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Goldman Supports Case Method
The Goldman Sachs Group will fund outreach and scholarships to bring a dozen or more senior faculty from leading Indian business schools to HBS this summer to participate in the School’s two programs that teach how to teach the case method. HBS began offering case-method instruction to key faculty from top business schools in emerging markets in 2000. Since then, more than 1,000 faculty from Latin America, China, Africa, and Central Europe have participated. Goldman’s support is part of its 10,000 Women initiative, which aims to bring business education to underserved women predominantly in developing and emerging markets. The initiative will work with business schools around the globe to deliver short-term academic programs.
You Asked for It: Exec Ed Reunions
By popular demand, beginning in the fall, HBS is offering a three-year reunion cycle for Executive Education alumni. From September 25 to September 28, AMP/ISMP graduates will convene for the traditional HBS reunion fare of academic sessions with the School’s faculty, social gatherings, and informal networking.
OPM will have its reunion in October 2009, and PMD, TGMP, PGL, GMP, SEPME, and SEPSA will gather in late September and early October of 2010. For more information, visit http://alumni.hbs.edu/EEreunions.
Alfaro Named Young Global Leader
HBS associate professor Laura Alfaro, an expert on international capital flows, foreign direct investment, and sovereign debt, has been named a Young Global Leader 2008 by the World Economic Forum. The honor recognizes the top 200 to 300 global leaders under the age of 40 for their professional accomplishments, commitment to society, and potential to contribute to shaping the future of the world. A native of Costa Rica, Alfaro earned her Ph.D. in economics from UCLA.
Grad’s “Claw” Goes to Market
It’s estimated that more than 50 percent of HBS alumni start their own company within ten years of graduation. David Moeller (MBA ’08) got a head start on that stat when he and partner Craig Forest of MIT invented “the Claw,” a bike storage system that works more easily than an ordinary hook. Moeller and Forest competed last summer on the ABC reality show American Inventor; although they weren’t among the finalists, their product is the first from the show to be officially brought to market by a major corporation. (Gladiator GarageWorks, a subsidiary of Whirlpool Corporation, will produce, market, and distribute the Claw.)
Anjali Raina to Lead India Research Center
In March, Anjali Raina was appointed executive director of HBS’s India Research Center in Mumbai. She spent the past fifteen years with Citigroup (India). The center was established in 2006 to support faculty research and course development. It is part of a global network of research centers located in regions that play a vital role in the world economy, including Asia- Pacific, Europe, Japan, Latin America, and California’s Silicon Valley. Raina will focus on building and maintaining relationships with senior business leaders in the region to facilitate the expanding work of the center, said HBS professor Krishna Palepu, senior associate dean for International Development.
McCraw Wins Prize for Biography of Economist Joseph Schumpeter
HBS professor emeritus Thomas McCraw has won the Business History Conference’s 2008 Hagley Prize for the year’s best business history book. Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction was praised in the award citation for the “engaging artistry” of McCraw’s writing and for the way the book “skillfully connects Schumpeter’s landmark analysis of entrepreneurship to the history of modern business enterprise.” Schumpeter (1883–1950) taught at Harvard for twenty years and spent hundreds of hours at Baker Library doing research. Excerpts from McCraw’s book appeared in the June 2007 Bulletin.
