HBS News Releases: 2006
Al Gore Talks at Harvard Business School about Benefits of Going Green
BOSTON, Dec. 21, 2006 -- Environmental activist and former Vice President Al Gore recently came to Harvard Business School to meet with students, faculty, and staff to talk about the importance of responding to climate change worldwide. His presentation, "A Changing Business Climate," drew a packed house of more than 800 members of the HBS community to Burden Auditorium. The event was hosted by the School's Leadership and Values Initiative (LVI), an organization led by students in partnership with faculty and staff that seeks to broaden the school's community values into an aspirational and integrative program. Earlier in the day, Gore attended a second-year MBA class called "Business and the Environment" and taught by HBS Professor Forest Reinhardt.
Microsoft CEO Shares Techology's Bright Future with MBAs
BOSTON, Dec. 21, 2006 -- Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer recently spoke with Harvard and MIT Sloan MBA students about the bright future of the technology industry. In his traditionally animated style, Ballmer paced from one end of the stage to the other while discussing the latest developments at Microsoft. "This is as exciting a time in the tech industry as when I started" at the company, he told the full house in Harvard Business School's Burden Auditorium. And the next ten years should be no different. Among many other developments, he said he saw significant changes in the way people communicate, from business meetings to more interactive and personalized television.
Harvard Business School Offers New "Immersion" Programs
BOSTON, Dec. 19, 2006 -- "What should I do on my January winter break?" It's an age-old question for college and graduate students alike. At Harvard Business School (HBS), some students like to relax or travel. Others have long participated in "treks" — student-run trips that give them an opportunity to explore careers and make valuable contacts in different parts of the world, including the San Francisco Bay Area, London, Washington, DC, and India.
Harvard Business School Launches Marketing Campaign for its Executive Education Programs
BOSTON, Dec. 18, 2006 -- Harvard Business School today announced the launch of a novel, integrated marketing campaign for its Executive Education programs. The campaign, which incorporates branding, advertising, and communications strategies, is designed to highlight the School's revamped suite of Executive Education courses — particularly the longer flagship Comprehensive Leadership Programs — and to underscore the unique positioning Harvard Business School retains in the crowded executive education marketplace.
HBS Professor Raises Negotiation to a New Dimension
BOSTON, Dec. 14, 2006 -- In his new book, Harvard Business School (HBS) Professor James Sebenius argues that the art of negotiation should be more than a tired debate of win-lose and win-win tactics. In fact, success is achieved by bringing the negotiation to a whole new level: the third dimension.
Harvard Business School Professor Robert Anthony Dies
BOSTON, Dec. 5, 2006 -- Robert N. Anthony, a much honored member of the Harvard Business School faculty for more than 40 years and a world renowned and prolific scholar, author, and innovator in the field of management accounting and control who also made his mark in public service at the U.S. Department of Defense and other government agencies, died on Friday, Dec. 1, at the Kendal Retirement Community in Hanover, NH. He was 90 years old. At the time of his death, he was the School's Ross Graham Walker Professor of Management Controls, Emeritus. A former president of the American Accounting Association (1973-74), he was a member of the Accounting Hall of Fame. An FASB (Financial Accounting Standards Board) accounting standard (number 34, capitalizing the cost of interest) is directly traceable to his work.
HBS Professor Diagnoses Biotech's Shortcomings and Offers Prescriptions for Change
BOSTON, Nov. 30, 2006 -- The contributions of firms like Amgen, Genentech, and Biogen to the biotechnology industry are proof that biotech has the potential to usher in major shifts in the fields of medicine, genetics, food science, pharmaceuticals, and others. Yet, to date, the grand promise of biotech has not been realized—and there is general acknowledgment that the sector is failing to perform up to expectations. Why?
Andrea Jung Shares Leadership Lessons with Harvard MBAs
BOSTON, Nov. 21, 2006 -- Andrea Jung, chairman and CEO of Avon Products, Inc., recently spoke to Harvard Business School MBA students in the School's Spangler Auditorium about what it's like to be a leader—and lead as a woman—in today's complex global business environment. An audience of about 300 gathered to listen to Jung's thoughts on corporate leadership, the role of business in society, and the current opportunities and challenges she faces at Avon. The event was hosted by the HBS Leadership Initiative in conjunction with two student clubs, the Leadership and Ethics Forum and the Social Enterprise Club.
Professor Michael Porter Ranks Business Competitiveness of Nations
BOSTON, Nov. 14, 2006 -- Which countries have the most competitive companies and business environment—and which ones don't? To answer these questions, Harvard's Michael E. Porter, the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor, based at Harvard Business School, and two of his colleagues at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness (ISC), which Porter heads, have recently published the 2006 edition of the Business Competitiveness Index (BCI), part of the Global Competitiveness Report prepared in cooperation with the World Economic Forum.
Harvard Business School Professor Offers Fable about Managing Change
BOSTON, Nov. 7, 2006 -- Change affects all of us—these days more rapidly than ever before. It's supposed to be our friend. But many people regard it with trepidation, and when it is clearly called for in an organization, they don't know how to manage it effectively. To the rescue comes a new book that helps solve that problem. In Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding under Any Conditions (St. Martin's Press), John Kotter, an award-winning author and Harvard Business School professor for many years, teams up with top technology executive Holger Rathgeber to teach readers how to do change right.
Baker Library Opens Photo Exhibit on Industrial Life
BOSTON, Oct. 26, 2006 -- It's the 1930s, the dawn of the study of organizational behavior, and you're teaching Harvard Business School students about subjects such as production and marketing. How do you show them what it's like to work in mill? How do you put a human face on a factory? These were questions that Harvard Business School professor Donald Davenport and Frank Ayers, executive secretary of the Business Historical Society, answered by contacting the leading businesses of the time and requesting photographs that reveal 'the courage, industry, and intelligence' required of the American worker.
Polaroid Donates Corporate Archives to Harvard Business School's Baker Library
BOSTON, Oct. 25, 2006 -- The Polaroid Corporation's Archives, a unique collection of materials that document the evolution of one of America's most famous and innovative companies, have been donated to the Harvard Business School's Baker Library (HBS). Housed in the library's Historical Collections, the Polaroid Corporation Archives includes approximately 1.5 million items dating from the company's founding in 1937 to the present—and chronicling the invention of instant photography by Polaroid founder Dr. Edwin H. Land as well as company press clippings, packaging, employee newsletters, and annual reports.
Harvard's Kennedy School and Harvard Business School announce $1.25 million gift from George Family Foundation
CAMBRIDGE, MASS., Oct. 17, 2006 -- Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Business School announced today a $1.25 million gift from the George Family Foundation that will provide 15 fellowships to students pursuing concurrent degrees at both schools. The gift will also expand the Kennedy School's leadership development programs.
Harvard Business School Honors Four Outstanding Graduates
BOSTON, Oct. 3, 2006 — At a special ceremony today before some 900 MBA students, faculty, and staff, Harvard Business School Dean Jay Light conferred the School's highest honor, the Alumni Achievement Award, on four outstanding graduates whose lives and careers epitomize the School's mission to 'educate leaders who make a difference in the world.'
Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation and The India Today Group to Launch South Asian Edition of Harvard Business Review
BOSTON, Sept. 26, 2006 — Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation and The India Today Group today announced a partnership to publish Harvard Business Review South Asia, an English-language edition of the world's most influential business management magazine. Harvard Business Review South Asia will run the same editorial content as the flagship U.S. edition and will include regional advertising. This will mark the 12th edition of the magazine. Collectively, Harvard Business Review's English-language and translated editions reach nearly half a million readers worldwide.
Harvard Business School Welcomes MBA Class of 2008
BOSTON, Sept. 8, 2006—Harvard Business School has officially welcomed 907 new students to its MBA program. The Class of 2008 was chosen from 6,716 applicants. The 90.8% yield (percentage of applicants admitted who matriculate) is once again the highest of any major educational institution in the world.
Harvard Business School Professor Awarded Kauffman Prize Medal
BOSTON, Aug. 17, 2006—Harvard Business School Professor Toby Stuart, an expert in the field of organizational psychology, has won the 2007 Ewing Marion Kauffman Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship. The medal, which includes a $50,000 cash award, is given every two years to one scholar under the age of 40 whose body of research has made a significant contribution to the field of entrepreneurship.
Harvard Business School Professor Examines the Rise of the Consumer in France and Germany
BOSTON, Aug. 7, 2006—An analysis of modern capitalism usually focuses on national production and distribution. However, in his new book, Consumer Capitalism: Politics,Product Markets, and Firm Strategy in France and Germany (Cornell University Press), Harvard Business School Assistant Professor J. Gunnar Trumbull offers a third factor for analysis: consumption. Consumer Capitalism explores the political roots of consumer protection policies that emerged in France and Germany in the 1970s—and how these policies gave birth to the consumer as an economic actor with a specific identity and status protected by legal and regulatory institutions.
Harvard Business School Professor Details the Disciplines of Channel Management
BOSTON, Jul. 24, 2006—Of all the elements of a company's marketing strategy, distribution channels are perhaps the hardest to change. Although most are outdated and unwieldy—serving neither customers nor channel partners adequately—marketers are often hesitant to transform their distribution channels, preferring to make do with what they have. This reluctance is driven mainly by the potential uncertainty that accompanies the changeover. The possibility of a loss of sales revenues, for example, or of an increase in channel conflicts drives the company towards the safety of inertia.
The School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University, China Europe International Business School, and Harvard Business School Offer Senior Executive Program for China
BEIJING, SHANGHAI, BOSTON, Jul. 12, 2006—The School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University (Tsinghua-SEM), China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), and Harvard Business School (HBS) have joined forces to launch the Senior Executive Program for China (SEPC), a three-module program held in Beijing, Shanghai, and Boston, respectively, that has been designed to help senior-level executives operating in China develop the broad, integrated knowledge and global perspective they need to successfully lead their organizations and achieve sustainable competitive advantage.
Harvard Business School Honors Doctoral Candidates for Innovative Research
BOSTON, Jul. 12, 2006 - The 2006 Wyss Awards for Excellence in Doctoral Research have been presented by the Harvard Business School Doctoral Programs to three HBS doctoral candidates. Jill Avery (who is pursuing a doctorate in business administration—DBA—in the field of Marketing), Jakub Jurek (a Ph.D. candidate in Business Economics), and Richard Lai (a DBA candidate in Technology & Operations Management) were selected from more than 20 applicants in the HBS doctoral programs and each awarded $12,000 for their innovative dissertation research.
Harvard Business School Announces New and Improved Working Knowledge
BOSTON, Jul. 10, 2006 - Harvard Business School today announced major changes in the content and design of its highly acclaimed Working Knowledge Web site, a free online forum reaching over 100,000 weekly readers that presents the extraordinary breadth and depth of the School's intellectual capital in a way that can be easily accessed by top practitioners.
Summer Program Reveals Business World to High Potential College Seniors
BOSTON, Jun. 30, 2006 - Seventy-eight undergraduate students from around the country came to Harvard Business School (HBS) this week to participate in the School's Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP). Running for more than twenty years, the program encourages high-achieving college students entering their senior year to consider business school as an option after graduation by enabling them to spend a week on campus and live the life of a Harvard MBA student.
Harvard Business School Professor Theodore Levitt, Legendary Marketing Scholar and Former Harvard Business Review Editor, Dead at 81
BOSTON, Jun. 29, 2006 - Harvard Business School Professor Emeritus Theodore (Ted) Levitt, a monumental and iconoclastic figure in the field of marketing and former editor of Harvard Business Review, who influenced generations of both scholars and practitioners with his groundbreaking, carefully crafted, always provocative, and often controversial books and articles, died yesterday (Wednesday, June 28) at his home in Belmont, Mass., after a long illness. He was 81 years old.
Redefining Health Care Prescribes Actionable Agenda to Transform U.S. Health Care System
BOSTON, Jun. 27, 2006 - The United States health care system is on a collision course with patient needs and economic reality. In their new book, Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, Michael E. Porter, Harvard's Bishop William Lawrence University Professor (based at Harvard Business School) and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg, an associate professor at the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia—two of the world's leading scholars on competitiveness, strategy, and innovation—set forth a new vision of the health care system in which every actor is focused on improving value, as measured by health outcomes per dollar expended.
Harvard Business School Celebrates 96th Commencement
BOSTON, Jun. 8, 2006 - Harvard Business School's 96th Commencement exercises were held today on its campus in Boston. This year's graduates included 900 MBA candidates from more than 65 different countries, as well as three students who received doctorates in business administration. In addition, HBS, in conjunction with the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, awarded 4 Ph.D. degrees'one each in the fields of business economics, information technology and management, organizational behavior, and health policy.
Harvard Business School Alumnus Henry Paulson Returns as Class Day Speaker
BOSTON, Jun. 7, 2006 - Henry M. 'Hank' Paulson, Jr. (MBA 1970) had at least one thing in common with the 900 graduating MBA students he addressed today as the distinguished speaker at Harvard Business School's annual Class Day ceremonies (the traditional prelude to Commencement, which will take place tomorrow). He is about to begin a new job. After working for over 32 years at the investment banking firm of Goldman Sachs and serving as chairman and CEO since 1999, he is poised to become the next Secretary of the Treasury.
Five HBS Students Honored for Extraordinary Service
BOSTON, Jun. 5, 2006 - A special kind of leadership, embodied in the selfless service of five Harvard Business School (HBS) students'Michael Arlotto and Jill Szuchmacher, Kathleen 'Cassie' Kearney, Avichai 'Avi' Kremer, and Yael 'Gayle' Tzemach'will be recognized at HBS Commencement ceremonies on June 8 with the 2006 Dean's Award, one of HBS's highest honors.
Harvard Business School Publishing Launches HBR IdeaCast
BOSTON, Jun. 5, 2006 - Harvard Business School Publishing (HBSP), the highly regarded publisher of premier management content, is proud to announce the launch of the HBR IdeaCast, a new bi-weekly podcast featuring breakthrough management ideas and commentary from the authors and editors of Harvard Business School Publishing. The free podcast is available for download on Harvard Business Online, the Web site of HBSP; iTunes; and through many other podcast aggregators and distributors.
Harvard Business School Case Wins Codie Award
BOSTON, Jun. 5, 2006 - The Harvard Business School multimedia case, Columbia's Final Mission, has been named the Best Postsecondary Education Instructional/Curriculum Solution in the Software & Information Industry Association's (SIIA) 21st Annual Codie Awards. The award was announced on May 16, 2006, at the 21st Annual Codie Awards Gala at the Westin St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco.
Wall Street Journal's Pepper...And Salt Cartoons Donated to Harvard Business School
NEW YORK, May 24, 2006 - The Wall Street Journal's highly celebrated Pepper'and Salt cartoons have been donated to Harvard Business School's Baker Library (HBS) by Charles Preston, founder and editor of the feature. The collection will be housed in the library's Historical Collections and is on exhibition starting today through Oct. 2, 2006.
Harvard Business School Professor Examines Leadership Challenges through the Lens of Fiction
BOSTON, May 19, 2006 - The hardest tests for business leaders often challenge their character as much as their skills. Leaders can grow by meeting these challenges—but only if they ask difficult questions about themselves. In his new book, Questions of Character: Illuminating the Heart of Leadership through Literature (Harvard Business School Press), Harvard Business School Professor Joseph Badaracco asserts that self knowledge is the critical factor in character—"the big engine that drives performance' "because good leaders know who they are.
Michael G. Rukstad, Faculty Member at Harvard Business School, Dead at 51
BOSTON, May 18, 2006 - Michael G. Rukstad, a member of the Harvard Business School (HBS) faculty for many years, died yesterday at Massachusetts General Hospital after a year-long battle with cancer. He was 51. An acclaimed and beloved teacher, Rukstad was an expert in the fields of corporate strategy, comparative business-government relations, international economics, and geopolitics. He also made a lasting mark on management education by working on innovative ways to teach strategy to both students and executives at Harvard and beyond.
Harvard Business School Global Leadership Forum to Focus on Intersection of Business and Government
BOSTON, May 15, 2006 - The Harvard Business School Global Leadership Forum (GLF)—always one of the highlights of the year for many alumni—will focus this year on the increasingly interrelated worlds of business and government. Bringing together HBS graduates, professors, and business and government leaders from around the world, the 2006 GLF, The Private Sector and the Public Interest, will take place in Washington D.C. from June 20-22nd and examine how the many intersections of the public and private worlds affect financial markets, innovation and technology, executive compensation, and society as a whole.
Harvard Business School Launches New Executive Education Program on Optimal Performance in Healthcare Delivery Organizations
BOSTON, May 11, 2006 - Next month, senior executives from healthcare delivery organizations from the United States and abroad—including hospitals, health systems, and medical clinics—will participate in a new Harvard Business School (HBS) Executive Education program designed to provide senior clinical and non-clinical executives with the leadership skills, management knowledge, and tools to optimize medical and financial outcomes, organizational performance, and competitiveness.
New Book Examines the Creation of Corporate Synergies
BOSTON, May 2, 2006 - Every multi-unit enterprise strives to create synergies from its collection of business units, but few use a systematic process to strategically align those units in order to capture potential scale and scope economies. In Alignment: Using the Balanced Scorecard to Create Corporate Synergies (Harvard Business School Press; April 2006), Harvard Business School Professor Robert Kaplan and David Norton, president of the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative, provide a step-by-step alignment process for companies to realize a new source of value—what they call enterprise-derived value—from business units, thus creating synergy not only within the company but between the firm and its board of directors, investors, customers, and suppliers.
Harvard Business School Celebrates Tenth Anniversary of Business Plan Contest
BOSTON, Apr. 25, 2006 - Harvard Business School conducted the finals of its tenth annual Business Plan Contest today, and the winners had their sights set clearly on China.
Jay O. Light Named Ninth Dean of Harvard Business School
BOSTON, Apr. 24, 2006 - Jay O. Light, an expert in finance and investment management and the Dwight P. Robinson, Jr., Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School (HBS), will be the School's next Dean, President Lawrence H. Summers announced today.
Harvard Business School Completes Women's Suit Drive
BOSTON, Apr. 14, 2006 - Just in time for spring, the women of Harvard Business School cleaned out their closets for a good cause. Co-Sponsored by the HBS MBA Women's Student Association and the HBS Doctoral Programs, the School's first ever Women's Suit Drive took place from April 5-7th and resulted in the donation of more than 680 items to help disadvantaged women make the transition into the workforce.
Harvard Business School Case Receives Top Accolades
BOSTON, Apr. 12, 2006 - The Harvard Business School multimedia case, Columbia's Final Mission, has been named a finalist for Best Postsecondary Education Instructional/Curriculum Solution in the Software & Information Industry Association's (SIIA) 21st Annual Codie Awards. The case was also recognized as an Official Honoree by the 10th Annual Webby Awards.
Harvard Business School Professor Co-Authors New Book on How Business Can Reduce Global Poverty
BOSTON, Apr. 11, 2006 - Although world leaders have given the reduction of global poverty top priority, it still persists—and has even worsened in many countries with governments that lack either the desire or the ability to act. In their new book, A Corporate Solution to Global Poverty: How Multinationals Can Help the Poor and Invigorate Their Own Legitimacy (Princeton University Press),Harvard Business School Professor George Lodge and Craig Wilson, an economist with the International Finance Corporation, suggest that the solution to global poverty lies in the creation of a new institution called the World Development Corporation (WDC)—a partnership of multinational corporations (MNCs), international development agencies, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs).
Harvard Business Review Honored as Finalist in National Magazine Awards
BOSTON, Mar. 29, 2006 - Harvard Business Review (HBR) has been named a finalist in the category of General Excellence for the National Magazine Awards, the magazine industry's highest journalistic honor.The monthly magazine, published by Harvard Business School Publishing, is nominated for general excellence in publications with a circulation of 100,000 to 250,000. This category recognizes 'overall excellence' and 'honors the effectiveness with which writing, reporting, editing, and design all come together to command readers' attention and fulfill the magazine's unique editorial mission.'
Professor Emeritus Philip H. Thurston Dead at 87
BOSTON, Mar. 28, 2006 - Philip Hale Thurston, an authority on manufacturing and planning and an active member of the Harvard Business School faculty from 1958 until his retirement in 1989, died March 24, 2006 peacefully at home with his family in Weston Massachusetts. He was 87. Born in Ocean Park, a part of Old Orchard Beach, Maine on August 20, 1918, Thurston was the third of six children of Frank Hale Thurston and Alice (Lee) Wilson Thurston. He grew up in both Yonkers, NY and Maine.
Harvard Business School Formally Launches India Research Center
MUMBAI, India, Mar. 24, 2006 - Harvard Business School marked the official inauguration of its India Research Center (IRC) today with a faculty research symposium in Mumbai attended by a stellar audience of alumni, businesspeople, and others with an interest in the region. The fifth in the School's network of international research centers spanning the globe from Hong Kong and Tokyo to Paris and Buenos Aires, the IRC is dedicated to facilitating faculty research in India as well as cooperating and collaborating with the corporate and academic communities in the region.
PricewaterhouseCoopers CEO Describes the Complexities of World-Class Management at HBS
BOSTON, Mar, 17, 2006 - At a recent event hosted by the Harvard Business School Leadership and Values Initiative, Samuel A. DiPiazza Jr., CEO of PricewaterhouseCoopers, delivered an address on 'The Evolving Journey of PricewaterhouseCoopers.' During his talk and the Q&A session with HBS faculty and students that followed, DiPiazza—who has been with the company for 32 years—discussed the increasing complexity and globalization of the decision-making process at the firm over the years and how this complexity will continue to affect businesses everywhere. The Leadership and Values Initiative is led by HBS students in partnership with faculty and staff and integrates ethics and values into the student experience at HBS.
Professor Emeritus Andrall E. Pearson Dead at 80
BOSTON, Mar, 14, 2006 - Andrall (Andy) E. Pearson, an outstanding executive and business leader who was a member of the Harvard Business School faculty from 1985 to 1993, died unexpectedly of a heart attack at his home in Palm Beach, Florida, on March 11. He was 80. In a number of significant positions over 40 years, Pearson served as a partner at McKinsey & Co., president of PepsiCo, a general partner of the private equity firm of Clayton, Dubilier and Rice, and CEO and founding chairman of YUM Brands. He was scheduled to retire from the YUM board in May 2006.
Harvard Business School Professor Illuminates International Finance in New Book
BOSTON, Mar. 8, 2006 - Much of the finance taught in textbooks and classrooms implicitly assumes that borders do not exist, but the fact is that most real-world financial decisions include cross-border transactions. Managers must therefore consider the effects of different exchange rates, tax rules, country risk factors, and legal regimes as they undertake the basic financing and investment decisions of corporate finance in a cross-border setting. In his new casebook, International Finance, published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Harvard Business School Associate Professor Mihir A. Desai provides the foundations for learning how finance works in this intricate cross-border setting.
Annual Student-Run Social Enterprise Conference Held at Harvard Business School
BOSTON, Mar. 7, 2006 - More than 800 students, academic leaders, and practitioners attended the seventh annual Social Enterprise Conference on the Harvard Business School campus on Sunday, March 5. Presented by the Social Enterprise Club, a student club of Harvard Business School, and the John F. Kennedy School of Government, the conference theme was 'Convergence,' reflecting the increased tendency of government, nonprofit, and for-profit enterprises to come together and focus on social problems, regardless of their separate functions.
NFL Players Participate in Custom Executive Education Program at Harvard Business School
BOSTON, Mar 2, 2006 - Thirty-five National Football League players from a variety of teams, including the Dallas Cowboys, the Indianapolis Colts, the New England Patriots, the San Francisco 49ers, and the St. Louis Rams, converged on the Harvard Business School (HBS) campus on Sunday to participate in an executive education program designed specifically for them by HBS faculty.
Harvard Business School's Baker Library Presents In-Depth View of Business History with New Series
BOSTON, Feb. 28, 2006 - Since it opened in 1927, Harvard Business School's Baker Library has collected rare and unique materials that focus on the evolution of business and industry. To bring the stories and lessons of these materials to life, the Library's Historical Collections has announced a series of short web-delivered media experiences that compare historical events and ideas with their modern counterparts.
New Book by Harvard Business School Professor Examines Multibillion Dollar Baby Business
BOSTON, Feb. 14, 2006 - A generation ago, infertile couples desperate for children had few choices beyond adoption. Today, advances in science and technology have made it possible to order babies from a menu of convenient options including donated eggs, rented wombs, and gene selection. In The Baby Business: How Money, Science, and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception, Harvard Business School Professor Debora Spar argues that it is time to acknowledge the commercial truth about reproduction and begin thinking about ways of governing it.
Harvard Business School Completes Record-Breaking Capital Campaign
BOSTON, Feb. 9, 2006 - Harvard Business School (HBS) announced today that it has completed its first capital campaign, raising nearly $600 million. This sum'the largest amount ever raised by a business school'surpasses the goal of $500 million set at the formal launch three years ago.
CEIBS, HBS, and IESE Business School Join Forces to Develop Global CEO Program for China
SHANGHAI, BOSTON, BARCELONA, Jan. 24, 2006 - Three of the world-s major business schools - China Europe International Business School, Harvard Business School, and IESE Business School - have worked together to develop a special executive education initiative called the Global CEO Program for China to help Chinese chief executives better understand the global economy and how they can operate more effectively outside the region. The program also addresses the business and management demands on CEOs in China today and focuses on the effects of country differences on decision making and organizational competitiveness.
New Book From Resource Allocation to Strategy Examines How Managers Can Develop Strategy
BOSTON, Jan. 12, 2006 - Contrary to conventional wisdom, a business strategy is not always conceived at the top levels of a corporation by a visionary leader. More often it is the result of a series of smaller allocation decisions at lower levels that may or may not reflect the goals of the company's management. From Resource Allocation to Strategy, a new book contributed to and edited by HBS professor Joseph L. Bower and assistant professor Clark G. Gilbert, examines how options for using resources are developed and selected and how these choices affect a company's overall strategy.
