Publications

July 2001
Exercise

Working with Your "Shadow Partner": Building a High Tech Investment Portfolio

By: Dwight B. Crane and Richard L. Nolan

Team-based exercise designed to illustrate the use of the Internet directly by executives. Requires going on the Internet to search for information required to construct a high-tech investment portfolio. View Details

Keywords: Investment Portfolio; Groups and Teams; Internet and the Web; Information Management

2003
Article

Confirming Management Earnings Forecasts, Earnings Uncertainty, and Stock Returns

By: Michael B. Clement, Richard Frankel and Jeffrey Miller

In this study we examine the association among confirming management forecasts, stock prices, and analyst expectations. Confirming management forecasts are voluntary disclosures by management that corroborate existing market expectations about future earnings. This... View Details

Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Corporate Disclosure; Price; Stocks; Investment Return

Web

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“The Industrial Photography and the Steel Company Archive of Puerto de Sagunto: Representation, Power and Identity (1944–1976).” Revisita Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas 149 (January–March 2015): 65–84. Sentner, Richard F.... View Details

March 2015 (Revised September 2016)
Case

Terrapin Laboratory

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Joseph B. Fuller

Describes the formation and rapid growth of a drug testing company. The company needs to decide whether to enter the painkiller testing market, in addition to growing its drug treatment center business. The associated teaching materials provide students the opportunity... View Details

Keywords: Business Growth; Entrepreneurial Management; Entrepreneurship; Growth Strategy; Market Entry; Venture Capital; Growth Management; Expansion; Financing and Loans; Health Care and Treatment; Health Testing and Trials; Business Startups; Pharmaceutical Industry; Health Industry

Educators

July–August 1989
Article

The Service Factory

By: David A. Garvin and Richard B. Chase

01 Jun 1997
News

Competition and Strategy Unit at HBS Sets Pace In Its Field

practice." Indeed, C&S faculty have recently published a number of books that have been well received in the academic and business press. Professor Adam M. Brandenburger's Co-opetition, for instance, is a Business Week bestseller while Professor David View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Dec 1997
News

Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize

ever to win the honor, which he shares with Myron S. Scholes of Stanford University. Merton, the School's George Fisher Baker Professor of Business Administration, joins more than thirty Harvard University faculty members who have won a... View Details

01 Sep 2012
News

Alumni Books

open up new possibilities within and between groups. Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck: What It Takes to Be an Entrepreneur and Build a Great Business by Anthony K. Tjan (MBA 1998), Richard J. Harrington, and Tsun-Yan Hsieh (MBA 1980)... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

July 1994 (Revised July 1995)
Case

VeriFone: The Transaction Automation Company (A)

By: Richard L. Nolan, Donna B. Stoddard and Hossam Galal

Describes VeriFone's new organizational model and its role in catapulting VeriFone to a market leadership position. Examines the impact of information technology and information access on the ability to leverage global resources, market responsiveness, and... View Details

Keywords: Leading Change; Leadership Development; Market Transactions; Information Technology; Organizational Design; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Organizational Structure; Information Management; Information Technology Industry

15 Nov 2016
News

HBS and SEAS Explore Opportunities for Innovative Thinking

Professor Lauren H. Cohen (photo by Eliza Grinnell) Professor Lauren H. Cohen (photo by Eliza Grinnell) Professor Karim R. Lakhani (photo by Richard Howard) Professor Karim R. Lakhani (photo by Richard... View Details

01 Aug 2002
News

For Alumni Only: Breakthrough Insights Program Debuts

for business leaders rather than to focus on a single topic. “For people who are doing important things, even one thought-provoking idea can create a ripple effect when participants return to their companies,” said Stevenson. In creating the program, Professor View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton

19 Jun 2012
First Look

First Look: June 19

PublicationsFood for Thought? Trust Your Unconscious When Energy Is Low Authors:Maarten Bos, Ap Dijksterhuis, and Rick B. Van Baaren Publication:Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology and Economics 5, no. 2 (May 2012) Abstract Recent... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

August 1997 (Revised March 1999)
Case

VeriFone (1997)

By: Richard L. Nolan, Anne Donnellon and Donna B. Stoddard

VeriFone, a leading manufacturer of payment systems technology, was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in June 1997. The case describes the strategic challenges that VeriFone faces as it positions itself to compete in the Internet payment systems marketplace. View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Internet; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Business Strategy; Information Technology Industry

December 2013 (Revised March 2015)
Course Overview Note

The Entrepreneurial Manager: Course Overview, 2015 Winter Term

By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Thomas Eisenmann and Joseph B. Fuller

Course overview of The Entrepreneurial Manager. View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Management; Business Education

2009
Journal Article

Evaluating Dedicated and Intrinsic Models of Temporal Encoding by Varying Context

By: Rebecca M.C. Spencer, Uma Karmarkar and Richard B. Ivry

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16 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs

our new knowledge-based enterprises. Perhaps Apple's John Scully should have remained at Pepsi; Kodak's George Fisher at Motorola; H-P's Carly Fiorina at Lucent; and Xerox's Richard Thoman at IBM. But as... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2003
News

South Florida and Minnesota Launch Community Programs

for alumni to use their business skills,” says Sanchez, noting that the group will assess and refine its strategies before entering the next project cycle. Richard Gehrman (MBA ’76) and Tony Levy (MBA ’88) serve as cochairs of the... View Details

Keywords: Alumni groups; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

August 1995
Teaching Note

State Street Boston Corporation: Leading with Information Technology TN

By: Richard L. Nolan, Donna B. Stoddard and Chiara Francalanci

Teaching Note (5-196-058). View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Financial Institutions; Transformation; Technology Adoption; Information Management; Competitive Strategy; Financial Services Industry