Harvard Business School

Harvard Business School (HBS) is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University, and is one of the world's leading management schools. The school is officially named the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration: George F. Baker Foundation.

Famous people

See also: Harvard University people

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Current and past faculty members include:

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• Kim B. Clark, ex-Dean of the Faculty and George F. Baker Professor of Administration
• Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., business history
• Clayton M. Christensen, technology and general management (originator of the concept "disruptive technology")
• Rosabeth Moss Kanter, management
• Robert S. Kaplan, accounting (originator of the "balanced scorecard" concept)
• Elton Mayo
• Robert C. Merton, winner of The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 1997
• Michael E. Porter, competitive strategy
• Howard Raiffa, decision analysis
• Ed Zschau, general management

Alumni include (MBA and executive programs):

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• William Anders, former NASA astronaut
• Julie Bishop, Australian politician
• Michael Bloomberg, businessman and Mayor of New York City
• Dan Bricklin, co-creator of the VisiCalc spreadsheet program
• Jon Burgstone, co-founder of SupplierMarket.com
• George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States
• Donald J. Carty, former chairman and CEO of AMR, the parent company of American Airlines
• Chai Ling, one of the leaders of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
• Elaine Chao, 24th U.S. Secretary of Labor
• Scott Cook, founder of Intuit, Inc.
• Chris Cox, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Chair and former Congressman
• Gurcharan Das, venture capitalist
• Donna Dubinsky, MBA 1981, Direct Report of Bill Campbell at Apple Computer, CEO of Palm, Inc., and co-founder of Handspring
• Albert Hamilton Gordon
• Fred Haise, former NASA astronaut
• H. John Heinz III, US senator
• Jeffrey R Immelt, chairman and CEO of General Electric
• James Kelly, Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
• Herb Kohl, U.S. Senator and President of Kohl's Department Stores
• Antony Leung, former Financial Secretary of Hong Kong SAR
• Robert S. McNamara, US Secretary of Defense, 1961 - 1968, 4th President of the World Bank 1968 - 1981
• Joseph R. Perella, M&A expert, investment banking executive
• William Proxmire, former US senator
• Donald W. Riegle, Jr.
• Mitt Romney, Governor of Massachusetts
• William Roth, U.S. Senator
• Jeffrey Skilling, former CEO of Enron
• Jan Stenbeck, Swedish capitalist and majority shareholder of Kinnevik AB
• Gérald Tremblay, mayor of Montreal
• Rick Wagoner, chairman and CEO of General Motors
• Meg Whitman, President and CEO of eBay
• Robert S. Winter, Venture Capitalist
• James D. Wolfensohn, 8th President of the World Bank
• George Yeo, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Singapore
• Christopher Heinz