Press Releases

21 May 2018

Three Harvard Business School Students Win Dean’s Award for Service to the School and Society

BOSTON—Frances Dixon and Shannon O’Connell, both members of the Harvard Business School MBA Class of 2018, have been named recipients of the School’s Dean’s Award. Cheng Gao, a graduating doctoral student in the field of strategy, has been honored with the HBS Doctoral Programs Dean’s Award. Read more.

14 May 2018

Harvard Business School Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator Brings Together Five Leading Cancer Organizations to Engage Patients and Accelerate Precision Medicine across Cancers

BOSTON—The Harvard Business School Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator, a multidisciplinary initiative that uses collective impact to advance high-priority opportunities in precision medicine, announced today that five leading cancer organizations have come together to share best practices, engage patients, and create synergies to advance precision medicine opportunities across cancers. The organizations include LUNGevity Foundation, the Metastatic Breast Cancer Alliance, the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF), the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network (PanCAN), and the Prostate Cancer Foundation. Read more.

11 May 2018

Two HBS Faculty Honored by Aspen Institute Business & Society Program

BOSTON—Two Harvard Business School (HBS) faculty members, Rebecca Henderson, Harvard’s John and Natty McArthur University Professor, and Jakurski Family Associate Professor George Serafeim have received a 2017 Ideas Worth Teaching Award from the Aspen Institute Business & Society Program. The Program works with business executives and scholars to align business decisions and investment with the long-term health of society. Read more.

10 May 2018

Founders of African American Student Union (AASU) at Harvard Business School Awarded W.E.B. Du Bois Medals

BOSTON—Four founding members of the African American Student Union (AASU) at Harvard Business School (HBS)--Clifford Darden (MBA 1969, DBA 1982), Lillian Lincoln Lambert (MBA 1969), Theodore Lewis (MBA 1969), and Leroy Willis (MBA 1969)--were recently awarded the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal, Harvard University’s highest honor in the field of African and African American studies, during a special conference at the School, AASU50. Attendees included several hundred Harvard Business School alumni, faculty, staff, and current students. Read more.

08 May 2018

Harvard Business School’s HBX Announces ConneXt Live Virtual Event and Launch of HBX Community Platform

BOSTON—HBX, Harvard Business School’s digital learning initiative, is announcing a new online global event, HBX ConneXt Live, that will take place on Friday, May 11, and comprise a series of topical discussions with HBS faculty through an entirely virtual learning model. Read more.

08 May 2018

Serrena Iyer Named Harvard Business School’s 2018 Student Class Day Speaker

BOSTON—Serrena A. Iyer (MBA 2018) has been selected as the student speaker for Harvard Business School's Class Day celebration on Wednesday, May 23, the day before Harvard University’s Commencement exercises. She was chosen by her peers through an audition process that included more than 50 student speeches. Read more.

23 Apr 2018

Two Future Harvard Business School Students Receive Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

BOSTON—The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, a graduate school program for immigrants and children of immigrants, has recently announced that Seul (Kathy) Ku, who will be an MBA student at Harvard Business School after furthering her studies for an MD degree at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and Angela Tian Ma, who has been admitted to Harvard’s PhD program in business economics, are recipients of Soros Fellowships to their graduate studies. They are among the 30 Fellows selected this year from a pool of 1,766 applicants for their potential to make significant contributions to US society, culture, or their academic fields. The 2018 Fellows are all the children of immigrants, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) recipients, green card holders, or naturalized citizens. Read more.

20 Apr 2018

Professor Rebecca Henderson Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences

BOSTON—Rebecca M. Henderson, Harvard’s John and Natty McArthur University Professor, based at Harvard Business School, has been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Founded in 1780 by John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington, among other notables, the Academy has long been one of the most prestigious honorary societies in the United States, celebrating exceptional scholars, leaders, artists, and innovators in this country and abroad and engaging them in sharing knowledge and addressing the many challenges facing the world. Among current members are more than 250 Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners. Read more.

19 Apr 2018

Harvard Business School Names Winners of 21st New Venture Competition at Finale

BOSTON—Yesterday evening in Harvard Business School’s Shad Hall, 12 student and alumni finalist teams made their pitches for $315,000 in cash prizes, plus in-kind prizes, at the Finale of the 21st annual HBS New Venture Competition (NVC). The top prize in the student business, student social enterprise, and alumni tracks was $75,000 each. The finalists advanced through several rounds of judging. More than 300 judges, many of them HBS graduates, from such fields as venture capital, private equity, law, accounting, philanthropy, impact investing, and social entrepreneurship vigorously reviewed the new ventures. Read more.

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