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Crime-fighting platform wins President’s Challenge

Jocelyn Cheng (MBA 2013) — 2013-05-22T00:00:00Z

Today President Drew Faust named Team Nucleik the grand prize winner of the Harvard University President’s Challenge for social entrepreneurship, hosted by the Harvard Innovation Lab (i-lab). Faust developed the challenge last year to support students from across the University who were interested in developing entrepreneurial solutions to some of the world’s most important social problems. This year’s competitors tackled five topic areas: learning, energy and the environment, health, disaster preparation and relief, and the arts.

Making It in America: Ahmed Makani’s Journey from Pakistan to HBS and Beyond

Ahmed Makani (MBA 2013) — 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The journey of Ahmed Makani (MBA 2013) from Pakistan to Yale (where he received his bachelor’s degree magna cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa) to Harvard Business School (where he will receive his MBA next week) to a leading role with a high-growth telecommunications company at the cutting edge of technology is a remarkable story. His experiences in Pakistan and the United States, from academia to private industry, have now led him to a career in entrepreneurship. In a recent interview at HBS, he provided some background on his life and his desire to join the ranks of HBS alumni who have dedicated themselves to creating new businesses and jobs.

'Berating' CEOs Doesn't Solve Tax Problem: Fiorina

Bill George — 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Tim Cook testifies before a Senate panel proposing tax changes that would overhaul the corporate tax code, reports CNBC's Eamon Javers & Jon Fortt. And, Carly Fiorina, former HP chairman & CEO; and William George, Harvard Business School professor, discuss what this means for Apple and other corporations.

Cook's Job Is to Manage Tax Law for Apple

Robert Steven Kaplan — 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Robert Kaplan, professor at Harvard Business School and Bloomberg chief Washington correspondent Peter Cook examine Apple chief executive officer Tim Cook's Senate testimony on corporate cash holdings and offshore taxes.

Apple Avoided Taxes on Overseas Billions, Senate Panel Finds

Mihir Desai — 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

"It is the worst of all worlds in many ways," said Mihir Desai, a professor at Harvard Business School. "We are running a world-wide tax system but we are running it in a way that encourages people to keep cash overseas."

The Link Between Super Bowl L And Asking Apple For Money

Christopher Marquis — 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

If you’ve been planning to solicit large charitable donations from Apple , Google , Cisco Systems , or any other Silicon Valley giant, you might want to time your request around the year 2016. Why? Because, as the National Football League announced today, that’s the year that Super Bowl L (a.k.a. Super Bowl 50) will be played at the San Francisco 49ers’ Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif.

Use your money to buy happier time

Michael Norton — 2013-05-20T00:00:00Z

The logic is so simple: If I work hard now, the money I earn will give me the opportunity to do all the things that make me happy later. What's the catch? It turns out that when we get into the habit of working and earning, it can be hard to stop. Instead of using our time to get as much money as possible, new research suggests that we'd be better off using our money to buy happier time.

5 Ways Money Can Buy Happiness

Michael Norton — 2013-05-20T00:00:00Z

Not so fast, say two young academics. Elizabeth Dunn, an associate professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia, and Michael Norton, an associate professor of marketing at Harvard Business School, have written a new book called "Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending." In the book, they make a persuasive case that money does have the ability to buy happiness, and it's not how much money you have that matters, but how you spend it.

HBS Hosts Global Health Competition

2013-05-20T00:00:00Z

Boston—As a founding member of the Business School Alliance for Health Management (BAHM), an organization created to transform the health sector by advancing education, research and practice in the nation’s top schools of management, Harvard Business School hosted this year’s BAHM student competition, Entrepreneurship in Global Health Competition. The Competition, which featured ten teams from business schools across the country, focused on global health organizations or ideas to address an unmet health need, an underserved community, or the development of a novel technology.

Making America an Industrial Powerhouse Again

Gary Pisano — 2013-05-20T00:00:00Z

As part of his administration's strategy to rejuvenate American manufacturing, President Obama has called for the creation of a National Network of Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI) to advance and diffuse novel manufacturing technologies. To launch it, he has allocated $1 billion in the 2013 budget.