Tag: Harvard Business School

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    HBS’s Herzlinger on health care

    Podcast interview on health care reform with Regina Herzlinger, the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

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    Harvard Center Shanghai opens its doors

    Intellectual inquiry and practical action were both on rich display at “Harvard and China: A Research Symposium,” a series of lectures, panels, and break out sessions held to mark the official opening of the Harvard Center Shanghai on March 18.

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    Beyond boundaries

    As a global university, Harvard not only attracts students and faculty from around the world, it sends them out, to teach and work, extending Harvard’s influence far beyond its local boundaries.

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    Too Big to Save? How to Fix the U.S. Financial System

    Robert Pozen, a Harvard Business School lecturer, poses long-term solutions for solving the problems of now. From the housing slump and the stock market to the big bank bailout, this book is a blueprint for reform.

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    Bottom line gets a touch of green

    In a University-wide race to reduce energy use and greenhouse gases, Harvard Business School shares its strategies for technology and behavior.

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    Finance expert Gordon Donaldson dies at 87

    Gordon Donaldson, an influential Harvard Business School (HBS) professor, mentor, researcher, and administrator from 1955 to 1993, died on Feb. 12 in Parkland, Fla., at the age of 87.

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    Business Schools Tap Veterans

    Five years ago, Augusto Giacoman was commanding about 30 soldiers and leading raids in Iraq. Now he spends his days in classrooms alongside former bankers, engineers and other civilians earning a master’s in business administration.

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    Negotiauctions: New Dealmaking Strategies for a Competitive Marketplace

    Holder of dual appointments in Harvard’s Business and Law Schools, Subramanian utilizes theories of negotiating and auctioning to deliver this guide to successful transactions in today’s marketplace.

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    Turning to the wind

    In a quest for cheaper power, HBS professor helps Maine islanders get wind turbine project off the ground.

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    Contrasts between past and present

    In a series of interviews, 15 veterans discussed the startling contrasts between past and present.

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    Over there, over here

    On the Harvard campus, as many as 150 students have an untraditional academic past, as present or former members of the U.S. military, many of whom have had multiple combat tours.

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    A service for Haiti’s sadness

    More than 200 attend Harvard memorial service for those killed in and affected by the Haitian earthquake.

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    One Strategy: Organization, Planning, and Decision Making

    The Harvard Business School’s Marco Iansiti teams up with Microsoft exec Steven Sinofsky to disclose collaborative knowhow on strategizing and mobilizing large-scale operational projects, using 2009’s unleashing of Windows 7 as a prime example.

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    Scott Duke Kominers receives 2010 AMS-MAA-SIAM Morgan Prize

    Scott Duke Kominers ’09, a student in the Harvard Business Economics Ph.D. program, was awarded the 2010 Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student on Jan. 14 at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Francisco.

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    Business lady

    HBS professor Nancy Koehn discusses “The Story of American Business,” her book on interesting and significant historical examples from the industry.

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    Michael Jensen receives AFA award

    Michael C. Jensen, the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at Harvard Business School (HBS), has received the 2009 Morgan Stanley-American Finance Association (AFA) Award for Excellence in Financial Economics.

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    HBS talks iPad

    Four Harvard Business School professors offer their early thoughts on prospects for the new Apple iPad.

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    Doubts about health care reform

    A group of Harvard scholars and visiting health care experts offers a pessimistic view of health care reform at a Harvard Medical School symposium.

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    Doctors Seek Aid From Business Schools

    Dr. Barton is one of 68 students enrolled in Harvard Business School’s Managing Health Care Delivery, a $22,000 non-degree program that launched in October and consists of three one-week courses spread out over nine months.

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    A snapshot of Harvard’s emission reductions

    In 2007, Harvard University pledged to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, inclusive of growth, 30 percent by 2016, with 2006 as the baseline year. University-wide, GHG reductions are around 5 percent so far, including growth. The reductions are due to changes in Harvard’s energy supply and to activities and projects at Schools and units.

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    When the economy crashes

    Harvard Business School exhibit examines “Bubbles, Panics, and Crashes: A Century of Financial Crises, 1830s-1930s.”

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    Want to live well?

    Harvard faculty members from a range of fields give tips on how to live healthy.

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    Houghton to conclude Corporation service

    James R. Houghton, the longest-serving member of the Harvard Corporation and chair of the University’s 2006-07 presidential search, today announced his plans to step down at the end of the 2009-10 academic year, after 15 years on the Corporation.

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    Around the Schools: Harvard Business School

    Two Harvard Business School professors, Nancy F. Koehn and Rajiv Lal, have weighed in on the Harvard Business School Web site with their best estimates of how the holiday shopping season will play out. One sees a flat or slightly improved sales period, while the other is guardedly optimistic.

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    Voluntary retirement program

    The Faculty of Arts and Sciences offered a customized voluntary retirement program to 127 eligible faculty members. At the same time, four of Harvard’s graduate and professional schools unveiled similar plans to eligible members of their faculties.

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    Q&A with retiring HBS Dean Jay Light

    On Dec. 2, Jay Light, who has been dean of the Business School for the past five years, told the HBS faculty that he is retiring in June. After shepherding the School through some of the most demanding times in its history, he said he was looking forward to having more time to write, to…

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    Lorsch recognized by Directorship magazine

    Jay Lorsch, the Louis E. Kirstein Professor of Human Relations at Harvard Business School (HBS), was named to Directorship magazine’s Corporate Governance Hall of Fame.

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    Around the Schools: Harvard Business School

    This winter, Guhan Subramanian will publish “Negotiauctions: New Dealmaking Strategies for a Competitive Marketplace,” a book that draws on his experience studying and advising on complex corporate transactions and high-stakes personal ones, such as buying a home or car.

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    Q&A: Josh Lerner on Innovation’s Role in the Economy

    His book “The Money of Invention” examined the role of venture capital. “Innovation and Its Discontents,” cowritten with Adam Jaff, looked at how changes in intellectual property have hurt the process of innovation. His new book, “Boulevard of Broken Dreams,” examines why public efforts to boost entrepreneurial innovation so often comes up short…

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    Face it:

    Gay men are most attracted to the most masculine-faced men, while straight men prefer the most feminine-faced women, according to the results of a new study by a Harvard researcher.…

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