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27 Mar 2017
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Should Entrepreneurs Get an MBA?

I’m happy to concede some territory here: I’m not convinced it’s essential to running the company that I can derive WACC or read Balance of Payments statements. This argument does, though, undervalue the soft stuff that is taught View Details

23 Jun 2023
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Highlights from the Spring 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

updates on the MBA program, the campus framework planning process, fundraising and alumni engagement, and plans to enhance Reunions. The Alumni Board is a representative group of about 75 alumni who reflect... View Details

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

kind—of someone who could achieve so much in his career and yet have the strength and wisdom to keep balance in his life, and pursue agendas far... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

30 Jul 2001
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What’s the Future of Corporate Governance?

leadership for an organization. Robert Kaplan and David Norton, in their books, The Balanced Scorecard and The Strategy-Focused Organization, have argued for performance... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

14 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

A Strategy For Steady Leadership in an Unsteady World

The world’s uncertainties can feel like a tsunami washing over your business. Bill George recommends navigating with a compass pointing to your own True North. Source: iStock With the events of 2016—Brexit, the election of Donald Trump, threats from terrorists View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

22 Sep 2022
News

The Beauty Guide

selves. It’s good not only for her employees but also for business. “We all know that when you have diverse points of views, that is when the business thrives,” she notes. Freyre recognizes that employees face challenges in trying to View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

August 2016
Article

Cooperation Can Emerge in Prisoner’s Dilemma from a Multi-species Predator Prey Replicator Dynamic

By: Elisabeth Paulson and Christopher Griffin

In this paper we study a generalized variation of the replicator dynamic that involves several species and sub-species that may interact. We show how this dynamic comes about from a specific finite-population model, but also show that one must take into consideration... View Details

Keywords: Prisoner's Dilemma; Replicator Dynamic; Zero-sum Game; Cooperation; Behavior; Balance and Stability

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03 Dec 2014
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Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?

boss make a difference? Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman have written about "how to manage around a weakness" not by changing people but by balancing "the strengths View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

26 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: Financing the Climate Transition in India

dedicated to adaptation efforts, highlighting the need for a more balanced approach. Striking a balance between mitigation and adaptation is crucial for addressing the... View Details

18 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

How New Managers Become Great Managers

particular job.10 Those early in their careers can glean important self-insight through careful and systematic introspection. People should seek out diverse experiences to facilitate and View Details

Keywords: by Linda Hill

01 Jan 2010
News

James Dimon, MBA 1982

and management practices are legendary — as a strategist who can integrate fractured businesses; as a dealmaker who bought two failing banks during the extraordinary circumstances of the past two years; as a relentless risk manager who... View Details

01 Mar 2004
News

Derek Ferguson

study was so strong that Ferguson broke the group into a morning and an evening session. “I had to take my work hat all the way off,” he says. “The study involves taking a spiritual inventory — figuring out how different events in our... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

to provide a much better balance between productivity improvements and private profitability gains. Importantly in the current context, policy interventions that raise productivity do not create... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

The New Global Business Manager

refusing to deal with this horrific disease as it spread through Africa. Multinational companies have to be more like Genzyme and find ways to balance their huge global power with their assumption of global... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

04 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

The Business of Life

sticking to principles every day, considering all the hard work involved. "He told me he thought it had 'a negative net present value.'" “It's a travesty that somehow our society has gotten to a point where people have the view that science View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

10 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone

since little of the upside tends to flow back onto corporate balance sheets. To that end, Nagle says, “Can we design systems and regulations to allow a company to get some of those benefits?” One model for... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

"The Rise of Consumer Bankruptcy: Evolution, Revolution, or Both" (with Gibbs A. Johnson, spring 1999). 1998 Rawi E. Abdelal : Winner of the Harrison Prize for Best Article Published in Political Studies during 1998 for "The Politics of Monetary Leadership View Details

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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

and is well worth the effort. Slides Predicting Market Bubbles and Financial Crises Professor Robin Greenwood + More Info – Less Info Over the past decade, researchers at Harvard Business School, through the... View Details

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Brian Kreiter

servant. I will pray to be husband, parent, and friend. I will not confuse the two. I will never settle, nor be consumed by greener grass. I will leave no path of carnage in my wake. I will have nothing to hide. I will View Details

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