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- 24 Feb 2016
- News
Did William Alden Invent the Car of the Future in the 1960s?
blight, the StaRRcar was part of a public transit revolution that never was — but one that would help launch one of the weirdest and most politicized public infrastructure experiments of the 20th century. It’s an old idea that today, in an age of self-driving cars,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
HBS Celebrates Wyss Gift
WYSS with doctoral student Marya Hill-Popper Besharov. PHOTO BY STUART CAHILL A newly renovated home for HBS doctoral students opened in September with a ceremony marking the renaming of Sherman Hall to Wyss House in honor of entrepreneur... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Faculty Books
Capital Rules by Rawi Abdelal (Harvard University Press) How and why did the world shift from an orthodoxy of free capital movements in 1914 to capital controls in 1944 and back again by 1994? Contrary to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Fellowship Campaign Approaching Goal
raised $95 million for fellowships, helped by the work of an alumni and friends Fellowship Advisory Board, formed in 2003. “When I was a student, it was assumed you would earn a good living when you graduated and quickly repay your... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Sterling Joins Healthcare Initiative
Cara Sterling has joined HBS as the founding director of the Healthcare Initiative, recently launched by former Dean Kim B. Clark and faculty chair Richard Hamermesh. The initiative seeks to create a community for students, faculty, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Faculty Books
Designing Care: Aligning the Nature and Management of Health Care by Richard M.J. Bohmer (Harvard Business Press) In this book, Senior Lecturer Bohmer, a medical doctor, explains that health-care professionals provide two different types... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Dean Clark Addresses Journalists
Declaring himself “appalled” and “dismayed“ by recent acts of greed and wrongdoing in corporate America, Dean Kim B. Clark told a National Press Club audience in Washington last February that “we need solutions that are driven View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
The Power of Philanthropy
announced its approval of Kalydeco, a drug produced by Vertex that will immediately help some 1,200 cystic fibrosis patients and is viewed as a breakthrough precursor drug to forthcoming products that will help all other CF sufferers.... View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- News
Beating Pain with Brain Power
teaching medical professionals how to help patients avoid opioid addiction by using hypnotic strategies to reduce the need for pain medications. “My work with Comfort Talk, which is the name of my company, in using hypnotic techniques for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Outtakes with Russ Wilcox
as well as customer service.” What’s on his Kindle: Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell; the Boston Globe; the Wall Street Journal. Why we’re in trouble: “With BlackBerries and instant messaging (IM), we live in a twitch society. People are... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
New Idea: On-Demand Package Delivery
spring, Moskowitz and five classmates launched a startup they call Boxxify to provide a solution. E-commerce customers have their packages delivered to Boxxify, which, for a $7 fee (regardless of number of items), drops them off with customers View Details
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Faculty Books
How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth (MBA 2010), and Karen Dillon (HarperBusiness) At a time of intense personal reflection, Christensen, the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration, began... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Women Entrepreneurs Share Insights at WSA Conference
venture capital. Two years later, she sold the firm, Rubric, Inc., for $366 million. Securing the venture-capital investment was a major challenge, she told a capacity crowd gathered for the fourteenth annual Dynamic Women in Business Conference in January. Sponsored... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HBS Launches Alumni Survey
MBA. The magazine asked the schools to provide contact information for the Class of 1992. Five business schools — Wharton, MIT Sloan, Yale, the Marshall School at the University of Southern California, and HBS — declined. “At HBS, we have a long-standing policy to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Two Kinds of Green
Art by Jude Maceren/Corbis Related Links "Burt's Bee's Social and Environmental Report Fiscal Year 2010" - Yola Carlough, Director of Sustainability at Burt's Bees, describes how participating in the HBS multimedia case influenced the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
One-on-One with Peter Cuneo
Illustration by Michael White In the universe of superheroes and rock ’em, sock ’em action, a comic book tracking the adventures of “Turnaround Man” has yet to appear. If and when that happens, the most likely inspiration for such a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
FAQ
Why is annual alumni support so important? The flexible, current-use support provided by annual gifts is essential to innovation at HBS, especially since 89 percent of the School’s endowment is restricted. Such contributions are used as... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Houghton Steps Down
senior fellow in 2002. Houghton was praised by Harvard President Drew Faust for his “extraordinary devotion” to Harvard and his “profound concern for the well-being of the University and its people.” View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
HBS Faculty Teach in New Education Leadership Program
Faculty from HBS will teach in a new program announced by the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). In the fall of 2010, HGSE will launch a three-year, tuition-free course of study initially for 25 students resulting in a Doctorate... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Reunited
Photos by Stu Rosner Spring reunions at HBS saw two notable milestones achieved. First, the more than 3,500 alumni and their families who returned to campus to catch up with friends and take in the program of faculty presentations,... View Details