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and warm welcome... HBS Announces 2020 Goldsmith Fellows 02 Sep 2020 Harvard Business School (HBS) has announced the 2020 recipients of its Horace W. Goldsmith Fellow... HBS Summer Fellows Focus on Racial... View Details
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Introduction - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
Economic Sciences Chicago Board of Options Exchange Exhibit Home Introduction Nobel Prize Award Ceremony, 1997. Robert Cox Merton Papers, HBS Archives, Baker Library Historical Collections In October 1997, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Retail: Voice-Activated, One-Hour-Delivery Shopping
devices. And this year, we started using our voice to shop. Amazon launched that trend with Alexa, and recently Google and Walmart announced they are teaming up to do the same thing. We are in the early days of this digital commerce—it... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
HBS Reverses Policy On Grade Disclosure
In a mid-December letter to all MBA students, Dean Jay Light announced that the School was dropping its seven-year-old policy that prohibited students from revealing their grades to potential employers. The change takes effect with the... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni-Led Biotech Developing Vaccine to Combat Coronavirus
prominent local scientists and biotech leaders—Bancel included—met this week at Harvard Medical School to brainstorm new approaches. That meeting is part of a recently announced $115 million collaboration between scientists at Harvard... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Nohria Named Tenth Dean
Nohria Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard University News Office As the Bulletin went to press, Harvard University President Drew Faust announced that HBS professor Nitin Nohria will succeed Jay Light to become the School’s tenth dean. Current... View Details
- 05 May 2011
- News
Blazing a Trail for Glenn Beck
Morgan: Sees great potential in the nation’s diehard conservative audience. Betsy Morgan (MBA ’95) set media-world tongues wagging when talk-show host Glenn Beck announced in early January that he had hired the former Huffington Post CEO... View Details
- 26 Jan 2021
- News
Numbers Talk at Tesla
suddenly, sparking further investor concern. When Musk announced the appointment of an unknown 30-something as CFO, Tesla’s stock price tumbled. That was then. Two years later, Tesla’s financial picture is entirely different—and many are... View Details
- 04 Oct 2019
- News
Changing of the Guard at Tesco
attributed to CEO Dave Lewis (AMP 161, 2001), who surprised some by announcing this week that he will step down next year to make way for Ken Murphy (AMP 159, 2000). The press noted that Murphy has no background in grocery, having most... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Bloomberg’s Gift to Boost Cities
Harvard University President Drew Faust as part of the announcement of Bloomberg’s $32 million gift to the Harvard Kennedy School to form a City Leadership Initiative in collaboration with HBS. As many as 300 mayors and 400 top mayoral... View Details
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Lauren Park
Today is a big day—it is October of my first year of teaching, my mentor will observe me for the first time, and my principal announced yesterday that I will have new desks in my room. At 5:30 a.m., as I sit on the D-train to the Bronx, I... View Details
- 31 Oct 2018
- News
Why I’m Donating One Billion Dollars to Save the Planet
Walter Diaz/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images In an effort to help accelerate land and ocean conservation across the globe, Hansjörg Wyss (MBA 1965) announced in a New York Times opinion piece that he is giving $1 billion over the next... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Elevator Pitch: Certified Check
a real grounding in entrepreneurship.” “The joint degree with the School of Engineering offered a real grounding in entrepreneurship.” Stats: With 15 employees, SafeBase announced $18 million of Series A funding in March. Customers to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
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Spring Training for Startups
narrowed down finalists in the business and social enterprise tracks to grand prize winners and runners-up, each receiving $50,000 and $25,000, respectively. Alumni NVC winners were announced two weeks earlier, with victors in three... View Details
- 15 Apr 2014
- News
Bertarelli Foundation Gift Names Deans' Health & Life Sciences Challenge Prize
Dean Nitin Nohria has announced that the Bertarelli Foundation of Switzerland, cochaired by Ernesto Bertarelli (MBA 1993), has established the Bertarelli Foundation Health & Life Sciences Entrepreneurship Fund with a generous gift to... View Details
- 12 Feb 2020
- News
Culture Shift at Big Blue
Getty Images Getty Images With the news of President and CEO Ginni Rometty’s retirement and the elevation of Arvind Krishna to replace her as chief executive, IBM simultaneously announced that Jim Whitehurst (MBA 1994) will step up as the... View Details
- 12 Jun 2017
- News
Jeff Immelt to Retire as GE CEO
Longtime GE CEO Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) announced his retirement Monday, set to take effect on August 1. John Flannery, president and chief executive of GE Healthcare, was named Immelt’s successor. The announcement, the company noted, came... View Details
- 16 Aug 2013
- News
Women's Business Leader
Carla Harris Photo courtesy of Carla Harris On August 12, President Obama announced his intention to appoint Carla Harris (MBA 1987) to be the Chair of the National Women's Business Council (NWBC). Harris is a prominent global investment... View Details
- 04 Oct 2004
- What Do You Think?
Does Speed Trump Intellectual Property?
Your New Mommy after the announcement by rival network ABC of a similarly-conceived show called Wife Swap. In another example, Fox initiated a boxing-themed program called The Next Great Champ two months before a somewhat similar series... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Jul 2019
- Op-Ed
Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?
purposes. Facebook makes changes In 2014, Facebook had changed the API and limited access to data, effectively closing the barn door after the horse got out. In 2018, after the scandal broke, Facebook further announced a six-point plan... View Details
Keywords: by George Riedel