Press Releases

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.

25 May 2021

Meet the 2021-2022 Leadership Fellows

The Leadership Fellows Program at HBS is based on University Professor Michael Porter’s vision of developing a network of HBS graduates with cross-sector experience who are committed to addressing societal issues throughout their careers. The fellowship is a two-way commitment in which graduating students are offered once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to experience high-impact management positions in nonprofit and public sector organizations for one year at a competitive salary. At the same time, the hiring organizations leverage the experience, energy, and strategic and analytical skills of MBAs in roles that produce immediate results and build long-term capacity. Read more.

24 May 2021

Harvard Business School Professors Win Wyss Awards for Excellence in Mentoring Doctoral Students

Two HBS faculty members, Professor Lakshmi Ramarajan and Professor Robert Huckman, will each receive one of the 14th annual Wyss Awards for Excellence in Mentoring for their work with students in the Doctoral Programs. Read more.

24 May 2021

Five Harvard Business School Faculty Members Receive Class of 2021 Faculty Teaching Award Honors

In a vote by the HBS MBA graduating class of 2021, students honored faculty members Malcolm Baker, Tony Mayo, Kristin Mugford, Tom Nicholas, and Sophus Reinert with a Faculty Teaching Award for their excellence and dedication to teaching, and for the positive impact they had both and in and out of the classroom. Read more.

19 May 2021

Getting to Know Class Day Student Speaker Sara McLoughlin Figel

The MBA Class of 2021 student class day speaker Sara McLoughlin Figel (“Figes”) talks about growing up in California and the influence of her parents, studying International Affairs & Public Policy at Princeton, where she’s heading after HBS graduation, and how she hopes her speech will provide inspiration for what lies ahead. Read more.