July 2008

• 21 Jul 2008

  HBS Institutional Memory Web Site Adds New Feature

  Harvard Business School's Centennial Institutional Memory Web site has launched a new feature called "How Do You Educate to Transform?" The feature (http://www.hbs.edu/centennial/im/inquiry/sections/2/) examines the pedagogies, teachers, classrooms, and technologies that have helped HBS fulfill its mission of educating leaders who make a difference in the world. The interactive, multimedia site, part of the HBS Centennial celebration, tells the story of the School's past 100 years through personal narratives and recollections of generations of faculty, staff, students, and alumni. Read more.

• 16 Jul 2008

  Harvard Professor Robert Merton Receives Honorary Doctorate from Claremont Graduate University

  Robert C. Merton, Harvard'Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in the Economic Sciences, recently received an Honorary Doctorate of Science from Claremont Graduate University in Los Angeles. Read more.

• 02 Jul 2008

  Harvard University Opens Office In Shanghai

  Harvard Business School (HBS) Dean Jay O. Light and William C. Kirby, T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard and Chairman of the Harvard China Fund, announced yesterday the opening of a Harvard office in Shanghai. The office will serve both HBS and the Harvard China Fund under the auspices of the Office of the Harvard University Provost. The University plans to open another office in Beijing this autumn. Both locations will enable Harvard University to explore a range of potential activities in support of its research and teaching programs. Light and Kirby made the announcement in Shanghai. Read more.