessica Assaf (MBA 2016), Andy Coravos (MBA 2017), and Amrita Saigal (MBA 2014) among those View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Audit: War & Peace
of Colombia, 2010–2018; Nobel Peace Prize winner, 2016 Midway through class, on an October afternoon in Aldrich, Professor Deepak Malhotra announces that Juan Manuel Santos has entered the Zoom. A moment later, the former president of... View Details
- 03 Feb 2021
- News
Power Play
battery-storage opportunity this way: When Tesla announced its plans to produce an electric-vehicle battery that could run for a million miles on a single charge, she began to wonder what might happen to that battery once the car itself... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Q & A: Pat Russo - Focused on the Future at Lucent Technologies
decisions? We've announced twenty acquisitions since Lucent was formed in early 1996. Although we don't have an "acquisition strategy" as such, we are open to acquiring firms that will better enable us to execute our business strategies.... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building
Dean Clark when announcing the gift. "While building an outstanding business and a close-knit family, they never have lost sight of the importance of helping others. Now, thanks to their extraordinary generosity, Hawes Hall will play an... View Details
- 23 Feb 2015
- News
Preserving a Musical Tradition; Inspiring Future Generations
become home to the first iASO Bachata Academy. “We announced to the classes, ‘We’re offering music lessons in bachata. If you are interested, please come to the tryout,’” de Menil says. “Pretty much every student came. There were hundreds... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
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Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students
Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. Elizabeth Powers (MBA 2021) was thrilled to land a summer internship at a highly respected consulting firm. Then came COVID-19, and the firm announced it was... View Details