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- 04 Feb 2021
- News
Andy Jassy Named Amazon’s New CEO
Amazon announced this week that Andy Jassy (MBA 1997) will take over the role of CEO from founder Jeff Bezos later this year. Jassy has been with Amazon since 1997 and currently runs Amazon Web Services, which the Wall Street Journal notes is one of the company’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Feedback
alumni.hbs.edu Freedom Farmer Re: Pierre Ferrari (MBA 1976) The development sector is hugely important. Thanks, Pierre, for bringing your leadership and skills to improve the lives of so many. —Christian C.... View Details
- 30 May 2023
- News
Finding PRIDE
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Anthony Gerace In the late 1970s, a dozen or so gay men found one another at HBS and decided to band together, calling themselves the Alternative Executive Lifestyles group. They posted notices around campus, discreetly... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
the family business feel. Professor William C. Kirby and Tracy Yuen Manty The Wen Group Trying to find resolution in a Hong Kong–based family conglomerate that suffers from nepotism and governance issues. Senior Lecturer John A. Davis and... View Details
- 23 Jun 2023
- News
Highlights from the Spring 2023 Alumni Board Meeting
Alumni Board members on campus for their annual spring meeting // Credit: Panfoto Hard work, with humility for humanity, is the spirit that animates Harvard Business School's MBA program today, Matt Weinzierl, Senior Associate Dean and Chair of the MBA Program, told... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Improving patient care through better communication
Harvard Business School Professor Amy C. Edmondson explores how open communication in hospitals leads to improved patient care. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Multimedia Simulation Provides Real-World Reality Check
Batten Hall hive classrooms. “Strategic Brew” was created over a two years by Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, the Herman C. Krannert Professor of Business Administration, and Gastón Llanes, an associate professor at Catholic University of... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Finding a cure so that others may benefit
said, ‘we have hope.’” “Joe could have turned away, but he didn’t,” said C. Richard Mattingly, COO of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. “He led us. He wasn’t working to save Joey’s life. He was working for others who still had a chance.”... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Acing Reality
e26ab6ec3e322e740f082ee4c18d618b Reality television is not exactly the place you’d picture catching a glimpse of a former classmate, but those in the HBS Class of 1997 were treated to a reunion last summer when Willis C. (“Chip”) Arndt... View Details
- 09 Feb 2011
- News
Still Shining through Florida's Clouds
digging for a problem’s root causes in order to properly identify it, followed by a willingness to consider unconventional alternatives to achieving one’s objectives. “Professor Walter Salmon got me interested in retailing, my first career,” says Lucas. “He was a big... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Uncovering The Secrets of Mittelstand Success
HBS professors Ramon Casadesus‐Masanell, left, and Sunil Gupta, listened to a presentation about the layout of the Siemens Electronikwerk Amberg manufacturing facility during the faculty immersion in Munich. (photo by Willy C. Shih) The... View Details
- 27 Jun 2017
- News
Suzanne J. Battit (MBA 1992)
she says. She recently extended that annual support by including HBS in her will. “My bequest allows me to make a larger gift in the future than what I can give on an annual basis now,” says Battit. She is proud to be a member of the John View Details
- 05 Jul 2011
- News
Driving Innovation
and develop a brand through mobile,” she observed. Reflecting recently on the skills required to lead innovation in any industry, Stewart talked about an inspirational note she received from the School’s legendary marketing Professor C.... View Details
- 17 Mar 2017
- News
Clare B. Hawthorne (MBA 2012)
will, Hawthorne decided to include a bequest to HBS. “I wanted to show my appreciation for a place that has given me so much,” she explains. She enjoys being one of the youngest members of the John C. Whitehead Society, which recognizes... View Details
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Applying Strategy Concepts In Innovative Ways Through Technology
Casadesus-Masanell, Herman C. Krannert Professor of Business Administration, and Gaston Llanes, associate professor at the School of Business of the Catholic University of Chile, with help from HBS’s Educational Technology Services. The... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
Forget millions; think billions. That’s what HBS associate professor Benjamin C. Esty does in Large-Scale Investment, a new MBA elective course he has developed that examines how companies structure, value, and finance large,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Springboard Boosts Funding Prospects for Women Entrepreneurs
soon to tell how the entrepreneurs fared financially as a result of the event. But Andrea C. Silbert (MBA '92), founder and CEO of the Center for Women & Enterprise, noted that 90 percent of the companies that participated in last year's... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Gregg Petersmeyer
C. Gregg Petersmeyer learned about giving back from his parents. He observed in them and their contemporaries a tremendous empathy for their fellow citizens going through the shared hard times of the Depression and World War II. “Today,”... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
China IFC: Global Access, Global Perspective
and their management teams.” The Business of Going Global, China-Style, one of six IFCs in the MBA Program’s Elective Curriculum in 2016, was designed and led by two faculty members with extensive knowledge of the region. Willy C. Shih,... View Details
- 20 Jan 2011
- News
Oil Spill Solution
report. But at least one HBS graduate needed no reminder of the environmental devastation caused by the tragic explosion. He had already become part of the solution. Scott C. Smith (MBA ’91) is president and CEO of Cellect Technologies... View Details