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05 Oct 2016
What Do You Think?

Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?

accomplished, including more freedom for business, more immigration, and big bets by the government and industry to meet imposing infrastructure needs. Ron Kurtz said, “I am concerned that we are facing a decline in the size and spending power View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

03–06 Oct 2013
Reunion

1983 30th Fall Reunion

Fall Reunions for MBA Classes of 1968, 1973, 1978, 1983, 1988 and several Executive Education Programs. View Details

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Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders - Course Catalog

of making a difference. Reflecting: In the final part of the course, materials and in-class discussions will be designed to answer the question: What does this mean for me? Grading will be based on View Details

2011
Working Paper

How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools

By: Rakesh Khurana, Kenneth Kimura and Marion Fourcade

The question of institutional change has become central to organizational research (Powell, 2008). Recent scholarship has demonstrated, often through carefully researched cases, that institutions can and sometimes do change. According to this research, there are two... View Details

Keywords: Change; Business Education; Business History; Organizations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Relationships; Behavior

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22 May 2024
Video

2024 Student Association Presidents’ Address

19 May 2020
News

Exploring the Economics of a Pandemic; Alumni Forums Draw Closer Online

Clubs News Clubs News Black Businesses Get Pandemic Survival Tips Via Webinar Series The HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA), in partnership with Steven Rogers (MBA 1985), the MBA Class of 1957... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

27 Mar 2024
News

Inspirational Women in Business

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The Benefits of Living in a Dorm at HBS | MBA

The Benefits of Living in a Dorm at HBS By Hayden Tanabe on October 18, 2024 Share via Facebook Share via LinkedIn Print Share via email On the HBS campus, six residence halls—Chase, Gallatin, Hamilton, McCulloch, Mellon, and Morris—offer... View Details

03 Jan 2018
What Do You Think?

In the Wake of #MeToo, Should Corporate Boards Hire Compliance Officers?

SUMMING UP Would More Women in Leadership Help Mitigate #MeToo Concerns? If a good case study is one that splits a class down the middle on an important issue while surfacing creative responses, this month's column on how best to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

16 Aug 2017
Research & Ideas

Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities

paper was written by Nikhil Naik, a Prize Fellow at Harvard University; Scott Duke Kominers, the Harvard Business School MBA Class of 1960 Associate Professor; Edward L. Glaeser, the Fred and Eleanor Glimp... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Real Estate

18 Mar 2016
Blog Post

What is an IFC?

An IFC (Immersive Field Course) is a class for second year students where the vast majority of content consists of an on-the-ground assignment to learn about and advise on real problems. I enrolled in an IFC... View Details

19 Jan 2022
Blog Post

From Retail to HBS: How I’m Building a Career Path at the Intersection of Arts, Culture, and Business

Sports (BEMS) class allowed me to connect with and learn from a number of people who work at the intersection of arts and business. I also had the opportunity to do an... View Details

15 Feb 2022
News

Charlotte Club Hosts Webinar to Mark 100 Years of the Case Method

MBA student. “On my first day, in the first-year marketing class, we had a complicated 70-page case on a silverware company, and we couldn’t make heads or tails of it,” he said. In class the next day,... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

25 May 2022
News

Four HBS Students Win Dean’s Award for Service to the School and Society

27 Mar 2024
Blog Post

Video: Inspirational Women in Business

View Video In honor of Women’s History Month, MBA Class of 2025 students Aastha Bhardwaj, Whitley Cargile, Briti Ghosh, Veronica Chua, and Eunjin Lee discuss women leaders and... View Details

01 Dec 2002
News

Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao Advises New MBA Students on Business Values

Chao Photo Stuart Cahill As part of the orientation for the MBA Class of 2004, U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao (MBA '79) told 899 entering... View Details

16 Jun 2015
Blog Post

HBS in San Francisco: West Coast Recruiting Recap

Students are accepting offers on the West Coast at a growing rate. Last year 14% of the class of 2014 accepted full-time offers in the Bay Area, and 18% View Details

Keywords: All Industries

20 Mar 2017
Book

Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies

who took notice: Harvard Business School Professor Karim Lakhani. As a doctoral student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the late 1990s, he took von Hippel’s class on innovation. After reading... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

21 Jul 2015
Blog Post

3 Things Women Need to Know About Business School

In 2013, HBS celebrated 50 years of women in the MBA program. Eight women joined the Class of 1965 – and this year 383 women from the Class View Details

12:30 PM – 12:55 PM EDT, 27 May 2021
Virtual Programming

HBS Virtual Graduation: Dean's Address and Alumni Achievement Awards Presentation

Virtual ceremonies will be held to celebrate the graduation of the Class of 2021. 12:30 PM 12:55 PM HBS Dean Srikant Datars Address to the Class of 2021 Graduates will include the Alumni Achievement Awards presentation. Full details can be found at... View Details

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