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- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
consistent with our field interviews of R&D executives from laboratories involved in our study. The study provides further evidence of the geographically bounded nature of knowledge. Download working... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 17, 2008
Nanda Abstract Using loan-level data from Mexico, we study the relationship between the organizational structure of banks and the terms of lending to small businesses. We find that banks with decentralized lending structures—where branch... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
China IFC: Global Access, Global Perspective
Second-year MBA student Anna Koscielecka (MBA 2016) spent two weeks in China during a January 2016 Immersive Field Course (IFC) that expanded her global perspective. “We fully immersed ourselves in Chinese business culture,” says... View Details
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Introduction - The Collection - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Throughout the university’s expanding libraries, museums, and research departments, photographs were acquired to support research and teaching in newly emerging disciplines. Like other fields in the sciences and humanities, business... View Details
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John Clayton
John Clayton speaks French, Italian, Chinese, and Spanish, and his resume looks less like a CV than an atlas: He has studied in Bologna, Italy, and Shanghai, China, and worked on the sustainable-development portfolio of the World Bank on... View Details
- 19 Jun 2013
- News
Your Guide to Social Enterprise
over the last two decades. A nonprofit innovator and think-tank scholar, Keohane knows the field well. Now, in her first book, Social Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century, this adjunct professor in the Program on Social Enterprise at... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Marking 10-Year Connection with Japanese Earthquake Region
With the help of HBS’s Japan Research Center, Professor Hirotaka Takeuchi hosted a virtual reunion to mark the 10-year anniversary of an annual Immersive Field Course in Japan. A decade ago, a group of 22 MBA students from Japan asked... View Details
- 05 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Don't More People Get Flu Shots at Work?
professor in Harvard Business School’s Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit. Beshears is an expert in behavioral economics, which uses insights from psychology and economics to explain individual decision making and help people make wiser choices. “You’re... View Details
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
new leaders for this field." Other HBS faculty presenting at the conference included Prof. Alan MacCormack, who discussed the School's new field study effort; Michael Chu, on case studies; and Srikant Datar,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Andrews, Raymond Remembered
Professors Emeriti Kenneth R. Andrews and Thomas J.C. Raymond, two distinguished and much-loved faculty members, both passed away in September. Andrews, who served on the HBS faculty from 1946 to 1986, was a founder of the field of... View Details
- 09 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
type of entrepreneurial population studied (e.g., Main Street vs. those backed by venture capital) to identify interesting and irreducible parts of this heterogeneity, while also identifying places where we anticipate future large-scale... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts
running a large industrial organization in India; Arvind adds financial acumen and investing skills from his private equity experience; and Raj has been through the start-up life in the for-profit world. At HBS, perhaps the most critical experience was the View Details
- 15 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
PART 3: Military Transition and the JD/MBA - Getting on the JD/MBA Path
while you are in school, or via study abroad). There are multiple ways to think about them: using a series of opportunities to build your skills and experience towards pivoting into a full-time job that is difficult to get, taking... View Details
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Matthew Boys
studying numerous cases. “You train your brain to think a certain way, to take a limited set of incomplete information and work forward in the best way possible. HBS does not teach answers to problems, but gives you tools you can use to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance
1911 HBS establishes the Bureau of Business Research to write cases. 1922 Founding of Harvard Business Review (HBR). 1930s Elton Mayo and Fritz Roethlisberger conduct pioneering studies establishing the importance of field-based... View Details
Keywords: Professor Elton Mayo: Professor Fritz Roethlisberger; George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Professor Emeritus Ray A. Goldberg; Professor Abraham Zaleznik; Professor Alfred Chandler; Professor Michael Porter; Professor Robert S. Kaplan; Professor Michael C. Jensen; Professor C. Roland Christensen; Professor Robert Menton; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
- 07 Sep 2007
- What Do You Think?
Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?
programs that "tailor learning for students" rather than just meet rigid standards, would help. Can business schools do much about what may be largely market-driven phenomena in a field that has never qualified as a profession?... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
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Doba Parushev
opportunity to study at Princeton University where his initial intention was to study economics. Instead, he switched to physics, then engineering. "I enjoy multi-faceted programs," Doba explains,... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Research Brief: May I Ask Your Advice?
online lab studies and a field experiment, all of which confirmed that asking for feedback produces more vague and limited responses, while asking for advice results in forward-thinking and actionable input.... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
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Curriculum | MBA
Also during Year 3, all students complete a year-long capstone exercise at HKS.Participants generally complement their required and elective studies with two summer internships: either a policy, international development or social... View Details
- 20 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster
clusters," Pisano says. "What we came to is it really depends. It's not all or one." The four clusters used in the field study had differing fates. Two—sports shoes and wooden chairs—declined while the other... View Details