MBA students - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina

with opportunities on the ground. They have also partnered with these organizations to attract $17 million in funding from national foundations to support reform in New Orleans. Q: What are the reactions of MBA View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education

02 Nov 2010
First Look

First Look: November 2, 2010

students and faculty worked to launch the first MBA Oath Ceremony conducted on campus during Harvard graduation week. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/411024-PDF-ENG Highland Capital... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS

Wadhwani Q: The Newcomen Fellow is expected to participate in the school's business history courses, seminars, and case development activities. Can you tell us about your teaching experience here at HBS? I imagine that your previous teaching experience was with View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard; Banking; Financial Services

08 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’

Fifty years ago, when America was unquestionably a man's world, one small but influential part of it officially opened its doors to women: the MBA program at Harvard Business School. On Thursday, about 800 of the School's roughly 11,000... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette

10 Feb 2014
HBS Case

Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines

One morning last fall, Gautam Mukunda told the MBA students in his first-year Leadership and Organizational Behavior class to crawl under their desks and stay there. He wanted them to experience a sense of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

07 Nov 2016
Research & Ideas

Corporate Tax Strategies Mirror Personal Returns of Top Execs

effective tax rate. Both investors and MBA students can benefit from the research, Pérez Cavazos says. Because executives’ preferences should be sticky over time, investors can get a sense of how the company... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

01 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy

materials into the classroom and refined the concepts and models through discussions with students in my MBA course, Achieving Profit Goals and Strategies. The result is the fourteen chapters of this book,... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert Simons

04 Mar 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar

growing a business, for better or for worse. “I tell my students that they'll get a better framework in this 14-week course than I got in 14 years at the school of hard knocks.” Chester A. "Chet" Huber (HBS View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto

28 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

HBS Celebrates Social Enterprise Initiative

educational activities within the HBS community. Our vigorous research program pushed outward the knowledge frontiers and created a rich portfolio of courses and learning opportunities for MBA students and... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

27 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses

to finding solutions to huge challenges? For example, should blocks of the HBS curriculum focus on big, multidisciplinary problems—such as the world's water shortage—and how to solve them? How about increasing the number of MBA View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Biotechnology; Health

23 Apr 2014
HBS Case

Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?

companies have gotten in on the game. Quelch, who holds a joint appointment at HBS and Harvard School of Public Health, wrote the case for a new course debuting next year called "Consumers, Corporations, and Public Health," which will enroll both View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Advertising

02 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

Investor Protection: The Czech Experience

costs of inefficient institutions more transparent; at the same time, globalization means that the foregone benefits are even greater in those markets that do not provide or enforce protections for international investors. As the students... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Entertainment & Recreation

05 Apr 2021
What Do You Think?

Why Can’t More Leaders Teach?

leaders who are considered for teaching appointments actually qualify. He attributes this mainly to issues with “status and ego.” In my experience, the problem often was the inability to listen to what MBA View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

23 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together

and who are Indian American. They probably look at things in a very similar way and are unlikely to challenge each other. But at the early stage of a company, you want the people around the table to challenge each other." Gompers and Xuan make a point of sharing the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

10 Nov 2008
Research Event

Social Media Leads the Future of Technology

the Internet, to what extent they can capitalize on these transformations remains an open question. HBS professor David Yoffie moderated the session on "The Technology Revolution and its Implications for the Future," with panelists James Breyer (HBS View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

28 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Why Manufacturing Matters

operate. Pisano: One of our key messages is to get students to appreciate that manufacturing involves a lot of knowledge work. There has almost been a whole generation of MBA View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Manufacturing

03 Nov 2008
HBS Case

Economics of the Ethanol Business

Reinhardt, with Senior Researcher James Weber and Agribusiness Program Director Mary Shelman (HBS MBA '87), examines the complex political and economic underpinnings of the ethanol industry and the dilemma facing the farmers of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Energy

23 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19

fingertips: Harvard MBA students. Over the course of three months, they created the Global Policy Tracker, an interactive site that compares government policies and financial maneuvers for dozens of countries and regions around the world.... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

22 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

The Mind of the Market: Extending the Frontiers of Marketing Thought

the Internet. HBS MBA students have even used ZMET to help them design Web pages. A current MBA marketing project involves students exploring the... View Details