September 2018
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24 Sep 2018
Harvard Business School to Expand Case Studies Related to Artificial Intelligence
BOSTON—Harvard Business School (HBS) announced today a $5 million gift from alumnus Stephen A. Schwarzman (MBA 1972), chairman, CEO, and co-founder of Blackstone, a multinational private equity alternative asset management and financial services firm, to support the development of case studies and other programming that explore the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) on industries, business, and markets. The Schwarzman Research Fund will spur and extend the efforts of HBS faculty members across a range of disciplines who are researching and writing case studies on the use of AI. Read more.
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05 Sep 2018
Harvard Business School Professor Teresa Amabile Receives Lifetime Achievement Award in Organizational Behavior from Academy of Management
BOSTON—Teresa Amabile, a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and its Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration, Emerita, has been selected by the Organizational Behavior (OB) Division of the Academy of Management as the 2018 winner of its Lifetime Achievement Award. Established in 2005, the award recognizes senior scholars who have made exceptional contributions to the organizational behavior discipline throughout their careers. Read more.
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04 Sep 2018
Harvard Business School Announces 2018 Goldsmith Fellows
BOSTON—Harvard Business School (HBS) has announced the 2018 recipients of its Horace W. Goldsmith Fellowships. Established in 1998 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 sector to attend HBS, these fellowships enable the School to award approximately $10,000 each to seven to ten incoming MBA students. Read more.
August 2018
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14 Aug 2018
Collaborate, But Only Intermittently, According to New Study by Harvard Business School Professor and Colleagues
BOSTON—More than a decade after the introduction of the first smartphone, we are now awash in always-on technologies—email, IM, social media, Slack, Yammer, and so on. All that connectivity means we are constantly sharing our ideas, knowledge, thinking, and answers. Surely that “wisdom of the crowd” is good for problem solving at work, right? Read more.
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10 Aug 2018
HBX Launches Strategy Execution Program for Senior Executives via HBX Live Classroom
BOSTON—Harvard Business School’s online initiative, HBX has launched a new program delivered through its HBX Live Classroom to help senior executives shape the future of their companies. The course, Strategy Execution, will be led by renowned Harvard Business School strategy professor Bharat Anand and former Danaher CEO and General Electric Director Larry Culp, who is now a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School. Read more.
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08 Aug 2018
Harvard Business Review Continues to Grow, Reaches Nearly 320,000 Paid Circulation
BOSTON—Harvard Business Review increased its overall paid circulation from 304,680 to 319,631 – a 5% gain year over year – according to a recently released report from the Alliance for Audited Media. (As filed with AAM. Subject to audit.) Read more.
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06 Aug 2018
Think You’re Having a Heart Attack? If You’re a Woman, Insist on a Female Physician, Says New Study by Harvard Business School Professor and Colleagues
BOSTON—If you’re a woman and having a heart attack (what’s called in medical parlance an “acute myocardial infarction” or AMI), do your best to make sure you’re treated by a female physician. It’s literally a matter of life or death. Read more.
July 2018
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30 Jul 2018
Harvard Business School Alumnus and Great Benefactor C. D. Spangler, Jr., Dies at 86
BOSTON—C. D. (“Dick”) Spangler, Jr., a Harvard Business School alumnus (MBA 1956) well known and admired for his many notable achievements in both the public and private sectors, his visionary leadership and generous philanthropy, and his constant kindness and concern for the welfare and betterment of others, died on Sunday, July 22, in Charlotte, North Carolina. He was 86 years old. . Read more.
June 2018
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22 Jun 2018
Harvard Business School Welcomes Dwyane Wade As Executive Fellow
BOSTON—Dwyane Wade, a professional basketball player for the Miami HEAT of the National Basketball Association (NBA), was invited to speak to students participating in the Harvard Business School Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP), a one-week residential educational program for rising college seniors designed to increase diversity and opportunity in business education. Since joining the NBA in 2003, Wade established himself as a dominant player on the court and capitalized on his personal brand to form partnerships with some of the most powerful companies in the world. Read more.
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18 Jun 2018
Two Harvard Business School Faculty Awarded Prize for Course on Sustainability
BOSTON—Harvard Business School faculty members Rebecca Henderson and George Serafeim have been named grand prize winners of the Dr. Alfred N. and Lynn Manos Page Prize for Sustainability Issues in Business by the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina for their popular second-year MBA elective course Reimagining Capitalism. Read more.