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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Merton Named University Professor
Harvard's most distinguished professorial posts. "Bob Merton has done seminal work in enlarging our theoretical and practical understanding of financial markets and how to manage risk," said Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine in View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- News
Vertex Appoints First Female CEO
Boston-based Vertex announced in July that Reshma Kewalramani (GMP 18, 2015), currently the company’s chief medical officer, would take on the role of president and CEO in April. Jeffrey Leiden, after seven years in the role, will stay on... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Directors of Research Centers Share Global Perspectives
also play a key role for the centers by helping to identify and facilitate research opportunities worldwide. In related news, Masako Egawa has announced that as of September, the Japan Research Office has a new home, having relocated to... View Details
- May 2008 (Revised September 2014)
- Teaching Note
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By: Dennis Campbell
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
The Power of Philanthropy
announced its approval of Kalydeco, a drug produced by Vertex that will immediately help some 1,200 cystic fibrosis patients and is viewed as a breakthrough precursor drug to forthcoming products that will help all other CF sufferers.... View Details
- 09 Feb 2015
- News
Remembering John Whitehead (MBA 1947)
later as deputy secretary of state; guided the citizens of New York City through the protracted process of rebuilding and revitalizing following the terrorist attacks of 2001; and applied his philanthropic principles and vision at HBS in establishing the Social... View Details
- 19 Oct 2021
- News
In the Contest for Content
through content, because it travels to places you and I can’t go with our hands and our feet,” she said. She also suggested that she may be looking at sectors that have traditionally been undervalued. While there has been a wave of deals for the work of artists of... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Year-End Roundup: Dean's Award, Other Honors Conferred as Class of '98 Graduates
mechanism for helping local communities and an educational experience for the HBS students who will run it and manage its funds. This year, the Harbus Foundation announced nine grants totaling $73,000 in the areas of journalism, literacy,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Sign of the Times: General Management Course Evolves
announcing the change, MBA Program Chair and Senior Associate Dean W. Carl Kester emphasized the need to address new management challenges, such as increased competition from abroad and from companies that are taking advantage of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Using IT to Heal U.S. Health Care
delivery.” At the conference, the alumni association announced a new achievement award to honor its founder, and now chairman, Bunny Ellerin (MBA ’95). The Beatrice D. Ellerin award will be given each year to an HBS graduate who has made... View Details
- Web
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
- 14 Oct 2021
- News
Disney’s Alan Horn to Retire
Longtime Disney studio head Alan Horn (MBA 1971) announced this week that he is set to retire at the end of this year. Holding the official title chief creative officer of Disney Studios Content, his deep impact on the company was... View Details
- 17 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up
As America recedes from global leadership under President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies, a new generation of business statesmen is stepping up to take on global issues of monumental importance: global trade, climate change, job creation, and healthy living.... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 04 Mar 2015
- What Do You Think?
Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?
suggest that no one should hold their breath waiting for a hands-off approach to work. But now a recent announcement by Walmart's management to raise minimum and average wages paid by the company has changed the tenor of the conversation... View Details
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
12, 2012, BH Media Group, a subsidiary of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, announced an offer to buy Media General's (MEG) newspaper division for $142 million in cash and provide debt financing to the struggling firm. Reactions from... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- Portrait Project
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
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Launch Lab/Capstone 1 - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Launch Lab/Capstone 1 Course Number 5241 Adjunct Professor Alan MacCormack Russell J Wilcox January; J; 3.0 credits November kickoff (9am – 5pm) January 12-23, 2026 Location to be announced Enrollment: Limited to EC... View Details