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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Let’s Celebrate! HBS is 100 Years Young
Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust, a historian, saluting the School’s illustrious past and looking forward to a momentous future. She revealed that she had recently become a strong advocate of the case method after Dean Jay... View Details
- 30 Jan 2009
- News
What’s It Worth to You?
was leading a once-mighty firm into bankruptcy. Markets don’t always get it right, we now know. Nor do company boards when they determine CEO compensation, as HBS professors such as Jay Lorsch, George Baker, Brian Hall, Rakesh Khurana,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Record Gift to HBS from India’s Tata Group
to me,” said Tata. “HBS is the preeminent place to learn about the world’s most innovative companies and to be exposed to the world’s best thinking on management and leadership. By supporting the Harvard Business School’s educational... View Details
Keywords: Tata Hall
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Strategy is About People
Jay Light played a number of key roles in McArthur’s Deanship. (He also served as first lieutenant to Kim Clark, who directly succeeded McArthur as Dean; when Clark assumed the presidency of Brigham Young University–Idaho, Light was his... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Analyze This
(239), Chile (159), Colombia (83), Ecuador (39), Peru (82), and Venezuela (85). On the African continent? Answer: South Africa (775), followed by Nigeria (239), the only other country in triple digits. It hasn’t always been this way. In... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The MBA Turns 100
pack. Indeed, popularity has led to a disturbing commoditization of the degree. Just a generation ago, notes Dean Jay Light, there was only a two-year MBA. “Now there are one-year programs, two-year programs, daytime programs, nighttime... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
Edited by Jennifer Gillespie FOUR FOUNDERS From left: Clifford Darden, Lillian Lincoln Lambert, Theodore Lewis, and Leroy Willis (photos courtesy of HBS Archives) Just over 50 years ago, at the end of a summer that saw race riots across... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
extreme volatility as Bitcoin, and does volatility impede transactional utility? In other words, can Bitcoin really function as a “currency”? — Jay Precourt (MBA 1962) Bitcoin has been volatile, though it has had periods of stability (in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
(MBA 1972) has parlayed a lifelong interest in the field of organizational behavior into two careers. Encouraged by HBS professors Jay Lorsch and Paul Lawrence, Nadler pursued... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
What Went Wrong?
Until recently, I thought of myself as a fairly well-informed observer of this country’s financial marketplace. In years past, I wrote about personal finance for a business magazine. I keep up with business news. And I’m no stranger to the type of investment decisions... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Professor Ramchandran Jaikumar Remembered
extraordinary researcher and a beloved teacher. His work epitomized the essence of our mission - to be close to practice and to deal with important problems. A person of wide-ranging interests and exceptional energy, Jai had a tremendous... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Winston to Lead the Global Initiative
As the new executive director of the HBS Global Initiative, Victoria Winston will be a central figure in the School’s efforts to chart the future for its global activities. Last winter, Dean Jay Light convened a faculty task force, led... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Join in the Centennial
join a virtual “Conversation” with HBS faculty members about cutting-edge business topics and be able to read alumni comments online — or post your own. Or learn about the monthly “Virtual Lunch” conference call discussions led by HBS... 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 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
For Boston, whose history is better known for its midnight rides and tea parties with attitude, this was, by comparison, a low-key moment. On a slow July day in 1924 in the Hub's financial district, a new investment product was quietly... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Books
Johnson. Understanding College and University Organization: Theories for Effective Policy and Practice. 2 vols. by James L. Bess (MBA ’60) and Jay R. Dee (Stylus Publishing) The authors aim to show how... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Class of 1942 Chair Honors Paul Lawrence, Promotes Leadership
INSEAD. He holds degrees from Northeastern University (BSEE), Cornell University (MS), and MIT's Sloan School of Management (Ph.D.). Tushman's professorship, conceived by the Class of 1942 to commemorate its 50th Reunion, was established... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Fall Reunions
Dean Jay Light enjoyed an informal moment. PHOTO BY STUART CAHILL More than 1,600 alumni and guests packed their bags and headed to campus in late September to attend reunion celebrations for the MBA Classes... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
Professors Lorsch, Palepu, Kanter, Healy, Koehn, and Hall. Spangler Center, Fall 2002. Photography by Webb Chappell. With corporate America rocked by revelations of conflict of interest, malfeasance,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 30 Jul 2010
- News
Notes from a Hammock
free pass from the media relative to the scrutiny applied to the worlds of politics, law, public policy, and the arts, for example? Would a sharper and stronger media spotlight have helped us avoid some recent disasters? Enron’s voodoo economics were uncovered, let’s... View Details