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Digital Archival Resources - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Students Manufacturing Reports, 1927-1966. HBS Archives, Baker Library, Harvard Business School. Metalworking Tomorrow: A Study of New Concepts and Revolutionary Innovations in Metalworking Processes , 1954 R. Lawrence Coughlin, Jr.;... View Details

04 Nov 2016
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The Competitiveness of Lost Causes

Ministry of Trade when his government sent him to study at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Duch enrolled at HBS because he wanted “to have both sides of the river as an experience, understanding the business side from the public... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

26 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

The Power of the Noncompete Clause

Marx—who holds six patents—spent ten years as an inventor and executive in the field of speech recognition. In this e-mail interview, he discusses the impact of noncompetes for inventors and those who would tie their hands. Martha Lagace:... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2007
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Profiles from the class of 2007

policy issues remained strong. He enrolled at HBS because he believes that, more so than policymakers, “managers who lead health-care systems are the ones today who are introducing needed changes.” At the School, Jain has done three health-care View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice

19 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem

margins. Yet in the new case study "Mercadona," HBS assistant professor Zeynep Ton and research assistant Simon Harrow describe a Spanish supermarket chain that has done all this while achieving steady profits and double-digit... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Food & Beverage

08 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

How to Fix a Broken Marketplace

An economic handyman of sorts, Alvin E. Roth fixes broken markets. As a Nobel Prize-winning pioneer in the field of market design, the Harvard Business School professor cofounded a kidney donation matching system for New England,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

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Commencement 2016 Address | About

brightly in her Class day remarks yesterday. Beyond this remembrance of how your group dealt with an episode of profound sadness, I hope you graduate today with an equally profound happiness, with a deep reservoir of warm memories of your own--including cold-calls you... View Details

25 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

A Few Firms Have Outsized Influence in D.C.

question to economists," says Harvard Business School Associate Professor William R. Kerr. "It's uncharted territory." Kerr's interest in the topic came from studies he's done on immigration issues—in particular, looking at... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Dec 2007
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The Wise Men

Group (he remains on the boards of Cumberland Farms and the Marine Biological Laboratory). Retired from the classroom since 1997, he continues to guide student field study projects. “Contact with students... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna

29 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 29

extrapolating past returns. Such beliefs are hard to reconcile with existing models of the aggregate stock market. We study a consumption-based asset pricing model in which some investors form beliefs about future price changes in the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business Press Is a Watchdog that Bites

work. Martha Lagace: Why study the press? Why is it important to understand its role? Gregory Miller: I first ran across this question in the classroom when I was teaching cases on standard accounting issues and technical accounting... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News; Publishing

06 Jul 2009
What Do You Think?

Are You Ready to Manage in an Irrational World?

approach has supposed." Marie Taillard adds, "we are shifting away from thinking that we can predict or control the behavior of others ." Because economics is a study of value, Deepak Alse comments that "what we need... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Jun 2008
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Team MBA

therapy, before he unfortunately passed away early this year. Recently, our field study team was looking to interview cardiologists. After a few e-mails, we found ourselves at Brigham and Women’s Hospital... View Details

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

01 Mar 2015
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Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed

for the first time in nine years, we asked former chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston’s Board of Directors Kirk Sykes (OPM 26, 1998)—current president and managing director of the Urban Strategy America Fund—to field your... View Details

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance

03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet

of innovation in fields as diverse as real estate law and songwriting. But it is in the health sector where Watson’s impact is most tangible, where its benefits are literally the difference between life and death. “What I focus on,” says... View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

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Online Entrepreneurial Marketing Course | HBS Online

go-to-market execution. The course did an excellent job of blending theory with practical applications, featuring case studies from real startup founders and marketing leaders." Chudhary Kashif Grow your organization’s new product or... View Details

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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Resources, and Respect" at the 2018 Gender and Work Symposium. Melissa E. Wooten is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She studies how the structure of race and racism influences... View Details

25 Sep 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help

from having opposing policy positions to rally around, and from, in effect, roping off the playing field from outside challengers who might outshine them. To understand how and why politics has become so disconnected from serving the... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

16 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019

the lenses of leading contemporary scholars, The Creativity Reader testifies to the incredible richness of this field of study, helps us understand its current developments, and anticipates its future directions. The texts included here,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

13 Mar 2007
First Look

First Look: March 13, 2007

Working PapersInitiating Divergent Organizational Change: The Enabling Role of Actors' Social Position Author:Julie Battilana Abstract This study addresses the paradox of embedded human agency, or the contradiction between actors'... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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