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- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Former HBS Dean Fouraker Dies at 74
Lawrence E. Fouraker, Dean of the Harvard Business School from 1970 to 1980 and an early advocate of a global perspective in management education, died of viral pneumonia on December 20 in Brookline, Mass. He was 74. Fouraker joined the Business School faculty in 1961... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
must be prepared to do whatever it takes. Exceed Expectations Bill Bogardus (MBA 1972) DURING THE FIRST OR SECOND WEEK of his first-year managerial economics course, Professor John Pratt gave us a pop quiz. Data were presented and three... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
HISTORY LESSONS: Ferguson shares his views on the global financial crisis with an attentive crowd at the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge. Professor Niall Ferguson, born in Glasgow and educated at Oxford and Cambridge universities, argues in this Q&A that the current... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
A Bid for the Future
When Stephen Moret (MBA 2001) first read of Amazon’s search for a second headquarters in the Wall Street Journal, he was certain the newspaper had made a typo. The online retailer couldn’t be talking about creating 50,000 jobs. Moret’s years in View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
New Director of MBA Career Services Focuses on Power of Alumni Network
their choice of industry and function. It's a tough year - you can't dress it up." Industries that have been hit hardest by the economic downturn include consulting and investment banking, two areas that traditionally hire a significant... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
economies. What is the last country you visited, and what did you do there? I travel a lot, so this answer will be outdated. I recently gave a talk at the University of Ghana on the need for African countries to develop a unified economic... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Eight Join HBS Faculty
decision-making, social influence, and ethics. Gino’s work has been published in a number of journals and featured in the New York Times, Newsweek, and Psychology Today. A native of Italy, she earned her Ph.D. in economics and management... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Addressing The Financial Security Gap
initiative helps organizations create short-term financial stability for vulnerable workers and communities. FINANCE AND THE ECONOMIC RECOVERY READ MORE STORIES FINANCE AND THE ECONOMIC RECOVERY READ MORE... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 02 Aug 2019
- News
Fulfilling Their Promise
After an eye-opening experience as a volunteer mentor, former auto executive Susan Schooner (MBA 1983) launched Girls Group, an organization designed to economically and emotionally support middle and high... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
found myself thinking that unlike a career in applied math, where most of the work is pretty esoteric, if I could really make a breakthrough in economics, I might affect an awful lot of people. So, much to the chagrin of both my family and my advisors at Cal Tech, I... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni Salute Bill Sahlman
alumni and friends.” Sahlman arrived at Soldiers Field in 1973, earned his MBA in 1975, and received his PhD in business economics in 1982. He then joined the faculty full-time. Sahlman’s impact includes developing the School’s... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Status Update
policy, having served as chief of staff of the National Economic Council and special assistant to President Obama for economic policy; four years later she moved over to Instagram (which Facebook acquired in... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
IXP 2009
Now in its third year, the Immersion Experience Program offered nine topics and destinations to students in 2009 (see complete list below), six in 2008, and three in 2007. “Faculty involved in the IXP consistently come back excited about... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Keeping It Real
MAGIC MAN: One day in 2018, Doug Duda (MBA 1985) was walking up Eighth Avenue. “A guy grabbed me from behind, which is never a welcome sensation in New York City,” he admits. “It was another guy with a white beard.” The man asked Duda to join Real Beard Santas of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2022
- News
2022 Alumni Achievement Awards Announced
Emeritus, Stanford University; 2020 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences The Alumni Achievement Award is given annually to a handful of alumni who represent the best traditions and highest aspirations of the School. For more than 50... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- News
Living the Legacy
full of reporters. He’s not just going to sit there and nod. He’s going to question assumptions and refute them.” How does CORe differ from other online programs? Paul felt that HBX maximized the web platform whereas many other online programs don’t. It was a “holistic... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Henderson Named University Professor
chair established in honor of the former HBS Dean and his wife. With an MBA (1985) and a PhD in business economics (1988) from Harvard, Henderson came to the School from MIT in 2009. She cochairs HBS’s Business and Environment Initiative,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Success for the Underserved
"Our goal is to change the conversation about success in entrepreneurship in underserved communities," Gray explained to the Chicago Sun-Times (October 12, 2012). "We are taught that success is to go to school, make money, get a job, and marry and have a family. But... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
reality and the way they think things should be,” he explains, “we have an opening—we can ask them whether they support policies that promote the outcomes they have just told us they most desire.” Norton, a member of the Marketing Unit, has also conducted View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
Relief Program (TARP). It was a losing battle. Over the course of an hour, he fielded a half-dozen urgent calls from his staff regarding a draft version of a report on TARP expenditures due to Congress the next day (December 10). Silvers’s formative View Details