Tag: M.B.A.

  • Nation & World

    Take those old records off the shelf

    After dominating the music industry, albums fell out of favor as CDs appeared. But vinyl has made a comeback and is having its best year in decades.

    8 minutes
    Turntable.
  • Nation & World

    The NBA-HBS career connection

    When NBA Meets M.B.A.: A new Harvard Business School program pairs NBA players with M.B.A. student mentors to help young athletes up their business game.

    12 minutes
    Photos by Kwame Owusu-Kesse/K.KESS Photography
  • Nation & World

    The internal marriage tax of women M.B.A.s

    Study says that female M.B.A. students may downplay their career ambitions if they sense doing otherwise will harm their marriage prospects.

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Leadership tips from ancient Rome

    Harvard Business School M.B.A. students dig deep into texts of the Roman Empire to unearth lessons about leadership today.

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Market reaction

    Once a risky and bold idea, Harvard Business School’s overseas FIELD program now is a foundational and transformative piece of the M.B.A. curriculum for students and faculty.

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Not your average road trip

    Harvard Business School just sent all 900 first-year M.B.A. students into the field to solve real-world problems in emerging markets from Buenos Aires to Mumbai, in the most ambitious element of an experimental new course. HBS, pioneer of the celebrated case-study method, is working to craft a business education model for the 21st century.

    11 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Education and innovation

    Harvard University announced today that Rita E. and Gustave M. Hauser have given the University $40 million to support excellence and innovation in learning and teaching at Harvard.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    HBS announces student start-up competition winners

    Harvard Business School’s Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship has announced nine winners of Minimum Viable Product (MVP) Funding, a new pilot program offering $50,000 in total awards to student entrepreneurs working on projects during the School’s winter term.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    HBS faculty-authored book garners acclaim

    “Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads,” a book by two Harvard Business School faculty members, has been named one of the best business books of 2010 by Strategy + Business magazine.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Business School boost

    A group of college undergraduates from around the country took part in a weeklong summer program at Harvard Business School in June designed to help them explore the business school environment through the HBS case method.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    ‘Power Lunch’ comes to HBS

    CNBC show “Power Lunch” interviews Harvard M.B.A. students to gain insights into prospects for Twitter’s future business model.

    2 minutes