Tag: Harvard Business School

  • Nation & World

    From divestment to engagement

    Investment experts at Harvard Business School explored alternatives for investors interested in climate change, from divestment to engagement, as ways to change corporate behavior.

    5 minutes
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    Harvard continues to face ‘foundational financial pressures’

    Executive Vice President Katie Lapp and Treasurer Paul Finnegan spoke with the Gazette about Harvard’s financial landscape and the ongoing financial pressure facing the University.

    9 minutes
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    Tackling blindness, deafness through neuroengineering

    The Bertarelli Program in Translational Neuroscience and Neuroengineering, a collaborative program between Harvard Medical School and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, has announced a new set of grants worth $3.6 million for five research projects.

    7 minutes
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    Pocket change

    HBS Professor Sunil Gupta discusses Apple Pay’s foray into the crowded race to disrupt how we shop.

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    HarvardX course closes in on global view

    During a talk at the Harvard Allston Education Portal, Professor Tarun Khanna explored the benefits of interdisciplinary problem-solving on health care, based on his HarvardX course “Entrepreneurship and Healthcare in Emerging Economies,” launching on Oct. 30.

    4 minutes
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    Disrupting city hall

    Harvard Kennedy School and Law School experts say city life will be transformed by city governments that are plugged into technology.

    7 minutes
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    Where creativity rules

    Harvard’s i-lab is a safe place for students to take risks and explore potentially commercial ideas, like cricket chips, aerial drone service and repair, or a public service-oriented website to connect voters and officials.

    5 minutes
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    The business of being Beyoncé

    A new Harvard Business School case study digs into the mystery and motives behind Beyoncé’s surprise 2013 album release.

    4 minutes
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    A run to remember

    The 11th annual Brian J. Honan 5K Run/Walk in Allston-Brighton on Sept. 20 brought together people from both sides of the Charles, including 600 Harvard runners.

    4 minutes
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    Catching the next wave

    PayPal co-founder and venture capitalist Peter Thiel talks tech startup strategies and why HBS students should ignore what most of their classmates are doing.

    4 minutes
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    From decisive to dithering

    A new research paper co-authored by HBS Professor Michael I. Norton finds that calibrating the decision-making process helps drive our appeal and influence over others.

    4 minutes
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    Diversity dialogue

    Panelists discuss how to make inclusion a central part of workplace culture.

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    The fumbles in Ferguson

    Crisis management expert Herman “Dutch” Leonard talks about how the confrontation in Ferguson, Mo., was mishandled.

    14 minutes
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    Getting a handle on inversion

    Mihir Desai spoke with the Gazette about the controversy surrounding tax inversion.

    11 minutes
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    Seeing what leaders miss

    Max Bazerman, a leadership and applied behavioral psychology expert at HKS and HBS, writes that successful leaders must seek out what they don’t know to overcome the human tendency to turn a blind eye to unethical behavior.

    4 minutes
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    The big share

    Harvard Business School professor Nancy Koehn weighs in on the importance and the future of the sharing economy.

    10 minutes
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    Family strife

    Harvard Business School’s John A. Davis, who chairs the Families in Business program, talks about the struggles that companies like New England grocery chain Market Basket face when family members are at the helm.

    9 minutes
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    A dream, ‘quietly imagined,’ come true

    Rakesh Khurana became dean of Harvard College on July 1. On his first official day on the job, he reflected on the College’s power to transform undergraduates, and as a result to change society for the better.

    4 minutes
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    Sound technique

    Memorial Church has gained another dimension of resonance with the installation of a new bell.

    5 minutes
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    Meeting of the minds

    Harvard Business School’s disruptive innovation guru Clayton Christensen uses crowdsourcing to accelerate the evolution of his latest theory on corporate investment decisions.

    6 minutes
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    Lean in, speak out

    At Class Day ceremonies, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg urged graduates to confront hard truths and address wrongs they find in the world.

    5 minutes
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    Hidden spaces: The Class of 1959 Chapel at HBS

    The Class of 1959 Chapel at Harvard Business School has served as a peaceful space of solitude and introspection since its completion in 1992.

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    Boston Shines, thanks to many hands

    Volunteers from the Harvard community joined together on April 25 to make the 12th annual Boston Shines a success. With 75 pairs of hands, they did just that.

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    HBS gift establishes entrepreneurship fund

    The Bertarelli Foundation of Switzerland, co-chaired by Ernesto Bertarelli, M.B.A. ’93, has established the Bertarelli Foundation Health and Life Sciences Entrepreneurship Fund with a gift to Harvard Business School.

    3 minutes
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    Power suits

    Harvard President Drew Faust convened a panel of top female leaders in media, business, and government to talk about the evolving role of women, and the challenges as well as opportunities facing women today.

    5 minutes
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    Advising on climate change

    In addition to conducting research and teaching about climate, energy, and the environment, Harvard faculty members also serve as expert advisers to policymakers, putting their science to work to improve laws and regulations and to foster understanding between the worlds of government and academics.

    9 minutes
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    Measuring the marathon

    A new report by Harvard crisis-management and criminal-justice experts, and former Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis, considers the factors that led to the successes and failures of last year’s emergency response to the Boston Marathon bombings and manhunt.

    7 minutes
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    Science on a plate

    Two Harvard College students deliver pizza (with some STEM education baked in) to Cambridge middle school kids.

    6 minutes
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    A fresh bite of the Apple

    A classic Harvard Business School case about the Apple creation myth gets a Japanese manga-style comic-book reboot.

    5 minutes
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    Business School expands online

    Harvard Business School has announced the launch of HBX, a digital learning initiative aimed at broadening the School’s reach and deepening its impact. In HBX, the School has created an innovative platform to support the delivery of distinctive online business-focused offerings.

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