Tag: Business

  • Nation & World

    ‘Power session’ for women held at the Business School

    “You guys are going to rule the world, mark my words,” Janet Hanson told a captivated audience in the Harvard Business School’s Burden Auditorium. “I’m so bullish on your generation, it’s not funny.”

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    HMC Board names Kaplan interim CEO

    The Harvard Management Company (HMC) Board announced on Nov. 9 that Robert Kaplan, professor of management practice at the Harvard Business School (HBS) and former vice chairman of The Goldman Sachs Group, has been appointed the interim CEO of the Harvard Management Company and will serve in that capacity until the new president and CEO…

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Scholars ask, ‘How does gender affect negotiation?’

    To most of us, negotiation is a way of getting happily to the end of a problem. As in: Who’s going to do the dishes tonight? Let’s talk.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Looking at China’s role in Africa

    China’s increasing influence in Africa is a double-edged sword that wields the potential for prosperity and despair.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Luncheon honors Weissmans, interns

    Rafael Buerba ’08 worked as an operating room assistant in Barcelona, Spain. Christina Xu ’09 helped set up a record label and radio network in the prisons of Kingston, Jamaica. And Robert Ross ’09 tracked children in displaced person camps in Uganda.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    University announces this year’s public-spirited Zuckerman Fellows

    A trustee of the University of Notre Dame, a former naval intelligence officer, and a former special assistant to the Iraqi Ministry of Health are among this year’s Zuckerman Fellows.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Study probes academic, industry relationships

    A study led by members of the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute for Health Policy (MGH-IHP) has found that institutional academic-industry relationships — financial relationships companies have with medical schools or teaching hospitals rather than with individual physicians or scientists — are as common and pervasive as individual relationships. The report, the first nationwide look at…

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    ‘Hillary factor’ among topics at leadership and women lunch

    Is America on the verge of an explosion of “girl power” — a new level of female leadership in public life?

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Nobel laureate Yunus gives Wiener Lecture

    On Oct. 13, economist and microfinancing pioneer Muhammad Yunus stood in front of a cheering capacity crowd at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum. One year earlier, to the day, he had received the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize — news that Yunus said “exploded with happiness all over Bangladesh.”

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    HBS program casts wider net for undergrads

    A future in business might be right for anyone — and for some, the earlier the better. That’s the thinking behind the Harvard Business School’s (HBS) 2+2 Program, a new effort to expand the School’s applicant pool to students who might not normally consider a business degree or career.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Memorial services

    Memorial service for Gail Stephanie Weinberg’s, Alfred D. Chandler Jr. and George Peabody Gardner III.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Great deals can be costly for country

    In the relentless pursuit of a good deal, shoppers are elbowing citizens out of the public arena, former Labor Secretary Robert Reich warned Thursday evening during the inaugural Kennedy School Forum of the academic year.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Memorial services

    Date for Chandler memorial service changed The date of the memorial service for Alfred D. Chandler Jr., Isidor Straus Professor of Business History Emeritus, has been changed from Sept. 28…

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Government holds seeds to its own reform

    The seeds of a new, more efficient government able to nimbly handle the challenges of a new century are sprouting in the corridors of today’s slow-moving bureaucracy, according to Elaine Kamarck, a lecturer in public policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Forum panelists dissect ‘America’s leadership deficit’

    How to address “America’s leadership deficit” was the focus of discussion Wednesday night (March 21) at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum. Describing the deficit as a “canyon, not a gap,” David Gergen, director of the Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership (CPL), argued that the challenges facing the country are growing more complex and…

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Wal-Mart says ‘waste not’

    Andrew Ruben’s business card is tiny: 2 11/16 inches by 1 5/16 inches, or about half the normal size. It’s also made of 100 percent post-consumer recycled paper.

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    HBS, KSG announce new joint degree program

    Harvard Business School (HBS) and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government (KSG) announced Tuesday (April 3) the creation of a fully integrated joint degree program in business and government that represents an innovative approach to preparing leaders for a growing area of practice of critical importance to global society.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Hart honored for research on entrepreneurship

    M.B.A. Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice Emerita Myra Hart has been named a recipient of the 2007 FSF-NUTEK Award, an international prize for research on entrepreneurship and small business.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Dunlop Undergraduate Thesis Prize in Business and Government established

    The Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government (M-RCBG) at the Kennedy School of Government has established a thesis prize for a graduating Harvard College senior. The deadline to apply is May 24.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Kaplan elected to Accounting Hall of Fame at Ohio State

    Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School Robert S. Kaplan recently joined the select group of academic, business, and government experts who have been elected to the Accounting Hall of Fame.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    HBS’s Sunil Gupta recognized with Berry-AMA Book Prize

    “Managing Customers as Investments: The Strategic Value of Customers in the Long Run” (Wharton School Publishing), co-authored by Sunil Gupta, Harvard Business School’s Edward W. Carter Professor of Business Administration, has received the 2006 Berry-AMA Book Prize from the American Marketing Association (AMA) as the best book in marketing reviewed that year.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Economics in the apple heartland

    A Harvard doctoral student has traveled to the wild apple’s home in the mountains of Central Asia to lend a hand to an international nonprofit working with local apple farmers to improve how they grow, harvest, and sell their crops. Plamen Nikolov, a first-year Ph.D. student in health economics, has designed an assessment survey and…

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Spring fellows are welcomed at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center

    A former bureau chief for BusinessWeek Magazine and a Chinese scholar researching intellectual property rights are among the fellows and visiting scholars at the Kennedy School of Government’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government (M-RCBG) this spring.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Cross-cultural study of entrepreneurs has surprising findings

    Bat Batjargal, an Oxford-trained political scientist and lecturer in social sciences at Harvard, talks a mile a minute – and can do so in five languages. He sprinkles every conversation about his work (on social network theory) with a constant phrase: “Fascinating stuff.” In two talks last week – on the social networks of entrepreneurs…

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Seven deadly sins on collision course with market forces

    Using the seven deadly sins to examine corporate social responsibility, Kennedy School Professor Herman “Dutch” Leonard explained that today’s market-based economy exploits behavior that is deeply embedded in man’s evolutionary history.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Innovative HBS ‘immersion’ programs flourish

    One of the most enduring questions in school is not about the timeless concerns, like the origin of the universe. It’s about passing time: What did you do on your vacation? That simple (and fraught) question applies even to Harvard Business School (HBS), which for nearly a hundred years has been peopled by future captains…

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    HBS models look for new markets while serving the global poor

    At $55 a copy, “Business Solutions for the Global Poor” (John Wiley & Sons, 2007) won’t be a hot seller in what economists call the base of the pyramid (BOP). That’s the informal, localized, and little-known stratum of the global market in which 80 percent of humanity – living on an average of $700 a…

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    M-RCBG’s incoming fellows, visiting scholars

    A Chinese vice minister, a senior vice president from Fidelity Investments, and professors from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Boston College are among the incoming fellows and visiting scholars at the Kennedy School of Government’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government (M-RCBG) this fall.

    5 minutes