Shaping the Waves - Publications - Faculty & Research

31 May 2023
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2023

with the near-impossible job of drug discovery and development.” Back to top Depelsha Thomas McGruder (MBA 1998) COO and Treasurer, Ford Foundation Founder, Moms of Black Boys United In my solitude: “I was born in Rome, Georgia. I’m an... View Details

Keywords: leadership; management; work-life balance

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What You Can Support - Alumni

research, programming, and outreach, the School strives to increase diversity and equity on campus and in the world. Faculty and Research HBS faculty members are passionate teachers and scholars whose... View Details

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Ramya Sundar

shaping the way I look at the world today. I realized the influence that a teacher can have on young minds, and wanted to do that myself someday.... View Details

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Events - Private Capital Project

Karen Mills (Harvard Business School and Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration, 2009-2013), and Frank Rotman (Founding Partner, QED Investors), moderated by Shai Bernstein (Harvard Business School) Riding View Details

01 Jun 2024
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Redefining How Businesses Operate

In her LinkedIn profile, Rebecca Hu (MBA 2023) describes herself as a “biologist-turned-technologist obsessed with building great software products.” A product manager at the language learning app Duolingo, Hu immersed herself in electives and activities centered... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Sep 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books

and more intricate concepts such as wave-particle duality, wave functions, the superposition principle, quantum tunneling, the quantum harmonic oscillator, View Details

Portrait Project

Angel Gonzalez

know broke down in tears and when it dawned on me that maybe we were poor. These acts of kindness and the helplessness I felt that day have stuck with me and shaped who I am. I made a commitment to... View Details

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Mission-Driven Governance

By: Raymond Fisman, Rakesh Khurana and Edward Martenson

The purpose of this paper is to provide a useful, easily applied theory of governance performance. The existing model is fundamentally adversarial, rooted in the paradigm of principal-agent conflict. At its base is an image of governance as a never-ending struggle... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Knowledge Management; Standards; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Evaluation

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27 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

Managers, Your Employees Don’t Want to Be Facebook ‘Friends’

colleagues and managers online, fearing that the connection could come with career risks, according to a recent study in the Academy of Management Journal. The study—OMG! My... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka

25 Feb 2020
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Task Force

Above: At Zubale, Monroy (left) and Campbell connect independent contractors with merchandising tasks. (photo by Rodrigo Ceballos) Allison Campbell and Sebastian Monroy (both MBA 2018) met on their first day of classes at HBS. Members of Section B, they had something... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; gig economy; Retail Trade

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

You,” in which Nicholas Kristof wrote, “Some of the smartest thinkers on problems at home and around the world are university professors, but most of them just don’t matter in today’s great debates.” Or... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

01 Jun 2023
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An Engine of Innovation

members, alumni entrepreneurs, and members of the local community. FUELING THE HARVARD INNOVATION LABS When the idea for the Harvard i-lab began... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Phillip Jones

went outside the military, I could increase the scope of my service.” Phillip recognized that the general shape of his ambitions crossed multiple... View Details

16 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 16

Publications 2013 pub The Network Secrets of Great Change Agents By: Battilana, Julie, and Tiziana Casciaro Abstract—Change is hard, especially in a large organization. Yet some leaders succeed-often spectacularly-at transforming their... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

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Competing on a Common Platform

Why have over 100 firms joined the Eclipse Foundation to collectively produce an open source platform and tools for software application development? What are they trying to accomplish? This research analyzes IBMs divestment of the Eclipse Java Integrated Development... View Details

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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

to shaping the future of the world. This year's group was chosen from a pool of more than 4,000 candidates. 2006 Bharat N. Anand : Received the... View Details

01 Sep 2007
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Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Remembered

Matsushita. That volume was followed in 2005 by Shaping the Industrial Century: The Remarkable Story of the Evolution of View Details

11 Apr 2024
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Mission Control

universe, pun intended, from a timing perspective that you didn't have doubt. It just felt right. But I agree with you, what helped that certainty was all the countless hours and years spent tuning in, View Details

23 May 2012
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Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative

carved quickly from foam but the shapes need to be exact, to see if they'll fit when people cradle them between head and shoulder. Innovation and process within a firm can coexist and even feed off each... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons, Julia Hanna & Roger Thompson

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General Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Award from the HBS Health Industry Alumni. The prestigious and competitive Ellerin award recognizes an outstanding leader in the health care industry who has made a significant... View Details

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