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08 Nov 2023
Blog Post

Zone Defense: These self-driving, AI-powered drones do recon so soldiers don’t have to

This blog was originally published in 2021. Brandon Tseng (MBA 2017) remembers his aha moment. It was April 2015, and Tseng was a US Navy SEAL approaching the end of seven years’ service; his next step would be Harvard Business School.... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Entrepreneurship

01 Dec 1999
News

New HBS Portal Offers Alumni Just-In-Time Business Information

format. Users will find timely articles and essays on diverse management topics, interviews with HBS professors and industry leaders, excerpts from new HBS Publishing releases and current books recommended... View Details

09 Feb 2016
First Look

February 9, 2016

forthcoming Berrett-Koehler Publishers Negotiating the Impossible: How to Break Deadlocks and Resolve Ugly Conflicts (without Money or Muscle) By: Malhotra, Deepak Abstract—Some negotiations are easy. Others are more difficult. And then... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Nov 2020
News

The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises

2020 is this is the time to be creative. What's needed right now? There are things that are standing out that the world or that the economy needs because of this crisis. And there's opportunities to build businesses to address those needs. Or go work in the View Details

01 Sep 2008
News

The Levitt Brand

one whose insights were grounded in a profound understanding of practice.” The author or coauthor of numerous articles and eight books, Levitt left an indelible mark on the business world with two pieces in particular, both published in... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Oct 1996
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"Service-Profit Chain" Links Members of Service Management Unit

and Heskett are working on a book, tentatively titled Out in Front: Building High Capability Service Organizations, to be published later this year. Professor W. Earl Sasser, Jr., joined them in writing Service-Profit Chain Management,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Sep 2013
News

The Joy of Spending

Mike Norton In their early years as cash-strapped grad students, Mike Norton and Elizabeth Dunn never worried about the luxury of disposable income. When they each finally started making a salary, though, they faced a quandary. "We realized there was very little... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet)

01 Sep 2004
News

Faculty Research

How to Avoid a Price Increase Manufacturers usually pass on any cost increases in their materials to consumers. The result is often a price increase (gasoline) or, less often, a smaller amount of product at the same price (potato chips). Which option is more likely to... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet)

28 Aug 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

2018 Oakland, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Trust: Creating the Foundation for Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries By: Khanna, Tarun Abstract— Entrepreneurs in developing countries who assume they will have the same legal,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

17 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: January 17

Authors:Christopher Marquis, Michael Lounsbury, and Royston Greenwood, eds. Publication:Vol. 33, Research in the Sociology of Organizations. Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2011 An abstract is not available at this time. Publisher's... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details

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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Competitiveness Recruit Alumni Recruiting MBA Recruiting Recruiting Resources Alumni Bulletin Baker Library | Bloomberg Center Business History Review Harvard Business Publishing Harvard Business Review HBS Working Knowledge Close Harvard... View Details

01 Dec 1996
News

Entrepreneurship at HBS

read in this special Bulletin issue, our alumni have founded or helped to transform many important companies over the years. They have shaped the evolution of industries as diverse as cable television, microcomputer software, publishing,... View Details

01 Jun 2008
News

Faculty Books

The Oxford Handbook of Business History edited by Geoffrey Jones and Jonathan Zeitlin (Oxford University Press) This handbook surveys research in business history, a broad area of study generating empirical data that have sometimes confirmed and sometimes contested... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet)

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

Faculty Research Looks to Latin America

and nonprofit organizations. Barrett discussed her new HBS working paper, published with Professor James Austin and Sheila McCarthy, on "Cross-Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International Trachoma Initiative." Diana... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Apr 1997
News

A Conversation with Dean Clark

Abernathy, we used our experiences in the auto industry in Japan to better understand what was going on in productivity, quality, and innovation. I became an inveterate comparatist. And I've never met a researcher who's had a similar... View Details

26 Feb 2019
Blog Post

Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees

types of work Cash rewards are best suited as a motivator for work that is measured quantitatively, Whillans says. Many studies of the service and sales industries show that cash rewards lead to increased sales and improved customer... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

Career Coach

Vincent Dessain

of the Harvard Business School Europe Research Center based in Paris. Through his work, Vincent has built an extensive and deep network with the European corporate world in many industrial sectors. He is also in close contact with the... View Details

02 Nov 2020
Blog Post

WE RISE

personal relationships and pattern matching. “We’re already seeing the current economic changes impacting women disproportionately as some women have to drop out of the labor force to look after children. It’s important that we not only keep bringing more women into... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Other Financial Services; Venture Capital / Private Equity

01 Apr 2002
News

Pamela Thomas Graham

Otis Graham, the author of thirteen works of nonfiction, Thomas-Graham set her sights on writing a mystery novel set at Harvard. In 1998, Simon & Schuster published A Darker Shade of Crimson, followed by Blue Blood, set at Yale. Both... View Details

Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries

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