Tag: Harvard Business School

  • Campus & Community

    Charles M. Williams dies at 94

    Harvard Business School (HBS) Professor Emeritus Charles M. Williams, a renowned authority on commercial banking and a master of the art of case method teaching who influenced the lives and careers of thousands of M.B.A. students and executives around the world, died of congestive heart failure on Nov. 17. He was 94.

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  • Nation & World

    Gingrich opposes campaign limits

    Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, speaking at Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics, says the political system would run more smoothly if campaign donors could contribute what they wish.

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  • Nation & World

    Introducing the i-lab

    The Harvard Innovation Lab officially opened to the public Nov. 18. The ribbon cutters included President Drew Faust and Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino.

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  • Campus & Community

    To stop and say thanks

    A series of open houses will give staff in Harvard’s Central Administration, Business School, Law School, School of Public Health, Kennedy School of Government, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Graduate School of Design the chance to thank their colleagues with personal notes and share messages of appreciation.

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  • Campus & Community

    A gift that spans Schools

    Siddhartha Yog, M.B.A. ’04, founder and managing partner of The Xander Group Inc., has given Harvard $11,000,001 to establish two professorships, fellowships and financial aid, and an intellectual entrepreneurship fund.

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  • Campus & Community

    A look inside: Cabot House

    In Cabot House, a new café quickly becomes a familiar gathering place.

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  • Nation & World

    Harvard’s startup upstart

    Gordon Jones, director of the new Harvard Innovation Lab, has ideas on how to foster an entrepreneurial mentality at the country’s oldest university.

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  • Campus & Community

    HBS’s Paul. R. Lawrence, 89

    Paul R. Lawrence, a renowned sociologist and a pivotal figure in the intellectual history of Harvard Business School (HBS), died Nov. 1 in Bedford, Mass. He was 89. A memorial service will be held on Nov. 8 at 11 a.m. in the Story Chapel at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge.

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  • Science & Tech

    Students vs. computer

    Harvard Business School and MIT Sloan students put IBM’s groundbreaking, “Jeopardy!”-winning computer to the test in a live match-up on Oct. 31. But outsmarting Watson, it turns out, is a not-so-elementary task.

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  • Campus & Community

    Rosenbloom, HBS professor, 78

    Richard S. Rosenbloom, the David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at Harvard Business School, died on Oct. 24 at the age of 78.

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  • Campus & Community

    A Harvard perspective on military service

    Harvard’s Office of Career Services adds to its shelves of guides a pamphlet on military service.

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  • Nation & World

    Lessons from a Kenyan slum

    A sprawling urban pocket of poverty offers a timeless lesson: talent is universal, but opportunity is not.

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  • Campus & Community

    Education and innovation

    Harvard University announced today that Rita E. and Gustave M. Hauser have given the University $40 million to support excellence and innovation in learning and teaching at Harvard.

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  • Nation & World

    Beyond the kitchen, to the B-School

    Renowned chef Ferran Adrià visited Harvard Business School Oct. 13 to announce a challenge to business students: a competition to design the new venture that will expand his creative and culinary empire.

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  • Campus & Community

    Leading Business Education

    Nitin Nohria Dean, Harvard Business School Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration

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  • Arts & Culture

    On the Silk Road again

    The Silk Road Ensemble, a group of musicians from around the world led by famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma, was at Harvard for a weeklong residency, helping students to compose, playing with undergraduates, exploring the link between business and the arts, and discussing arts and education.

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  • Campus & Community

    Two named University Professors

    Rebecca M. Henderson of the Harvard Business School and Douglas Melton of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Harvard Medical School were named University Professors in recognition of their dedication to teaching and scholarship that crosses academic boundaries.

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  • Campus & Community

    Starting out green

    With a green tour and “brain break,” Harvard freshmen learn early about the importance of living sustainably.

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  • Campus & Community

    Mourning 10, and 3,000

    On the 10th anniversary of the attacks, Harvard students, faculty, and staff joined in remembering that tragic day. At the start of the day was an early-morning memorial run; at the end of the day were candlelight vigils that lit up the dark. In between came music, dance, and centering discussion.

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  • Campus & Community

    Kennedy named senior associate provost

    Mary Lee Kennedy, executive director of knowledge and library services at Harvard Business School, has been named senior associate provost for the Harvard Library.

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  • Campus & Community

    Q&A on Harvard in Allston

    The leaders of Harvard’s Allston Work Team discuss their recommendations on how the University might proceed in planning for its properties in the neighborhood.

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  • Campus & Community

    Recommendations for Allston

    The Harvard University Allston Work Team presented its recommendations to Harvard President Drew Faust June 16. The report reaffirms the University’s commitment to Allston and points to development options in the next decade, including science facilities, housing, and a private-sector enterprise research campus.

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  • Campus & Community

    Moments that make Commencement

    After weeks of rain and cold, Harvard ended the 2010-11 year on a postcard-perfect day of azure skies and warming breezes. Most of the focus was on the speeches and rituals of Tercentenary Theatre, of course. But all across Harvard Yard, where graduating students, faculty, families, and friends gathered, there were thousands of magical moments…

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  • Campus & Community

    Degrees, certificates awarded

    Today the University awarded a total of 7,147 degrees and 70 certificates. Harvard College granted a total of 1,556 degrees.

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  • Campus & Community

    South Asia Initiative

    Since its inception in 2003, the South Asia Initiative continues the long tradition of collaboration between Harvard and South Asia’s nations.

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  • Campus & Community

    HBS students win Dean’s Award for service

    Four members of the Harvard Business School M.B.A. Class of 2011 have been named winners of the School’s prestigious Dean’s Award.

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  • Campus & Community

    It was a very good year

    With its 360th Commencement, another chapter in Harvard’s history draws to a close, as marked by highlights from this year. Reinstallation of ROTC, ongoing innovation in science and humanities, and Wynton Marsalis at Harvard top off some of the year’s historical benchmarks.

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  • Campus & Community

    Bells mark Commencement

    For 23 years, they have rung out across Cambridge in Harvard’s honor, marking the conclusion of Morning Exercises.

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  • Campus & Community

    Harvard at 375

    The University gets ready to celebrate its classic values, as well as its recent innovative momentum in the sciences, public service, diversity, internationalism, and the arts. Oct. 14 will be the launch of the official 375th anniversary.

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  • Campus & Community

    Three to join Harvard Corporation

    In its first expansion in more than three centuries, the Harvard Corporation will add three new members this July. They are Lawrence S. Bacow, Susan L. Graham, and Joseph J. O’Donnell. The appointments were announced May 25.

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