Press Releases

13 Apr 2021

“Getting Serious About Diversity” wins 62nd Annual HBR McKinsey Award

“Getting Serious About Diversity: Enough Already with the Business Case” has won the 2020 HBR McKinsey Award, which honors the best Harvard Business Review article of the year. Read more.

31 Mar 2021

Harvard Business School New Venture Competition: Entrepreneurs Adapt in Challenging Times

Entrepreneurship continues to thrive during a year of unprecedented challenges, with innovative founders identifying novel solutions that meet ever-changing demands and solve new problems. The remarkable entrepreneurs announced as winners during the virtual 24th annual Harvard Business School New Venture Competition (NVC) on Tuesday, March 30 are no exception. Read more.

23 Mar 2021

Four Harvard Business School Doctoral Candidates Receive Research Awards

The HBS Doctoral Programs have announced three recipients of the 2020-2021 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.

16 Mar 2021

Walmart CEO Doug McMillon to be Harvard Business School’s Class Day Speaker

Doug McMillon, president and chief executive officer of Walmart Inc., will be HBS's Class Day Distinguished Speaker on Thursday, May 27, 2021. Read more.

01 Mar 2021

Harvard Business School Announces Spring 2021 Cohort of Executive Fellows

Harvard Business School (HBS) has announced the spring cohort of Executive Fellows for the 2020-21 academic year. The Executive Fellows Program leverages the expertise of outstanding practitioners, including alumni, each of whom partners with an HBS faculty member to bring their experience in business into the MBA program and the School. Read more.

26 Feb 2021

Harvard Business School’s Baker Library Announces New Collection: John Hawkins Research Interviews about Henri Termeer, Longtime Chairman, CEO, and President of Genzyme Corporation

HBS and Odgers Berndtson jointly announced a new collection for the school’s Baker Library, made up of interviews with the colleagues and family of former Genzyme Corporation Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and President Henri A. Termeer, one of biotech’s early pioneers. Read more.

08 Feb 2021

Harvard Business Publishing Announces Leadership Change

Harvard Business Publishing, a subsidiary of Harvard Business School, announced the pending retirement of Chief Executive Officer David Wan (MBA ‘81) in June of 2021. Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Product Innovation Officer Josh Macht (AMP 186) will assume the role of acting CEO while the firm conducts a search. Read more.

18 Dec 2020

Harvard Business School and the Executive Leadership Council Team Up to Build Pipeline of Black Executives

HBS and the Executive Leadership Council have entered into a collaboration to provide enhanced programming opportunities for ELC scholarship recipients and executive education opportunities for the most senior Black executives in corporate America. Read more.

23 Nov 2020

Harvard Business School Professor Emeritus David Hawkins Dies at 86

BOSTON— David F. Hawkins, the Harvard Business School’s Lovett-Learned Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, and an expert on accounting who influenced more than five generations of students and practitioners through his research and teaching in critical areas of accountancy, management, finance and economics, died on November 5, 2020. He was 86. Read more.

17 Nov 2020

High skills freelance economy surges as digital talent platforms help build new on-demand workforce

BOSTON, November 17, 2020—Researchers from Harvard Business School’s Managing the Future of Work Project and Boston Consulting Group’s Henderson Institute today released “Building the On-Demand Workforce,” which explores the recent rise of digital talent platforms and how they are creating a new marketplace for high-skill freelance work. Companies who are early adopters of these platforms see a competitive advantage in shifting their workforce model to a blend of full-time and freelance employees, while at the same time, millions of highly skilled professionals, who seek flexible and remote work, are using these platforms to connect with employers. Read more.