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- 01 Sep 2008
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The MBA Turns 100
Six months before Harvard Business School officially opened in October 1908, the School had no classrooms, no faculty, and no curriculum. But its proponents had a Big Idea: Create a professional school designed to train managers for a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Survey Spotlights HBS Experience
social relationship with at least one fellow alumnus. Fifty-seven percent take advantage of the alumni community for professional networking, and 46 percent tap the network for job search advice. “The information gathered thus far... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
All in Good Time
qualified professionals with part-time, temporary, and flexible full-time positions in legal, IT, accounting, strategy consulting, and marketing, among other areas. Like many young mothers with two small children, O’Kelly felt the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Dean Jay Light Takes Charge at HBS
teams are supplementing the traditional study groups which, the School felt, too often consisted of like-minded students with similar life and professional experiences. “We’re taking advantage of our fantastic student body to enrich the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
neighborhood-based health plan for the city of Charlestown, and I became involved in building a system of benchmarks for the various services that were being offered—everything from dental care to drug and alcohol abuse counseling. I... View Details
- 12 Jul 2011
- News
Phone Fun
says, his two years at the School gave him the courage think outside the box. “It gave me a personal and professional confidence that has underpinned the risk-taking that’s sometimes necessary to deliver original work,” he notes. If last... View Details
- 22 Jul 2015
- News
Supporting a Return to Work for Women Execs
Women Returners, which helps professional women in the United Kingdom go back to work after extended career breaks. “When my mom became very seriously ill, I had to devote my time to caring for her. The thing that was easiest to drop was... View Details
- 18 Jul 2011
- News
Non-competes Push Talent Away
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Case Study: Sound Check
and spent seven years as CEO of WordStream. The founders should ponder this question first: What are you really good at? The product and service lineup is so broad. Every business on Earth could look at this list and find something they’d... 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 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
In the course of their outstanding professional careers, this year’s five recipients of the Alumni Achievement Award — the School’s highest honor — have had an enormous impact on the world of business. A surprising key to their success?... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Volunteer Program Attracts ’09 MBAs
participate in the program, which involves new MBAs in admissions outreach, reunion planning, club and association events, and career and professional development focus groups. The program continued this spring with a call for volunteers... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
a plan for providing educational resources to alumni throughout their professional lives. In the past, this committee has recommended the creation of special programs targeted to meet the needs of alumni at various times in their lives.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
social impact. And the way to magnify that impact is to give away valuable knowledge to anyone who can use it. Bridgespan is unique in another equally important way. It is a pioneer in the application of data-driven strategy and consulting View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Book Briefs
out of the way. What It Takes: Seven Secrets of Success from the World's Greatest Professional Firms by Charles D. Ellis (MBA 1963) (Wiley) Having devoted a 50-year career to consulting with and studying View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Case Study: Up in the Air
on IT services in 2018, and the direction of global tech trends, the shortage isn’t going away quickly. Berendt cofounded Talent Alpha in 2018 to fill that gap. The Kraków-based startup is building a marketplace to link central and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
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HBS Releases First-Ever Financial Report
expenditures and innovation to the extent such projects are not specially funded by gifts. Revenues from Executive Education and publishing activities help fund research and curriculum development. As in any large service organization,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Warren Law Remembered
career, including Harvard Business School’s 1996 Distinguished Service Award. Samuel L. Hayes, III, the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking, Emeritus, and a former student and colleague of Law’s, described Law as “one of the... View Details
- 04 Sep 2013
- News
From HBO to HBS
Me. Or questions related to the financial services industry by looking at Inside Job." McGee mentioned his idea to HBS professor of management practice Arthur Segel, a good friend from their undergraduate days together at Harvard College.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Back from the Brink
Enterprise (June 2007) reported in its survey of the “BE Industrial/Service 100.” So ZeroChaos redirected its focus (selling its services to major corporations rather than small businesses), introduced innovative, customer-friendly... View Details