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Christian Terwiesch "Large Language Models for Idea Generation in Innovation" Time: 12:30 PM Location: Baker Library | Bloomberg Center 103 Faculty and doctoral students only Christian Terwiesch is a professor in Wharton’s Operations and... View Details

21 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

Racial Diversity Pays Off

Increase the diversity of employees in your organization—for example, on the basis of race, gender, religion, nationality, and sexual orientation—and you'll automatically have a better company. Right? That's the prevailing belief anyway. But according to HBS View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

16 Jul 2014
HBS Case

Marketing Obamacare

couldn't still succeed, says John Quelch, the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and a professor of health policy and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

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About Michael Porter - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

management and competitiveness . The author of 19 books and over 130 articles, he is the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard Business School and the director of the school’s Institute for... View Details

12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 16 Oct 2014
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Can China Lead?

Can China sustain its remarkable emergence of the past 35 years? Surely No, for multiple reasons. China will be a leader, but not the leader. Professor McFarlan will talk about both the challenges and opportunities for those seeking to do business with and within China... View Details

20 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

vantage point, not in sight here. I don’t see it. And I’m most troubled by that. Push and pull marketing to build public support John A. Quelch, Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration and... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese

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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

generosity of an anonymous donor in honor of Professor William A. Sahlman (MBA 1975, PhDBE 1982). This fellowship will sustain HBS’s need-blind admissions policy, which admits students based on their... View Details

09 Nov 2023
HBS Case

What Will It Take to Confront the Invisible Mental Health Crisis in Business?

As a finance specialist, Harvard Business School Professor Lauren Cohen works to understand the dynamics that make businesses thrive. In his recent research on family companies, he has found one common thread among successful firms: They... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Health

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Entrepreneurial Management Faculty - Faculty & Research

Administration Archie L. Jones Senior Lecturer of Business Administration William R. Kerr Dimitri V. D'Arbeloff - MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration Senior Associate Dean for Faculty... View Details

28 Jan 2019
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An Economy of Talent: Harvard’s Bill Kerr On ‘Talent Immigrants’

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Founders & Investors - Entrepreneurship

Jurvetson MBA 1984 William S. Eckert Motion Computing MBA 1995 Andrew Eisner Movable Media MBA 2002 William Elfers Greylock Partners MBA 1974 Charles D. Ellis Greenwich... View Details

07 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

The Business of Biotech

years required to bring a drug to market—and the potential for failure looming every step of the way—the business of biotech is one of managing uncertainty over time. HBS professor Gary P. Pisano, a longtime observer of the industry,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

30 Jan 2024
Research & Ideas

‘Intrinsic Joy’ Sparks Ideas Better than Cash

fun. He wants to help others,” Roche recalls. The paper’s co-authors include Annamaria Conti, an associate professor at IE Business School; Vansh Gupta, an analyst at Charles River Associates who... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology

16 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How to Compete Like a Judo Strategist

help you become a better judo strategist. Rule One: Maintain A Deep Focus On Your Core Business Whether we are talking about Palm Computing, Intuit, or even big companies such as Charles Schwab, the most successful judo strategists have... View Details

Keywords: by David B. Yoffie & Mary Kwak

17 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility

For too long, scholarship in the field of management has looked at economic performance rather than social welfare, argue HBS professor Joshua Margolis and colleagues James P. Walsh, of University of Michigan Business School, and Klaus... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

07 Jan 2020
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Can Capitalism Be Fixed by Making Companies More Just?

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By: Charles C.Y. Wang

In the area of equity valuation, Professor Wang explores how firm fundamentals and valuation models can be used to understand expected return variation, with a focus on valuation-implied cost of capital and its use as a proxy for expected returns. In his study of... View Details

07 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat

year, the system has been slow to respond. Other highlights of the conference included a dinner talk by William W. George (MBA '66), CEO of Medtronic, on "The Future of 21st-Century Health: The Right Care" and a lively session... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Health

24 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

How To Be an Angel Investor

the Harvard framework (Figure 11.1), which was developed by William Sahlman 1 and Howard Stevenson 2 is described in Chapter 12. Good judgement comes from experience and experience comes from making bad judgments. So it is with evaluating... View Details

Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson

17 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

book, Can China Lead? Reaching the Limits of Power and Growth, coauthored with HBS professor William Kirby and Regina Abrami of the Wharton School. In addition to teaching in several HBS Executive Education... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

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