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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Money and Markets Dominate New Course Offerings
Subjects related to globalization and finance top the list of courses added this year to the elective curriculum for second-year MBA students. Notably, seven of the twelve new offerings are half-courses that require only fifteen sessions... View Details
Keywords: curriculum
- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Finding a Path out of Poverty
financial literacy programs for teachers and students, as well as many other educational opportunities. “Education was the bridge to a better life for me,” observes Magwegwe, whose own dreams of going to college in the early 1990s were,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Faculty Books
from its character as a science-based business. This poses three challenges: how to finance risky investments with long time horizons for R&D; keep pace with advances in drug knowledge; and integrate capabil-ities across the spectrum of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
imbalance. Gates noted that about half of the foundation’s annual grants, or $1.6 billion, is devoted to global health, with around $800 million each devoted to grassroots financial services in the developing world and to education in the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
educate leaders who will make a difference in the world, the Doctoral Programs educate people like Akinola who will educate future generations of business leaders. “We have a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
School’s Financial Picture Brighter than Expected
School’s two main revenue generators, Executive Education and Harvard Business Publishing, led with strong revenue growth. Driven by newly launched open-enrollment courses and the first increase in custom program participation since the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
He’s got a superhero’s name, and he’s shining a light on enduring wrongs here at home while confronting challenges in the Third World as well. Meet Richard America, who sees policy analysis and quality management as keys to development and economic justice. America... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Napkin Finance: Say It in a Picture
for anyone who wants to understand money and finance. Courtesy Napkin Finance The company was an accidental outgrowth of another startup Hay founded—a payment platform targeting millennials that also included some Napkin Finance–style... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Platforms and Collaborations
point in the video, thereby creating a presentation to which students can log on and interact with together outside of class. Technological innovations offer the potential for online coursework — even now, new entrants in the MBA Program take online courses in... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Providing lessons in financial literacy
Sally Wood (MBA 1983) is COO of the Council for Economic Education (CEE), a nonprofit dedicated to teaching economics and personal finance to students from kindergarten through high school. Based in New York... View Details
- 19 Feb 2010
- News
The MBA Oath Debate
words on a piece of paper will not stop unethical behavior, where steep fines and prison have failed to do so.” Writing in BusinessWeek.com’s online debate over the oath, INSEAD finance professor Theo Vermaelen warned that signing it was... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Thomas S. Volpe
But his longtime fascination with both the stock market and inventors came to the fore when he entered the New York investment world. After setting up a science and technology investment banking group at Blyth Eastman PaineWebber, he became a partner in corporate View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Teaching kids lessons in making choices and tradeoffs
tradeoffs, and how her current role compares with her career expectations when she graduated from HBS. “I’m the CEO of the Council for Economic Education. We’re a national not-for-profit that teaches little kids about the real world through lessons in personal View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
Robert H. Hayes An expert on industrial management and competition, Robert Hayes, the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, joined the HBS faculty in 1966. He has taught numerous courses and thousands of students in both the MBA and the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Jump-Start
Investing in HBS Giving Through HBS Giving Together From Fellowship Recipient to ‘The Most Influential Business Thinker On Earth’ FAQ Completing its second year, the School’s Minimum Viable Product Award (MVP) program attracted considerable interest, but not just from... View Details
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
value to their products. At the time, Keshavjee was the head of the Aga Khan Foundation in East Africa, a major development agency, and believed that the best way to sustain health and education initiatives was through income generation... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
both partners write personal finance columns for Reuters’ India Web site and for the Wall Street Journal’s Indian partner, livemint.com. They appear on two TV shows every weekend: Bloomberg UTV’s Smart Money and ET Now’s Investor’s Guide.... View Details
- 06 Jun 2013
- News
Exploring the American Dream: From Pakistan to HBS
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: The Money of Invention
advice about the strategic responses that are likely to be most effective in the changing venture capital environment. The third group — governments, nonprofits, academic institutions, and large corporations — can learn how to emulate the rigors of a venture capital... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Harvard Management’s El-Erian Steps Down
Mohamed El-Erian, the president and CEO of Harvard Management Company (HMC) and a member of the HBS faculty, announced in September that he would step down from HMC at the end of this year and return to California and his former firm, Pacific Investment Management... View Details