February 2019
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06 Feb 2019
Harvard Business School Professor Emeritus C. Wickham Skinner Dies at 94
BOSTON—C. Wickham Skinner, Harvard Business School’s James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus and an eminent international authority on production and operations management who is widely regarded as “the father of manufacturing strategy,” died on Monday, January 28 at his home in Saint George, ME. Throughout his long and illustrious career, Professor Skinner (Wick) influenced generations of students, scholars, and practitioners with his superb teaching skills and corpus of groundbreaking and often contrarian books and articles focusing on the revitalization of U.S. manufacturing. Read more.
January 2019
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23 Jan 2019
Harvard Business School Professor Emeritus Henry B. Reiling Dies at 80
Henry (Hank) B. Reiling, Harvard Business School’s Eli Goldston Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, and an authority in law, taxation, and finance whose extraordinary teaching abilities and course development had a profound impact on thousands of MBA students and business leaders, died on January 21, 2019 in Belmont, MA. He was 80 years old. Read more.
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16 Jan 2019
New Research from HBS Prof: Growing Caregiving Crisis Hurting Firm Profitability, Employee Productivity
BOSTON—New research finds that three out of four U.S. workers have caregiving responsibilities, with the vast majority indicating these responsibilities are negatively affecting their productivity. At the same time, less than a quarter of employers think caregiving affects worker performance. Read more.
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08 Jan 2019
HBX Rebrands to Harvard Business School Online to Help Extend Reach of Online Programs
BOSTON—HBX today announced it has rebranded to Harvard Business School Online to raise awareness of its online courses. Harvard Business School Online courses, created by Harvard Business School (HBS) faculty, offer a unique and engaging way to learn vital business concepts.
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December 2018
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13 Dec 2018
HBX Launches Course to Help Startup Leaders Navigate Rapid Growth and Change
BOSTON—Harvard Business School’s online initiative, HBX, has developed a new program to help startup founders and senior leaders successfully scale. Scaling Ventures will be taught by Harvard Business School (HBS) entrepreneurial management professors and seasoned entrepreneurs Shikhar Ghosh and Jeffrey Rayport. The eight-week course will take place via a live, interactive online classroom that brings HBS’s famed case method to life. Read more.
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05 Dec 2018
Four Harvard Business School Doctoral Candidates Receive Research Awards
BOSTON—The Harvard Business School Doctoral Programs and their faculty chair, David Scharfstein, the School’s Edmund Cogswell Converse Professor of Finance and Banking, have announced three recipients of the 2018 Wyss Award for Excellence in Doctoral Research and one winner of the Martin Award for Excellence in Business Economics. The prizes are presented each year based on excellence in innovative dissertation research. Read more.
November 2018
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27 Nov 2018
Harvard Business School is New Home for Digital DNA
BOSTON—Digital DNA, the seven-foot-tall outdoor sculpture by artists Adriana Varella and Nilton Maltz, has found a new home on the campus of Harvard Business School. Originally commissioned by the city of Palo Alto in the early 2000’s, it resided in Lytton Plaza in the center of the city until making the cross-country trek last Spring. Read more.
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16 Nov 2018
Harvard Business School Conference Marks 10th Anniversary of 2008 Global Financial Crisis
BOSTON—On October 29 and 30, Harvard Business School marked the tenth anniversary of the financial crisis that rocked the US and world economies in 2008 with a two-day conference that brought together in Klarman Hall, the School’s new convening center, an extraordinary lineup of experts, many of whom had played key roles in the events that unfolded a decade ago, including former US Treasury Secretary Henry “Hank” Paulson (MBA 1970); Tim Geithner, then president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Paulson’s successor at Treasury; and Harvard University professor Lawrence Summers, who served as Director of the National Economic Council from 2009 to 2010. Read more.
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15 Nov 2018
Harvard Business School’s Rock Center for Entrepreneurship Announces Rock Venture Capital Partners
BOSTON—MBA students at Harvard Business School (HBS) who are interested in entrepreneurship and looking to start new ventures are able to seek guidance and access expertise from various resources on the HBS campus, including more than 30 faculty experts in the field, 21 Entrepreneurs-in-Residence, and this year’s Venture Capital Partners, all based at the School’s Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship. Venture Capital Partners are managing and general partners from some of the most successful VC firms in the United States. They come to campus a few times a year to meet with students; provide fundraising information as well as feedback on their ideas, business models, and other aspects of their new ventures; and judge the New Venture Competition Finale in the spring. Read more.
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05 Nov 2018
Harvard Business School Associate Professor Raffaella Sadun Wins National Science Foundation Grant
BOSTON—The National Science Foundation (NSF), a US federal government agency that promotes and supports research and education in math, science, engineering, and computer technology, announced today that Harvard Business School associate professor Raffaella Sadun and colleagues have received a research grant as part of the NSF’s Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier Project. Read more.