HBS News Releases: 2003
Harvard
Business School Opens Japan Research Office in Tokyo
BOSTON -- January 7, 2003 -- Harvard Business School (HBS) officially opened
its Japan Research Office (JRO) on December 4 with an inaugural event at
Tokyo's Imperial Hotel attended by over two hundred guests, including Japanese
business leaders, prominent academics, and alumni.
Harvard
Business School Receives $25 Million From Venture Capitalist Arthur Rock (MBA
1951)
BOSTON -- January 31, 2003 -- Arthur Rock, a member of the Harvard Business
School MBA Class of 1951 and a pioneering venture capitalist who helped form
numerous startups that went on to become twentieth-century success stories,
including Intel Corp., Teledyne, Scientific Data Systems, and Apple Computer,
has donated $25 million to the School to fund the establishment of the Arthur
Rock Center for Entrepreneurship.
Harvard
Dean Says Business Schools Must Help Resolve Corporate Scandals
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- February 26, 2003 -- Business schools have an obligation
to apply their expertise and resources in research, course development, and
teaching to address and seek solutions to the underlying causes of recent
corporate scandals, said Harvard Business School Dean Kim B. Clark in a speech
today at the National Press Club titled Corporate Scandals: Is It A Problem
Of Bad Apples, Or Is It The Barrel?
Harvard
Business School Receives $32 Million From Media Pioneer and Leader Frank Batten
BOSTON -- March 12, 2003 -- Frank Batten, a member of the Harvard Business
School Class of 1952 and a visionary entrepreneur and business leader who built
Norfolk, Virginia-based Landmark Communications, Inc., into a multimedia
enterprise consisting of dozens of newspapers and specialty publications,
several television stations, and The Weather Channel, has donated $32 million to
the School.
Harvard
Business School Opens European Research Center in Paris
PARIS -- March 6, 2003 -- Harvard Business School (HBS) officially opened
the European Research Center (ERC) in Paris today with a research conference and
gala dinner attended by over three hundred guests, including European business
leaders, academics, and alumni.
Harvard
University Announces a New Tool for Boosting Competitiveness
BOSTON -- March 26, 2003 -- Harvard University's Institute for Strategy and
Competitiveness, led by noted scholar, author, and economic advisor Michael E.
Porter, today announced a powerful economic analysis tool that is helping
companies and industry groups as well as cities and states boost their
competitiveness in the global marketplace.
Harvard
Business School Holds Seventh Annual Business Plan Contest
BOSTON -- April 29, 2003 -- Six student teams -- four of them representing
traditional business ventures and two representing social enterprise ventures --
competed for top honors in the 7th annual Harvard Business School (HBS) Business
Plan Contest.
Five
Harvard Business School Graduates Receive Dean's Award For Achievements Inside
and Outside the Classroom
BOSTON -- June 3, 2003 -- Five members of the MBA Class of 2003 at Harvard
Business School (HBS) will be honored at Commencement ceremonies on Thursday,
June 5, by Dean Kim B. Clark for their outstanding contributions to the School
and the larger community over the last two years.
Procter
& Gamble's 'Back-to-Basics' CEO Advises Harvard Business School Graduates
BOSTON, June 4, 2003 -- Alan G.( "A.G.") Lafley (Harvard MBA
1977), the CEO of Procter & Gamble, who is credited with turning around the
Fortune 100 company after more than a decade-long slump, emphasized to Harvard
Business School graduates at Class Day ceremonies today that life's "twists
and turns" should be embraced rather than feared, while sharing with them
"Ten Things I Wish I Had Known at Graduation."
Harvard Business School Graduates 884 During 93rd Commencement
BOSTON -- June 5, 2003 — For the 93rd time since it was founded in 1908, Harvard Business School students received diplomas, marking for most the end of two years of study in the MBA program.
HBS Hosts Research Symposium on Social Enterprise
BOSTON -- Aug. 4, 2003 -- Professors from Harvard Business School (HBS) and a number of leading management education institutions in Latin America, including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Mexico, are meeting this week (August 3-6) on the HBS campus to take part in a research colloquium titled "Partnering for Progress in Latin America."
Harvard Business School Confers Alumni Achievement Awards
BOSTON -- October 3, 2003 -- Harvard Business School bestowed its highest honor, the Alumni Achievement Award, on nine graduates at a special presentation during Reunion Weekend festivities.
David Goehring named Vice President, Director Harvard Business School Press
BOSTON -- October 14, 2003 -- David Goehring, 53, has been named Vice President and Director of Harvard Business School Press, the book publishing unit of Harvard Business School Publishing, effective October 27.
Harvard Business School Installs Solar Panels on Fitness Center Roof
BOSTON -- October 21, 2003 -- Harvard Business School (HBS) recently installed solar "photovoltaic" panels on the roof of its fitness center, Shad Hall, as part of its ongoing commitment to conserve energy and use natural resources whenever possible.
Harvard's Education and Business Schools Engage Nine Urban School Districts in Partnership to Boost Student Success
CAMBRIDGE -- October 21, 2003 -- The Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), Harvard Business School (HBS), and nine urban school districts today announced the Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), a joint venture, collaboratively designed to dramatically improve the educational outcomes of these school systems.
Harvard Business School Revitalizes, Expands Baker Library Building
BOSTON -- October 24, 2003 -- Harvard Business School (HBS) has begun a multi-million dollar renovation and expansion of Baker Library, which is scheduled to open in 2005.
Harvard Business School Spotlights Entrepreneurship
BOSTON -- November 20, 2003 -- The entrepreneurial success stories of more than twenty outstanding HBS graduates are featured in a new video archive that has been launched on the School's Web site, http://www.hbs.edu/entrepreneurs.
Harvard Business School Professor Warren Law, 79, Dies
BOSTON -- December 11, 2003 -- Warren A. Law, the Edmund Cogswell Converse Professor of Finance and Banking Emeritus at Harvard Business School (HBS) and an eloquent critic of the corporate takeovers that convulsed the world of American business in the 1970s and 1980s, has died of cancer at his home in Belmont, Mass.
