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01 Oct 2002
News

Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future

Kong, Tokyo, Buenos Aires, and Paris, as well as in Northern California — enable our faculty members and students to deepen their understanding of global business. Over one-third of each MBA class is now drawn from outside the United... View Details

27 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 27

education; provide case studies showing how leading MBA programs have begun reinventing themselves for the better; and offer concrete ideas for how business schools can surmount the challenges that come with reinvention, including securing View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2022
News

Making It Count

Weighted Accounts (IWA) Project has set about tackling accountability, a major hurdle on the path to an impact-driven economy. While the number of firms reporting their own ESG data has grown exponentially, and companies of all stripes are now articulating their... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

13 Jul 2017
News

Making Friends with Mother Nature

University before heading to HBS. His business thinking was influenced by faculty giants such as Georges Doriot, who taught industrial management and is widely considered the father of venture capital, and... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

06 Aug 2014
What Do You Think?

What Is Warren Bennis’s Legacy?

was his faculty advisor. Warren Briggs, a Professor Emeritus, wrote that "He was a favorite professor (and) an effective mentor to many, both personally and professionally." According to Karen Page, coauthor of Becoming a Chef... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

28 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

Earth Day Reflections

Below are the views that faculty shared with the HBS community on Earth Day. 1. Robert G. Eccles Senior Lecturer of Business Administration and author of One Report: Integrated Reporting for a Sustainable Strategy (This article, titled,... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Sep 2010
News

Dean Nohria Looks Ahead

Instead, he applied to the Ph.D. program at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and was accepted. Once at MIT, Nohria realized that in management education he had found his true passion. After completing the program, he turned down offers from several business schools and... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson

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Oral Histories | Baker Library

marketing and new product development. She has taught at numerous institutions, including Case Western Reserve University, Old Dominion University, University of Massachusetts Boston, and Barry University... View Details

19 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

academic circles; others are working more quietly behind the scenes to effect change. “The university is a nonprofit institution. It has a charter from the state, and it exists in large part to serve society,” says David A. Moss, the Paul... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

20 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals

of Quest Diagnostics who now serves as dean of Boston University School of Management. Freeman said that when he became dean, his plush CEO-like office was on the top floor, so he decided to move to a small windowless office in close... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

17 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment

worried about the ascendance of China, while firms in Taiwan and Hong Kong have reaped enormous benefits from Chinese economic expansion, according to Huang. He presented his new research proposal to an audience of faculty and doctoral... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2024 Commencement Remarks | About

Alumni Achievement Award recipients; families, friends and loved ones; faculty and staff of Harvard Business School: Welcome. I am delighted to be here with you on this joyous day. I speak on behalf of the entire HBS community when I say... View Details

Blog

Two-Year Action Plan Update: Q+A with Terrill Drake, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Harvard Business School

community. The University has a new CDIO—how do your roles interact? Sherri Charleston and I are very aligned. We meet monthly individually and with the DIB Leadership Council, which is comprised of leaders in roles similar to mine in the... View Details

01 Dec 2010
News

The Transformers

years after Grossman’s article, Bishop William Lawrence University Professor Michael Porter coauthored a groundbreaking November–December 1999 article titled “Philanthropy’s New Agenda: Creating Value.” The authors made the case that... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

20 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: September 20

Authors:Jakub W. Jurek and Erik Stafford Abstract This paper studies the cost of capital for alternative investments. We document that the risk profile of the aggregate hedge fund universe can be accurately matched by a simple index put... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2008
News

Team MBA

students firsthand experience with team dynamics. “Learning teams are becoming part of the culture at HBS,” says Professor Jeff Polzer, faculty chair of the MBA Learning Teams Initiative. “They give students the opportunity to work with... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Oct 2002
News

Class Notes Extra

interviewing and tracking subscribers and customers on behalf of clients in publishing and other industries. He lives in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, with his wife and three children. Since his college days at the University of Massachusetts,... View Details

22 Apr 2020
Research Event

How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities

Until a few years ago, climate change’s potential impact seemed abstract for many investors. Now, as sea levels rise, hurricanes intensify, and droughts threaten food supplies, many investors are confronting its financial realities. But it’s not a simple calculation.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

07 Sep 2021
News

Skydeck Voices: For My Next Act

been a faculty member for 33 years after a career on Wall Street. And now I'm taking over a brand new university that’s just been established. Find your core mission. Find the thing that you're passionate... View Details

13 Apr 2016
Research Event

What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?

Mensah recently at Harvard Business School’s fourth annual Gender & Work Symposium. “Men talk to me all the time about wanting to be more effective (with women) in certain settings,” said Mensah, an adjunct faculty member at Baruch... View Details