Management Practices - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Apr 2002
Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught

the Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration, Paul W. Marshall, the MBA Class of 1960 Professor of Management Practice and course head for The Entrepreneurial Manager, and Richard G. Hamermesh,... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

04 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

From Lone Star to Team Player

keep rewarding and promoting them. Managers may feel that they need them, of course, as they do perform well. So it is pretty gutsy to fire them in today's rather poor economic environment. But if you're really serious about building a... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

08 Jul 2002
What Do You Think?

Have We Carried the Concept of Alignment Too Far?

Summing Up Don't throw out alignment while fighting greed and ignorance in corporate governance Respondents to this month's column have spoken: The cause of investor mistrust of management is not the concept of alignment; it is, among... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

18 Oct 2016
Op-Ed

Why Business Should Invest in Community Health

more pressing crisis management activities. Local sales organizations, which are often tasked with local-level implementation of community health activities, prioritize product sales, supply, and distribution issues first. Target is... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch, Howard Koh, and Pamela Yatsko; Health

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Executive Education Courses - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Health Care explores the best practices for reorganizing and coordinating care, improving process efficiencies, implementing new reimbursement approaches, and integrating care delivery across practices. You will return with the frameworks... View Details

09 Mar 2021
News

Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges

other was elevating her students’ achievement scores. To move the needle on both, she took Leading Change, Leading Schools, and Leading People, three of four online courses included in the Certificate of School Management and Leadership... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

09 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Solving the Complexities of the Biotechnology Industry

Biotechnology is a complex industry which combines applied science & engineering and applied business practices with life science. It is the most multi-faceted industry segment there is because it is ultimately focused on the most... View Details

06 Mar 2018
News

A Voice for Diversity and Impact at Scale

diversity of professional experiences and personal stories created a great environment for learning and helped me expand my network.” Now a senior partner and the managing partner of McKinsey’s UK and Ireland offices, Hunt has used the... View Details

20 Nov 2012
First Look

First Look: November 20

and Regulatory Approval of Genetically Modified Organisms Authors:Shon R. Hiatt and Sangchan Park Publication:Academy of Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract Little is known about the factors that influence regulatory-agency decision... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Jun 2023
Blog Post

The HBS Climate Rising Podcast Reaches 50 (Episodes)

regulations. We then interviewed partners leading the climate change practices at major management consulting firms including Deloitte, Bain, and McKinsey, the latter resulting in one of our most listened-to... View Details

07 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

Electronic Health Records Were Supposed to Cut Medical Costs. They Haven't.

is a single-payer system.) In other industries, he says, complexity that doesn’t add value is whittled away through competition. “In health care there’s not a lot of competition that extinguishes bad practice, so bad practice can persist... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health

01 Sep 2017
News

Inbox: From Das’s Desk

When most MBA students attend HBS, there is a general feeling that the contract they sign is to spend 18 months getting world-class exposure to cases and principles of business and management and then leave with a license to View Details

Keywords: Das Narayandas; HBX; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

01 Dec 2019
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019

process more broadly to a variety of strategic challenges and at multiple levels throughout the organization. Teaching by Heart by Thomas Delong, Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice Harvard... View Details

08 Jan 2021
News

Creating a Post-COVID Business Plan

18 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'

Cohly was skilled in Ayurveda, the ancient Indian practice of herbal medicine, and suggested they try using turmeric to heal the wound instead. The spice worked, and Das and Cohly later conducted Western medical trials to prove that... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Food & Beverage; Accounting

08 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Women Negotiating in the New Millenium

for something that is non-negotiable. "You have to start practicing where someone can say 'no' in a low-risk situation. "Negotiation here is not 'practice,' but practice in the sense of knowing how... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

13 Nov 2020
News

Countdown To Remote Learning

(HBAP), a certificate for executives launched in 2018. Ten HBAP faculty members served as trainers and mentors to their colleagues, with support from HBS’s Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning. “The School ran numerous training sessions and some 50 View Details

04 Oct 2004
What Do You Think?

Does Speed Trump Intellectual Property?

represents a capability which is difficult to replicate." Several did suggest potential problems, however, in using speed to preempt the fruits of intellectual property. John Rudd comments, "The practice mentioned by Fox... View Details