During this year's presidential campaign season, America was inundated with the opinions about "outsourcing," the global trend that is sweeping through businesses and enraging many US workers. In the midst of this polarizing outsourcing debate sits a unique Cambodian firm, with strong Harvard connections, showing the world an alternative to traditional ways of doing business.
George W. Bush, arguably HBS's most famous alumnus (HBS '75), eked out a victory earlier this month over Democrat challenger John F. Kerry in a Presidential contest that drew the highest U.S. voter turnout since 1968. While Bush managed to garner the popular mandate that eluded him in the last election, results showed razor thin margins that barely spared voters a replay of muddled network projections, intense legal battles and protracted debates on dangling chads.
On October 28th, the "Oracle of Omaha", Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett, descended on the HBS campus for the first time in almost two years. Mr. Buffett, an economic advisor to John Kerry's Presidential campaign, spoke at the invitation of the Harvard Business School Democrats Club.
Robert D. Buzzell, the Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at Harvard Business School and an influential expert in strategic marketing who was a pioneer in the application of statistical methods to marketing issues, died on Saturday, Nov.
Not content with forcing U.S. President Richard Nixon to resign following the Watergate scandal, former Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee has been shaking things up over at the Kennedy School. In his weekly study group "Lying in Public Life," Bradlee hosts fellow journalists and political figures who explore lying by past and current public officials.