February 2020
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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.
January 2020
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28 Jan 2020
Harvard University Appoints Matt Segneri New Executive Director of I-Lab
BOSTON—Matt Segneri will become the Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Executive Director of the Harvard Innovation Labs (i-lab), a university-wide entity that fosters team-based and entrepreneurial activities and provides a forum for interactions among students, faculty, alumni, and the surrounding community. Read more.
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26 Jan 2020
Clayton M. Christensen, Kim. B. Clark Professor of Business Administration, Acclaimed Author and Teacher, Dies At 67
BOSTON, MA—Clayton M. Christensen, Harvard Business School’s Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration, acclaimed author and teacher, and the world’s foremost authority on disruptive innovation, died on January 23, 2020, surrounded by his loving family. Christensen was 67 years old. Read more.
December 2019
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18 Dec 2019
U.S. Competitiveness Report: Business Leaders Pessimistic, Political Gridlock Biggest Obstacle to Strengthening America’s Competitiveness
BOSTON—Structural failures in the U.S. political system have prevented meaningful progress on actions needed to improve U.S. competitiveness, according to research released today by Harvard Business School’s (HBS) U.S. Competitiveness Project. Based on surveys of HBS alumni and the general public, as well as faculty research, A Recovery Squandered: The State of U.S. Competitiveness 2019 documents how the U.S. has wasted the decade-long expansion following the Great Recession by not addressing underlying impediments to U.S. competitiveness. In addition to assessing the factors that have contributed to this situation, the report outlines the steps that must be taken to improve America’s economic prospects for both workers and companies. Read more.
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17 Dec 2019
Six Harvard Business School Doctoral Candidates Receive Research Awards
BOSTON—The Harvard Business School Doctoral Programs and their faculty chair, David Scharfstein, the School’s Edmund Cogswell Converse Professor of Finance and Banking, have announced three recipients of the 2019 Wyss Award for Excellence in Doctoral Research and three winners of the Martin Award for Excellence in Business Economics. The prizes are presented each year based on excellence in innovative dissertation research. Read more.
November 2019
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26 Nov 2019
Harvard Business School Faculty Recognized in 2019 “Thinkers 50” List
BOSTON—The recently issued 2019 “Thinkers 50” ranking of influential management thinkers includes seven Harvard Business School faculty members in its list of honorees. Read more.
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21 Nov 2019
Harvard Business School Announces New Exhibit on U.S. Steel Corporation’s Use of Photography as a Public Relations Tool
BOSTON—Harvard Business School’s (HBS) Baker Library Special Collections announced today the opening of a new exhibit, Photography and Corporate Public Relations: The Case of U.S. Steel, 1930 – 1960. The exhibition, catalog, and website examine the ways in which U.S. Steel employed photographs in a variety of public relations campaigns to instill public favor at a time when the steel industry, like today’s technology behemoths, reigned central in the world economy. Organized by Baker Library Special Collections, the exhibit runs through October 6, 2020, in the North Lobby of Baker Library | Bloomberg Center on the HBS campus. Read more.
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20 Nov 2019
Harvard Business School Examines Alumni Social Impact in The World
BOSTON, MA—Harvard Business School (HBS)’s more than 86,000 alumni are using their leadership and problem-solving skills to tackle education, health, environment, poverty, inequality, and myriad other challenges, according to a new book called Problem Solving: HBS Alumni Making a Difference in the World. Authored by Russ Banham, Shirley Spence, and Howard Stevenson, the book highlights the many ways that alumni are taking action as corporate leaders, social entrepreneurs, impact investors, nonprofit professionals, public servants, generous philanthropists, and good citizens quietly contributing to their communities. Read more.
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06 Nov 2019
Harvard Business School Dean to Step Down
BOSTON, November 6, 2019—Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria announced today that he will step down in June 2020, concluding ten years of service as the School's tenth Dean. Read more.
October 2019
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31 Oct 2019
Harvard Business School’s Baker Library Announces New Collection: Personal Papers of Ken Olsen, Founder of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
BOSTON and WENHAM, MA—Harvard Business School(HBS) and Gordon College today jointly announced a permanent loan of the Kenneth H. Olsen Collection, which is comprised of the personal papers of Ken Olsen, the founder of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), from Gordon to Baker Library, one of the world’s largest business libraries. Read more.