MBA Class Of 2017 - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018

after our intervention. Entrepreneurs with MBAs or accelerator experience did not respond to this intervention, suggesting that formal training can limit the spread of peer advice. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

07 Mar 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 7

recommendations on how future research can be enriched through a systematic examination of how entrepreneurial ventures navigate the organizational dilemmas growth presents. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

Who Rises to Power in American Business?

was often a key lever in compensating for an outsider status. As part of the professional credential process discussed previously, many of the outsiders in our research were far more educated than insiders.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

08 Nov 2024
HBS Case

What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders

of biographical case studies for his MBA class, Changing the World, that includes several protagonists whose management chops are battle-tested. “There’s a discipline in the military that is sometimes... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Entertainment & Recreation

23 May 2019
Book

These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems

In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Green Technology

22 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

system." Devil's In The Details The general concept of regulating systemic risk has gained broad support from a wide range of influential economists, lawmakers, and interest groups. In March 2008, Treasury... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services

09 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale

Tedlow, a noted business historian on the HBS faculty and the MBA class of 1949 Professor of Business Administration. His latest book (Andy... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

16 Feb 2016
First Look

February 16, 2016

Abstract—Using test data for all children attending Danish public schools between school years 2009–-2010 and 2012–2013, we examine how the time of the test affects performance. Test time is determined by the weekly View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Sep 2001
Lessons from the Classroom

Getting Back on Course

their own work and family life strategy. Charting Your Course debuted in May 2000 when fifty alumnae, most of them from the MBA reunion classes View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

27 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID

the Author Doug J. Chung is the MBA Class of 1962 Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He teaches Sales... View Details

Keywords: by Doug J. Chung; Health

16 Aug 2024
In Practice

Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?

leaders will report new lessons on the art of building trust during a time when it looks remarkably difficult. Sandra J. Sucher is the MBA Class View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

30 May 2007
Research & Ideas

Health Care Under a Research Microscope

Cambridge, Massachusetts, and you will likely be administered beta blockers, a class of drug that's generally recommended after a heart attack. The rate at which that drug is delivered nationwide, however,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Biotechnology

15 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.

and 350 supervisors, according to Last Mile Health’s 2017 annual report. Much of the model used for Ebola involved contactless testing for the community workers, so it eliminated some View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

14 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?

incorporates a focus on gender issues. His studies include a comprehensive global survey of board members, as well as a series of case studies that approach the issue of women... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

20 Jul 2010
First Look

First Look: July 20

Founding of Nike Noam Wasserman and Kyle AndersonHarvard Business School Case 810-077 It had taken Phil Knight 16 long years to build Nike into the number one athletic-shoe company in the country. When Knight had first conceived View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax

foreign direct investment and for sustainable economic growth? These questions and more are explored in a forthcoming business case coauthored by Alfaro along with HBS professor Rafael M. Di Tella, Executive Director of the HBS Europe... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

30 Jan 2019
What Do You Think?

Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?

Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan, whom he cited for his approach of “doing business in a first class way.” Dimon majored in psychology and economics at Tufts University and completed an... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Air Transportation; Financial Services

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Hard Numbers on Social Investments

In what is believed to be the largest study of its kind, MBA students at Harvard Business School recently analyzed the financial returns generated by 110 early-stage companies backed by Investors' Circle, a... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

08 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 8

http://www.people.hbs.edu/jsiegel/SiegelLichtSchwartz_EFDI_20120310.pdf Daily Horizons: Evidence of Narrow Bracketing in Judgments from 9,000 MBA Admission Interviews Authors:U. Simonsohn and F. Gino... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

19 May 2016
Research Event

Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

Cell Biology at Harvard. Sato oversees the Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Sciences Entrepreneurship, which provides a select group of HBS MBA alumni the opportunity to work with top Harvard inventors. The... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel

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