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Tag: Harvard Business School
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Campus & Community
New leadership fellowship program established
A core of 13 faculty members is collaborating across disciplines to create a new Harvard fellowship program they say will harness a largely untapped universe of leadership skills.
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Campus & Community
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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Campus & Community
Meghan Duggan
Meghan Duggan knows her way around sustainability. The marine engineer with a master’s degree in facilities management can talk easily about kilowatt hours, solar panels, cogeneration, renewable wood, and high-efficiency lights.
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Campus & Community
HBS Professor Alfred Chandler Jr., pre-eminent business historian, dead at 88
Alfred D. Chandler Jr., the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard Business School (HBS) historian whose greatest accomplishment, according to HBS professor emeritus Thomas K. McCraw, was to “establish business history as an independent and important area for study,” died on May 9 at Youville Hospital in Cambridge, Mass., at the age of 88. In his long…
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Nation & World
Secretary of Treasury Paulson talks about China’s booming economy
“Time is of the essence,” Henry Paulson told the capacity crowd at Burden Hall on the Harvard Business School (HBS) campus Thursday afternoon (May 3). China needs to make some critical economic reforms — floating its currency, reforming its capital markets, and restructuring so that domestic consumption plays a bigger role — and the time…
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Campus & Community
HBS holds annual Business Plan Contest
Harvard Business School (HBS) held the final round of its 11th annual Business Plan Contest late last month in the School’s Burden Auditorium. The contest began this past January with a total of 62 student teams, eight of which made it through the various stages of judging to the final round of presentations. Four of…
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Campus & Community
Newsmakers
May symposium to honor HMS’s Melvin J. Glimcher Porter article selected McKinsey Award winner
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Campus & Community
Harbus Foundation celebrates 10 years
The Harbus Foundation at Harvard Business School (HBS) celebrated its 10-year anniversary at its annual grantee reception this past Tuesday evening (April 17) in the Spangler Building.
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Campus & Community
James L. McKenney of Business School, 77
Harvard Business School Professor Emeritus James L. McKenney, an expert in management information systems and the use of computer systems for teaching management, died on March 28 in Belmont, Mass. He was 77 years old.
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Campus & Community
HBS’s George to deliver Peabody Lecture
William W. George, Harvard Business School (HBS) professor of management practice and former chairman and chief executive officer of Medtronic Inc., will deliver the prestigious Francis Greenwood Peabody Lecture on April 13 at 8 p.m. in Memorial Church.
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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…
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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.
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Campus & Community
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.
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Arts & Culture
Rothenberg praises value of humanities
James Rothenberg is a leading figure in the investment world as well as being Harvard University’s treasurer and a member of the Harvard Corporation and Board of Overseers.
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Campus & Community
Bazerman receives lifetime achievement award
Max H. Bazerman, Harvard Business School’s Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration, has received the 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Aspen Institute’s Business and Society Program.
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Campus & Community
‘Redefining Health Care’ collects Hamilton Award
“Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results,” by Michael E. Porter, the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor, and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg, a senior institute associate at Harvard Business School’s Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness and an associate professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, has been awarded the 2007 James A.…
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Campus & Community
HBS-affiliated work named top management book
“From Resource Allocation to Strategy” (Oxford University Press), co-edited by Joseph L. Bower, the Donald Kirk David Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, has been named the best management book of 2006 by Strategy + Business magazine.
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Nation & World
HBS sponsors program for NFL pros
Is there life after pro football? The Harvard Business School (HBS) thinks so. For the third year, it’s sponsoring an executive education program for young athletes from the National Football League. In separate three-day modules, one in February and another in April, experts help the players conserve and invest the dollars they earn on the…
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Campus & Community
Lemann Professor nominated young global leader
The World Economic Forum (WEF) recently nominated Tarun Khanna, an authority on strategy and emerging markets and Harvard Business School’s Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, as a Young Global Leader 2007.
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Campus & Community
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.
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Campus & Community
Porter, Teisberg win Hamilton Award for ‘Redefining Health Care’
“Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results” (Harvard Business School Press) by Michael E. Porter, the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor, based at Harvard Business School, and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg, a senior institute associate at Harvard Business School’s Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness and an associate professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School,…
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Campus & Community
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.
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Campus & Community
Memorial services
Orlov-Rubinow service on Feb. 25 Service for HBS’s Robert Newton Anthony on March 2
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Nation & World
Student KSG, HBS veterans honored
Student veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan shared hard-won lessons of leadership Tuesday evening (Feb. 20), providing a glimpse of the self-sacrifice, courage under fire, and devotion to comrades needed to lead U.S. troops into battle.
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Campus & Community
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…
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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…
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Campus & Community
Microsoft’s Ballmer pulls out the stops at HBS talk
The 24th richest person in the world made a visit to the Harvard Business School (HBS) last week (Dec. 7), and gave an audience of 700 advice on how to…
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Campus & Community
$1M prize for the discovery of biomarker for ALS
Prize4Life Inc., the nonprofit organization founded by Harvard Business School (HBS) alumni Nathan Boaz and Andrea Marano and student Avi Kremer, announced earlier this month that it will award a…
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Campus & Community
Spar takes on boom in baby biz
The field of reproductive technologies has become a fast- growing and profitable economic sector. “Parents choose for different traits, clinics woo clients, and specialized providers earn millions of dollars,” points…