HBS News Releases: 2007
Prof. Joseph Bower: Counseling Corporations on Succession
BOSTON - With rising CEO turnover, companies are increasingly looking outside for top talent. While externally recruited candidates bring fresh perspectives, they lack the in-depth knowledge of the company's history and culture that is necessary for success.
New Interactive Website Offers Balanced View of Industrial Enivronmental Performance
BOSTON - Have you ever wanted to see a picture of the largest polluter in the United States, find out what's in that smoke from the company down the street, or learn more about what companies near you are doing to protect the environment? If so, your answers can be found on a new website released today and created by Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Michael Toffel and research colleagues from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, as well as students at Dartmouth.
New Book Provides Real-World Strategies for an Edge at the Bargaining Table
BOSTON - Whether you are involved in a multimillion-dollar deal or just want to improve your next salary offer, polished negotiation skills are key. A new book by Harvard Business School Associate Professor Deepak Malhotra and Professor Max Bazerman, Negotiation Genius: How to Overcome Obstacles and Achieve Brilliant Results at the Bargaining Table and Beyond (Bantam Books), draws on decades of behavioral research plus the experience of thousands of business clients to take the mystery out of preparing for and executing negotiations.
India's Finance Minister Delivers Mahindra Lecture at Harvard Business School
BOSTON - The Honorable Palaniappan Chidambaram, the finance minister of India and a member of the Harvard Business School MBA Class of 1968, returned to HBS on Oct. 18 to deliver the 2007 Harish C. Mahindra Lecture on "Poor Rich Countries: The Challenges of Development."
HBS Professor Addresses Dilemma of Innovation in U.S. Education
BOSTON - Speaking recently at a colloquium sponsored by Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Business School Professor Clayton M. Christensen examined the role of technology in this country's public schools. Computer-based instruction could be used to transform and improve public education, he said. Instead, it remains on the margins, despite investments totaling billions of dollars.
India's Finance Minister Delivers Mahindra Lecture at HBS
BOSTON - The Honorable Palaniappan Chidambaram, the finance minister of India and a member of the Harvard Business School MBA Class of 1968, returned to HBS on Oct. 18 to deliver the 2007 Harish C. Mahindra Lecture on "Poor Rich Countries: The Challenges of Development."
Harvard Business School Club of Greater New York Awards over $1 Million to Local Nonprofits and Harvard Business School
NEW YORK, Oct. 30, 2007 - At a private reception on Monday, October 22, the Harvard Business School Club of Greater New York (HBSCNY) (www.hbscny.org) announced a donation of more than $1 million to five New York City-area nonprofits and the HBS fellowship funds.
Harvard Business School Dedicates Centennial Bell
BOSTON, Oct. 1, 2007 -- Harvard Business School (HBS) is ready to ring in the celebration of its Centennial. At a special ceremony today for students, faculty, and staff, HBS formally dedicated the new "Centennial Bell" that was installed in the cupola of Baker Library in August.
Harvard Business School Honors Five Outstanding Graduates
BOSTON, Sept. 27, 2007 -- 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 five outstanding graduates whose lives and careers epitomize the School's mission to "educate leaders who make a difference in the world."
Harvard Business School Chronicles Founding of Human Relations Movement
BOSTON, Sept. 26, 2007 -- The Harvard Business School's Baker Library has opened the first in a series of exhibits marking the School's upcoming centennial. Open to the public through January 17th, 2008, The Human Relations Movement: Harvard Business School and the Hawthorne Experiments, 1924-1933, examines the research of Australian-born psychologist and HBS Professor of Industrial Management Elton Mayo - a body of work that launched the field of human relations, establishing the importance and influence of work groups in affecting the behavior of individuals in the business environment.
Harvard Business School Announces First Executive Education Program in India
BOSTON, Sept. 18, 2007 -- Harvard Business School (HBS) in conjunction with the Harvard Business School India Research Center (IRC) today announced plans to offer its first executive education program in India in February 2008. The first-of-its-kind, Building a Global Enterprise in India will be taught by HBS senior faculty in Hyderabad and is specially designed for senior executives from India and around the region.
Harvard Business School Launches New HBS 2+2 Program
BOSTON, Sept. 13, 2007 -- Harvard Business School (HBS) today unveiled HBS 2+2, a first-of-its-kind deferred MBA admissions program designed to reach qualified college students, especially those who may not typically consider business as a career path or business education as a future option.
New Harvard Business School Program Will Help Media Firms Respond to New Technologies
BOSTON, Aug. 22, 2007 -- Harvard Business School (HBS) announced today the launch of a new executive education program that will provide media and entertainment companies with innovative strategies to help them prosper within their increasingly competitive business environment and take advantage of new and continuously evolving distribution channels. The program, Effective Strategies for Media Companies: Navigating the New World, will be held on the School's Boston campus on November 28 - December 1.
New Russian Bell to Toll at Harvard Business School
BOSTON, Aug. 13, 2007 -- Harvard Business School will mark a truly unique occasion on August 15 (Wednesday) - the installation of its "Centennial Bell" in the cupola of the School's Baker Library. The bell replaces one of eighteen bells made in Russia before the Russian Revolution and owned by Harvard University for more than 75 years. In the course of the next year or so, all of them will be returned to Russia's St. Danilov Monastery in an exchange that will restore the originals to the monastery, considered the spiritual home of Russian Orthodoxy.
Harvard Business School Launches Executive Education Program to Explore Successful Strategies for Consumer Financial Services Firms
BOSTON, Aug. 6, 2007 -- Harvard Business School (HBS) announced today the launch of a new focused executive education program aimed at developing innovative strategies to assist consumer finance firms create, develop and implement new competitive products. Called Consumer Financial Services: New Models for Success, the program will be held on the School's Boston campus on October 21-24.
New Book Diagnoses the Crippling of U.S. Health Care System
BOSTON, Jul. 23, 2007 -- Harvard Business School Professor Regina Herzlinger is widely recognized as the country's leading advocate of consumer-driven health care. Her latest book, Who Killed Health Care: America's $2 Trillion Problem - and the Consumer-Driven Cure (McGraw Hill) stems from her dissatisfaction with the system's slow pace of change, which Herzlinger attributes to a "fat-cat" network. She describes how today's U.S. health care system is structurally set up to reward the major principals - hospitals, health insurers, and lawmakers - while short-changing patients and taxpayers.
High Potential College Seniors Step into Business World at HBS
BOSTON, Jun. 29, 2007 -- Harvard Business School (HBS) welcomed seventy-nine undergraduate students from forty-nine different schools this week to participate in the School's Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP). For more than twenty years, the program has encouraged 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 Executive Education Introduces New Program to Assist Entrepreneurs in Navigating the Competitive Business Environment
BOSTON, Jun. 14, 2007 -- Harvard Business School (HBS) announced today a new executive education program, Launching New Ventures: Jump-Starting Innovation for Entrepreneurs and Business Owners. The open-enrollment program will prepare executives to start and build successful new ventures in today's complex and rapidly changing business environment. It will take place on the School's Boston campus from September 30 - October 5, 2007.
Harvard Business School Celebrates 97th Commencement
BOSTON, Jun. 7, 2007 -- Harvard Business School held its 97th Commencement exercises today on its Boston campus. The Class of 2007 included 900 MBA candidates from more than 70 countries. In conjunction with the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, HBS also awarded 12 Ph.D. degrees--seven specializing in business economics, two each in the fields of health policy and organizational behavior, and one in informational technology management. Five students were awarded doctorates in business administration.
HBS Doctoral Student Wins Prestigious Harvard Fellowship
BOSTON, Jun. 7, 2007 -- Parag A. Pathak will earn his Ph.D. in Business Economics at Commencement today after four years of study at both Harvard Business School (HBS) and Harvard University's Department of Economics. But this isn't the only feather in his cap. He has recently been elected a Junior Fellow in Harvard's very select and prestigious Society of Fellows-the first person from any HBS doctoral program to be so honored.
HBS Leadership Fellows Program Announces 2007-08 Recipients
BOSTON, Jun. 6, 2007 -- Soon after they graduate, ten newly minted Harvard Business School MBAs will join nonprofit and public sector organizations with the help of the School's Leadership Fellows program. Now in its sixth year, the program provides Fellows with a one-year position in a nonprofit or public sector organization where they can make a significant contribution. Participating organizations pay Fellows $45,000, and HBS supplements that with a one-year grant of an equal amount so that compensation is competitive with what the graduate would earn at a for-profit enterprise.
Seven HBS Students Honored for Service to the School and Society
BOSTON, Jun. 1, 2007 -- Seven members of the Harvard Business School MBA Class of 2007 will take home more than the coveted diploma they are receiving today from HBS Dean Jay O. Light. Anthony D'Avella, Sachin Jain, José Antonio Morán, Jean-Philippe (JP) Odunlami, John Serafini, Heather Thompson, and Arturo Weiss Pick are winners of the School's prestigious Dean's Award.
Harvard Business School Professor Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., Preeminent Business Historian, Dead at 88
BOSTON, May 11, 2007 -- Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard Business School historian who founded the field of business history, died on Wednesday, May 9, at Youville Hospital in Cambridge, Mass., at the age of 88. In his long and legendary career, he chronicled and analyzed big businesses around the globe in a prolific and extraordinarily influential corpus of books and articles. At the time of his death, he was the School's Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, Emeritus.
Harvard Business School Expert Offers Escape Routes from Life's Dead Ends
BOSTON, May 7, 2007 -- Stuck in a job you don't like? You're not alone. At one time or another, just about everyone experiences psychological impasse - periods of uncertainty about the next move in one's career, relationships, or simply life in general. According to Dr. Timothy Butler, Senior Fellow and Director of Career Development Programs at Harvard Business School, this feeling of being "stuck" can be brought on by a number of predictable or unpredictable moments - the loss of a loved one or when the career of a lifetime somehow loses its juice. But this experience is, in fact, a necessary step towards finding new vision and opportunity.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson Speaks at Harvard Business School
BOSTON, May 4, 2007 -- A member the MBA Class of 1970, Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson returned to Harvard Business School yesterday to talk about the U.S.-China economic relationship before an audience packed with HBS students as well as students from Harvard Law School and the Kennedy School of Government.
HBS Holds 11th Annual Business Plan Contest
BOSTON, Apr. 24, 2007 -- Harvard Business School held the culmination of its 11th annual Business Plan Contest yesterday in the School's Burden Auditorium, the finale of a process that began last January with a total of 62 student teams. Eight made it through the various stages of judging to Monday's final round of presentations - four teams in the traditional track and four in the social enterprise track, reserved for ventures with a primarily social agenda.
HBS Working Knowledge Receives "Official Honoree" Distinction in 11th Annual Webby Awards
BOSTON, Apr. 17, 2007 -- The Webby Awards, the leading international honor for the Web, has recognized Harvard Business School Working Knowledge as an Official Honoree, a distinction that recognizes work exhibiting remarkable achievement.
HBS Professor Richard Vietor Investigates How Countries Compete
BOSTON, Apr. 11, 2007 -- Business and political leaders often talk about what their countries must do to grow their economies in today's thoroughly globalized world. And the strategies that come out of these discussions will either make or break their efforts to drive and sustain growth, reduce poverty, accommodate urbanization, create jobs, and raise the standard of living. But what does it really mean for a country to compete in the world economy, and how can governments do it successfully?
New Harvard Business School Executive Education Program to Help Corporate Leaders Succeed in the Changing Business Environment
BOSTON, Apr. 10, 2007 -- Harvard Business School (HBS) announced today the launch of a new Executive Education program, Strategic Agility: Leading Flexible Organizations. The program, which will take place at the School's campus in Boston from July 15-30, will help C-level executives recognize and implement the characteristics of an agile organization so that they can better anticipate and adapt to organizational, market, and societal changes.
Professor Michael Porter Wins Top Award from Harvard Business Review
BOSTON, Apr. 4, 2007 -- Michael E. Porter, Harvard's Bishop William Lawrence University Professor, based at Harvard Business School, and Mark R. Kramer, managing director of the nonprofit consulting firm FSG Social Impact Advisors, are the first-place winners of the 2006 McKinsey Award for their Harvard Business Review article " Strategy and Society: The Link Between Competitive Advantage and Corporate Social Responsibility." Gary Hamel, a visiting professor at London Business School, is the second-place winner for "The Why, What, and How of Management Innovation."
Harvard Business School, Kennedy School Announce New Joint Degree Program
CAMBRIDGE, MA, Apr. 3, 2007 -- Harvard Business School (HBS) and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government (KSG) announced today the creation of a fully integrated joint degree program in business and government that represents an innovative approach to preparing leaders for a growing area of practice of critical importance to global society.
Retired Harvard Business School Professor James L. McKenney, Authority on Management Information Systems, Dead at 77
BOSTON, Mar. 30, 2007 -- Harvard Business School Professor Emeritus James L. McKenney, an expert in management information systems and the use of computer systems for teaching management, died on Wednesday, March 28, at the Belmont Manor Nursing Home in Belmont, Mass., after a long struggle with Alzheimer's disease. He was 77 years old.
Harvard's Business and Medical Schools Host MD/MBA Speaker Event
BOSTON, Mar. 23, 2007 -- "In healthcare, change is really the only constant," said Leonard D. Schaeffer, founding Chairman and CEO of WellPoint Health Networks, Inc., during a recent visit to the Harvard Business School (HBS) campus. Schaeffer's presentation, titled "Leadership, Management, and America's Dysfunctional Healthcare System," was part of an annual event in celebration of Harvard University's joint MD/MBA degree, a five-year program specially designed to foster intellectual integration of the medical and management disciplines by combining the curricula of both Harvard Business School and Harvard Medical School (HMS).
Harvard Business School Launches Executive Education Program for Leaders in Science-Based Industries
BOSTON, Feb. 28, 2007 -- Harvard Business School (HBS) announced today the creation of a new Executive Education program, Leading Science-Based Enterprises, which will address the many distinctive challenges faced by executives in industries such as life sciences and biotechnology. It will take place at the School's campus in Boston from June 26-29.
Harvard Business School Faculty Members Honored
BOSTON, Feb. 21, 2007 -- A number of Harvard Business School Professors have recently won prestigious awards and other recognition from a wide variety of organizations.
Harvard Business School Kicks Off Annual Executive Education Program for NFL Players
BOSTON, Feb. 21, 2007 -- On February 25, twenty-eight NFL players representing teams from across the league, including the New England Patriots, Philadelphia Eagles, San Francisco 49ers, Dallas Cowboys, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and New Orleans Saints, will travel to Harvard Business School (HBS) to take part in an executive education program that addresses the unique business opportunities and challenges faced by NFL players during and following their professional football careers.
HBS Professor Explains Social and Legal Evolution of International Financial System
BOSTON, Feb. 14, 2007 -- The rise of global financial markets in the last decades of the twentieth century was premised on one fundamental idea: that capital ought to flow across country borders with minimal restriction and regulation. In Capital Rules: The Construction of Global Finance (Harvard University Press), an intellectual, legal, and political history of financial globalization, Harvard Business School Associate Professor Rawi Abdelal shows that capital movements have not always experienced the freedom they do today. Transactions routinely executed by bankers, managers, and investors during the 1990s - trading foreign stocks and bonds, borrowing in foreign currencies - had been illegal in many countries only decades, and sometimes just a year or two, earlier.
Professor Robert S. Kaplan Elected to Accounting Hall of Fame
BOSTON, Feb. 13, 2007 -- Robert S. Kaplan, Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School (HBS), who has focused on linking cost and performance management systems to strategy implementation and operational excellence, has joined a select group of other distinguished experts from academia, practice, government, and business as a member of the Accounting Hall of Fame. Established in 1950 at Ohio State University's Fisher College of Business, the Accounting Hall of Fame now comprises 80 honorees chosen annually by the organization's international board of electors.
Paths to Power Examines Role of Religion, Race, Gender, and Other Factors in 20th Century American Business
BOSTON, Jan. 31, 2007 -- Who made it to the top of corporate America in the twentieth century and how did they get there? What do their experiences mean for the next generation of business leaders? In Paths to Power: How Insiders and Outsiders Shaped American Business Leadership (HBS Press), Harvard Business School Senior Lecturer Anthony J. Mayo, Professor Nitin Nohria, and former Research Associate Laura G. Singleton explore the nature of access to business leadership opportunities during the last century, the factors affecting that access, and the obstacles that stood in the way of getting to the top.
New Book Proposes Business Solutions for the Global Poor
BOSTON, Jan. 26, 2007 -- The problem of global poverty is ubiquitous and enduring. According to the latest World Bank statistics, nearly half the world's population (2.8 billion people) is forced to survive on less than $2 a day, with 1.2 billion (nearly 20 percent of the world's population) living in abject poverty under $1 a day. In an effort to aid those who dwell at the base of the economic pyramid (BOP), more than 100 academics and business, non-profit and government leaders from around the world converged on the HBS campus in 2005 for a conference that explored business approaches to alleviating poverty.
Harvard Business School Chinese Faculty Participant-Centered-Learning Program Begins Third Year
BOSTON, Jan. 16, 2007 -- As part of its continuing initiative to make a difference in improving management education in Greater China and help create a community of scholars fluent in participant-centered learning, Harvard Business School, along with Harvard Business School Publishing, will welcome 77 senior professors and deans this week from 18 top business schools in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore for the 4th session of the Program on Case Method and Participant-Centered Learning (PCMPCL).
HBR IdeaCast Earns a Top Spot on iTunes "Best of 2006"
BOSTON, Jan. 11, 2007 -- Harvard Business School Publishing (HBSP) is proud to announce that HBR IdeaCast www.hbrideacast.org, the company's weekly podcast featuring breakthrough ideas and commentary from leading thinkers in business, has recently earned a spot on the People's Choice Best of 2006 and Staff Best of 2006 on iTunes.
