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Past Issues - Alumni

diversity of backgrounds and experiences but share a few outstanding traits: fearless curiosity, a clear sense of self, and a powerful commitment to community. Conducting Business Remembering the captivating classroom orchestration of... View Details
  • 2014
  • Working Paper

The Triumph of the Humble Chief Risk Officer

By: Anette Mikes
This paper tracks the evolution of the role of two chief risk officers (CROs), and the tools and processes they have implemented in their respective organizations. While the companies are from very different industries (one is a power company, the other is a toy... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Managerial Roles
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  • 02 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 2

across geographies is a fool's errand. Best practices simply don't travel well across borders. That's because conditions not just of economic development but of institutional maturity, educational norms, language, and culture vary enormously from place to place.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Dec 2019
  • Blog Post

Taking the Risk to Start a Company at Business School

“For me, attending HBS was about choosing a time to take a risk on myself. It sets you up to take a chance and start a company,” says Julie Johnson, Co-Founder and CEO Armored Things, HBS 2017.   When Julie Johnson applied to Harvard Business School (HBS), she was far... View Details
  • November 2010 (Revised November 2017)
  • Case

Washout: The Founders' Tale and the Investors' Tale

By: Lena G. Goldberg and Chad M. Carr
The competing narratives of the founders of Alantec, Inc. and the venture capitalists who funded the company are explored in the context of Kalashian v. Advent VI Ltd. a California Superior Court case. The founders of the company, which produced switches for computer... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Venture Capital; Governance Controls; Governing and Advisory Boards; Lawsuits and Litigation; Managerial Roles; Ownership Stake; Business and Shareholder Relations; Conflict and Resolution; Technology Industry
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Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online

Calculate sample statistics and apply the properties of the normal distribution Calculate confidence intervals to estimate the accuracy of statistics 8 hrs Module 3 Hypothesis Testing Quantify the evidence in favor of or against your hypothesis in order to make View Details
  • 21 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?

of organizational and managerial processes from within, can be just as effective at torpedoing productivity both then and now, Thomke says. As workers toss time-consuming and frustrating curveballs in the air by making bad decisions and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 16 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 16

propagate to others. Our results have significant managerial implications, highlighting the impact of organizational design decisions on the technical structure of the artifacts that these organizations subsequently develop. Read the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 20

the U.S. Department of Agriculture's approval of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), we find that product assessments by powerful stakeholders and peer agencies influence product approval and that their effects vary under different... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

Advertising Bureau, where he continues to champion innovation in online advertising. Bonnie had guided the successful marriage of CNET Networks' authoritative, award-winning content with the power of technology, evolving the company's... View Details
  • Web

Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

in business education has been that a corporation is run for the sole interest of its shareholders. I present an alternative view where increasing concentration of economic activity and power in the world's largest corporations, the... View Details
  • 20 Oct 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Seven Things That Surprise New CEOs

in this way—and not diving into the details—can be a jarring transition. One CEO said that he initially felt like the company's "most useless executive," despite the power inherent in the job. The CEO needs to learn how to act... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Jay W. Lorsch & Nitin Nohria
  • 16 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 16, 2010

managerial human capital explanation of retention. Download the paper: http://people.hbs.edu/jwulf/TargetCEOWulfSinghSeptember2010.pdf   Working PapersReversing the Null: Regulation, Deregulation, and the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2007
  • News

Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Remembered

age of 88. Chandler was perhaps best known for his book The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business, which won the Pulitzer Prize in history in 1978. In it, Chandler argued that management, a visible hand, had in some... View Details
  • 02 Aug 2022
  • Research & Ideas

6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies

A dozen years ago, Harvard Business School Professor George Serafeim wondered why some companies operated with an eye toward the greater good, while most did not. Back then, he always got the same response: Corporate leaders thought social and environmental practices... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 18 Jul 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask

and reaching your potential. "My objective is to help leaders reach their potential by helping them realize that they don't need to have all the answers or do this alone. I hope they will see that framing a question and listening can be enormously View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 10

available at this time. Read this article: http://www.responsible-investor.com/home/article/one_report   Working PapersDeveloping Negotiation Case Studies Author:James K. Sebenius Abstract While a great deal of excellent advice exists for producing case studies on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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General Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

General Management Overview Faculty Curriculum Awards & Honors Doctoral Students MBA Required Curriculum (FIRST YEAR) Leadership and Corporate Accountability In this course, students learn about the complex responsibilities facing business leaders today. Through cases... View Details
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Negotiation Course Online | HBS Online

Together, we hope the module summary documents and workbook will be powerful resources to support your negotiation success in the months and years after you finish the course. How do I prepare for each negotiation simulation? + – In... View Details
  • 07 Aug 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?

film, Moneyball, at least in part a glorification of the triumph of statistics and probabilities over intuition and managerial judgment in professional baseball? Two recent books add to the genre of advice on decision-making. One advises... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett