May 2020
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26 May 2020
Claire Wagner Named Harvard Business School’s 2020 Student Class Day Speaker
BOSTON—Claire Wagner (MD/MBA 2020) has been selected as the student speaker for Harvard Business School’s (HBS) Class Day celebration, held this year on Thursday, May 28. Claire was nominated by her peers and her speech was selected out of more than 50 student speeches. She is the first Class Day speaker with a joint degree from the medical school, and the first Class Day speaker to become a mother while at HBS. Read more.
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26 May 2020
HBS Professors Win Wyss Awards for Excellence in Mentoring Doctoral Students
BOSTON—Two Harvard Business School (HBS) faculty members, Professor Robin Ely and Assistant Professor Kate Barasz, will each receive one of the 13th annual Wyss Awards for Excellence in Mentoring for their work with students in the Doctoral Programs. Read more.
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07 May 2020
Harvard Business Review Announces First Recipient of Clayton M. Christensen Prize
BOSTON, MA—Harvard Business Review has announced the establishment of the Clayton M. Christensen Prize, with Harvard Business School professor Gary Pisano named as the first recipient for his article “The Hard Truth about Innovative Cultures.” Read more.
April 2020
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21 Apr 2020
Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli (MBA 1999) and Mezuo O. Nwuneli (MBA 2003) to be Harvard Business School’s Class Day Speakers
BOSTON—Alumni Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli (MBA 1999) and Mezuo O. Nwuneli (MBA 2003), leaders in the African agriculture and nutrition landscape, will be Harvard Business School’s (HBS) Class Day Distinguished Speakers on Thursday, May 28, 2020. Read more.
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17 Apr 2020
HBS New Venture Competition: Entrepreneurs Innovate in a Time of Crisis
BOSTON—Late yesterday afternoon, video screens around the world were glowing as the winners of the 23rd annual HBS New Venture Competition (NVC) were announced. This year’s finale, which was all virtual in this COVID-19 era, featured 20 student and alumni finalist teams vying for $300,000 in cash and in-kind prizes. The top prize in the student business, student social enterprise, and alumni tracks was $75,000 each. Read more.
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14 Apr 2020
Harvard Business Review Announces 61st Annual HBR McKinsey Award Winners
BOSTON, MA—Innovative company cultures require a combination of seemingly contradictory behaviors, argues the winner of the 2019 HBR McKinsey Award, which honors the best Harvard Business Review article of the year. Read more.
March 2020
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26 Mar 2020
Harvard Business School Professor Emeritus Bruce Scott Dies at 87
BOSTON— Bruce Scott, professor, author, leading specialist on comparative economic performance of nations, a pioneer in the internationalization of Harvard Business School’s (HBS) curriculum who influenced generations of scholars and practitioners through his global research, course development, and teaching, died on Saturday, March 21, at his home in Cambridge, MA. He was 87 years old. Read more.
February 2020
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27 Feb 2020
Harvard Business School’s Rock Center Announces 20 Teams for Rock Accelerator Program
BOSTON—Harvard Business School's Rock Center for Entrepreneurship has announced 20 teams that have been selected for the Spring 2020 Rock Accelerator. Each spring, the teams receive financial grants from a pool of $125,000 for the 2019-20 school year. The teams and funding are made in close consultation with the Rock Venture Partners Program, which includes MBA students interested in the venture capital industry. Read more.
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24 Feb 2020
Three HBS Faculty Members Win Awards in Global Case Centre Competition
BOSTON—Three members of the Harvard Business School (HBS) faculty, along with their research associates, have won awards in the 2020 Case Centre Competition. First presented in 1991, these annual awards, described by the Financial Times as the “the business school Oscars,” aim to recognize worldwide excellence in case writing and raise the profile of the case method, the centerpiece of participant-centered, discussion-based learning. Read more.
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18 Feb 2020
The Linux Foundation and Harvard’s Lab for Innovation Science Release Census for Open Source Software Security
BOSTON—The Linux Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII), a project that helps support best practices and the security of critical open source software projects, and the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH), today announced the release of ‘Vulnerabilities in the Core,’ a Preliminary Report and Census II of Open Source Software.` Read more.