Shaping the Waves - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2008
News

Faculty Books

feel that companies don’t understand their needs? Because marketers don’t think deeply about consumers’ innermost feelings. This book reveals the powerful, unconscious viewing lenses, “deep metaphors,” that View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management

24 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Alumni in Climate Networking Series: San Francisco

business and the environment. Email bei@hbs.edu to learn more about upcoming events. The Bay area has been known as a hub for innovation for decades, and this next wave of... View Details

01 Sep 2015
First Look

First Look -- September 1, 2015

World By: Ahmed, Faisal Z., and Eric D. Werker Abstract—The conflict following the Arab Spring is not the first wave of civil war in the Muslim... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Jun 2015
Blog Post

Pursuing Meaning through an HBS/HKS Joint Degree

shaped who I am, and who I want to become. What’s the best advice you’ve ever received? My TEM (The Entrepreneurial Manager) professor encouraged me to focus on experiences that would be immediately... View Details

01 Sep 2012
News

Women and VC

women and families. Indeed, it appears that women will shape the future. As Dodi noted, “Many recent studies confirm that gender diversity in business boosts productivity and profitability. And View Details

Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

09 Apr 2016
News

Introducing Panera 2.0

shaped that vision: Seeing someone deliver sandwiches—not from Panera—to his office. “This really struck me,” Shaich told The Street. “One day a sandwich delivery operator delivered sandwiches to our office,... View Details

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

thousands of mutual funds to choose from, all with a few keystrokes. It's already happening." Of course, the Internet tidal wave affects not only customers but companies, too, and perhaps more... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Financial Services

21 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 21, 2008

only for IS researchers, but also for colleagues in allied disciplines who are already contributing to shaping the sciences of design. Download the paper:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Feb 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective

can begin to understand how this unprecedented technology is shaping business activity. The course also examines why many established enterprises are having such a difficult time keeping up with these new,... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

06 Aug 2014
What Do You Think?

What Is Warren Bennis’s Legacy?

recollections of Bennis or have been influenced by his writings. If so, what are the recollections or the influences? What is Warren Bennis's legacy? What do you think? To Read More: Warren Bennis, On... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

30 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax

was post-communist Estonia that launched the Eastern European wave in 1994. Though Slovakia was not the first country to adopt a flat tax nor is it View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

30 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

prevent the deepest recession in postwar history. A Crisis of Beliefs makes us rethink the financial crisis and the nature of economic risk. In this authoritative and... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

Web

Driving Social Change | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

(MBA 2009) wrote her HBS application essay about her desire to serve the social good. “I was drawn to... Riding the WAVE Misan Rewane 2013 When describing View Details

01 Mar 2009
News

Inciting Wonder

ROGERS: State dinners and Easter eggs. Stephen J. Serio/Crain’s Chicago Business As the social secretary for the new administration in Washington, Desirée Rogers (MBA ’85) will have a discreet hand in View Details

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

Web

Activating a Legion of People | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

that make a difference. While working... Values Matter—No Matter Where You Are Shilla Kim-Parker 2009 As if foreshadowing the career path ahead of her, Shilla Kim-Parker (MBA 2009) wrote her HBS application essay about her desire to serve... View Details

Seth E. Thomas, Jr.

Having joined the company immediately after college, Thomas was responsible for the largest wave of expansion in the history of his... View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

01 Dec 2010
News

Innovation Takes Center Stage

the front of the stage, Nohria used his first reunion address to broadly outline five priorities that will shape the agenda for View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson

14 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: February 14

dynamic groups, don't learn naturally. I outline the factors that prevent them from doing so, such as interpersonal fear, irrational beliefs about failure, groupthink, problematic power dynamics, and information hoarding. With Teaming,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2013
News

Joining Together for HBS

new HBS Fund Chairs, we are eager to explore how we can join together to help shape the future of HBS, ensuring that it continues to be a positive force in the world. We are... View Details

Keywords: alumni giving; innovation; business education

03 Apr 2006
What Do You Think?

Has Globalization Reached Its Peak?

in waves. We are just seeing the aftereffects of one peak . . . this wave will be different from the one before . . . natural resources will play a strong role, and immigration... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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