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- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
We drew on theories of knowledge-intensive firms, communities of practice, and professional service firms to analyze multiple cases of new practice area creation in management consulting firms. Our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2021
- News
Finding a Fresh Approach to Dry Cleaning
management skills and new technologies to double its revenue and expand the business beyond the basics of shirts and suits, according to a Washington Post story by Thomas Heath. About three-quarters of Parkway’s business comes from 3,000... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Christine Fairchild to Head External Relations
“I am thrilled to have this opportunity to broaden my work with alumni.” She noted that her two major tasks involve “following through on the momentum of the current capital campaign and continuing to engage our alumni on multiple levels.... View Details
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2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
development, and racial integration of communities. She works with the Center for Social Policy to facilitate inclusive change processes that involve multiple stakeholders from the community. She is a coauthor of a textbook widely used in... View Details
- 08 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity
1991 and 2009, a period when the growing number of highly educated women in the workforce tested widely held understandings about gender and professional work, write the authors, Harvard Business School professors Lakshmi Ramarajan and Kathleen L. McGinn, and Simmons... View Details
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
it is urgent. What does it mean to make capitalism a subject of historical inquiry? What is its potential across multiple disciplines, alongside different methodologies, and in a range of geographic and chronological settings? And how... View Details
- 14 Aug 2019
- News
Leading from Within
look at business development and values, management practices and ethics, and their roles. And that’s all well and good, says Lim, in that CEOs typically walk away renewed and clear-headed about their next steps within their... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Readers Ask: I Need Tips for Working at Home
Shifting to remote work raises many questions for managers and employees, especially when it happens quickly as a result of a crisis. Prithwiraj “Raj” Choudhury, the Lumry Family Associate Professor of Business Administration in the... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
them to downsize and slash jobs. “It was a commodity price down cycle across almost all metals. We were obviously expecting a large negative impact,” recalls Chernilovskiy, then an asset manager at Kazakhstani zinc-producer Kazzinc, a... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- Profile
Fola Folowosele
developing a business skill set. Given my interest in utilizing business to drive social impact, HBS stood out to me because it is an institution that focuses on multiple bottom lines. I was also drawn to HBS because I knew that I would... View Details
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Andreas Jaegle
In Eichstätt, the small Bavarian town where Andreas Jaegle grew up, the Jäegle family managed a fleet of more than 180 buses, a family-owned business they had run for more than 100 years. “But I wasn’t under any pressure to run it... View Details
- 25 Mar 2016
- News
New Head of MBA Admissions Is 2013 Grad
Company’s Dallas office, where he had worked from 2008 to 2011, including a stint in Stockholm. As a manager at Bain, Losee has led consulting teams in client engagements across multiple industries. He... View Details
- 22 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
What's the Ideal Frequency for a Sales Quota?
spend more than $800 billion annually on those efforts. Sales compensation plans are at the center of all this activity, the primary tool managers use to motivate and incentivize salespeople. Sales reps feed on two forms of compensation:... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 15 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding the Design of Livable Cities
sustainability. “Private investors will need to fund not only real estate development, but also the supporting urban infrastructure systems” In his multiple roles as a member of the HBS faculty teaching courses in Real Estate Development... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
organizations—our students today do not care about this divide. So many of them come to HBS with a deep interest not only in making profit but also in doing good. So it’s multiple stakeholders putting pressure on businesses, and... View Details
- 15 May 2019
- Research Event
The Unconventional Capitalism That Shapes Business History
cast of historians, management researchers, and others. As co-organizer of the event with HBS Professor Tarun Khanna and Harvard-Newcomen Fellow Sudev J. Sheth, I was thrilled as participants explored, tested, and celebrated... View Details
- 20 Jun 2012
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Leadership: What We Know
applications of that knowledge or imbues the identity of leadership on that student, the educational outcomes need to adhere to the criteria of veracity and accuracy we hold for any other field taught in a university setting. Moreover,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
A Case For Fellowships
that Harvard Business School attracts a wide-ranging group of men and women who share one common trait: a capacity for leadership. Our promise to our faculty and to every student is to deliver the most diverse class—on multiple... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
FIELD 3 Tests Students
successful ventures go through this ‘pivoting’ process multiple times as they probe and test their ideas. FIELD 3 uniquely challenged students to experience that process and learn from it.” Beginning January 30, six-member teams had... View Details
Keywords: FIELD program
- 16 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 16
(job loss), but that the identical failure was more likely to have a smaller cause (cooling fan malfunction) if the consequence was small-even though the consequences were objectively uninformative about the causes. Across experiments,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne