HBS News Releases: 2002

Harvard Business School Opens Japan Research Office In Tokyo
TOKYO -- December 2002 -- Harvard Business School (HBS) officially opened its Japan Research Office (JRO) on Dec. 4 with an inaugural event at Tokyo's Imperial Hotel attended by over two hundred guests, including Japanese business leaders, prominent academics, and alumni.

Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos Shares His Dot-Com Survival Strategy at HBS
BOSTON -- November 26, 2002 -- It all started seven years ago in rented space above a Colortile store in Bellevue, Wash. Now, Amazon.com is a global brand with annual revenues of $4 billion, and growing. How did Jeff Bezos do it?

A Spectacular Week... A Summons to Leadership...The Summer Venture in Management Program at Harvard Business School
BOSTON -- October 22, 2002 -- Can a week really change your life? Turn your world upside-down and transform your sense of self and what is possible? Provide you with profound interactions and friendships with a stunning variety of smart people, some of them peers, others professors, all of them partners on a journey of discovery?

Four Receive HBS Alumni Achievement Awards
BOSTON -- October 4, 2002 -- Harvard Business School bestowed its highest honor, the Alumni Achievement Award, on four distinguished graduates at a special Reunion Weekend presentation.

Harvard Business School Launches $500 Million Capital Campaign
BOSTON -- September 27, 2002 -- Harvard Business School has formally launched its first and most ambitious fundraising effort in the School's 94-year history. The Campaign for Harvard Business School aims to raise a total of $500 million by the end of 2005 to support initiatives in student financial aid, global research, faculty development, and technology. The campaign will also fund a renewal of the HBS campus, including the first major renovation of historic Baker Library and several student residences.

GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt Returns to HBS
BOSTON -- September 25, 2002 -- After one year at the helm of General Electric, the 1982 alumnus tells MBA students to think globally, reach high, and play by the rules.

Harvard Business School Supports Alums in Not-For-Profits
BOSTON -- September 4, 2002 -- Chosen from more than sixty applicants, nine newly minted Harvard MBAs have been selected as Service Leadership Fellows, and will participate in a year-long partnership with nonprofit and public sector organizations.

Secretary of Labor Chao Advises New Harvard Business School Students On Business Ethics
BOSTON -- September 3, 2002 -- U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao (Harvard MBA '79) told 899 entering MBA students that they had an obligation to help fix the American free enterprise system. "This system, which has given so much to so many, is under attack because of the actions of an unscrupulous few."

Harvard Business School Hosts Academics From Around the Globe
BOSTON -- August 15, 2002 -- Nearly fifty senior professors and deans from business schools in Latin America, China, Africa, Eastern Europe and Central Europe are currently immersed in a ten-day colloquium at Harvard Business School on an interactive form of teaching and learning known as the case method.

Retired Harvard Business School Professor Pearson Hunt Dead at 93
BOSTON -- July 2, 2002 -- Former Harvard Business School Professor Pearson Hunt, an authority on corporate finance whose research helped shape modern financial management practices, died on June 30th. He was 93, succumbing to a heart attack, according to his wife, Dr. Edna Homa.

More Than 900 Receive Degrees at Harvard Business School
BOSTON -- June 6, 2002 -- In an annual Right of Spring -- this year, complete with rain -- more than 900 students from more than 60 countries received diplomas from Harvard Business School Dean Kim B. Clark during indoor ceremonies at Harvard University's Bright Hockey Center.

Harvard Business School Holds Sixth Annual Business Plan Contest
BOSTON -- April 30, 2002 -- When it comes to entrepreneurship in a sluggish economy, "the tourists have gone home," said a judge in the final round of the sixth annual HBS Business Plan Contest yesterday.

David Wan, President of Penguin Group, to Become CEO of Harvard Business School Publishing
BOSTON -- April 12, 2002 -- David A. Wan, currently President of the Penguin Group, the global trade book division of Pearson plc, has been named President and Chief Executive Officer of Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation (HBSP).

Harvard Business School Opens European Research Center In Paris
BOSTON -- April 3, 2002 -- Harvard Business School (HBS) has opened a European Research Center (ERC) -- based in Paris -- as part of its ongoing commitment to creating new intellectual capital worldwide as well as forming and strengthening relationships with leading companies and universities around the globe.

British Petroleum's Lord Browne Explores Social Role of Multinationals
BOSTON -- April 3, 2002 -- Lord John Browne, chief executive of British Petroleum (BP), spoke at Harvard Business School (HBS) on the relationship between multinational corporations and the economic and social development of poor countries. His speech, which emphasized that global companies had an important role to play in issues ranging from human rights to environmental policies, concluded a special "Rising to the Challenge" lecture series at the School on leadership in a post-September 11 world.

Harvard Business School Introduces Service Leadership Fellows Program
BOSTON -- February 13, 2002 -- Harvard Business School officials have announced the formation of a Service Leadership Fellows Program to encourage students seeking to make a significant contribution to society early in their careers to apply for one- or two-year postgraduate Service Fellowships. The School will subsidize the MBA graduates' salaries so that is within the competitive range of offers that he or she would normally receive from for-profit businesses.

Sold-out Eleventh Annual Women Student Association Conference Offers a Potpourri of Possibilities for Women in Business
BOSTON -- January 26, 2002 -- More than 800 women embarked on a historic journey at the eleventh annual Dynamic Women in Business conference at Harvard Business School, an event sponsored by the Women's Student Association.