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Jay Light
Former Dean, Harvard Business School
Jay Light is the former dean of Harvard Business School and a professor emeritus. He joined the faculty of HBS in December 1969. After a brief leave of absence from 1977 to 1979 to serve as director of investment and financial policies for the Ford Foundation, he returned to HBS as a full professor. He oversaw a range of innovations in the School's MBA program, including the new January term, Immersion Experience Programs (a portfolio of faculty-led seminars in selected regions around the world), and the launch and development of joint degree programs with Harvard's Medical School and Kennedy School.
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Investments in areas like alternative energy sources have a negative cost differential in the short run, even though they may pay off in 20 or 30 years. And what about […]
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Why the new dean, Nitin Nohria, needs to stay focused on the “people realities” of the job.
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America will continue to be more creative and innovative than China (for the time being), because entrepreneurship requires a sense of individuality.
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Business schools may not have been focused enough on teaching future leaders how to keep an eye on the downside in an interconnected world.
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Companies today need to think about sustainability across a variety of dimensions, says Light: “It’s water. It’s natural resources of all kinds. It’s also in a world of change of […]
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Surprisingly, business education is very much the same as it was 100 years ago, say the outgoing dean.
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A conversation with the outgoing Dean of Harvard Business School