Tag: executive education

Editorial: Scratching the Fa‡ade

HBS launches its first-ever capital campaign to raise $500 million, to be separate from the endowment Last Saturday, September 21, at a business-star-studded, all-day event held on campus, Harvard Business School launched its first-ever capital campaign – to raise $500 million. Coverage of the event will be featured in next week’s Harbus, and that may… Continue reading Editorial: Scratching the Fa‡ade

Tyra Banks: Fun, Fierce, and Financially Savvy

How did you celebrate Valentine’s Day?  A romantic dinner with your true love? At a Tommy Doyle’s stoplight party, hoping to find true love?  For a select group of HBS students and faculty, V-Day was spent with one of America’s ultimate true loves: supermodel and media mogul Tyra Banks.  In a casual 90-minute conversation with… Continue reading Tyra Banks: Fun, Fierce, and Financially Savvy

An Interview with Richard Formato

While Richard Formato waited patiently in line with his children to see Santa at a local mall, he received some unexpected and life changing news. He was accepted to the Harvard Business School Executive Education Program. He was shocked to learn he had been admitted, but when he started at HBS several months later, he… Continue reading An Interview with Richard Formato

Harvard Business School Breaks Ground for New Executive Education Complex

Ratan Tata, head of India’s famed Tata Group and a 1975 graduate of Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program for senior executives, joined Dean Nitin Nohria, former Dean Jay Light, and HBS alumnus and benefactor C.D. “Dick” Spangler at a groundbreaking ceremony at the School last Friday night (Dec. 2) for Tata Hall, a new… Continue reading Harvard Business School Breaks Ground for New Executive Education Complex

Where the HBS Learning Model Falls Short

HBS has been a phenomenal experience and like many of you, I have learned a tremendous amount, despite many warnings to the contrary (from both alums as well as non-alums). Yet, despite my respect and admiration for the HBS learning model, there are several areas in the model that have come to disappoint me. As… Continue reading Where the HBS Learning Model Falls Short

Maxing out Capacity

On 10 September, Paul Otellini, President and CEO of Intel Corporation, spoke in a packed Aldrich classroom to the HBS community. He spent the entire afternoon with students, holding an informal reception as well as a dinner for ECs. The level of access that students got to this big-wig was remarkable. How many people fit… Continue reading Maxing out Capacity