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- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
Watson. In 2014, the company announced a $1 billion investment in the Watson Unit, which would advance its cognitive computing technologies in not only medicine but law and finance and government services and culinary services and on and... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
rise to $82 million under a new contract. That cost could drop to $58 million aboard Boeing or SpaceX spacecraft. (NASA announced in January that Sierra Nevada Corporation—where Gregg Burgess [GMP 5, 2008] is VP of technology—will join... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 13 Apr 2022
- News
New School
In late February 2020, the Japanese government announced it would close every school in that country to prevent the spread of COVID-19. On the other side of the world, in his Billerica, Massachusetts, office, Rob Waldron (MBA 1992) saw... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Accelerating Allston
together in this cross-collaboration,” she says. As the Science and Engineering Complex, which will house SEAS, nears completion, plans for the adjacent 36-acre Enterprise Research Campus are advancing at a brisk pace. In November of last year the University View Details
- 04 Aug 2015
- News
Brazil Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS
Harvard community, and to support an unprecedented alumni outreach program that will significantly increase engagement with and among alumni well in to the future. The HBS goal is part of Harvard University’s $6.5 billion campaign View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
incentive award was announced for the best new application of technology, he set his sights on winning it—and did. "AutoCAD had been around, but it wasn't being used at Bath Iron Works," he recalls. "I ran the numbers on the cost savings... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
personal than honorific. This might be his most important skill: Ticket sales, LPO board president Long estimates, make up something like 25 to 30 percent of the budget, so securing philanthropic investment is imperative. On this front, things have notably improved,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Steady as She Goes
Courtesy Coles This was going to be the year everything got back to normal. Since Leah Weckert (MBA 2008) became the CFO at Australia’s Coles Group in 2018, the supermarket giant had announced a demerger—the largest in the country’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
GMAT Added to Admissions Criteria
In April, Dean Kim B. Clark announced that Harvard Business School will add the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT) to the portfolio of criteria used to evaluate a candidate's application to the MBA Program, effective for... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Class of 1949 Gift Supports HBS Faculty Development
At its 45th Reunion, the MBA Class of 1949 made a generous gift to the School for the purpose of creating a Dean's discretionary fund. Recently, Dean Kim B. Clark announced the name and intention of the fund, established in honor of... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Faculty Debates Lessons from Enron's Collapse
leaders of organizations that worked with Enron acted with a different set of values and purpose.” Encouraged by the afternoon, Clark announced plans for an Enron session for MBA students later in the spring and said he would create... View Details
- 19 Apr 2017
- News
Chicago Becomes a Hub of Startup Action
for ways to reinvest in the area. “The announcement of 1871 made me start to think about moving back to Chicago from New York,” said Lakshmi Shenoy (MBA 2010), who last year became the organization’s vice president of strategy and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
ready to move beyond their self-interest to the interests of others, such as patients, clients, students, parishioners, the nation (in the case of military professionals), etc. Professionals adopt publicly announced ethical standards for... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
companies have announced plans for additional billion-dollar investments in Mozambique.” After a brief slowdown in 1997 and 1998 because of the Asian and Russian financial crises, the project finance market has come roaring back in the... View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- News
Tapping into Opportunity
increased its water efficiency by 21.4 percent between 2004 and 2012, recently announced a new initiative to increase that efficiency by another 25 percent. Or look at another example: extracting shale gas ("fracking"). It costs from 50... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
support the clubs’ administrative functions. Substantial progress was made, and we look forward to announcing significant improvements in these areas in the coming weeks. The Communications Committee, chaired by Byron Carlock (MBA ’88),... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Business Case (Or Not) for Sustainability
fuels for transportation, heating, and generating electricity. RH: But small things can increase awareness of the issues and make it increasingly less legitimate not to pay attention. I would be a big fan of every company in the country View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Directors is working tirelessly to sift through the nearly two hundred applications currently on file. Since there are only twelve slots available each year, this process is challenging. The new slate of Board members whose term commences next fall will be View Details
Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
2021 AUGUST 12 Edwards Lifesciences Corporation recently announced that it has established a $100 million Social Impact Investment Fund “aimed at advancing racial equity through economic development, especially in predominantly Black and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
years. The following is an edited version of his remarks. You have deep and long-standing connections to HBS, both as a student and as a faculty member. Were there any surprises once you became Dean? I’ve been amazed at the outpouring of support I received after the... View Details