News
Reunion Update for Executive Education Alumni
Harvard Business School is pleased to offer its Executive Education alumni the opportunity to hold reunions on campus, beginning in 2008. Reunions will be organized at the initiation of your class secretary or volunteer for the following dates:
AMP/ISMP: September 25-28, 2008
OPM: October 1-4, 2009
PMD, TGMP, PGL, GMP, SEPME, and SEPSA: September 30–October 3, 2010
Come reconnect with fellow program alumni and HBS faculty. If you're interested in hosting a reunion, please contact your class secretary and Alumni Relations at executive_education_reunions@hbs.edu.
From Career Services: New Tools For Recruiters
HBS now offers recruiters a single point of entry to manage their online activities at the School. Whether you're looking for graduating MBAs or experienced hires, the new Recruiter Dashboard helps you source talent seamlessly for your organization. All alumni are encouraged to check out this highly customized service as well as the Alumni Job Bank at:
http://www.alumni.hbs.edu/careers/
Congratulations to the 2007 HBS Business Plan Contest winners and runners-up!
At the 11th annual HBS Business Plan Contest, Judicial Intelligence (Sandra Nudelman, HBS; Michele Nudelman, Washington University at St. Louis School of Law) and Unite for Health! (Onil Bhattachaeyya, Lingling Zhang, Anna Chodos, HSPH) were named winners of the traditional and social enterprise tracks respectively. To view photos and video from the finals, go to:
http://www.hbs.edu/entrepreneurship/bplan/
Make a gift to HBS before June 30!
Please consider making a gift to HBS if you haven't done so already this fiscal year (ends June 30, 2007). Alumni gifts directly support faculty research, curriculum, fellowships, and excellence in every area of work at HBS. To make a gift, please call toll-free (within the U.S. and Canada) 1-877-GIVETOHBS (1-877-448-3864) or visit:
http://give.hbs.edu
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Lifelong Learning
Alumni Travel: Botswana and Victoria Falls Safari
Join Africa expert and Pulitzer Prize winning Harvard professor Caroline Elkins in December for a captivating tour of some of the continent's most magnificent, unspoiled treasures. Visit Victoria Falls, one of the world's greatest natural spectacles, then explore Chobe National Park and Moremi Wildlife Reserve. To register or to check the complete schedule of upcoming alumni travel programs go to:
http://www.alumni.hbs.edu/travel/
From Executive Education
Managing Human Capital: Key Strategic Challenges — June 24–29, 2007
Explore the latest research and examine best practices for developing leaders, leveraging diversity, managing talent, and aligning your organization in an increasingly complex business environment. This program is designed for executives responsible for human resource policy who have at least 15 years of experience in companies with more than $500 million in annual sales. Teams of executives and business leaders are welcome. To learn more and to register, go to:
http://www.exed.hbs.edu/redirects/mhc_wn/
HBS Alumni receive an exclusive 30 percent discount on open-enrollment Executive Education Programs. For more information, visit:
http://www.alumni.hbs.edu/lifelong_learning/execed_calendar.html
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Faculty
This Week in Working Knowledge: All Eyes on Slovakia's Flat Tax
Is the world ready for a flat tax? Post-communist Eastern and Central Europe are leading the way in experimenting with the concept. Learn about Slovakia's complex experience and the many hurdles encountered in this Q&A with HBS professor Laura Alfaro, Europe Research Center Director Vincent Dessain, and Research Assistant Ane Damgaard Jensen:
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5653.html
Register for HBS Working Knowledge Updates
HBS Working Knowledge is an online forum that offers a first look at new thinking from HBS faculty. Register to receive Working Knowledge's daily RSS feed or weekly email:
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/
Faculty in the News
How is HBS meeting the challenges of globalization? Why is participant-centered education still critical for leaders? How is HBS strengthening its strategic relationship with schools and businesses in China? Read Dean Jay Light's comments on these and other issues in the English language version of China's People's Daily Online:
http://english.people.com.cn/200705/15/eng20070515_374741.html
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