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.
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05 Jun 2018
Harvard Business School's HBX Offers Developing Yourself as a Leader, a New Leadership Development Program Offered via the HBX Live Virtual Classroom
BOSTON—HBX, Harvard Business School's online learning initiative, is announcing the launch of Developing Yourself as a Leader, a 12-week interactive online certificate program offered via the HBX Live virtual classroom. Read more.
May 2018
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31 May 2018
Harvard Business School Names 2018-2019 Blavatnik Fellows in Life Science Entrepreneurship
BOSTON—Harvard Business School has named its 2018-2019 Blavatnik Fellows in Life Science Entrepreneurship. Launched in 2013, the Blavatnik Fellowship is a part of a $50 million gift to Harvard University from the Blavatnik Family Foundation, headed by Len Blavatnik (MBA 1989). The Fellowship was established to support innovative and talented entrepreneurs working closely with scientists to tackle transformative areas of life science. To date, Fellows have created 17 companies in categories including therapeutics, information technology, diagnostics, consumer, and devices, and have collectively raised more than $150M in funding. Read more.
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30 May 2018
Harvard Business School Holds First “HBS Hacks” Event in San Francisco
BOSTON—Four Harvard Business School (HBS) organizations, including the Social Enterprise Initiative, the HBS Association of Northern California’s (HBSANC) Community Partners (alumni who apply their business and management skills as pro bono consultants working on strategic projects in the nonprofit sector), the California Research Center, and the Managing the Future of Work research project, teamed up recently in San Francisco to present the first “HBS Hacks” event, an innovative, hands-on, interactive occasion that brought together HBS alumni from diverse backgrounds to tackle social challenges using elements of a tech hackathon and principles of design thinking. Read more.