July 2009

• 30 Jul 2009

  Richard Bohmer Unites Medicine and Management to Prescribe New Design for Health Care Delivery

  In the face of mounting health care costs, declining quality of care, and an explosion of need, nations around the world are debating how to "fix" their health care systems. Most common solutions have focused on how to fund and reimburse health care, but physician and Harvard Business School senior lecturer Richard Bohmer argues that this focus misses an important piece of the problem. Rather than solely determining how to better fund health care, we must also understand the fundamental nature of care and ask how we could better design, manage, and deliver it. Read more.

• 30 Jul 2009

  Harvard Business School Announces New Life Sciences Fellows

  companies. These ten people now have one more thing in common besides their high level of talent and accomplishment. They have all recently been named recipients of Robert S. Kaplan Life Sciences Fellowships at Harvard Business School as they prepare to enter the School's MBA program in September. Read more.

• 22 Jul 2009

  Harvard Business School Historian Thomas McCraw Wins Lifetime Achievement Award

  Thomas K. McCraw, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History Emeritus at Harvard Business School, is the 2009 recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Business History Conference (BHC), an international organization devoted to encouraging all aspects of research, writing, and teaching in the field of business history. Read more.

• 20 Jul 2009

  Abigail Falik Chosen as Harvard Business School Social Entrepreneurship Fellow

  Harvard Business School has named Abigail Falik (MBA 2008)2010 HBS Social Entrepreneurship Fellow. Falik is founder and CEO of Global Citizen Year (GCY), a nonprofit organization that is building a movement of diverse American high school graduates who will become global change agents in the fight against poverty. Read more.

• 20 Jul 2009

  Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP) Introduces Students to Management Education

  What's it like to go to Harvard Business School (HBS)? More than 60 students from a wide variety of colleges-all of them about to enter their senior year - recently found out by participating in the HBS Summer Venture in Management Program(SVMP). Read more.

• 08 Jul 2009

  Professor Emeritus Jesse W. Markham Dead at 93

  Former Harvard Business School Professor Jesse W. Markham, an economist whose work focused on price theory and industrial organization, died peacefully, in his sleep, on June 21 in Nashua, New Hampshire, at an assisted-living home. He was 93. Read more.

• 06 Jul 2009

  HBS Faculty Comment on the Health Care Reform Bill

  A collection of opinions by Harvard Business School faculty on the Health Care Reform Bill Read more.

• 06 Jul 2009

  Harvard Business School Alumni Zheng Huang and Marc Sternberg Named White House Fellows

  Harvard Business School graduates Zheng Huang (MBA 2005) and Marc Sternberg (MBA 2000)2010outstanding American men and women have participated in the White House Fellows program, each chosen because of their extraordinary leadership ability and service to others. Read more.

• 01 Jul 2009

  Harvard Business School Offers Custom Program for Multicultural Executives

  One of the additions to Harvard Business School's portfolio of custom Executive Education offerings is making news. An article in today's Boston Globe [Link] focuses on an intensive one-week program called Next Generation Executive (NGE) [link], developed in coordination with The Partnership, Inc., [link] a Boston-based firm focusing on the development of multicultural professionals of color. The program took place on the HBS campus last week. Read more.