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The article examines the efforts of the Harvard Business School's administration to improve gender relations among students graduating in the class of 2013. Details are provided on how Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust appointed Nitin Nohria as dean of the business school and created a standard of interaction among both male and female professors and students. Additional information is provided on the gender gap in the student body as well as the salary gap between genders.

Highlights the social entrepreneur. Examples of students at Harvard Business School working on a proposal to fix the broken down health care system in the Ukraine; How the social entrepreneurs had to prove that their plan could save a small part of the world without losing money; Harvard's Initiative on Social Enterprise which aims to prepare MBAs to manage nonprofits which was founded by J. Gregory Dees; New definitions of social enterprise; Other institutions that have similar programs; David Bornstein who calls the new discipline the "citizen sector" in his book "How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and The Power of New Ideas."

The article focuses on a deal signed by the copying machines maker Xerox with Fujifilm Holdings of Japan. It mentions increasing popularity of technology including iPhones, Google Docs and the cloud computing that forced Xerox to look for new ways to sustain in the market. It presents the views of David B. Yoffie, Professor at the Harvard Business School, on the same.

The article discusses U.S. corporate and businesses' social action efforts to solve social problems in the country, including the Georgia cable manufacturer Southwire's hiring of high school students at risk of dropping out of school. The article heavily references a survey conducted by Harvard Business School on corporate social action, including the school faculty member Michael E. Porter's perspective on social action undertaken by businesses and wages in the U.S.

The article presents brief profile of American businessman, author, politician Michael R. Bloomberg along with information on his professional curriculum, his education from the Harvard Business School and job at investment bank Salomon Brothers.

The article discusses the implementation of the HBX online education program by Harvard Business School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Topics discussed include the views of Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen and his concept of disruptive innovation, the role of Harvard Business School dean Nitin Nohria, and the ways in which the HBX model differs from traditional massive open online courses (MOOCs). The views of professor Michael Porter are also examined.

Several obituaries are presented for people from across the U.S. including former Maine journalist David William Bradley, Constance MacCrate, who worked at the Harvard Business School, Massachusetts, and Stanley Adrian Schottland, who served in the U.S. Army.

The article reports on the practice of companies offering Master of Business Administration (MBA) students a declining bonus. With a declining bonus, the student has to accept an offer by an early date or else loose the bonus or have it reduced. Some schools, such as Harvard Business School, refuse to allow such offers to their students. The declining bonus is a sign of the competitiveness for companies trying to secure MBA students as employees.

The author investigates the real-world value of a master's degree in business administration. The work of Harvard Business School graduate Adam Richman, who tracked the progress of members of his graduating class, is reviewed. Comments from Richman regarding his work are included. According to the author, there is no consensus data on whether or not business school graduates will become successes in the corporate world.

This article discusses women who want to return to executive positions after a long hiatus during which they had children. The Harvard Business School and the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth are creating executive training programs to help women professionals improve their technical skills and return to the workforce. Babson College in Massachusetts is looking into formalizing past held seminars on the subject into a more formal program.

The article focuses on the leadership which can be learned in business schools. Topics discussed include several business schools which claimed that they developed leaders, which include the Harvard Business School, Ross School at the University of Michigan, and Fuqua School of Business at the Duke University.

The article offers information on the study conducted by the Harvard Business School which found that women in business want to have high-achieving careers despite of having a family and men expects that they will take precedence over their spouses' careers.

The article focuses on the Graduate Management Admission Tests (GMATs) for business schools in U.S., which include the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Harvard Business School, and Kellogg School of Management.

Two letters to the editor are presented in response to the article "B-School, Disrupted" that was published in the June 1, 2014 issue.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to the articles in previous issues including "A Plea for Caution From Russia," by Valdimir V. Putin in September 12, 2013 issue, "As Obama Pauses Action, Putin Takes Center Stages," in the September 12, 2013 issue, and "Harvard Case Study: Gender Equity," in the September 8, 2013 issue.

The article announces that Kathleen McCartney was appointed president at Smith College in Massachusetts.

The article focuses on the online discussion on education and employment sponsored by the McKinsey Center for Government. It mentions that the online discussion will include a panelist from Dubai, Geneva, and Washington addressing young people unemployment issues. It adds that recruiter preferred students who are graduated with a master's degree in business (MBA) and from the Elite Global schools like Harvard Business School.

The article focuses on capitalist Tarrus Richardson, who helped organize a collation that supports legislation to open job opportunities for African-Americans and women such as female participation in pension investments. Tyson A. Pratcher, an assistant comptroller, advised Willie Woods, ICV Capital Partners' managing partner, that they do not want Richardson in their team. Moreover, Richardson filled arbitration case against Woods.

NAIEL IQBAL'S co-workers couldn't figure him out. He'd just started at a Midtown Manhattan hedge fund -- the kind of elite enclave where overachievers in button-downs go to make a few hundred grand before heading off to Harvard Business School. But Mr. Iqbal, 27, a graduate of the Wharton School, wasn't acting like a typical finance guy. He didn't introduce himself around the office. Nor did he grab lunch with the other traders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A few years after Mitt Romney graduated from Harvard Business School, he returned to share a simple, timeworn lesson in an unusual way. Invited to give a presentation on balancing work and family, he began by telling students that they were like multinational corporations, recalled Clayton M. Christensen, who organized the event. ''You have the same question as General Electric,'' said Mr. Romney, then a young father and a management consultant. ''Your resources are your time and talent. How are you going to deploy them?'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

MIDDLETON--T. Michael Passed away at the age of 77. He was the loving husband of Joan Perkinson Middleton, with whom he shared 48 years of marriage. He was father to Thomas M. Middleton, III of Hingham, MA and Leslie S. Gilvar, of Plano, TX and "Papa" to seven grandchildren. He is survived by his two sisters, Mary Gould of New York and Katherine Brock, of Madison, WI. Mike attended Wooster School in Danbury, CT, and graduated from Yale University in 1956. He received his MBA from Harvard Business School after serving as an officer in the US Navy. Mike founded his investment firm, Middleton & Company in 1984. He was on many boards and committees during his life, including the Mount Pleasant Home, The Children's Museum, the Boston Security Analyst Society, Mass College of Pharmacy, the South Shore Conservatory of Music, and the Trustees of Reservations. Services will be held on January 7, at 10:30am, at the Hingham Congregational Church, 366 Main Street, Hingham, MA 02043. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to: Alzheimer's Association, PO Box 96011, Washington, DC 20090-6011 or online at: http://act.alz.org/goto/ mike--middleton [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

FOR decades before Mitt Romney arrived at Harvard Business School in the fall of 1972, the traditional path for Harvard M.B.A.'s had been a straight one: join a major company right out of school and climb the ranks. By the early 1970s, though, the culture of elite American business was starting to change. Brand-name corporations were losing some of their cachet. In their place was a rising new group of firms that did not sell goods and services to American households but instead sold advice to other companies. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MIND OF MADOFF Despite initial doubts about his claims, Bernard L. Madoff, below, the convicted swindler, is actually working with a faculty member at Harvard Business School on a case study about his career experiences, including his enormous Ponzi scheme. The research, according to a Harvard spokesman, is aimed at identifying the ''pressures, circumstances, emotions, etc.'' that prompted the felons to commit their crimes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Elizabeth Lesly Stevens writes a column for The Bay Citizen. How's this for a Harvard Business School case study: The Bay Area is renowned for its entrepreneurial culture and the fortunes amassed by its technology elite. But leaders from that world have been notably unsuccessful persuading voters that business smarts qualify them for elective office. (Think Meg Whitman, Carly Fiorina and Steve Westly.) [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

LONDON -- For institutions that regularly make the Top 10, the autumn announcement of university rankings is an occasion for quiet self-congratulation. When Cambridge beat Harvard for the No. 1 spot in the QS World University Rankings this September, Cambridge put out a press release. When Harvard topped the Times Higher Education list two weeks later, it was Harvard's turn to gloat. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

David A. Moss, an economic and policy historian at the Harvard Business School, has spent years studying income inequality. While he has long believed that the growing disparity between the rich and poor was harmful to the people on the bottom, he says he hadn't seen the risks to the world of finance, where many of the richest earn their great fortunes. Now, as he studies the financial crisis of 2008, Mr. Moss says that even Wall Street may have something serious to fear from inequality -- namely, another crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Republican running for governor in Connecticut went to Andover, Harvard and Harvard Business School, founded a private equity firm and settled in Greenwich. He owns a private plane, six cars and three motorcycles, as well as a 100-foot yacht registered in the Marshall Islands. His likely Democratic rival (Exeter, Harvard, Yale M.B.A.) has a net worth of more than $90 million, and owns six cars and a 16-room home in Greenwich. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A year ago, Tough Mudder was a semifinalist in the Harvard Business School's annual Business Plan Contest. A British student named Will Dean thought he could attract 500 people to run a grueling race through mud and man-made obstacles. Professors generally considered the plan too optimistic. ''That was a big discussion,'' said David Godes, a Harvard marketing professor last year who now teaches at the University of Maryland. ''What was the target for this? Who's going to do this?'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The aftermath of a historic financial crisis seems an appropriate time to take stock of graduate business education. What are we teaching these people before they head off to the executive suite? Three Harvard Business School scholars, Srikant M. Datar, David A. Garvin and Patrick G. Cullen, address this question in ''Rethinking the M.B.A.: Business Education at a Crossroads,'' a thought-provoking examination of the curriculums that shape many top investment bankers, consultants and chief executives. After studying the nation's most prestigious business schools, the authors conclude that an excessive emphasis on quantitative and theoretical analysis has contributed to the making of too many wonky wizards. M.B.A. recipients, according to this book, haven't learned the importance of social responsibility, common-sense skepticism and respect for the dangers of taking risks with other people's money. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Harvard Business School teaches future executives the gold standard in brand crisis management. The model dictates that a company should communicate clearly with the public about a crisis, cooperate with government officials, swiftly begin its own investigation of a problem and, if necessary, quickly institute a product recall. The template is based on Johnson & Johnson's conduct in 1982, when several people died after taking tainted Tylenol pills. The company's reaction to the crisis is widely regarded as exemplary. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

When a new crop of future business leaders graduates from the Harvard Business School next week, many of them will be taking a new oath that says, in effect, greed is not good. Nearly 20 percent of the graduating class have signed ''The M.B.A. Oath,'' a voluntary student-led pledge that the goal of a business manager is to ''serve the greater good.'' It promises that Harvard M.B.A.'s will act responsibly, ethically and refrain from advancing their ''own narrow ambitions'' at the expense of others. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

IF at first you don't succeed, it doesn't matter that you tried. That seems to be the message of a working paper prepared recently by a team at Harvard Business School. The study found that when it comes to venture-backed entrepreneurship, the only experience that counts is success. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The goal is to get the engine of capitalism going as productively as possible. Ideology is a luxury good in times of crisis. NANCY KOEHN, a historian at the Harvard Business School, on the use of government intervention in the marketplace. [A14] [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Many career shifts involve an ''aha'' moment. In Lisa Sherman's case, the moment was not only the catalyst for a career change but also led her to tell her boss she was gay. And her experience ultimately became memorialized in a case study for the Harvard Business School. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Comments on the E-commerce entrepreneurship course offered at Harvard Business School. Reason for changing curriculum at Harvard; Some of the elective courses available at Harvard.

Focuses on the personal history of Texas Governor and United States presidential candidate George W. Bush. Graduation from Yale University in 1968; Years immediately following the graduation during which Bush was unsure of a career; Career in the Texas Air National Guard; Various jobs in which he was involved; Involvement in the Senatorial campaign of Winton M. Blount; Decision to attend Harvard Business School.

Focuses on the additions to the Harvard Business School curriculum. How the school changed and how it does business to remain relevant and retain its dominance under the economic rules; Effort to reorganize Harvard around the study of entrepreneurial ventures; How Harvard started a series of initiatives in Silicon Valley; Comments of dean Kim B. Clark.

Focuses on the education of United States presidential candidate George W. Bush at Harvard Business School. Significance of his master's degree in business administration to his presidency; Perception on Harvard University's management training; Comments from his classmates and other Harvard graduates. INSET: Teaching Gore? That He Remembered.

Pays tribute to C. Roland Christensen, an influential Harvard Business School professor who died on August 28, 1999. Cause of death; Educational and career background; Opinion of Professor Kenneth R. Andrews on Christensen.

Looks at some of the changes being made to the Harvard Business School Masters in Business Administration (M.B.A) program, to include more females executives. Objectives of changes made; Information on the composition of the school's faculty; Information on some of the programs which are to be launched; What the programs will entail.

Provides information on management advice videos of the Harvard Business School. View of chairman William S. Sahlman on the response of customers; Information on strategy; Efforts in search for finances; Role of Ruth R. McMullin as the first president; Views of her successor Linda S. Doyle on operations; Details of venture; Views of the dean John H. McArthur on relevant issues.

Informs about the appointment of Kim B. Clark as dean of Harvard Business School. Particulars of Clark.

Reports the decision of dean of the Harvard Business School, John H. McArthur, to step down by September 1995, as reported on March 6, 1995.