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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Entrepreneurship Program in Fourth Year
Is it possible to teach entrepreneurship? If so, how? In July, 76 entrepreneurship professors representing 35 European countries, India, and Singapore arrived at HBS to learn more about the case method and the role it can play in educating future entrepreneurs. The... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
No Rain Delay for Graduation 2008
Class Day 2008 was, in a word, wet. Umbrellas and clear plastic ponchos kept students, families, and friends assembled June 4 on Baker Lawn tolerably dry. Even drier were the 300 or so onlookers who opted to watch the proceedings live on the big screen in Burden Hall.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Raiffa Honored for Life’s Work in Decision Analysis
HBS professor emeritus Howard Raiffa, a pioneer in the field of decision analysis,is the recipient of this year’s Thomas C. Schelling Award. The award is given annually by Harvard’s Kennedy School to an individual whose intellectual work has had a transformative effect... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Faculty Research Online
HBS Working Knowledge is an online forum for innovation in business practice, offering a first look at new thinking from HBS faculty. Read the complete articles summarized below by visiting their Web links. Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge Many companies fail... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Stanford Lets Students Customize
EXCHANGING IDEAS: HBS Dean Jay Light talks with Stanford Dean Robert Joss. Stanford describes its new MBA curriculum, launched last fall, as a “revolutionary change in management education.” It aims to remedy what the school viewed as a pervasive problem with student... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
HBS Posts Strong Results in 2008
The business of business education produced another year of strong results for HBS during fiscal 2008, which ended last June. Applications for the core MBA Program reached a five-year high of 8,661, and the percentage of admitted students who enrolled hit 91 percent,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Six Receive Dean’s Award
Established in 1997, the Dean’s Award recognizes graduating students for extraordinary nonacademic contributions to Harvard, HBS, or the broader community. This year’s recipients, honored at June’s Commencement ceremonies, were Andrew Goldin (enhancing the MBA learning... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Jesse Markham Dies at 93
Jesse Markham, an economist who joined the HBS faculty in 1968, died in his sleep on June 21 in Nashua, New Hampshire. Markham, whose work focused on price theory and industrial organization, was a well-known proponent of the “rule of reason” to determine whether a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Baker Library Photo Exhibit
PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY BAKER LIBRARY HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS A special exhibit, “The Human Factor: Introducing the Industrial Life Photograph Collection at Baker Library,” opened at Baker in October and will run through March 7, 2007. The often highly stylized images,... 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 of 1951, 1961, 1966, 1971, 1976, and 1981, and the 1908... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
HBS Global Forum Set for June
THE BUILDING MUSEUM: Site of a GLF "State Dinner" Upcoming midterm elections and ongoing political scandals provide a timely backdrop to the 2006 HBS Global Leadership Forum, titled The Private Sector and the Public Interest, slated for June 20–22 in the nation’s... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Class Day and Commencement 2001
Transformed by a large, canopied stage and row after row of folding chairs, Baker Beach took on the guise of its more stately alter ego, Baker Lawn, and served as an ideal venue for the Class of 2001's Class Day and graduation ceremonies on June 6 and 7. Although this... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Christensen Awarded Kim Clark Fellowship
SEEDING LEADERSHIP: "If we give the next generation good theories they might provide us with better leadership in the future," Christensen told the crowd. Photo courtesy of University of Oxford HBS professor Clayton Christensen, a former Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, has... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Kudos from the Academy
HBS faculty members and doctoral students were prominent among honorees at the Academy of Management's annual conference, held last summer in Washington, D.C. For their book Breaking Through: The Making of Minority Executives in Corporate America, Professors David... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The Secret Sauce
Susan and Scott Hawkins Email communication was key to achieving a class best of 53 percent participation. When asked to lead his class's 30th Reunion Gift participation efforts, Atlanta-based real estate developer Scott Hawkins was up for the challenge. Partnering... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Reunited
Photos by Stu Rosner Spring reunions at HBS saw two notable milestones achieved. First, the more than 3,500 alumni and their families who returned to campus to catch up with friends and take in the program of faculty presentations, special guest lectures, and class... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Dinner Celebrates Professorships
Roy D Shapiro, the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration (at right), shares a laugh with Philip Caldwell (MBA '42), former chairman and CEO of Ford Motor Company. Photo: Thomas J. Fitzsimmons Linda A. Hill, the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
James Heads Executive Education
Ralph James (MBA ’82) rejoined HBS in September as the executive director of Executive Education. He served most recently as vice chairman of The First Marblehead Corporation, a Boston firm specializing in student loan services. Prior to this, James was associate dean... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Sterling Joins Healthcare Initiative
Cara Sterling has joined HBS as the founding director of the Healthcare Initiative, recently launched by former Dean Kim B. Clark and faculty chair Richard Hamermesh. The initiative seeks to create a community for students, faculty, and alumni who are interested in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
Schumpeter Illustration by Anita Kunz Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883–1950), an Austrian who taught at Harvard for twenty years, was “one of the greatest economists who ever lived, and an electrifying personality besides,” writes HBS professor emeritus Thomas K. McCraw... View Details