Management Practices - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2004
News

Warren Law Remembered

close to practice in the best tradition of the School and whose kindness, caring, and wit made him very special in the hearts of students and colleagues alike,” said HBS Dean Kim B. Clark. During a teaching career that began at HBS in... View Details

Keywords: obiturary; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Chao Zeng

to become a general manager for a global business; all the learning at HBS is linked to that goal in three ways. First, the case method allows us to learn from real people and actual practices – I like to... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy; Financial Services

15 Nov 2016
News

HBS and SEAS Explore Opportunities for Innovative Thinking

McKay Professor of Applied Physics, and Vicki Sato, Professor of Management Practice at HBS, discussed their partnership furthering the commercialization of science. Befitting the symposium’s setting in... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

The Changing Nature of Research

20 countries to examine why management practices differ across nations, industries, and companies. And Robert S. Kaplan, senior fellow and the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus,... View Details

12 Jul 2021
News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

Rippleworks, Andy Kaplan (MBA 1978) recently led a session to help social venture teams through the COVID-19 crisis. Rippleworks convened 100+ social enterprises to share practical advice on managing and... View Details

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Deal Making in Real Estate - Course Catalog

requires quantitative and qualitative analysis, judgment calls, quick thinking and development of practical action plans. "Cold calling" and active participation are frequent and important components of class. We expect that students will... View Details

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Corporate Finance: Corporate Financial Operations (CFO) - Course Catalog

spring course, Strategies for Value Creation (SVC) 1417, students cannot take both of them. Career Focus This course provides a general management perspective on corporate finance and is designed to improve your ability to make strategic... View Details

01 Oct 1998
News

A Zest to Invest

A young currency trader knocks politely on a conference room door at Kingdon Capital Management Corp. (KCMC), a Manhattan-based hedge fund. Her boss, KCMC's founder and president Mark Kingdon, invites her in with a friendly nod. "The... View Details

Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.

01 Sep 2024
News

Advancing the Mission

markets such as Morocco. Gifts to the HBS Fund support a range of School priorities, from enhancements in the MBA Program to faculty research that shapes management practice to seed funding that establishes... View Details

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What Others Are Saying - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

essentially took micro economics knowledge of structural analysis of industries and made it accessible to managers. That was a very important contribution for a practical purpose. The discussion on the idea of clusters is not exactly a... View Details

12 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Amager Bakke: I Like This Waste Incinerator in My Backyard!

power source. Amager Bakke is located within eyeshot of downtown Copenhagen, and despite being an industrial waste management and energy production site, serves as a community gathering point. With the world’s tallest rock-climbing wall... View Details

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Cynthia Samanian

the near future, I look forward to helping define and execute the business strategy for Path, as well as developing my personal leadership style. This will be a great opportunity to put in practice many of my learnings from courses in... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology

09 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 9, 2008

independent social rating agency and avoids selection issues by taking advantage of a natural experiment that arose when the agency expanded the scope of its ratings. We find empirical support for our hypotheses and present implications for View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Jul 2007
First Look

First Look: July 31, 2007

Collaborative Management Research, edited by A. B. Shani, N. Adler, N. Mohrman, W. A. Pasmore and B. Stymne. Sage Publications, Inc. 2007 Abstract The gap between theory and practice has been of concern to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Tony He

complex business issues. I chose HBS because I wished to learn from peers and professors from diverse backgrounds, and the MBA program offered both breadth in its coverage of management topics and the opportunity to drill into specific... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

14 May 2013
Blog Post

Fellow HBS Classmates Enriching the Internship Experience

every HBS intern had that moment this summer). I sometimes wonder what employers can do to facilitate more of these interactions, especially since they may not feel like they can do much. Practically speaking, there might not actually be... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports

March 2010 (Revised April 2010)
Case

Deworming Kenya: Translating Research into Action (A)

By: Nava Ashraf, Neil Buddy Shah and Rachel Gordon

Karen Levy and her colleague, Margaret Ndanyi, have spent the last six months planning and preparing for a national Kenyan program to target school children most at risk for parasitic worm infection. One week after its launch, the program seemed to be going well but... View Details

Keywords: Planning; Risk and Uncertainty; Mission and Purpose; Performance Efficiency; Programs; Problems and Challenges; Research; Policy; Health Care and Treatment; Management Practices and Processes; Kenya

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25 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

An Organization Your Customers Understand

If customers were unhappy, they reasoned, the product should be changed. Militant demands displaced an environment of mutual respect and shared learning. Needless to say, the practice of telling students they were customers was quickly... View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

17 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete

happening in terms of management practices in their hospital. What I see in my studies mapping the adoption of basic management practices across... View Details

Keywords: by Alumni Bulletin Staff; Health

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Online Entrepreneurial Marketing Course | HBS Online

experiences, feedback and was able to be a thought partner around strategies and best practices in varying scenarios. Raymond Porch Manager of Diversity Programs at Boston Public Schools Participating in the... View Details

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