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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Entrepreneurial Unit Travels to China
While China’s Communist Party still controls the country’s political machinery, the nation’s booming economy is increasingly in the hands of savvy entrepreneurs, with an estimated 70 percent of the nation’s GDP now produced by the private sector. To get an up-close... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Orientation Teamwork
FIRE AWAY: Each Learning Team built a catapult that was intended egg at a target 25 feet away without breaking the payload. PHOTO BY STUART CAHILL It may have looked like all fun and games, but the MBA Class of 2008 orientation in late August had a serious purpose —... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
HBS Celebrates Wyss Gift
WYSS with doctoral student Marya Hill-Popper Besharov. PHOTO BY STUART CAHILL A newly renovated home for HBS doctoral students opened in September with a ceremony marking the renaming of Sherman Hall to Wyss House in honor of entrepreneur Hansjoerg Wyss (MBA ’65). His... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Forestalling Terror
RIVKIN: “In the private sector, this kind of change would happen over the course of a generation of management. But when it comes to national security, you can’t wait that long.” Associate Professor Jan Rivkin joined the HBS faculty in 1997 as a member of the Strategy... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Man with a Mission
Chris Howard (MBA ’03), once securely on the fast track at GE, today is associate vice president at the University of Oklahoma, thanks to the persuasive powers of OU president David Boren. According to the Oklahoman (September 5, 2006), Boren was so impressed with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Online Elective for MBA Students
Last fall, without ever setting foot in the classroom, some twenty MBA students took an elective course titled How to Lead — How to Live, taught by HBS professor D. Quinn Mills. Readings for the eight-week online course, a first at HBS, were drawn from Mills’s 2005... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
MD/MBA Program Launched
Harvard’s new five-year, MD/MBA joint-degree program was formally launched at an HBS reception in November. Keynote speaker and Novartis CEO Daniel Vasella (PMD 57, 1989), who holds an MD degree, told his audience, including the seven students currently enrolled in the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Spring Reunions
A rainy weekend didn’t dampen the spirits of the 2,000 alumni and guests who returned to Soldiers Field in early June for spring reunions. The academic program drew enthusiastic crowds to hear faculty presentations on more than two dozen topics, ranging from Enron’s... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Volunteers Crack Case, Consider School's Future
I knew there had to be a hitch when HBS invited its alumni volunteers — fund agents, reunion organizers, and my fellow Class Notes correspondents — back to campus in early November for two days of free food and learning. Sure enough, when I opened my registration... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Campaign Season
Photos by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer On September 21, Harvard University officially launched The Harvard Campaign with a series of events, featuring a speech by Harvard President Drew Faust and "The Future of Knowledge" faculty panel, which was moderated by... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Fourth Annual African-American Alumni Association Conference
"Navigating Success in Volatile Times" will be the theme of this year's HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) conference. The fourth annual event, to be held October 5–7 at the Plaza Hotel in New York City, will provide insights into the strategies and tools... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Harvard's MBA/AD
Scalise helping Harvard fight fiercely. Mention Harvard and most people think of geniuses, not jocks. But with 41 varsity sports, 24 junior varsity teams, and more than 1,500 intercollegiate athletes, Harvard College has the nation's largest Division 1 athletic program... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
MBAs by the Numbers
The MBA Program recently released statistics on its newest recruits, the Class of 2003, and job placement information for graduates of the Class of 2001. This year's incoming class of 895 students, selected from an applicant pool of 8,893, reflects the growing number... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Making the Case
Professor Michael Porter addresses the HBS Club of Washington, DC, as part of "The Case for American Competitiveness" event co-sponsored by the club and the American Security Project think tank in July. DC Club president Dante Disparte (PLDA 6, 2009) looks on. View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
The Show Goes On
ACTION: HBS Show Director Kent Bennett at dress rehearsal for The Phantom of Baker Library. The 34th annual HBS Show, The Phantom of Baker Library, hit the stage in Burden in late April with a cast of fifty students and a support crew of some thirty more in writing,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Faculty Books
Getting Unstuck: How Dead Ends Become New Paths by Timothy Butler (HBS Press) Acknowledging that people may feel stuck or psychologically paralyzed at times in their lives, Butler, director of Career Development Programs, offers strategies for moving beyond a career or... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
When a Rainy Day Comes: The Economics of Happiness
A study by HBS assistant professor Rafael Di Tella (with Andrew Oswald of the University of Warwick in Coventry, England, and Robert MacCulloch of the London School of Economics) finds that when a country is in a recession, the number of people describing themselves as... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Leading Quietly
In Leading Quietly: An Unorthodox Guide to Doing the Right Thing, HBS professor Joseph Badaracco takes an unconventional look at leaders and leadership. Rather than focusing on those men and women whose bold acts of courage and insight have led to widespread public... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
(Harvard Business School Press) Information Markets: What Businesses Can Learn from Financial Innovation, by William J. Wilhelm, Jr., and Joseph D. Downing, is the finance professional’s must-have guide to understanding the changing role of information and... View Details