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Students from the Harvard Business School (HBS) graduating Class of 2023 honored five faculty members with Faculty Teaching Award honors. Tony Mayo, Sophus ...

On Wednesday, May 24, 2023, Baker Lawn was filled with smiles, applause, and sunshine as all 984 members of the Harvard Business School (HBS) MBA Class of 2023 gathered to celebrate Class Day. Typically taking place the day before Commencement, Class Day is planned and conducted by a committee of graduating MBA students. Along with family, friends, and guests, graduates honored five faculty teaching award recipients, and listened to speeches from classmates and one of this year’s Alumni Achiev...

This week we’re kicking off a new series! Follow along as we share ‘Insider’s Guides’ for many of the top MBA programs, beginning with – you guessed it – Harvard Business School. We’ll go beyond the published facts and statistics, sharing what it’s really like to attend some of the most highly sought-after schools in

A new, weeklong intensive elective course at HBS (a Short Intensive Program, or SIP) brought approximately 80 students and more than 40 experts across industry and academia to discuss the policies, innovations, financing, opportunities, and complexities of climate change in the business context. Built collaboratively by the Business and Environment Initiative and the teaching team of HBS faculty Eleanor Laurans, Jim Matheson, and Peter Tufano, the course was a response to the groundswell of inte...

ShareBar BOSTON—In a vote by the Harvard Business School (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. As part of the nomination process, students identified professors who have enhanced the learning experience and were specifically asked to refle...

Harvard Business School (HBS) has announced the spring cohort of Executive Fellows for the 2020-21 academic year. The Executive Fellows Program leverages the expertise of outstanding practitioners, including alumni, each of whom partners with an HBS faculty member to bring their experience in business into the MBA program and the School. The fellows contribute to the School by working with faculty and MBA students on curricular and co-curricular activities, including co-teaching course sessions...

Dean Nitin Nohria welcomed more than 2,500 participants to the June 11 event led by Senior Lecturers Andy Zelleke and Tony Mayo. Following the Dean’s introduction, HBS alumni, staff, and students—Mia Mends (MBA 2003), George Ellis (MBA 1984), HBS CIO Ron Chandler, Chichi Anyoku (MPP/MBA 2021), Ronnie Wimberley (MBA 2021), Priyanka Chaurasia (MBA 2021), and Mike Klain (JD/MBA 2022) —shared their lived experiences in reaction to and in reflection of the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Tayl...