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Tag: Harvard Business School
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The sound of celebration
Bells around Harvard and the City of Cambridge will ring for 15 minutes starting at the 11:45 conclusion of the University’s 368th Commencement.
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Phi Beta Kappa ceremony honors 168 students
Eric Lander, president and founding director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and poet Dan Chiasson, poetry critic for The New Yorker and a professor at Wellesley College, spoke before honored students and faculty at the 229th Phi Beta Kappa literary exercises at Sanders Theatre on Tuesday morning.
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Dispelling regional stereotypes
A group of first-year joint-degree students from Harvard Business School (HBS) and Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and representatives from West Virginia’s government and its flagship school, West Virginia University, exchanged trips.
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Home and economics
Talia Gillis, a Harvard graduate student is enrolled in two doctoral programs and raising newborn twins.
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Film shows how doctors can make a difference
Documentary Night in Klarman Hall kicked off with a panel discussion on a clip from “Bending the Arc,” a film about Partners In Health, the NGO founded in 1987 by Harvard Medical School students Paul Farmer and Jim Yong Kim and social justice and health-care advocate Ophelia Dahl.
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High tech is watching you
In her new book, “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism,” HBS Professor emerita Shoshana Zuboff outlines her belief that surveillance capitalism is undermining personal autonomy and eroding democracy — and the ways she says society can fight back.
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How Lehman became Lehman
Harvard Business School’s Baker Library holds one of the most extensive collections of business and economic history
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The science, business of aging
A half-day conference at Harvard Business School examined the growing promise of research on aging and the potential of now-experimental interventions to one day ease the burdens of infirmity.
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Henry B. Reiling, HBS professor emeritus, dies at 80
Henry (Hank) B. Reiling, Harvard Business School’s Eli Goldston Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, was an authority in law, taxation, and finance. Reiling died on Jan. 21. Services to be held Jan. 26.
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Harvard forms subsidiary to advance Enterprise Research Campus
Harvard has announced the formation of a new subsidiary, headed by HBS Dean Nitin Nohria and former Massport CEO Thomas Glynn, to begin development of its Enterprise Research Campus in Allston.
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A day in the life
Ana Osorio is a custodian working at Harvard Business School, where she is in charge of cleaning the common spaces at McArthur Hall, which provides residence and learning spaces for visiting business leaders from around the world. A reporter follows her through her day.
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A summer of service to cities
Through the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, student fellows this summer helped mayors around the nation to improve the lives of residents.
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A boost for school principals
The Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Harvard Business School have partnered to offer a new certificate program for school principals.
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How to think like a gourmand
A new Harvard Business School paper says that the best way for food enthusiasts to perform like expert tasters isn’t by memorizing flavor profiles or logging more hours over the spit bucket. Instead, it involves letting go of buzzwords and making taste a visual experience.
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Problem-solving techniques take on new twist
When solving problems, both groups in which members never interacted and groups whose members constantly interacted provided expected results. The surprising outcome came from groups whose members collaborated intermittently.
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What a difference a year of data science makes
After a successful first year, the Harvard Data Science Initiative puts its focus on five new research areas and four new fellows.
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Former Overseer, HBS alum C.D. Spangler dies at 86
Harvard Business School alumnus and former member of Harvard’s Board of Overseer C.D. (“Dick”) Spangler, M.B.A. ’56, died July 22 at his home in Charlotte, N.C. He was 86 years old.
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Mayoral initiative heads for year two
The Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, which is housed at the Ash Center, is a collaboration among Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Business School, and Bloomberg Philanthropies. Now entering its second year, the program helps mayors govern more creatively and effectively.
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Seeking new momentum in malaria fight
Harvard Business School hosted a weeklong leadership workshop supporting global efforts to eradicate malaria.
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Radical, playful, plugged in
“Nam June Paik: Screen Play” is on view at Harvard Art Museums through Aug. 5.
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Joe O’Donnell bids Harvard Corporation adieu
For more than 50 years, prominent Boston business executive Joe O’Donnell ’67, M.B.A. ’71, has served in different capacities at Harvard, as an elected director of the Harvard Alumni Association, a Corporation member, and an Overseer. He will step down from the Corporation on June 30.
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Graphic images speak to consumers of sugary drinks
In Harvard studies, one of which tracked more than 20,000 beverage sales, graphic warning labels were linked to reduced sugary drink purchases.
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Team plans industrial-scale carbon removal plant
In a step to help fight global warming, Harvard Professor David Keith has a plan to repurpose existing technology to slash the costs of carbon capture.
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Harvard awards 8,042 degrees and certificates
Harvard University awarded a total of 8,042 degrees and certificates over the 2017–18 academic year.
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Unleash your inner rebel
Harvard Business School Professor Francesca Gino talks about what she learned from the talented rebels she’s worked with during her research over the years, and what they have to teach us about when to break the rules.
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Sustainability report marks milestones
Reductions in trash, water use, and net greenhouse gas emissions are among the highlights of the 2017 Harvard Sustainability Report.
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Documents of freedom
The exhibit featured the Emancipation Proclamation, the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and a handwritten note from Frederick Douglass.
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Let me compliment you, sort of
If you’d like to boost your status and get colleagues at work to like you, be aware that offering a backhanded compliment will undermine both of those goals, a Harvard Business School working paper concludes.
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Making a difference 101
A gift from Jorge Paulo Lemann ’61 will support the creation of new curricular offerings and expanding current courses that focus on innovation and entrepreneurship.
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Smelling sweetheart’s shirt may lower stress
Reducing stress might be as simple as sniffing a loved one’s T-shirt, according to new research from Harvard Business School.
