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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Howard Stevenson: The Personal Side
“Howard is the fiercest man I have ever known — fiercely interested in the world and its people, fiercely loyal to family and friends. Of course, he is also fiercely honest.” — HBS professor Myra Hart “Howard cares so much about HBS and everyone here. That’s why it was... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Innovations Under Way Will Shape HBS’s Future
by Lisa Skeete Tatum (MBA '98), Alumni Board President Tatum I can’t remember a more exciting time at HBS. There is innovation happening in all facets of the School. First and foremost, we have a visionary new leader in Dean Nohria. His five priorities for HBS —... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Innovation Imperative
If you want to understand what’s driving Dean Nitin Nohria’s emphasis on innovation for the School, look no further than HBS professor Bill Kirby’s writings on the rise and decline of great universities. While Nohria spent his first several months in office talking to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Student Trio Advance Health Payment Reform
Related Links Read about other efforts in healthcare delivery Three HBS students spent much of the last academic year helping a leading Boston hospital answer one of the most important questions in health-care management: how to create a new payment system that saves... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Too Cool for School
KHAN: Using software and videos to create an education revolution. Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle Salman Khan (MBA ’03) was working at a hedge fund in 2004 when he began tutoring his young cousin in math, using the phone and Yahoo!’s Doodle site. Soon, the San... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Results are in!
Thanks to the generosity of over 12,000 alumni and friends—and the help of more than 1,000 fundraising volunteers—fiscal year 2011 was a great success. Here are a few highlights from the year, which ended officially on June 30, 2011. Dean’s Fund: $16.7 million (a 28... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Donor Spotlight
Ann Moore (MBA ’78) When Moore retired as chairman and CEO of Time, Inc., she turned the company’s offer of a parting gift into a fellowship for HBS women. Crediting the School with having opened doors for her, she says, “This is my way of paying back and of paying... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
RoboCar, the Sequel
Alden Photo courtesy William Alden Once an entrepreneur, always an entrepreneur. Consider the case of William Alden (MBA ’52), as reported in the Cape Cod Times (April 12, 2011). More than 50 years ago, Alden was working on an automated mail-flow system for the Postal... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
FIELD 3 Tests Students
In an innovative complement to the case method of instruction, the entire Class of 2013 spent the 15-week Winter Term practicing what they were learning from their required courses as they worked in small teams to build viable microbusinesses. The business-building... View Details
Keywords: FIELD program
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
From Fellowship Recipient to ‘The Most Influential Business Thinker On Earth’
Investing in HBS Giving Through HBS Giving Together Jump-Start FAQ Renowned as the leading authority on disruptive innovation, Professor Clay Christensen attributes his remarkable success as an entrepreneur and as a scholar to his humble beginnings as a fellowship... View Details
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
John Weber In his new book, The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World (Harvard Business Press), Walter Kiechel III (MBA ’76) traces the rise of modern management consulting from the 1960s to the present. Kiechel’s narrative... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Faculty Research Online
Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants Because of an organ shortage, thousands of people miss out on needed organ transplants each year. Business researchers at Harvard and MIT are rethinking how kidney transplants are allocated to give patients longer lives. An... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Changes for MBA Applicants
POWER OF REFLECTION: Changes to the MBA application process mirror FIELD exercises. For MBA candidates worried about writer’s cramp, here’s some good news: applicants to the Class of 2015 will be asked to author only two 400-word essays instead of four essays totaling... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
Issue Focus: Ideas & Impact Deepak Malhotra Thinking outside the maze Malhotra Photographs by Webb Chappell Negotiations expert Professor Deepak Malhotra is the author of the recent international bestseller I Moved Your Cheese: For Those Who Refuse to Live as Mice in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Focal Point
Launched in 2002 by Tony Deifell (MBA 2002), shown here with Ali Nuger (MBA 2012), the Portrait Project asks graduating HBS students to respond to these final lines from “The Summer Day” by Pulitzer Prize winning poet Mary Oliver: “Tell me, what is it you plan to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
New Series Look at Issues, School News
Alumni interested in learning about the latest HBS faculty research or news about the School now have a new way to do so. The webinar series Trending@HBS will launch on September 27 with Professor Clay Christensen talking about how to live a meaningful, purpose-filled... View Details
- 24 Jul 2020
- News
Reimagining Chicago’s Schools
Photo courtesy of Melissa Zaikos Back in 2011, when Melissa Zaikos (MBA 2000) began digging deeply into the standardized test scores of the Chicago Public Schools, she saw some concerning trends. Elementary schools, she thought, seemed to be getting better in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Teaching is in his DNA
John McArthur, as many of his friends say emphatically, is a teacher. “That’s his DNA,” says Boston advertising legend Jack Connors. “He wants to take his students, whoever they may be, and turn them into contributors to the community. And nobody does it better.” “A... View Details
- 05 Dec 2019
- News
NYPD Digital Chief to Head City’s Information-Technology Agency
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
Klarman Illustration by David Cowles While other money managers scrambled to survive the financial market meltdown, value investor extraordinaire Seth Klarman (MBA ’82), president of The Baupost Group in Boston, cautiously pursued buying opportunities. After sitting... View Details