General Managers - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Create Winning Streaks

flying, even adding flights for stranded passengers from other airlines. During the two-day blackout, Continental generated an extra $4 million, while all of the other airlines lost money. Other Important Points Optimists versus... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel

12 Dec 2018
News

Lesson Plan

(Reporters later discovered that the signature page had been cribbed from an earlier contract extension.) In September, Pennsylvania’s Attorney General announced multiple felony charges against the district’s former fleet View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Chris Sorensen

24 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Can Obamacare Be Saved?

quality or prices for consumers. Such mergers reduce competition in the insurance market, ultimately dampening much-needed innovation. What’s more, there’s no requirement or expectation that any savings from synergies generated from the... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch and Emily Boudreau; Insurance; Health

03 Nov 2014
Research & Ideas

Brand Lessons From the Nobel Prize

It draws from previous work by Urde (an associate professor at the Lund University School of Economics and Management in Lund, Sweden), John Balmer (a marketing professor at Brunel University in London) and Greyser. In 2007, the three... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

24 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility

thus subject to the same phenomenon of language. "While we might hope that companies do good for the community because it's the right thing to do, in general they think of it as making a short-term trade-off for a long-term return. It... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

Web

Expatriate Traders in the Treaty Port Communities - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA Summer Venture in... View Details

01 Feb 2001
News

Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde

corrupt and criminal money from around the world. That's correct. Approximately half of that sum is generated by violent criminal activity, such as organized trafficking in drugs, weapons, or people. The other half is illegal flight... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Government

01 Oct 2002
News

Banishing Balkan Ghosts

as a Nonprofit Management Fellow at a UN economic institute in Belgrade in 1990. “And with so many international students at the School, one truly becomes a world citizen through one's HBS friends.” Meanwhile, at the Kennedy School,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

13 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet

are moving their money together based on the same sentiments. “Today, we have truly global asset managers that make it easy and cheap for any investor to invest in every market. This facilitates the transmission of investor sentiment... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

12 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

The Unexpected Link Between Cadavers and Careers

process." That said, the study's implications extend beyond cadaver donations. To Anteby, who teaches the MBA elective Managing Human Capital, the findings offer proof that our career choices directly affect other major life... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education; Health

29 Jun 2022
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces the 2022-2023 Blavatnik Fellows

and fellows’ companies funding has quadrupled. It is gratifying to be a part of the program’s tremendous growth and mentor next generation entrepreneurs who contribute to society by commercializing groundbreaking technology and biomedical... View Details

18 Jun 2024
Blog Post

Alumni Career Journey: Ben Schutzman (MBA 2016) - Driving Positive Impact on Community and Climate

issue. What were you doing prior to HBS? What made you decide to go to HBS? I graduated from Washington University with an undergraduate degree in civil engineering and, just before applying to HBS, I was a management consultant at... View Details

25 Aug 2022
News

Case Study: Sound Check

provide good information. Sites have to provide robust online experiences if they want to create strong bonds and real relationships with their customers, he adds. The Question: So far LS has signed on mid-size businesses that generate... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

23 Sep 2021
News

Confronting Sustainability in Business; Pro-Bono Consulting for Black-Owned Companies

new data and analytics that allow us to generate insights that were unimaginable a few years ago.” Kawasaki is part of a steering committee from the HBS Club of Japan that has been working since June to develop the monthly Sustainability... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Feb 2002
News

Karen Tumulty Reports on America

action." She contributed "once or twice" to the Harbus and "drove my Management Communication professor nuts - my style clashed with memo writing. When he found out that I actually wrote for a living, he cut me a little slack." Although... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Sep 2011
News

The Spangler Effect

away,” says Todd Mulder, food services general manager for Restaurant Associates, the hospitality firm that manages all campus food operations. “They are impressed that you can... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

08 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 8, 2008

that on average its selections generated abnormal returns of 2.7% at the recommendation announcement and 4.5% for the remainder of the year. This performance cannot be explained by changes in analyst recommendations and/or target prices... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 17

geographic friction influence FDI and present the key empirical studies and findings. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52121 January–February 2017 Harvard Business Review Africa's New Generation of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 19, 2007

induced to behave rationally. Many other disciplines, including economics, finance, and marketing, have successfully incorporated departures from this rationality assumption into their models and theories. In this paper, we argue that operations View Details