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When he was filling out the forms to establish his new nonprofit in 2008, Salman Khan paused at the mission statement section. The MIT grad, a math and computer whiz with an MBA from Harvard Business School, thought for a moment, and then jotted down a powerful response: "A free world-class education for anyone anywhere." Read More >Microsoft has named Amy Hood as its first woman chief financial officer, relacing Peter Klein, who will leave at the end of June. Hood, 41, was previously CFO of the business division, where she oversaw the acquisitions of Skype and Yammer, two key moves in Microsoft's strategy to protect its share of the enterprise software market. Read More >With alumni support, this summer four HBS students will team up with entrepreneurs in America's heartland. Read More >Tak: Apps for childhood development. Photo by Corey Wilson/Green Bay Press-Gazette The Over in the Meadow Animated Storybook is an interactive, animated, and educational product, the first to be rolled out by a start-up called iMomConnect . It’s designed to help busy parents teach young children how to count and learn animal sounds, among other skills, with more features, convenience, and portability than a stack of books. “We created this company to create child development apps on the iPhone, ...Jeffrey Williams (MBA ’82) has been named the inaugural executive director of the Harvard Center Shanghai . Opened in March 2010, the center, a joint venture of HBS and the Harvard China Fund, supports a wide range of activities, including HBS Executive Education programs offered in partnership with Chinese institutions, student programs, faculty research, case writing, and conferences. Williams also will build relationships with key academic, business, and government leaders in China. “The ...During a memorable night in early December, the Class of 1959 Chapel shed its quiet sanctuary aura to host a full-tilt concert staged by Heard on the Street, the twelve-member HBS a cappella men’s chorus. With a repertoire that spans pop standards to hip-hop, the group delivered a spirited performance to a packed house. The HBS men’s original a cappella group, The Tycoons, was formed in 1947 and entertained campus gatherings for more than 25 years before disbanding. Heard on the Street, which ...McNerney: It’s all about being globally competitive and creating U.S. jobs. Illustration by Andy Friedman Related Links The Path to Economic Revival Making Their Way Squawk Box at HBS - Jim McNerney, Dean Nitin Nohria, and University Professor Michael Porter discuss U.S. competitiveness and trade. "Pilots Push 787 Dreamliner to the Limit" - Watch some take-offs and landings best left to the test pilot professionals. "Capturing the Birth of the Dreamliner" - Photographer Ed Turner documented the ...Pinchuk: CEO of a precision-tool company doesn’t exactly fit the mold. Photo by Tom Lynn/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel As CEO of Snap-on , Nicholas Pinchuk (MBA ’76) heads a company that’s all about precise fits for its tools. But he himself is no standard-issue corporate chieftain. A longtime former resident of Asia, he’s also a Vietnam veteran, a rarity among big-company CEOs, only 8 percent of whom have served in the military, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (December 5, 2010) ...Illustration by John Kachik Depending on which business school ranking you consult, the best MBA program in 2010 was at the University of Chicago, HBS, the London Business School, or Stanford University. Among the five leading media rankings, HBS fell no lower than fourth place last year, compiling the best overall showing. Chicago and Stanford each disappeared from the top five in at least one ranking. And the London Business School showed up only once in the top five — as No. 1. Two questions leap ...Frits van Paasschen, CEO of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, is pushing his hospitality into the global marketplace, with a particular focus on emerging markets. Read More >Charlie Wilson's (MBA 1967) research into his grandfather's glassworks takes us back to a bygone era. Read More >Harvard University has received a $50 million gift from businessman and alumnus Len Blavatnik to support a major initiative aimed at bridging the "valley of death" — the gap between basic biomedical research and the emergence of new therapies for patients. Read More >The CEO of Stella & Chewy's, a pet food company based in Milwaukee, discusses lessons learned from her days in crew and track that apply to hiring and team building. Read More >US manufacturer Orbital Sciences launched its first Antares rocket, paving the way for a demonstration flight to the International Space Station within months. "Today marked a giant step forward for the Antares program, with a fully successful inaugural flight of the largest and most complex rocket the company has ever developed and flown," said Orbital chairman David Thompson. Read More >Daniel Koh, Chief of Staff to Arianna Huffington, talks about the progress being made in the RaiseForWomen challenge, an initiative to help women-focused nonprofits gain resources and recognition. Read More >We know that many of you are concerned about the HBS community given the unfolding events in Boston today, and we are grateful for your outreach. As we may be unable to respond to each and every inquiry, we are writing to let you know that the entire University is closed and, as directed, we are sheltering in place. We are taking every precaution to ensure that everyone is safe and staying indoors. Harvard updates will be posted on the emergency page http://www.harvard.edu/emergency . We appreciate your ...Andreas Merkl (MBA 1989) brings a business approach to running the Ocean Conservancy. Read More >Beth Stewart, who runs a search firm that specializes in female directors, helped stoke the debate over board diversity by taking aim at the giant social network Facebook. As the Internet company prepared to go public in a much-hyped debut, she worked behind the scenes on a campaign to publicize the lack of women on Facebook's board. Read More >Little did Hans Reifer know that 75 years after fleeing from Nazi Germany as a six-year old child with his father, mother, and sister, he would return to his home city of Vienna for the first time to be honored by its mayor and chancellor of Austria. Read More >Indeed, Monster.com, Craigslist, Simply Hired and Careerbuilder. What do they all have in common? These job search sites cater to a broad range of career seekers looking for internships, part-time and full-time work. Palo Alto startup JobArrive.com hopes to break this model, offering up a part-time employment specific site, starting in San Francisco Bay Area cites. Read More >Fredo Arias-King's (MBA 1996) Green and Tapped project plants pine trees on indigenous Mexican lands, offering a vital and unique income source. Read More >Alvin J. Silk, the School's Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration Emeritus, has established an endowed chair named in honor of his late wife, Diane Doerge Wilson, an organizational sociologist and longtime researcher, author, and consultant on the impact of information technology on companies around the globe. Read More >During a two-day celebration of the 50th anniversary of women being admitted to HBS's MBA program, Dean Nitin Nohria announced the endowment of the Women's Student Association Fellowship by the HBS Women's Student Association (WSA). The WSA is the first student organization at HBS to endow a fellowship. Read More >Hiroshi Mikitani's Rakuten now handles more than one-quarter of all e-commerce business in Japan—more than twice as much as Amazon's share in the country. Now in more than a dozen countries, the multi-billion dollar company has expanded from shopping into a range of services, from travel to banking to e-readers. Read More >It turns out that even among graduates from elite institutions like Harvard Business School, a woman's role is still more often in the home than those of her male classmates. Robin J. Ely, a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, presented her study on Crimson alumnae at a two-day 50th anniversary celebration of women's inclusion at Harvard Business School. Read More >Noah Breslow's On Deck Capital will dole out $400 million in small business loans this year, all without without looking a single business owner in the eye. Read More >Booth Gardner, a two-term governor of Washington whose diagnosis with Parkinson's disease after he left office helped motivate him to lead a successful voter initiative to allow physician-assisted suicide, died on Friday at his home in Tacoma. Read More >Facebook's global advertising chief, Carolyn Everson, just might be the most influential woman in London's internet industry. Some will say that's not entirely surprising since there is an acute shortage of women in senior positions in technology, especially in Britain. It is something that Everson, a 41-year-old American, has noticed since she moved to London in December and she feels passionately about it. Read More >Sim Shagaya's Konga.com, a Nigerian online shopping mall, secured a multi-million dollar investment from South African media giant Naspers, thanks in part to several tweets and blog posts touting Konga's good customer service. Read More >The Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry announced the appointment of Akio Mimura, senior adviser of Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp., as its next chairman, effective November. Read More >An audio interview with Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO and author of Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead. Read More >Fifty years since the first females graduated from Harvard Business School, Telegraph writer Emma Sinclair talks to some of them about how they helped change our lives for good—making it "the norm" in developed societies to have female graduates and leaders. Read More >Andre Esteves, co-founder and CEO of Brazil-based BTG Pactual, the largest investment bank in Latin America, spoke at a conference on Latin America held at HBS. Read More >When Kevin Mandia, a retired military cybercrime investigator, decided to expose China as a primary threat to US computer networks, he didn't have to consult with American diplomats in Beijing or declassify tactics to safely reveal government secrets. He pulled together a 76-page report based on seven years of his company's work and produced the most detailed public account yet of how, he says, the Chinese government has been rummaging through the networks of major US companies. Read More >In a surprise announcement, HBO home entertainment president Henry McGee is stepping down from the post he's held for 18 years to become a full-time faculty member at Harvard Business School, beginning in the fall. Read More >Entrepreneurs Peter Michailidis and Jason Gurwin have sold Pushpins to retail giant Performance Marketing Brands. Pushpins is an innovative take on coupons co-created by Michailidis and Gurwin in 2009 while students at the Harvard Business School. Read More >Professor David Moss is among the leaders of two Boston-area nonprofits that have received a combined $2.25 million in grants from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to support their work in affordable housing and public policy research. Read More >For two decades, Sorrell has helmed WPP, a global advertising empire that employs 162,000 people in 3,000 offices in 110 countries. Three days after one of advertising's annual rites — the Super Bowl — Sorrell sat down with HBR's editor in chief, Adi Ignatius, to talk about the future of advertising, balancing science and art, and why he thinks Facebook and Twitter aren't really advertising media. Read More >The Kumbh Mela — an instant megacity constructed every 12 years in Allahabad, India to accommodate 80 million Hindu pilgrims over six weeks — is perhaps an obvious draw for Harvard researchers in public health and urban planning. But HBS faculty and doctoral students also descended on the tent city in January. Led by Professor Tarun Khanna, a group of professors from Harvard, Stanford, and Columbia came to study the development of networks and supply and demand issues. Read More >Iraq veteran Blake Hall (MBA 2010) created a digital, military ID card that lets companies say thank you to veterans through online perks. Read More >Nick Taranto thinks you should cook your own dinner tonight. He even thinks you might pay him for the privilege. Read More >For decades, Boston Beer Company founder Jim Koch snubbed aluminum containers because of the metallic flavor they impart to liquid. His resolve cost the Boston-based brewer pf Samuel Adams beer millions of dollars in potential revenue from airlines and sports arenas, a price Koch said he paid to preserve the quality of a brew whose tagline until recently was: "Take pride in your beer." But two springs ago, Koch decided to take another look at the market, and ultimately, create his own can. Read More >Karen Mills is leaving the Small Business Administration after nearly four years of leading the agency. Mills announced her decision in a letter to SBA employees, which thanked them for their role "to help America's entrepreneurs and small business owners during this critical juncture in our nation's history." Read More >James W. Breyer, a leading venture capitalist known for his expertise in innovative technology and media, will join the President and Fellows of Harvard College (the Harvard Corporation) as of July 1, 2013, the University announced today. A 1987 graduate of Harvard Business School, Breyer is a partner at Accel Partners, a venture capital firm with offices in Palo Alto, New York, London, China, and India. Read More >David Hoffer (MBA 1995) and Jim Hourdequin (MBA 2005) cultivate a double bottom line at Lyme Timber. Read More >During the three years Barry Rowan served as CFO and treasurer of Nextel Partners, the company's market capitalization grew from $2 billion to more than $9 billion. In June 2006, telecommunications giant Sprint bought it for $10 billion, becoming Sprint Nextel. One could safely say that during his time at Nextel, he helped create a ton of shareholder value. However, reflecting on that period in his life, Rowan says, "Creating shareholder value was not getting me out of bed in the morning." Read More >Young, stylish women may spend thousands of hours and hundreds of dollars trolling the Web at sites like Shopbop, Net-a-Porter and Rue La La. But what about their mothers? Brands like Eileen Fisher and Talbots have Web sites that market to older shoppers, but they sell only their own lines, which generally feature conservative styles. Department stores like Saks Fifth Avenue use e-mail to target specific audiences, but older shoppers still must sift through clothes and accessories for all ages. To Halsey ...New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has expanded his Washington footprint dramatically over the past two years, using his enormous clout and seasoned lobbying hands to push a nexus of issues that the White House and Congress are just beginning to address. From guns to gay marriage to immigration to infrastructure Bloomberg's presence in Washington has grown exponentially since 2011. Read More >Bill Thompson admits it's not always easy being an ex-CEO. Afgter walking away from the corner office at investment powerhouse Pimco in 2009, he has developed a passion for charity. But Thompson has found it can be tricky finding the right place for the right cause at the right time. It's a job than can be best suited for ... a retired top executive. Read More >How does one eat a banana gracefully? With a knife and fork, slicing it into thin slivers — of course! At least that is what we are told during a three-hour etiquette training course held in one of Beijing's priciest hotels. Leading the class was the Hong Kong-native Sara Jane Ho. She is a product of Institut Villa Pierrefeu, Switzerland's last traditional finishing school, where a six-week course covering skills including flower arranging, hostessing and table-setting costs around $20,000. Now Ho is ...Following a friend's death, Sigal Bussel (MBA 2003) decided to change focus. "I felt that I could make a difference through art." Read More >In the fractured and fractious world of local advertising—and in the stock market—Jeremy Stoppelman and Yelp are shooting for the... you know. Read More >He has never run for public office. His party's registered voters are outnumbered by more than six to one. He has most recently been in charge of mollifying the grouchiest of constituencies, New York City subway riders, while also raising their fares. Yet when Joseph J. Lhota, a Republican, announced on Wednesday that he would resign as chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and explore a run for mayor, the race to succeed Michael R. Bloomberg seemed to enter a new phase. Read More >When the world's biggest stars converged on stage at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday, they were raising money for superstorm Sandy victims in the New York area. The money goes directly to the Robin Hood Foundation, a not-for-profit group that helps those most in need in New York City. Before the big event, the charity's president and COO, Deborah Winshel, talks about the event and the goals of the foundation. Read More >In this video interview, Giusti talks candidly to Moira Forbes about the moment she learned she has a rare form of cancer and what drove her to launch the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation. Read More >As a law student, Gerald W. Schwartz became acquainted with a senior partner at a law firm who had built a collection of Impressionist paintings. When Schwartz saw them, he "got the bug" - making his own first acquisition, for $300, and then pursuing his passion in personal collections at his homes and in the "tons" of artworks he has acquired to display at his company. He loved his HBS experience, and was a regular donor, but found that he wished to have a specific, focused impact on the institution. In ...When Ruzwana Bashir traveled to Istanbul a few years back, she created an Excel file of everything she planned to do on the trip with her friends there, down to their phone numbers and addresses. Her friends loved her planning so much it became the template for all their travels. The response was so great, she says, that she thought, "Hang on, why don't I start a website where I can take tips from my friends and use them when I'm traveling?" Read More >Tony Tjan, chief executive and a founder of Cue Ball, a venture capital firm in Boston, suggests waiting 24 seconds, 24 minutes, then 24 hours before criticizing a new idea. Read More >The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has announced it will honor extraordinary business leader and philanthropist Jonathan Lavine with its 2012 Distinguished Community Service Award, the highest honor bestowed by ADL in New England. Read More >HBS heavy-hitters Clay Christensen and Michael Porter closed out a recent conference organized by HBS and Harvard Medical School. Held on the HBS campus November 14 and 15, "Healing Ourselves: Addressing Healthcare's Innovation Challenge" brought together some of the industry's top practitioners and leading thinkers to wrestle with the Gordian knot of healthcare reform. The approach to reforming healthcare has been "hung up in static rather than dynamic thinking," said Christensen, who moderated a panel on ...The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has announced it will honor extraordinary business leader and philanthropist Jonathan Lavine with its 2012 Distinguished Community Service Award, the highest honor bestowed by ADL in New England. Read More >Industry veteran and entrepreneur Patti Pao (MBA 1987) on Restorsea, an innovative skin care line developed with the help of HBS friends. Read More >Tiggly, an iPad-inspired start-up, has launched a fundraising push in the US, including a listing on crowdfunding site Kickstarter, in a bid to secure $200,000. Tiggly, founded by Phyl Georgiou and Steve Miller, has developed a toy called Tiggly Shapes, a set of plastic shapes that can be identified by an iPad. Georgiou and Miller, who met at Harvard Business School, want to bridge the gap between the physical and virtual worlds for children by introducing a classic toy to the iPad. Read More >As a child, Martin Curiel (MBA 2004) was an itinerant West Coast fruit picker. Now he helps young farmworkers rise above their circumstances. Read More >It was only after Aaron Kletzing and Yinon Weiss met at Harvard Business School that they realized they'd served together. Now, the two retired officers are using their HBS training to help military personnel and veterans stay connected. Read More >Thomas K. McCraw, Sr., a renowned and much honored Harvard Business School historian, teacher, and author, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1985 for his book Prophets of Regulation and who played an important role in making business history more influential and accessible in the broader fields of history and management, died on Nov. 3. Read More >Russell Wilcox has helped change the way we read. Now he wants to change the way we produce nuclear power. Wilcox co-founded E Ink, the company that created and built the screens in e-readers such as Kindles and Nooks. Now he's taken the helm of another start-up out of MIT. The goal? To make a new kind of safe and efficient nuclear reactor that could run on nuclear waste. Read More >Ford's leaders have watched Mark Fields, a brash Harvard MBA, turn the company's North American business into a profit machine. Now they're eyeing him for CEO. Fields, 51, was named chief operating officer Thursday, a sign the board favors him for the top job when CEO Alan Mulally eventually retires. Mulally, 67, plans to stay at least through 2014, a decision that reassured Wall Street. Read More >A former big-time college football player, Julian Swearengin (MBA 2003) finds the game continues to teach life lessons. Read More >MTA chairman Joseph J. Lhota said the damage to the New York City subway system is "devastating." He called the city subway system "very dynamic, very robust," and said there are plans to try and bring back the system in "part" if not all at once. Read More >One of Britain's best known private equity bosses and once voted Britain's most powerful black male, the founder partner of Permira has launched Social Business Trust, dedicated to backing social enterprises and turning them into sustainable companies. Read More >In his latest piece of non-fiction, "The Click Moment," author Frans Johansson obliterates the idea that success comes from analysis or planning or strategy, and suggests that it has much more to do with serendipity or randomness than we'd like to believe. Read More >Tim Sullivan's (MBA 1991) Ancestry.com helps families trace their genealogical roots and encounter their personal histories. Read More >HBS Professor Alvin Roth and UCLA Professor Lloyd Shapley have won the Nobel Prize for Economics for their work on market design and matching theory, which relate to how people and companies find and select one another in everything from marriage to school choice to jobs to organ donations. Read More >After a successful business career, medical student Bill Downing (MBA 1995) is working toward the goal he aspired to as a child. Read More >James E. Burke, the former Johnson & Johnson chief executive officer whose leadership during the Tylenol poisoning scare became a model for corporate crisis management, died on Sept. 28. Read More >With his Envision rating system, Paul Zofnass (MBA 1973) sets sustainability guidelines for large infrastructure projects. Read More >As the University of Denver prepares to host the first 2012 presidential debate this week, its former chancellor is being credited with laying the foundation for the school's big TV moment, along with elevating DU to a nationally respected institution that draws an international student body and top academics to a compact jewel box of a campus in south Denver. Read More >Theodore V. Wells, Jr., one of the nation's leading trial lawyers, and Jessica Tuchman Mathews, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, have been elected to become the newest members of the Harvard Corporation. Read More >It takes a special kind of CEO to run a company that thrives on cool.... Just ask Jeremy Andrus (MBA 2002), head of Skullcandy. Read More >Condolences are pouring in from across Canada following the news that Alberta's former premier Peter Lougheed died Thursday evening. Lougheed, 84, is being remembered as a man who left an indelible mark on Alberta and the country. Read More >While shortages of water, food and medicine in sub-Saharan Africa have long attracted the attention of foreign aid workers, a lack of books is not normally considered one of the most pressing matters in the region. Yet for David Risher, the surprise was that so little attention had been given to what he came to see as one of the most obvious problems that could be resolved through modern technology. Read More >Fidelity Investments has named 50-year-old Abigail Johnson to the new position of president of financial services. She will oversee management of assets such as mutual funds, as well as Fidelity's brokerage business, retirement and benefits services, and other operations. Read More >Every Republican who has held the presidency or wanted it in the past four decades has known Fred Malek. Read More >Imran Amed (MBA 2002) hits the mark with his on-trend, clear-eyed view of a complex industry. Read More >As a boy taking piano lessons in Buenos Aires, Maximo Flugelman was happier improvising his own tunes than practicing the Haydn sonata assigned by his teacher. Read More >How many HBS alumnae do you spot in Mashable's roundup of female founders? From LearnVest to Birchbox, these companies with HBS ties are changing the face of tech. Read More >Paul Callahan remembers pulling away in a sailboat from Fort Adams State Park in Newport, RI for the first time many years ago, and seeing his wheelchair sitting empty on the dock. Read More >Section J Class Gift campaign cochairs Elizabeth Lyle and Emmanuel Coque add a dose of fun to fundraising. Read More >Staging the Olympics is a Herculean task that requires years of preparation. With the Games of the XXX Olympiad off and running in London, three Harvard Business School professors offer their insights. Read More >Kiwi entrepreneur Victoria Ransom has sold her social media start-up Wildfire Interactive to Google. Wildfire is Ransom's third successful start-up and has helped her win such accolades as Ernst & Young's New Zealand young entrepreneur of the year in 2011. Read More >Gerald Chertavian talks to Charlie Rose and Gayle King about his story and his new book, A Year Up . A former software entrepreneur, Chertavian created a program that helps low-income high school graduates find good-paying jobs. Read More >In his new book, Making a Difference , multi-millionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist Owen Glenn details the lessons he learned from building a business, as well as a key lesson from Professor Marty Marshall at HBS. Read More >After graduating in 1951, Arthur Rock went on to invest in Intel, Apple, and Teledyne. Later, those investments helped make possible a $25 million gift to HBS — the largest the School had ever seen. Today, the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship reflects Rock's belief that "the future...lies with new ventures." Read More >At Redbox, Gregg Kaplan (MBA 1997) enjoys a seat at the forefront of “automated retail” innovation. Read More >On average, 542 people marry every day in the United States as a result of being matched on EHarmony. CEO Jeremy Verba says he was drawn by the relationship site's impact and calls it "technology serving a higher need." Read More >Recognized as one of America's 25 most influential individuals by Time magazine, Stephen R. Covey was the author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People , which has sold more than 10 million copies in 28 languages in 40 countries. Read More >In the two years since he became dean, Nitin Nohria has overseen the completion of the innovation center, introduced international programs, and marshaled the HBS community — faculty, students, and alumni — into a comprehensive study of US competitiveness. He also launched a research program on cultural inclusion and expanded the school's collaboration with the rest of the university. Read More >Marvin Traub, the retailing impresario who transformed Bloomingdale's from a family department store into a trendsetting international showcase of style and showmanship, passed away. His legacy as one of the most creative retailers of his era lives on. Traub received HBS's Alumni Achievement Award in 2010. Read More >Hedge-fund bosses rarely double as cult authors, so why does an out-of-print book by Seth Klarman, the boss of the Baupost Group, sell for as much as $2,499 on Amazon? Perhaps because Baupost isn't a typical hedge fund. Read More >Jonathan Bloom employs a business approach to development assistance in West Africa. Read More >"We need to move beyond politics and get on with trying to make the health care system work and make it cost-competitive," says Professor Bill George, addressing the US Supreme Court ruling and what companies must do to keep health care costs down. Read More >In a statement, founder Mark Zuckerberg said, "Sheryl has been my partner in running Facebook. Her understanding of our mission and long-term opportunity, and her experience both at Facebook and on public company boards makes her a natural fit for our board." Read More >Vaxess Technologies, a company working to increase global access to vaccines through novel silk technology, has won the grand prize in the President's Challenge, a competition that looked to foster social entrepreneurship across Harvard. Read More >In a forum post, David Teten, founder and chair of the HBS Alumni Angels of Greater New York, explains the organization's innovative partnership to provide women and diverse minority entrepreneurs with access to venture capital. Read More >Baby.com.br, a winner in last year's Student Business Plan Contest, has grown to more than 100 employees in about six months, but Brazilian expansion has unique hurdles. To begin, there's a near 70 percent payroll tax. Read More >To honor Professor Hank Reiling, Sam Mencoff (MBA 1981) established a fund to support HBS students. Read More >In a survey on competitiveness, alumni universally say they would trade a lower tax rate for eliminating the many loopholes in the US tax code. Professor Michael Porter explains why that might be good policy. Read More >Paul Finnegan, co-CEO of a leading Chicago-based investment firm, has been elected to become the newest member of the Harvard Corporation. Finnegan's appointment, effective July 1, comes as the Corporation continues its expansion from seven to 13 members. Read More >Michael Greeley shares highlights from a recent alumni conference on the state of the venture capital industry. Discussions ranged from international developments in Asia to how best to structure models of innovation to LP perspectives. Read More >After stints in medicine and investment banking, Andrew Heffernan (MBA 2006) realized what he'd been missing. Read More >As the chairman of Peters & Co. Limited, an investment firm specializing in oil and gas, Michael Tims is well established in the Canadian investment banking industry. Yet classroom memories of helping to "crack the case" have stayed with him. Read More >Stephen Apkon (MBA 1986) envisioned a starring role for his town's abandoned movie theater. Read More >Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook, will address HBS graduates as Class Day speaker on May 23. An advocate for women leaders, Sandberg has drawn attention to work-life balance while overseeing Facebook's business operations. Read More >Horace Dediu interviews his teacher Clay Christensen about his new book, as well as jobs to be done and approaches to self-disruption. The downloadable mp3 also covers what Christensen is working on next. Read More >To cheer up his classmates, Joe Parrish (MBA 1974) staged a little revue 38 years ago. The HBS Show has been wowing audiences ever since. Read More >Fantasy Politics is a new site that combines fantasy football and politics. According to CEO Aaron Michel, "It all started with a really bad idea." Read More >Angela Newnam (MBA 1996) may not have set out to be an entrepreneur--yet the company she founded, Knock out!, was named winner of the Alumni New Venture Contest and its $50,000 grand prize at an April awards ceremony at HBS. Read More >Two organizations created by HBS alumni are honored for game-changing ideas in diabetes management and social sector impact. Read More >Carol Stephenson, the dean of the Richard Ivey School of Business, will be inducted into the London Business Hall of Fame in October. Stephenson is the second woman to be named to the hall and the first laureate from the academic community. Read More >One month into a new job at Activision Blizzard, CFO Dennis Durkin says he's fortunate to be in "one of the most fun businesses there is." While his company owns some of the world's most popular game franchises, including World of Warcraft and Guitar Hero, the industry itself has a special culture. Read More >After a 32-year career in the Army, David Melcher joined what is now ITT Exelis. He tells the New York Times that early coaching and mentoring have played a major role in developing leadership among employees and setting company goals. Read More >With more than a 40 percent increase in Alumni New Venture Contest entries this year, 11 finalists overcame stiff competition to win regional contests around the world. Read More >For management consultant Dave Ramos (MBA 1989), "Life is too short to work in a dysfunctional organization." Read More >Men buy suits based on inseam and waist size and have jackets tailored to fit. Women buy suits based on standards created in the 1940s, and are rarely offered tailoring as part of the sale. With Quincy Apparel, Christina Wallace and Alex Nelson are out to redefine women's professional wear. Read More >Executive pay consultant Robin Ferracone (MBA 1980) puts business's stars in alignment. Read More >For ten years, Tony Deifell (MBA 2002) has returned to HBS each spring to photograph graduating students. To celebrate the milestone, we turned the camera on the creative force behind the Portrait Project . Join us for a behind-the-scenes look, and check back next month to see how 32 students answer the question: "What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" Credit: Susan YoungPhotography was engrained in Alexander W. Dreyfoos Jr. from an early age, thanks to his father, a professional photographer. And it still is. But, he's also loved electronics, and his career has combined the two--earning recognition from the Smithsonian Institution and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Read More >Kim Frock's (MBA 1987) Alternative School for Math and Science could be a model for other schools. Read More >In an endorsement of Harvard University's "superb leadership," Joe and Kathy O'Donnell gave $30 million to the University. "Harvard has played a very important role in my life," said O'Donnell a Harvard college and HBS grad. Read More >Gilt Groupe. Rent the Runway. Birchbox. FashionStake. BaubleBar. And that's not even the half of it. Beyond working at the intersection of fashion and Internet tech, these companies have the common thread of founders with degrees from HBS. Read More >First, Amazon.com acquired Diapers.com and Zappos.com, two customers of Mountz's warehouse robotics firm, Kiva Systems. Now for $775M, Kiva has joined them. More on Mountz and Kiva in the March Bulletin. Read More >Only 12% of applicants made it into Harvard Business School last year. Dee Leopold, the head of admissions, explains how HBS makes decisions and what really stands out in a B-school application. Read More >In his professional life, Richard Davies is managing director for defined contribution, Americas Institutional, at Russell Investments. But it was the Boy Scouts of America that convinced him to pursue a career in business, and today, he's the top volunteer for scouting in Manhattan. Read More >The recent uproar over the Sierra Club’s acceptance of $26 million in undisclosed donations from an energy company prompted some environmentalists to warn against “sleeping with the enemy.” This sort of us-against-them rhetoric is all too common when it comes to business and the environment. Yet, one of the country’s leading defenders of the natural world aggressively seeks out partnerships with major corporations to advance their mutual interests. Speaking to a student audience ...With budget cuts looming, DC agencies are turning to outside consultants for ways to save. "We've been looking at the long haul, but we're seeing an increasing demand for what we can do this year," noted Jeffrey Voth, who works with program managers to review spending decisions. Read More >When Scott Brenton became chief operating officer of Angie's List 12 years ago, the company had 6 employees and he was a sort of jack-of-all trades. Today, with 750 employees, he focuses on how the company collects, polishes and distributes information. Read More >The Harvard Business Club of Charlotte has donated $51,000 to area charities, part of a surplus from a recent educational program. The record annual total brings the club's charitable contributions to $250,000 over the past nine years. Read More >Until recently, January usually meant one thing at Harvard Business School: a frenzy of summer internship interviews known affectionately as "Hell Week." This year, students fanned out across the globe as part of the new FIELD course. Read More >Patrick Chung and Harry Weller have helped co-found the Experiment Fund, a new early-stage seed fund backed by New Enterprise Associates, one of the world's largest venture capital firms. The fund will support entrepreneurs across Harvard. Read More >Developer Julia Calabrese (OPM 22, 1995) builds designer shopping outlets in Europe and the UK. Read More >With the so-called Buffet Rule in the news, investor Dal LaMagna (MBA 1970) ponders taxes and the 99 Percent. Read More >In his HBS application, Gerald Chertavian outlined his vision for a program to support low-income, at-risk youth. In 2000, his idea became a reality with the launch of Year Up. Read More >HBS alumni overwhelmingly believe that the US is losing its competitive edge in the global economy, according to survey results revealed today at a press conference in the nation's capital. Read More >Mary Burke (MBA 1985) works to provide kids with a vision, motivation, and educational opportunity. Read More >Entrepreneur Zhang Mei has been able to turn her favorite hobby, exploring the wilder and more remote parts of China, into a thriving business. Read More >Robert Burke offered colleagues an unexpected reason to support his plan for a nonprofit tax assistance program: "We'll be better business professionals if we know how to interact with a completely different demographic than ourselves." Read More >Krishna Mahesh (MBA 2005), the winner of the 2010 Alumni New Venture Contest, opens his first factory. Read More >Linda Duncombe, the director for customer experience, digital banking, and marketing at Citibank in Australia, reflects on her experience in HBS's Advanced Management Program--including an unexpected exercise in creative thinking. Read More >Our continued success as an institution would not be possible without the help of engaged alumni and friends. The 2010-2011 Contributors Report celebrates the more than 12,000 alumni whose support enabled HBS to fulfill the its mission last year. Read More >A private-equity pioneer, Warren Hellman was the youngest partner in the history of Lehman Brothers. Outside finance, he was better known as the banjo-strumming founder of San Francisco's annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival. Read More >Next month, some 152 six-student teams of HBS MBAs will board airplanes bound for a dozen far-flung cities in 10 countries. Once there, they'll hook up with one of 140 organizations to create a new product or service for a developing market. This mass migration is a key part of the new FIELD course for first-year students. Read More >Craig White is an engineer by trade but deep down, it's his love of cooking beef that gets this Texan going. He's found a new career as owner and pit master of Tokyo's first traditional Texas smokehouse. Read More >Wondering what to get the HBSer in your life this year? In the holiday spirit, we're highlighting a few alumni-led companies and ideas that you may not know about. Since roughly 1 in 6 alumni work in manufacturing, high tech, retail, and consumer products, there are many great alumni-led companies working to support our economies. Click on the images below to learn about a few, then help us complete our list by using the comments to recommend other inspired alumni ideas. Guilt-free holiday jewels Open the ...The GI Bill helped Bob Glassman (MBA '69) attend HBS; a fellowship he established has done the same for dozens of HBS students. Read More >Harvard Business Publishing discusses the rising generation of leaders with John Coleman, coauthor of the new book Passion and Purpose , and contributors Patrick Chun, Umaimah Mendhro, and Rye Barcott. Read More >Fewer than 5% of graduates from many top business schools take jobs in nonprofit organizations right out of school. But the numbers don't tell the whole story. Alla Jezmir, for one, feels she is serving a social purpose, even if her job title doesn't say so. Read More >HBS unveils a comprehensive effort to foster ideas and promote action from business leaders in wake of an on-campus CEO summit. Read More >European ministers and central bankers are preparing for a summit this week to save the euro and the euro zone by solving the debt crisis that threatens the world economy. According to HBS's Dante Roscini, a former investment banker, failure is not an option. Read More >Ashish Dhawan, the founder of private equity firm ChrysCapital, is already planning to launch himself into a new obsession: fixing the education system in India. One source of inspiration is the track record of US charter schools. Read More >Michael Bloomberg made billions running the financial information company bearing his name. But it might never have happened if he hadn't been fired from Wall Street during the early days of his career. The Mayor and Bloomberg LP founder shares his story with host Chris Dixon (MBA '03). Read More >As the new leader of the Wisconsin Manufacturing Extension Partnership, Buckley Brinkman helps 9,000 mid-sized manufacturers plan for "Next Generation Manufacturing." By his group's calculation, the manufacturers they support contribute $47 billion to the state's economy and employ some 448,000 people. Read More >Thanks to David Risher (MBA '91) and e-readers, kids in the developing world are reading books they never would otherwise. Read More >Professor Emeritus Charles M. Williams, a renowned authority on commercial banking and a master of the art of case method teaching who influenced the lives and careers of thousands of MBA students and executives around the world, passed away on Nov. 17. More than two dozen of his students went on to join the HBS faculty. Read More >After graduation, Aadil Mamujee made an out-of-the-box career choice: He signed up with a small, San Francisco gaming start-up best known for "Tap Pet Hotel," an iPhone videogame that lets users build hotel rooms for animated puppies and pandas. Read why he thinks mobile-phone gaming is the next frontier. Read More >Siddhartha Yog, founder of The Xander Group Inc., has given Harvard $11,000,001 to establish two professorships, financial aid, and an intellectual entrepreneurship fund. Yog comments, "I am certain that the beneficiaries of this gift will be remarkable individuals who will bring positive and sustainable change to our world." Read More >Members of the HBS Club of Malaysia recently gathered for a sixth biennial reunion. Attendees included 30 members of OPM 28 and hailed from 12 countries. Host Datuk Kuna Sittampalam noted that previous gatherings have been held in India, Argentina, Turkey, Australia, and the US. Read More >On Halloween, before a raucous audience in Burden Hall, Watson , the IBM game-playing computer, took on student teams from HBS and MIT in a friendly game of Jeopardy ! During the match, a slimmed-down, traveling version of Watson showed off its impressive brainpower and comprehension of informal English. But it needed all synapses firing to fend off the flesh-and-blood HBS team (MIT finished a distant third). Named after IBM patriarch Thomas J. Watson, this Watson is endowed with a canned male voice that ...Andrew Main Wilson is nearing his goal: to photograph 1,000 of the world's wonders. Read More >Eventually, Michael Liebreich says, "the world is going to go entirely to clean energy." And, in his role as head of Bloomberg New Energy Finance, there is a lot of money betting he is right. Read More >Sureyya Ciliv, CEO of Turkcell, discusses Turkey's booming economy and the future of technology in the region. According to one recent study, the country has become number one in mobile network coverage with 99.7 percent of the population served. Read More >Blake Hall (right): An online market for military personnel. Photo by Tony Overman Related links Learn how alumni apply military experience to leadership in nonprofits, industry, education, and more. Maura Sullivan (MBA ’09), PepsiCo Robert Goodwin (GMP 3, 2007), Executives Without Borders Blake Hall (MBA ’10), TroopSwap Nicholas Pinchuk (MBA ’76), Snap-on Ed Ellison (MBA ’91), St. Johns Country Day School Veterans Day, celebrated on November 11 in the United States, is a reminder ...Paul Lawrence, a long-time HBS faculty member and influential scholar, passed away on November 1. In addition to 18 consecutive years leading first-year MBA classes, Lawrence is remembered as chair of the MBA Program, the Advanced Management Program, and head of the Organizational Behavior Unit. Read More >As a joint degree student at HBS, Rye Barcott led nonprofit outreach in Kibera, Africa's largest informal urban settlement. An HBS case, revised last year and being taught on November 9, documents the slum's fragile economy. Read More >Laura Yecies, SugarSync CEO, speaks with Shibani Joshi on how small businesses can use the cloud to their advantage, and why today is a good time to start a business. Read More >Rich Lesser, chairman of North and South America at Boston Consulting Group, discusses coming shifts in the employment landscape, brought on by continuing revolutions in technology. Read More >To achieve peak performance, real estate executive Mark Fookes (AMP 178, 2010) steps outside his comfort zone. Read More >Ron Bloom, who helped restructure the automotive industry and served as President Obama's top manufacturing adviser, will advise the National Association of Letter Carriers in negotiating a new deal with the cash-strapped Postal Service. Read More >James Allworth, a Fellow at HBS's Forum for Growth and Innovation, predicts that the new iPhone's voice-control software is going to have a big impact. Will Siri fundamentally change our relationship with computers? Read More >In Kerty Levy's (MBA ’97) beauty-products division, science makes sure that "natural" also means "safe." Read More >Are basic consumer and business documents the next field ripe for mass customization? LegalZoom, a 10-year-old internet startup, thinks so, and a lot of smart venture money around Menlo Park agrees. Read More >After climbing the corporate ladder at Monsanto for 25 years, David Price made the transition to entrepreneurship. One of the most rewarding aspects, he reports, is working with small businesses, primarily minority- and women-owned businesses. Read More >Leigh Rawdon (MBA ’01) on her start-up clothing line, Tea: “There is nothing like getting that first order and realizing this is not just an idea anymore.” Read More >Professors Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin need your opinion. As part of a new project on competitiveness, they are reaching out to alumni, the business community, and other stakeholders. Check your inbox for an invitation to participate in the project’s launch survey. Research will be featured in a special spring 2012 issue of the Harvard Business Review and inform long-term efforts at the School. Read More >HBS Professor Rebecca Henderson was granted Harvard University's highest faculty honor earlier this week. Henderson, whose work focuses on the financial impact of sustainability, becomes the John and Natty McArthur University Professor, a chair established in honor of the former HBS dean and his wife. Read More >In New York City, public-private partnerships have rescued the city's green spaces. Dan Biederman is behind the transformation of Bryant Park, located on eight acres behind the Public Library. The park that once logged 500 felonies per year is now a multimillion-dollar business (and runs like one). Read More >Anoop Prakash, the managing director of Harley-Davidson India, reflects on lessons from his service as a US Marine, and the next step for the iconic bike maker in the country. Read More >Watch the Dean's reunion address live on Friday! All HBS alumni are invited to join us on Friday, September 23, from 8:45 - 9:45 am EDT, for Dean Nitin Nohria's first live broadcast to the alumni community. Visit the alumni homepage on Friday morning to view the Dean's remarks about HBS today. Missed the broadcast? Check back Tuesday to view it on video. Read More >The Obama administration reportedly is considering big changes in the broken system for taxing the foreign income of US corporations. US multinationals have piled up overseas cash holdings in excess of $1 trillion, according to some estimates. Under current law, income earned by foreign subsidiaries of US firms is supposed to be taxed at the corporate rate of 35 percent. But the law provides a huge loophole that allows companies to sidestep paying any tax on foreign profits as long as the money stays ...Wall Street banks are not known as particularly religious workplaces. But Carla A. Harris, a managing director at Morgan Stanley and a part-time gospel singer, has found a way to blend profits with piety. Read More >Professor Amabile, co-author of the new book The Progress Principle , argues that promoting employee engagement makes sound economic sense. For leaders, supporting everyday progress can be surprisingly easy and effective. Read More >As the world recalls the events of 9/11 this week, we are reminded of two articles from the Bulletin that offered contemporaneous accounts of that historic moment. Read how the School reacted to the tragedy and memorialized members of the HBS community who died on 9/11. And see the event through the eyes of Joseph J. Lhota (MBA '80), who was New York City's deputy mayor for operations at the time, and other HBS alumni in NYC working as volunteers to bring the city back.Jim Gibbons became the first blind man to earn an HBS MBA, in 1994. Today Gibbons is CEO of Goodwill and a member of the White House Council for Community Solutions. Providing job training to 2.4 million people a year, his organization aims to be part of the solution. Read More >As an RC in 2001, Tom Fishburne started out drawing a cartoon called "Skydeck" for The Harbus. Now his content has more than 100,000 followers and he makes his living drawing comics full-time. Read More >Meet the five distinguished graduates who received the School's highest honor. Read More >Mary Callahan Erdoes is the rare female comet in the male-dominated firmament of Wall Street. As chief executive of J.P. Morgan Asset Management, she runs the world's fifth-biggest asset management company, overseeing $1.3 trillion. Read More >After three decades marketing well-known brands, Cammie Dunaway left the world of Frito-Lay, Nintendo, and Yahoo in October 2010 to become U.S. president and chief marketing officer of KidZania, a theme park chain founded in Mexico City in 1999.
Dunaway explains her career philosophy. Read More >Headmaster or master of the universe? For Ed Ellison (MBA ’91), the choice wasn’t hard to make. Read More >Oslo-born Torstein Hagen was inspired to launch Viking River Cruises in 1997, after his daughter, who was living in Russia, took a river cruise. Today, his growing fleet cruises into the heart of cities like Moscow, St. Petersburg, Budapest, and Vienna. Read More >Approaching the i-lab on the walkway from Aldrich and Spangler. A kitchen lounge and video gaming area. There’s a small army of workers putting the finishing touches on the Harvard Innovation Lab , which will soon welcome MBA students enrolled in the new first-year FIELD (Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development) course . A tour of the building, the former offices of PBS’s WGBH-TV, shows how dramatic the 10-month transformation has been. A warren of narrow hallways with low ...As head of the U.S. Small Business Administration, Karen Mills focuses on small business growth. In a Q&A with Inc.com, Mills talks about loan levels, a $1 billion injection of capital in small business--and numbers-centric leadership. Read More >Mashable interviews founder Katia Beauchamp talks about how she and Barna built Birchbox, how they got brands on board, and how HBS helped prepare them for the big leagues. We think most entrepreneurs relate to her sentiment: "There is no 'no' for me. Ever. I don't even hear it." Read More >In a dramatic preview of the therapeutic possibilities of the stem-cell revolution, David Green’s (MBA ’91) company recently played a key role. Read More >Peter Sacerdote, who shaped investment strategy at Goldman Sachs, is remembered by Henry Paulson (MBA '70). At HBS, Sacerdote established prizes for the winning and runner-up social enterprise teams in the annual Student Business Plan Contest. Read More >After its first a cappella group, The Tycoons, disbanded ca. 1970-71, HBS had to wait almost 20 years before two new a cappella groups, Heard on the Street ( HOTS ) and the She-E-Os , were founded in the late 1980s: HOTS in 1987 by Bill Gaden (MBA ’89) and the She-E-Os in 1989 by Julie Yao Cooper (MBA ’91). A member of HOTS in 1990 provided a snapshot of the group in its early days. There were 16 members, and they sang in four-part harmony. Their signature song was “House of Blue ...Now that Melanie Asher’s (MBA ’03) start-up has been successfully launched, it can be deliciously shaken or stirred! Read More >More high-potential ventures fail than succeed. The good news, says Sahlman, is that the US economy and culture encourage entrepreneurial risk-taking. Failure doesn't mean "Game over." It means "Try again, with experience." Read More >What debt ceiling? I haven’t been on Mars for the last two weeks, but close to it….off in the woods and on vacation, unplugged, untethered, and blissfully out of touch. So I missed the all-consuming topic that must have driven everyone crazy while I was away. Somehow, everything came to an end (at least for now) without my input. Like me, I bet Americans feel they had a better plan than what Washington came up with, and they’re probably right. Sausage-making, and its final product, has ...Jennifer Goodman Linn (MBA '99) left a legacy of hope to patients who battle rare cancers. Read More >Ian Pearman, chief executive of advertising agency AMV BBDO, started as a graduate trainee and spent 16 years working his way to the top, where new ideas still drive him. "I'm a creative," he explains. "The work continues to be the most important thing." Read More >Anand Mahindra describes his company's efforts to broaden the range of issues to which managers are exposed. The unconventional Mahindra Universe Program at HBS is one way the company challenges employees to move beyond their comfort zone. Read More >Deborah Farrington co-founded her Manhattan-based firm StarVest in 1998, and from the beginning, she's focused on technology-enabled business services. In a Forbes Q&A, she discuss recent wins, VC "mission creep," and how to attract more female VCs. Read More >Aleksandra Efimova (OPM 39, 2010), a Russian dancer who has parlayed ballet into a business, also promotes the arts and strengthens international ties. Read More >How would you like to invest in a project that simultaneously provides a needed social service and generates a financial return? Nice idea, but not possible? Not exactly. Social impact bonds (SIBs) do just that. The concept is simple and powerful: bondholders put money into projects that have meaningful social impact and earn a financial return based on measurable results. While still new, the idea is gaining traction in the United States and England, where this innovative approach to funding social ...Jaime Ayala (MBA ’88), the former CEO of the Philippines’s oldest real estate firm, makes a mid-life shift into social enterprise. Read More >Recent research finds that inventors are leaving states that enforce non-competes for states that don't. If your company requires employees to sign such agreements, you may want to read these "brain drain" findings and reconsider. Read More >Nobuo Sato, executive director of HBS's Japan Research Center, reports how a younger generation has rallied to lead the country into the future in the aftermath of the earthquake, the tsunami, and the nuclear power crisis. Read More >HBS faculty engage in a panel discussion in Beijing. A visit to China Merchant Bank will inform BGIE and other courses at HBS. When Baker Foundation Professor F. Warren McFarlan first visited China in 1979, he traveled there with his wife and three other HBS faculty and their spouses. The trip was organized by C.B. Sung (MBA ’50), a Chinese native who, upon graduation, found himself unable to go home after his country’s fall to Communist forces in 1949. With the gradual opening of China, Sung, ...Nobuo Sato, executive director of HBS's Japan Research Center, says Japan's young leaders are capable of coping with crisis and building a new future--in very different ways.Zany ads help Russell Braterman (MBA ’00) tap the British teen cell-phone market. Read More >The international plan to fix Greece's finances needs a rethink, according to Antonis Samaras, the head of Greece's main opposition party. His center-right New Democracy party is proposing a new path, as austerity plans and tax increases trigger public concern. Read More >Interest in responsible investing has soared in the past two decades. "What used to be about putting your money where your principles were has become a mainstream investment philosophy," says Martin Clarke, chair of the UK's sustainable investment and finance association. Read More >Bonita Stewart (MBA ’83) has seamlessly shifted her marketing talents from the auto industry to the fast lane at Google. Read More >Last month, more than one million people lined the streets of Boston for a parade in honor of their National Hockey League champion Boston Bruins. Talk about consumer excitement over a product! On that score (or should I say “SCO-ORE!”), could the Bruins’ remarkable season and first Stanley Cup triumph since 1972 hold lessons for other kinds of organizations and companies? Sports and games serve as a handy source of metaphors for business. Performance metrics abound, and success and ...The serious gear made by Tim Baka's (MBA '93) start-up, SlingFin, will help you climb every mountain. Read More >Tom Hulme, design director at IDEO, explains how large companies can adapt and apply six start-up strategies, while still meeting quarterly earnings expectations. Read More >Sometimes big ideas start with small experiments. That’s been the experience of HBS associate professor Nava Ashraf, whose experimental approach to research in developing countries has produced insights that have influenced government policies. Ashraf, an economist by training, has conducted behavioral-change experiments in health, agriculture, and microfinance in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. She brings that globetrotting experience to bear when teaching a second-year course called ...For the uninitiated, breaking into the world of art collecting can be both thrilling and frustrating. Paddle 8, a new online art collecting platform co-founded by Aditya Julka, aims to empower buyers and shift the future of collecting. Read More >As creator of "Falling Skies," a new sci-fi drama that premiered on TNT Sunday night, Robert Rodat knew there was only one city with enough pluck to handle the hostile invaders he had in mind. Read More >After launching and selling four tech companies, Mike Cassidy (MBA '91) has taken his entrepreneurial talents to Google. Read More >Filmmaker Stephen K. Bannon wrote and directed a documentary about Sarah Palin that will premiere in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina. The two-hour film, which provides a snapshot of her time as governor of Alaska, will be shown nationwide in July. Read More >Bill Wyman (MBA '65) launched a nonprofit in Rwanda after taking an HBS course on mid-life options. Read More >Named by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as CEO of a new direct investment fund, Kirill Dmitriev aims to show foreign investors that Russia is a safe and profitable place to put their money. Read More >The Tycoons in 1950 Songs Sung by the 1957 Tycoons: Money We Love the Ladies All the Things You Are My Fair Lady Medley Lydia, the Tattooed Lady Imagination Ugly Chile Princess Papuli Honey Teasin' Medley Sunshine Girl (Quartet) Subway Song Stairway to the Stars Francis Manhattan Serenade Two years after the founding of Harvard University's oldest a cappella singing group, the Krokodiloes, at the Hasty Pudding Club, the Tycoons, HBS's oldest a cappella singing group, was formed in 1948 with the ...Andrea Nadosy Bunt spent her second year at HBS creating a roadmap for her lifestyle accessories company, bobara. When an opportunity came up to sell a new tote at Apple stores, Bunt faced a classic case decision: sell direct or go retail? Read More >Entrepreneurship can be taught, but folks like William Alden (MBA ’52) seem to have it in their DNA. Read More >The educational power of video games and simulations to teach everyone from fighter pilots to senior managers is well documented. Games, after all, are fun . Our competitive instinct kicks in, and before we know it we’ve lost an hour to launching “angry birds” to demolish fortifications built by green pigs. If the ultimate outcome of that frantic gaming also teaches us something (probably not the case with Angry Birds), our brain is likely too engaged in the task of winning to rebel ...From more than 500 nominations, three new fellows, including Joe O'Donnell, will join the University's highest governing body in July. O'Donnell brings experience in both business and the arts, having served on the President's Advisory Committee on the Arts. Read More >South of the border, Daniel Kafie (MBA ’07) and some HBS buddies are the brains behind Vostu.com, a start-up that produces popular social networking games. Read More >As the keynote speaker during HBS's Class Day ceremonies, Kathy Giusti recounted her life-changing journey for the 936 members of the MBA Class of 2011. Sharing her experience as a healthcare entrepreneur, she recalled: "I was not a risk taker, but when I faced my own mortality, my risk profile changed dramatically." Read More >The National Research Council, an arm of the U.S National Academy of Sciences, recently added its voice to a growing chorus of calls for immediate action to cut emissions of heat-trapping gases. As it happens, the announcement came on the heels of a visit to the School by Renault and Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn , who touted to an HBS student audience the virtues of his company’s zero-emissions all-electric car, the Leaf . The CEO, his company, and its star product all embody the concepts of ...For a career in public service, George Yeo (MBA '85) chose to prepare at HBS. Read More >Libraries have changed a bit since John Burke was a high school student. Through his role as president of the Delray Beach Public Library board of directors, the longtime marketing and sales executive is making sure that the library remains a community hub. Read More >In a new book, former MTV executive Bill Roedy reflects on creating 175 channels around the world -- a job he says was made a little easier with MTV's charitable work. Read More >Don’t give up on American manufacturing yet. There are signs of new life that give rise to optimism about a U.S. manufacturing renaissance. A new analysis by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) estimates that within the next five years the wage gap between the United States and China, home to tens of thousands of former U.S. manufacturing jobs, will all but disappear as Chinese wages and the value of the yuan continue to rise. “All over China, wages are climbing at 15 to 20 percent a year because ...Jimmy Rane (OPM 11, 1986) became the Frank Perdue of pressure-treated lumber, with an assist from an HBS professor. Read More >BaubleBar, a new startup from two MBA '10 classmates, aims to keep high-end jewelry prices low by sourcing directly from the designer to the customer. Read More >Both on their second startups, Gugnani and Ferreira are part of a growing community of entrepreneurs in New York capitalizing on the region's traditional strengths in finance, fashion, and media, along with rich industry experience. Read More >"Most Harvard case studies start with 'It was a dark and stormy night,'" says Christine Day, CEO of Lululemon Athletica. "Mine could have started with 'It was a perfect storm.'" Read More >The groves of academe are fields rich with possibilities for memorial naming, from entire campuses and buildings to individual benches. HBS has honored individuals and groups of people by putting their names not only to buildings but also to streets, rooms in buildings, courtyards, 115 professorial chairs, and more than 400 fellowships. When the campus was built in 1925-26, George F. Baker, who funded the buildings’ construction, was given the honor of naming them and chose names of U.S. Treasury ...Judy Gehrke (MBA '73) says the eclectic Manhattan market she manages is a "mini-laboratory for budding entrepreneurs." Read More >A senior executive in the automotive coatings industry, Cynthia Niekamp became intrigued with manufacturing as an undergrad interning at a GM plant in Dayton. "Honestly," she says, "I don't spend a lot of time thinking about being a woman in a male industry. It just is my life; it's been my life." Read More >Betsy Morgan (MBA '95) is applying her brand- building skills to a new Web strategy for conservative talker Glenn Beck. Read More >A spicy chickpea dish © Kirti Poddar on Flickr When Dean Nitin Nohria sat down for an interview with us last September, we asked: "What do you like to do for fun?" His answer: "I love to cook. I'm vegetarian, and I cook Indian and Italian food. At home, I'm the chef. If I don't cook, we eat cereal." Thanks to reunion volunteer Laurel Skurko (MBA '91), who enticed the Dean to share three of his favorite recipes, HBS alumni can try these everyday main course dishes. Channa Masala (Spicy Chickpeas) ...Just weeks before graduating, Richard Edelman chose the "dark art" of PR over the lingerie business and a trip to Europe. Today, the family business is the world's largest independent PR company, with revenues of $532m and operations in 54 markets. Read More >Representing the HBS Association of Northern California and the HBS Tech Alumni Club, BioMine took top honors in the School's second annual Alumni New Venture Contest. Led by co-founder and CEO Privahini Bradoo, the company provides e-waste mining solutions. Read More > |