Press Releases

30 Sep 2022

Harvard Business School Launches Race, Gender, and Equity Initiative

HBS announces the formation of the Race, Gender, and Equity Initiative, which is both a renaming of the Gender Initiative and a reflection of work it has done and will do to understand and advance equality, including racial equality, in organizations and business. Read more.

15 Sep 2022

Harvard Business School Professor William J. Bruns Dies at 87

Professor Emeritus William John Bruns Jr., the Henry R. Byers Professor of Business Administration, passed away on September 1, 2022, at his home in Plymouth, MA. Bruns was highly recognized as a distinguished scholar and teacher in the field of accounting. Read more.

29 Aug 2022

Harvard Business School Announces 2022 Goldsmith Fellows

BOSTON—Harvard Business School (HBS) has announced the 2022 recipients of its Horace W. Goldsmith Fellowships. Established in 1988 by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation and Richard L. Menschel (MBA 1959), a former director of the foundation and a limited partner at Goldman Sachs, to encourage students from the nonprofit and public sector to attend HBS, these fellowships enable the School to award $10,000 to a select number of incoming MBA students. Read more.

16 Aug 2022

Harvard Business School to Provide Full-Tuition Scholarships for Students with Greatest Financial Need

In an effort to make the MBA degree more affordable and accessible to a wider array of students, HBS announces it will provide scholarships to cover the total cost of tuition and course fees for those with the greatest financial need—approximately 10 percent of its student body. Read more.

12 Jul 2022

International Foundation for Valuing Impacts Holds Inaugural Board Meeting

The newly formed International Foundation for Valuing Impacts (IFVI), a spinoff from the Impact-Weighted Accounts (IWA) project at Harvard Business School, held its inaugural board meeting recently to launch the organization. Read more.

14 Jun 2022

Harvard Business School Announces Its 2022-2023 Blavatnik Fellows

HBS has named its 2022-23 Blavatnik Fellows and the program’s ninth cohort. Read more.

27 May 2022

Harvard Business School Celebrates 112th Commencement

HBS held its 112th Commencement exercises, with a diploma ceremony on its campus in Boston—the first in-person commencement in three years, as the previous two ceremonies were held virtually because of the coronavirus pandemic. Read more.

26 May 2022

Harvard Business School Honors Five Graduates with Alumni Achievement Award

HBS has conferred its most important honor, the Alumni Achievement Award, on five distinguished graduates. Included as part of the School’s Commencement ceremony, the award highlights examples of outstanding leadership for HBS’s graduating students. Read more.

26 May 2022

Harvard Business School’s MBA Class of 2022 Celebrates Class Day

BOSTON—Yesterday, all 770 members of the Harvard Business School (HBS) MBA Class of 2022 gathered in the sunshine on Baker Lawn to celebrate the first in-person Class Day in two years, in advance of today’s Commencement exercises. Along with their family, friends, and guests, they honored five Alumni Achievement Award recipients and six faculty teaching award recipients, and listened to the wise words of their classmates. Read more.

25 May 2022

Meet the 2022-23 Leadership Fellows

HBS has announced the 2022-23 HBS Leadership Fellows, who will work at a wide range of organizations across fields like education, healthcare, impact investing, and the public sector. Read more.