Publications

November 2002
Case

Profiles of the Class of 1976

By: Leslie A. Perlow and Thomas J. DeLong

Presents profiles written by six members of the HBS Class of 1976 from the 10th and 20th reunions. The six alumni represent a cross section of the class of 1976 and provide a snapshot of life at the time of the reunions. View Details

Keywords: Personal Development and Career

April 1996
Case

Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group

Examines two dilemmas often faced by an operations consultant. First, the dual responsibility to both client and consulting firm. Second, the management of the often competing pressure to deliver immediate results, at the same time laying the foundation for long-term... View Details

Keywords: Operations; Problems and Challenges; Consulting Industry

02 Dec 2014
News

Did 2014 Mark The End Of Black Friday?

01 Mar 2001
News

Michael Porter's Big Ideas

19 Sep 2010
News

How stop-and-go science funding puts the brakes on progress

20 Jul 2021
News

Can “Flight Shame” Still Serve the Climate Movement in the COVID Era?

07 Oct 2020
News

Bringing Ethics Back to Friedman’s Call to Purpose for the Next 50 Years

16 Nov 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Governing Misvalued Firms

Keywords: by Dalida Kadyrzhanova & Matthew Rhodes-Kropf

June 28, 2011
Article

Using Implementation Intentions Prompts to Enhance Influenza Vaccination Rates

By: Katherine L Milkman, John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian

We evaluate the results of a field experiment designed to measure the effect of prompts to form implementation intentions on realized behavioral outcomes. The outcome of interest is influenza vaccination receipt at free on-site clinics offered by a large firm to its... View Details

Keywords: Behavioral Economics; Nudge; Libertarian Paternalism; Public Health; Flu Shot; Behavior; Consumer Behavior; Health Care and Treatment; Cognition and Thinking

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25 Oct 2023
Blog Post

HBS Career Journeys | Laetitia Tiani Vessah

HBS Career & Professional Development sat down with students to talk about their career journeys. For Laetitia Tiani Vessah (MBA 2023), it was her family that inspired her to pursue entrepreneurship through acquisition. She shares the benefits of leveraging her... View Details

16 Dec 2002
Lessons from the Classroom

Marrying Distance and Classroom Education

fostering long-time learning. One of those things that I took away was what a tremendous challenge it was to try to generate an online discussion in advance of the face-to-face.— Brian DeLacey DL: That's one point, yes, but we do that pretty much all the time. That's... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

Web

Strategy - Doctoral

expected to master graduate-level microeconomic theory and econometrics. In addition, they are expected to devote substantial time to mastering one additional complementary discipline, such as psychology, sociology, or political science,... View Details

Article

Do Post-menopausal Women Provide More Care to Their Kin?: Evidence of Grandparental Caregiving from Two Large-scale National Surveys

By: Marlise Hofer, Hanne Collins, Gita D. Mishra and Mark Schaller

Drawing on the logical principles of life-history theory, it may be hypothesized that—compared to pre-menopausal women—post-menopausal women will spend more time caring for grandchildren and other kin. This hypothesis was tested in two studies, on results obtained from... View Details

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March 2016
Teaching Note

MasterCard: Driving Financial Inclusion

By: Sunil Gupta

Since joining MasterCard (MC) in 2010, CEO Ajay Banga had made advancing financial inclusion (FI)—bringing formal financial services to marginalized populations—an important goal for the company. In 2014, MC had entered a number of partnerships with governments and... View Details

Keywords: Financial Inclusion; Banking; Equality and Inequality; Credit Cards; Developing Countries and Economies; Banking Industry; South Africa; Nigeria

For the first time in anybody's memory we're starting to see the biopharmaceutical industry and the medical industry at large affected by a recession. I think there are a couple of reasons. One is very high unemployment, and every time the unemployment rate goes up,... View Details

25 May 2016
Blog Post

Favorite Memories from HBS

It’s my final Monday on campus, and one thought keeps looping in my mind: “Wow, the last two years went by so fast. Where did the time go?” Commencement is three days away; my first day of work is eight (it was my choice to jump right... View Details

October 2014 (Revised December 2018)
Case

Jean-Claude Biver (A): The Reemergence of the Swiss Watch Industry

By: Ryan Raffaelli

In the early 1980s, the Swiss watch industry was near collapse after failing to adapt to Japanese competition from battery-powered quartz technology. In 1982, Jean-Claude Biver purchased Blancpain, a watch company that had been out of business since 1961 but had once... View Details

Keywords: Re-emergence; Leading Change; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Transformation; Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Switzerland

24 Mar 2016
Working Paper Summaries

Economic Uncertainty and Earnings Management

Keywords: by Luke C.D. Stein and Charles C.Y. Wang; Financial Services

May 2002 (Revised May 2002)
Case

Tim Blanchard at Jones Mendel & Co.

By: John J. Gabarro

Tim Blanchard struggles to balance all the demands facing him as a partner of a consulting firm. He must decide how to serve clients, mentor his people, provide strategy and direction to the high-tech group, and spend time with family. A rewritten version of an earlier... View Details

Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Managerial Roles; Work-Life Balance; Consulting Industry