September 2019
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26 Sep 2019
Harvard Business School Online and The Greater Boston Food Bank Team Up to End Hunger
BOSTON—The Greater Boston Food Bank (GBFB) enlisted the help of Harvard Business School Online and its global community of more than 50,000 learners to address food insecurity through an “End Hunger” Challenge. The Challenge called for teams to develop innovative, cost-effective, scalable ways for pantries to deliver nutritious food to clients and develop ideas that could help end hunger in their own communities. Read more.
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10 Sep 2019
New Survey Shows U.S. Businesses Taking Steps to Foster Culture Of Health, But Room to Grow
BOSTON—In a new article published today in The Milbank Quarterly, a multidisciplinary journal of population health and health policy, researchers from Harvard Business School (HBS) and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, discuss the results of a recently conducted study that assessed the current levels of engagement by businesses in a corporate Culture of Health (CoH). Through the research, a tool was developed to measure private sector engagement in health and well-being across four dimensions and a baseline depiction of CoH activities was established. Read more.
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03 Sep 2019
Harvard Business School Announces 2019 Goldsmith Fellows
BOSTON—Harvard Business School (HBS) has announced the 2019 recipients of its Horace W. Goldsmith Fellowships. Established in 1998 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 sector to attend HBS, these fellowships enable the School to award approximately $10,000 each to seven to ten incoming MBA students. Read more.
August 2019
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29 Aug 2019
Harvard Business School Announces 2019-2020 Public Art Exhibition Supported by the C. Ludens Ringnes Sculpture Collection
BOSTON—Three sculptures have been installed on Harvard Business School’s campus in Boston as part of its ongoing contemporary sculpture exhibition, which began in April 2016. Sculptures by artists Lynda Benglis and Bharti Kher are on loan to Harvard Business School through next spring. They join sculptures by Mary Frank, John Safer, and Joel Shapiro from the School’s permanent collection. Read more.
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23 Aug 2019
John H. McArthur, Former Dean of Harvard Business School Dies at 85
BOSTON—John H. McArthur, a member of the Harvard Business School community for more than six decades—as student (MBA 1959 and DBA 1963), as faculty member (beginning in 1962), as Dean (from 1980 to 1995), and as Dean and George F. Baker Professor of Administration, Emeritus—died on August 20, 2019 outside Boston, Massachusetts. Read more.
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15 Aug 2019
Harvard Business Review’s paid circulation climbs to 340,000, the highest in its 97-year history
Harvard Business Review posted an overall paid circulation gain of 6.3% in the past year, according to a recently released report from the Alliance for Audited Media. (As filed with AAM. Subject to audit.) In total, HBR is now reaching 339,919 subscribers and newsstand buyers, up from 319,631 in the prior year. Read more.
June 2019
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19 Jun 2019
Harvard Launches New MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Joint Degree
BOSTON and CAMBRIDGE—Harvard Business School (HBS) and Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) announced today a new joint master’s degree program that aims to prepare future leaders at the interface of life sciences and business. The two-year, full-time program begins in August 2020 and will confer both a Master of Business Administration from HBS and a Master of Science from GSAS. Students in the program will receive business training at HBS and life-science training at Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and Harvard Medical School (HMS), coordinated by Harvard’s Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology (HSCRB) and HBS. Read more.
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11 Jun 2019
Harvard Business School and Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Announce Gift of Financial Aid to Support Joint Degree Program Students
BOSTON—Harvard Business School (HBS) and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have received a gift from Denise Dupré and Mark Nunnelly (MBA 1984) in support of student financial aid for the Schools’ joint MS/MBA program in Engineering Sciences. Launched in 2018, the degree program is integral to advancing the vision for Harvard in Allston and the expanding opportunities of collaboration and innovation between HBS and SEAS. Read more.
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06 Jun 2019
Harvard Business School Announces $10 Million Gift Renewal from the Blavatnik Family Foundation and Introduces 2019-2020 Blavatnik Fellows in Life Science Entrepreneurship
BOSTON—Harvard Business School (HBS) has named its 2019-2020 Blavatnik Fellows in Life Science Entrepreneurship. Launched in 2013, the Blavatnik Fellowship was part of a $50 million gift to Harvard University from the Blavatnik Family Foundation, headed by Len Blavatnik (MBA 1989). In 2019, an additional $10 million was provided by the foundation to support the Fellowship through 2029. Read more.
May 2019
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30 May 2019
Meet the 2019-2020 Leadership Fellows
BOSTON—The Leadership Fellows Program at Harvard Business School 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.