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- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
creating a scalable business. According to Wired magazine, there are currently 2,500 Navy SEALs in the country but four million Americans who claim online to be a Navy SEAL. The challenge for TroopSwap was to create software that was... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
John Batcha: Sowing the Seeds to Fight Hunger
John Batcha (MBA '54) was ready to grow his own organization. With a $50,000 grant from the Kellogg Foundation, he teamed with Partners of the Americas, the largest private volunteer organization in the Western Hemisphere, to develop a View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
After the Revolution: Putting the Internet in Perspective
The ragtag "kids" at Microsoft are shown sporting long hair, beards, and T-shirts. Pointing to the still adolescent-looking Bill Gates, Nolan added, "Would you have invested in Microsoft in 1980?" Funny as the photo seems today, the View Details
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
treasury, asked Glauber to serve as under secretary for finance, a post he held for four years. In 1992, with a newfound interest in public policy, Glauber returned to Harvard as an adjunct lecturer at the Kennedy School (1992–2000),... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
HBSAAAA Convenes in San Francisco
power and influence. "The issues discussed had wide relevance," observes program chair Willa E. Seldon (MBA '86). Adds Wilkinson, "The dialogue took advantage of shared experiences from the vantage points of... View Details
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Field Study
Last fall’s Harvard-Yale football game (10–zip, Crimson ) marked the fortieth anniversary of Harvard’s famous 29-29 “victory” over the Elis. HBS later became a tiebreaker of sorts: Five players from Yale’s 1968 team went on to get MBAs at HBS, compared to View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Chinese CEOs, Professors Study at HBS
To help Chinese CEOs operate more effectively in the global economy, HBS has teamed up with two other business schools to develop the Global CEO Program for China (GCPC), an Executive Education offering consisting of View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
best innovations: Find and fill an important unmet customer need. Plan for profitability. Strive for sustainability. Establish credibility. Gather necessary resources. Lead and manage effectively. Maintain balance and learn to enjoy the ride. A Year Up: How a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Harvard Center Shanghai Names New Executive Director
Jeffrey Williams (MBA ’82) has been named the inaugural executive director of the Harvard Center Shanghai. Opened in March 2010, the center, a joint venture of HBS and the Harvard China Fund, supports a wide range of activities, including HBS Executive Education View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Perspective: The Morning After 9/11
revealing a vulnerability that students at Harvard Business School were unaccustomed to seeing in their faculty. The previous day, all classes had been cancelled as news broke of the terrorist attacks on the United States. Two of the four... View Details
- 06 Jul 2017
- News
Leadership on a Global Scale
When the inaugural West Point All-Academies Asia Summit opened in Singapore in June 2015, Ray Jefferson (MBA 2000) celebrated a personal moment of triumph. For the Summit’s point person, this first-ever... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
New HBS, KSG Joint Degree
Administration–International Development/Master in Business Administration (MPA-ID/MBA). These will replace the existing “concurrent” degree programs at HBS and KSG, an arrangement that has enabled students to earn degrees in View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Lessons from the Tsunami Disaster
province into the academic arena to benefit the Humanitarian Leadership Program (see sidebar). The enormity of the December 26 disaster took weeks to fully gauge, but it was clear that Aceh province bore the brunt of the tsunami’s... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
New Releases
principles to guide it. This is the challenge. Managers must rise to it, for they are the force at the center of the storm." Managerial Decision Analysis Series four new titles by David E. Bell and Arthur Schleifer, Jr. (Course... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
of Severodvinsk, Russia, Natalia Mlotok has witnessed the stark effects of perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev’s program of economic, political, and social restructuring. Located on the White Sea in northern Russia, Mlotok’s hometown was built... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
for twelve weeks and worked together in a studio across the street from Mattel’s El Segundo, California, headquarters. By the end of 2003, four groups had completed Project Platypus exercises, producing three more products that Mattel... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
The School’s Immersion Experience Programs challenge MBAs with active, cross-cultural learning situations around the globe, from Silicon Valley to China to Europe. An on-the-ground report from Mexico’s smallest villages and its... View Details
- 11 Dec 2017
- News
Leadership Lessons from the Basketball Court
Coach K., the Duke basketball coach. What we saw was an opportunity to take a lot of what he's done with his team so successfully for four decades and create content to really help develop teams beyond basketball. “A lot of people are... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Mission in Motion
Since its beginnings 20 years ago, the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative has been a focal point for applying innovative business practices to drive sustainable, high-impact social change. Conceived by John Whitehead (MBA 1947), the SEI was... View Details
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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
exemplifies energetic government and vigorous federal programs for economic growth. Gallatin symbolizes low taxes and less intrusion by government." Not surprisingly, the two men (after whom two HBS buildings are named) were political... View Details