Press Releases

20 Oct 2021

The Rock Center for Entrepreneurship Announces 2021 Entrepreneurs-in-Residence, Rock Executive Fellows, and Venture Capital Advisors

The Harvard Business School’s (HBS) Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship has announced the Entrepreneurs-in-Residence, Venture Capital Advisors, and Rock Executive Fellows for the 2021-22 academic year. Read more.

22 Sep 2021

Harvard Business School Announces New Pieces Added to the Public Art Exhibition Supported by the C. Ludens Ringnes Sculpture Collection

BOSTON—Four sculptures have been installed on Harvard Business School’s (HBS) campus in Boston as part of its ongoing contemporary sculpture program, which began in April 2016. A sculpture by Yinka Shonibare CBE RA is a new addition to the C. Ludens Ringnes Sculpture Collection, and a sculpture by Melvin Edwards and two works by Thaddeus Mosley are on loan to the School for the 2021-2022 exhibition. They join sculptures by Mary Frank, Jaume Plensa, John Safer, and Joel Shapiro in the School’s permanent collection. Read more.

01 Sep 2021

Harvard Business School Announces 2021 Goldsmith Fellows

BOSTON—Harvard Business School (HBS) has announced the 2021 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.

17 Aug 2021

Harvard Business School Appoints Kenneth J. Peterson Executive Director for Knowledge and Library Services

HBS announces today that Kenneth J. Peterson has been named Executive Director for Knowledge and Library Services (KLS). Read more.

28 Jun 2021

Harvard Business School Appoints Terrill L. Drake Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer

HBS announced today that Terrill L. Drake has been named as the School’s first CDIO. Read more.

02 Jun 2021

Harvard Business School Announces Its 2021-2022 Blavatnik Fellows

Harvard Business School (HBS) has named its 2021-22 Blavatnik Fellows and the program’s eighth cohort. This unique program supports HBS alumni and Harvard-affiliated postdocs in their new ventures around promising life science technologies, develops their leadership talents, and provides mentorship during their entrepreneurial journey. Read more.

28 May 2021

Harvard Business School Celebrates Class of 2021 Class Day and Graduation

BOSTON—Yesterday the Harvard Business School (HBS) recognized and honored the Class of 2021 with online livestreamed Class Day celebrations and graduation ceremonies. Thousands of graduating students and their loved ones tuned in from around the globe—from India, Nigeria, the UK, China, Mexico, and more, with the largest concentration in our very own Harvard backyards of Cambridge and Boston. Read more.

27 May 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.

27 May 2021

Harvard Business School Honors Six Graduates with Alumni Achievement Award

HBS today conferred its most important honor, the Alumni Achievement Award, on six distinguished graduates as part of the virtual graduation ceremony for the MBA Class of 2021. Read more.

26 May 2021

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

Bukie Adebo, Alexis Jackson, Elina Rodriguez, Ronnie Wimberley, Abby Burcham, and Ryan Flamerich, from the HBS MBA Class of 2021, as well as Lumumba Seegars, a graduating doctoral student in the field of organizational behavior, have been named recipients of the School’s Dean’s Award. Read more.