May 2019
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30 May 2019
Meet the 2019-2020 Leadership Fellows
BOSTON—The Leadership Fellows Program at Harvard Business School is based on University Professor Michael Porter’s vision of developing a network of HBS graduates with cross-sector experience who are committed to addressing societal issues throughout their careers. The Fellowship is a two-way commitment in which graduating students are offered once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to experience high-impact management positions in nonprofit and public sector organizations for one year at a competitive salary. At the same time, the hiring organizations leverage the experience, energy, and strategic and analytical skills of MBAs in roles that produce immediate results and build long-term capacity. Read more.
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30 May 2019
Harvard Business School Celebrates 109th Commencement
BOSTON—Harvard Business School (HBS) held its 109th Commencement exercises this afternoon with a diploma ceremony on its campus in Boston. Read more.
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30 May 2019
MBA Class of 2019 Celebrates Class Day with Remarks from Student Speakers and Alumnus Michael Bloomberg
BOSTON—Yesterday afternoon, all 927 members of the Harvard Business School (HBS) MBA Class of 2019 gathered on the lawn in front of Baker Library | Bloomberg Center to enjoy their annual Class Day Celebration, held in advance of today’s Commencement exercises. Along with their family, friends, and guests, they honored five Alumni Achievement Award recipients and six faculty teaching award recipients, and listened to the wise words of their classmates and one of the namesakes of the landmark building in the background, Michael R. Bloomberg. Read more.
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28 May 2019
Five Harvard Business School Students Win Dean’s Award for Service to the School and Society
BOSTON—Neel Ghose, Lindsey Morrow, Amanda Tyson and Megan Williams, all members of the Harvard Business School (HBS) MBA Class of 2019, have been named recipients of the School’s Dean’s Award. Alexandra Feldberg, a graduating doctoral student in the field of organizational behavior, has been honored with the HBS Doctoral Program’s Dean’s Award. Read more.
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28 May 2019
Harvard Business School Honors Five Graduates with Alumni Achievement Award
BOSTON—Harvard Business School (HBS) today conferred its most important honor, the Alumni Achievement Award, on five distinguished graduates as part of the Class Day ceremony for the MBA Class of 2019, who will receive their degrees tomorrow at Commencement. Read more.
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23 May 2019
Harvard Business School, BCG Researchers: Workers Optimistic While Business Leaders Struggle to Grasp Forces Changing the Workforce
BOSTON—Researchers from Harvard Business School’s Project on Managing the Future of Work and Boston Consulting Group’s Henderson Institute today released Future Positive: How Companies Can Tap Into Employee Optimism to Navigate Tomorrow’s Workplace, which provides a first-of-its-kind global outlook on how business leaders and middle-skills workers view the forces shaping the future of work. At a time when the future of work discussion is dominated by reports of widespread fear, the research found that middle-skills workers see opportunity in changes and are optimistic for their future job prospects. Read more.
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23 May 2019
Brandon Rapp Named Harvard Business School’s 2019 Student Class Day Speaker
BOSTON—Brandon Rapp (MBA 2019) has been selected as the student speaker for Harvard Business School’s Class Day celebration, held this year on Wednesday, May 29. Rapp was chosen by his peers through an audition process that included more than 50 student speeches. Read more.
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16 May 2019
Frontiers of Change: 25 Years of Social Enterprise at HBS
BOSTON—On May 3 and 4 the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) marked its 25th anniversary with a two-day event, Frontiers of Change: 25 Years of Social Enterprise at HBS, which brought together over 300 alumni, students, faculty, staff, and leaders in the field. Read more.
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14 May 2019
HBS Professors Win Wyss Awards for Excellence in Mentoring Doctoral Students
BOSTON—Three Harvard Business School (HBS) faculty members, Professor Jeffrey T. Polzer, Professor Dennis A. Yao, and Associate Professor Anat Keinan will each receive one of the twelfth annual Wyss Awards for Excellence in Mentoring for their work with students in the Doctoral Programs. Read more.
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09 May 2019
Private Colleges Team Up with Harvard Business School Online to Create Unique Hybrid Learning Program
BOSTON—Michigan Colleges Alliance (MCA) is collaborating with Harvard Business School Online to offer students at participating MCA campuses a blended learning program. In the first phase, approximately 70 students from five Michigan private colleges offered HBS Online’s Sustainable Business Strategy course to their students this spring. Read more.
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07 May 2019
New book reveals the principles that have helped make digital platforms, including Amazon, Google, and Apple, the world’s most valuable firms
BOSTON—Digital platforms, which include the likes of Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Alphabet (Google’s parent company), Facebook, Uber, and Airbnb, have recently become dominant forces in many marketplaces. These companies are not only enormously valuable—several temporarily surpassed the trillion-dollar mark in value—but also extraordinarily powerful. How did this happen in such a short amount of time? How have a small number of firms come to exert such influence over our lives and the economy? And how should government regulators, as well as competitors, respond? Read more.