Harvard Business School


Nonprofit CEO John Rice Defends Diversity Efforts in HBS Class Day Speech

In a Harvard Business School Class Day address last week, John Rice, the founder and CEO of Management Leadership for Tomorrow, contended that diversity and inclusion remained important to leveling the playing field in business — and that the term had been unjustly stigmatized.


Harvard’s 2025 Class Days

At Convocation and Class Day ceremonies last week, Harvard’s Class of 2025 gathered to celebrate their new degrees. But the Trump administration’s attacks on Harvard cast a shadow over the proceedings — and graduates, faculty, and keynote speakers across Harvard’s schools paired their messages of joy with defiance.


Harvard Revokes Tenure From Francesca Gino, Business School Professor Accused of Data Fraud

Harvard revoked tenure from Francesca Gino, the Harvard Business School professor who has been fighting data fraud allegations for nearly four years, and ended her employment at the University last week, a Harvard spokesperson confirmed.


Twenty25 Ventures To Fund Founders in HBS Class of 2025

Seven Harvard Business School students have created a fund for the Class of 2025 called Twenty25 Ventures and raised $1 million thus far to invest in founders from their graduating class over the next 10 years.


Health and Human Services Department Requests Documents From Harvard Business School Task Forces

The United States Department of Health and Human Services launched an investigation into Harvard Business School and requested that the school provide reports from working groups on free expression, antisemitism, and Islamophobia.


Trump Tariffs Mean Chaos for Consumers, HBS Professors Say

Two Harvard Business School professors and economics experts said President Donald Trump’s drastic tariff increases earlier this month will face rocky implementation and are a bad omen for U.S. businesses of many sizes.


HBS Professor Bharat Anand ’88 Tapped to Lead NYU’s Stern School of Business

Bharat N. Anand ’88, the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning and HBS professor, was named the next Dean of NYU’s Stern School of Business, the school announced on Thursday. He will depart Harvard for the new role in August 2025.


MBA Students at HBS Must Take AI Course To Graduate

Harvard Business School introduced Data Science and AI for Leaders as  a new requirement for all MBA candidates — signaling a shift in the important role artificial intelligence will play in business management.


Conservative Journalist Jason Riley Calls Higher Ed ‘Intellectually Intolerant’ at HBS Talk

Fox News commentator and Wall Street Journal columnist Jason L. Riley discussed “The Trouble of Social Justice” and the decline of higher education in the U.S. at an event hosted by the Harvard Business School Conservative Club on Wednesday.


Perplexity CEO and Co-Founder Explore Harvard’s Start-Up Landscape in Campus Visit

Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas and co-founder Johnny Ho ’17 spent the past two days rubbing elbows with Harvard’s top business and engineering affiliates before participating in a Monday panel on the future of generative artificial intelligence.


HBS Awards Over $300k to Student and Alumni Start-Ups

Harvard student and alumni teams were awarded a total of $315,000 at the finale of the 29th annual Harvard Business School New Venture Competition. The event featured 12 finalist teams and drew hundreds of students, faculty, and affiliates to Klarman Hall last Thursday.


Harvard Officials Met With Foundation to Combat Antisemitism, Used Info From Online Monitoring System

Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76 said the University has benefited from Foundation To Combat Antisemitism’s tools to track antisemitism on social media at the annual Harvard Business School Shabbat Dinner with New England Patriots Owner Robert K. Kraft.


At Harvard Talk, Former Israeli PM Joked He Would Give Exploding Pagers to Protesters

Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett joked to hundreds of people about sending detonators to dissenting event attendees at a talk at the Harvard Business School on Thursday, according to six people present at the discussion.


At HBS Shabbat Dinner, Patriots Owner Robert Kraft Says He Trusts Garber To Fight Antisemitism

New England Patriots owner Robert K. Kraft said he believes Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76 “personally is committed to eradicating antisemitism from this campus” in a keynote speech at the annual Harvard Business School Shabbat Dinner on Friday.


Law Firm Withdraws From Representing HBS Prof. Gino in Suit Against Harvard

Harvard Business School professor Francesca Gino is no longer represented by Title IX law firm Nesenoff & Miltenberg after four attorneys from the firm withdrew from her discrimination case against Harvard on Thursday.


HBS Professor Gino Makes Changes to Legal Counsel in Discrimination Suit

Harvard Business School professor Francesca Gino has expanded her legal representation to include lawyers from employment firm Hartley Michon Robb Hannon LLP in an ongoing discrimination lawsuit filed against Harvard in 2023.


HBS Task Forces Recommend Anti-Bias Training Updates, Applaud Non-Attribution Policy

Task forces to address antisemitism, Islamophobia, and free speech issues at Harvard Business School recommended policy updates and endorsed the school’s non-attribution rules in an update released last week, reporting a pervasive “feeling of invisibility” among Jewish, Arab, and Muslim students.


HBS Graduates Face a Tougher Job Market

2024 was a bad year for Harvard Business School graduates: down from 2023, 15 percent of graduates with a Masters in Business Administration seeking employment did not receive a job offer, and one percent of graduates postponed their search entirely.


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