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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
To Educate Leaders Who Make a Difference in the World
Campaign Chair C.D. (“Dick”) Spangler, Jr. (MBA '56), reminded the gathering that the School was founded during “a time of great turmoil and uncertainty” in 1908, when institutions worldwide were changing... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
aware of the need to work early on with other managers to complement their current programs. These are valuable insights, particularly as my department tries to incorporate a new Bank instrument." And the push for changing the Bank's... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
A Latin American Vision: New HBS Research Center Opens
"This is an historic day," noted Argentina's President Fernando de la Rúa, the guest of honor at the inaugural dinner of the School's Latin America Research Center (LARC) in Buenos Aires. "We are opening up communication," de la Rúa stated. "Knowledge is the factor... View Details
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
In Harmony
Weinstein is the president and CEO of the Brevard Music Center, an institute and summer festival for young musicians in Brevard, North Carolina. A CEO’s role in the arts, says Weinstein, is exactly the same as a CEO’s role in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
business, organizational, financial, and institutional problems,” West recalls. Since Harvard University, with its medical school, teaching hospitals, and Nobel Prize winners, is perhaps the world’s leading View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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Leading in the face of complex challenges
ultimately an investment in a better world,” says Hess, “one led by alumni who build more effective, sustainable institutions and organizations and inspire hope and opportunity in communities around the world.” Hess understands the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Making a Difference in the World
The City Solution: Facts and Figures p. 32 “half the world’s people ” U.N. Habitat report (“Cities and Climate Change – Global Report on Human Settlements”) March 2011 p. 33 “2 percent land mass most of its emissions.” UN Habitat Report... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Past Informs the Future of Work
workforce is inherently of interest,” says Assistant Professor Daniel Gross, who examines the historical effects of automation. He coauthored the case “AT&T: Managing Technological Change and the Future of Telephone Operators in the 20th... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research
HBS established the Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS) to serve as a research-based platform that brings together a community of scholars, students, alumni, and other practitioners to find solutions to some of... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
Both transitions have strategic and competitive implications for firms operating in and out of the region. The current "reconstruction" of Asia offers insights about differentiating systemic from asystemic risks and illuminates possible View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Nurturing students who can think outside of the box
Chen Weiming (MBA 1993) is reimagining the way China views education. As founder of Xing Wei College, a first-of-its-kind, privately run institution outside of Shanghai, Chen is at the forefront of a radical transformation of China’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
El-Hage Takes Alumni Post
of the reason we are such a great institution today is the generous support of alumni,” he continues. “It is precisely because of their support that we have been able to accomplish so much. We don’t expect, and we never have expected,... View Details
- 02 Feb 2017
- News
Enabling Everyone in a Community to Contribute
institution in Ontario about two years ago; they said he could not live with other roommates. He was aggressive, he was violent. Within three months, he was off all the meds that he was on; he has a job working in the community; he has... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
remaining once a drug goes to market. There are people who say we should have a fixed number of years of patent protection after FDA approval. It would be quite difficult to change current law. But there is a lot of rationale behind such... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Contributing to a Better Future
role in determining what great business leadership looks like in the 21st century. NEW DIRECTOR SEES BUSINESS AS A VECTOR FOR SOCIAL CHANGE Drew Keller (MBA 2022), who was appointed director of the Institute... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 May 2013
- News
Lynn Thoman, MBA 1979
says, involves her role on the Board of Fellows at Harvard Medical School (HMS). Her suggestion to HMS about how to structure the relationship between the hospitals and HMS differently resulted in $36 million in payments to HMS. “In addition to the financial benefit,... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
2019), Kimberly Foster (MBA 2020), Amanda E. Johnson (MBA 2014), Depelsha McGruder (MBA 1998), Zuhairah Scott Washington (JD/MBA 2004), and Michelle Morris Weston (MBA 1983). OCTOBER 13 “In this radically changing world, if your business... View Details
- 14 Nov 2012
- News
Remembering His Roots
before a tragic car accident changed the course of his life forever. On a return trip from the cherry season in Oregon, my dad and I were in a deadly collision that took his life and the lives of four other farmworkers,” says Curiel, who... View Details
Keywords: farmworkers
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
In a predawn phone call on October 14, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences informed HBS professor Robert C. Merton that he had won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics. Merton's work evaluating risk has changed the nature of financial... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Porter's Paradox
associated institutions in particular fields that compete but also cooperate." In a recent interview in Working Knowledge, a quarterly report on research at HBS, Porter was asked whether clusters and other local economic circumstances... View Details