Tag: Harvard Business School
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Facing your preferences
Researchers discover that similar qualities of observation drive gay and straight men in their judgments on attractiveness.
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In pursuit of everyday excellence
Stacey M. Childress and David A. Thomas are two Harvard Business School professors who wrote a book on how a struggling school system in Maryland turned itself around.
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Around the Schools: Harvard Business School
The Business School has named Nobuo Sato (MBA ‘82) executive director for its Japan Research Center in Tokyo.
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Web Ads Hidden Under Cloak of Invisibility
Kraft Foods, Greyhound Lines and Capital One Financial have bought some strange ads on the Internet lately. What’s so strange about them is that they’re invisible.
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Around the Schools: Harvard Business School
A group of Harvard Business School students is partnering with a nonprofit organization to help people who are struggling to keep their homes.
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HBS study goes inside the boardroom
A new report from Harvard Business School offers an inside look at some of the challenges facing the boards of directors of corporate America.
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If You Need to Work Better, Maybe Try Working Less
When members of 12 consulting teams at Boston Consulting Group were each required to take a block of “predictable time off” during every work week, “we had to practically force some professionals” to get away, says Leslie Perlow, the Harvard Business School leadership professor who headed the study.
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The Adventures of an IT Leader
Austin and Co. team up to create Jim, a fictional IT manager, who stumbles in his first-year duties only to (what else?) save the day. You’ll never look at your computer guy — or gal — the same way again.
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New degree aims to transform American education
A new doctoral degree based at Harvard Graduate School of Education aims to train a corps of education leaders to enact system-level change and transform K-12 education in America.
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Greyser honored by Institute for Public Relations
Steven A. Greyser, the Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at Harvard Business School, has received a special award for his contributions to public relations education and research from the Institute for Public Relations.
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Harvard University to offer groundbreaking doctoral program for education leaders
Harvard University today announced the launch of a new, practice-based doctoral program to prepare graduates for senior leadership roles in school districts, government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and the private sector.
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Harvard ed school offers 1st new degree since 1935
Citing what it calls a “leadership deficit” in the nation’s schools, Harvard University is introducing a doctoral education program aimed at attracting top talent to transform the U.S. education system by shaking up the status quo.
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Harvard to offer a doctorate in education leadership
The Harvard Graduate School of Education will announce today that it will offer a new, tuition-free doctoral degree in education leadership, its first new degree in 74 years.
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Harvard students fight foreclosures
Harvard Business School students have joined the fight against foreclosures. The Homeownership Preservation Foundation has teamed up with Harvard MBA students to support the nonprofit’s mission of preventing foreclosure and preserving homeownership.
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Former homeless man takes part in Harvard Business School seminar
Ron Brummitt, who has a degree in psychology and is an ordained minister, was at Harvard in July to take part in Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management, a weeklong, HBS seminar that aids senior executives from the nonprofit sector in developing leadership strategies.
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Harvard Business School Professor Jesse W. Markham dies at 93
Former Harvard Business School (HBS) Professor Jesse W. Markham, an economist whose work focused on price theory and industrial organization, died in his sleep on June 21 in Nashua, N.H., at an assisted-living home. He was 93.
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Some HBS students adopt ethical code
Approximately half of the 886 graduating HBS students took the professors’ comments seriously enough to sign a managerial version of the Hippocratic oath.
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This month in Harvard history
June 1913 — Having proved itself during a five-year experimental period, the Business School emerges from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to become an independent graduate school.
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HBS students honored for service to the School, society
Six members of the Harvard Business School (HBS) M.B.A. Class of 2009 have been named winners of the School’s prestigious Dean’s Award. The recipients, who will be recognized by HBS Dean Jay Light at Commencement ceremonies this afternoon (June 4) on the HBS campus, are Andrew Goldin, Garrett Smith, and the team of Rye Barcott,…
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Marshall service on Friday
A memorial service for Martin V. Marshall, professor emeritus at Harvard Business School (HBS), will be held on May 15 at 2 p.m. in the Class of 1959 Chapel on the HBS campus.
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HBS teams share dreams for success
In a series of presentations in Burden Auditorium, teams of students recently presented their ideas and dreams for entrepreneurial success at the final round of Harvard Business School’s (HBS) 13th annual Business Plan Contest.
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Business School’s Milton P. Brown, retail and marketing expert, 90
Harvard Business School (HBS) Professor Emeritus Milton P. Brown, an expert in retailing and marketing who for almost half a century influenced thousands of M.B.A. students and executives through his skills as an extraordinarily talented teacher, died on April 25 in Exeter, N.H. He was 90 years old.
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Lessons from past explored to expedite future research
People, knowledge, communication, and capitalism were front and center last week as authorities on innovation sought to shed light on ways to speed up the development of new medical treatments from discoveries in the lab.
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HBS helps Jerusalem develop ‘competitive advantages’
The mayor of Jerusalem visited Harvard Thursday (March 26) and outlined a plan for his city’s economic future, one created with the help of Harvard Business School (HBS).
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Narayanamurti named director of Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program at Belfer Center
Venkatesh “Venky” Narayanamurti will be the new director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Belfer Center director…
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Khanna named fellow of AIB
Tarun Khanna, the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School (HBS) and an expert on emerging economies, has been elected a fellow of the Academy of International Business (AIB).
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Business School’s Marshall dies at 86
Harvard Business School (HBS) Professor Emeritus Martin V. Marshall, a driving force in the development of the School’s Owner/President Management Program (OPM) for entrepreneurs and a marketing and advertising expert whose practice-oriented approach to teaching and course development left a lasting impact on countless Harvard M.B.A. students and business leaders, died on Feb. 16 in…