HBS Alumni Association - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Nov 2004
Research & Ideas

Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors

Six degrees of separation seems to work well for B-list actors—but does it have anything to say about innovation and business? HBS associate professor Lee Fleming believes it does, and his work looks... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Publishing

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Professors Introduce Valuation Software

financial data to perform accounting analysis, ratio analysis, forecasted financials, and valuation. It also provides benchmarking for comparable firms. It was created by Harvard Business School faculty Krishna Palepu and Paul Healy, in collaboration with former View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Hiring Organizations

Partners AllWin Alpaca Real Estate Alphabroder Alpine Investors Alterra Capital Partners Altitude AI Altos Ventures Alumni Ventures Amazon Amazon Web Services - AWS Ambit Partners American Express American Industrial Partners Amex... View Details

17 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management

What should business people in particular know about the pros and cons of attempts to treat and control diabetes—or indeed other chronic diseases? That was the focus of a lively case-study discussion among some fifty participants led by View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

29 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums

An old adage says that it's not what you know, it's whom you know. But outsiders can take heart: even for those who don't belong to a high-power social network, there's power in simply keeping track of who went to school with whom. View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

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Strategic Negotiations

efficiencies by developing a systematic approach to managing negotiations Synchronize internal and external negotiations Address the complexities associated with multiple parties and agendas as well as evolving timeframes Negotiate... View Details

13 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

From Turf Wars to Learning Curves: How Hospitals Adopt New Technology

substitutable and the physician groups associated with each moved into closer competition with each other. Where turf wars do seem to have more of an impact is in how aggressively a hospital supports its initial investment in a given... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Health

11 Oct 2024
Blog Post

Committing to Work and Family: Allison Boxer (MBA 2012)

kept hearing that the mission of HBS was to create leaders that make a positive difference in the world. I was eager to work with the Social Enterprise Initiative and Conference. At HBS, I was a student in pilot classes Reimagining... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

31 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?

brand over another based on their patients' requests? A recent study, Physicians Report on Patient Encounters Involving Direct to Consumer Advertising, focused on one aspect of pharma DCTA: What do physicians think about all of this? What follows is an View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

03 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

do to train knowledgeable, principled, and skilled leaders. Against this backdrop of problems, business schools are poised to take advantage of exciting opportunities to cooperate and innovate, argue HBS professors Srikant M. Datar and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

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Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

and paths for social entrepreneurship. Alumni Engagement Connect to a powerful global network of social impact leaders through events, interest groups, and local alumni clubs. For Organizations Build your... View Details

29 Jun 2021
Blog Post

DIVERSIFYING OUR CASE PROTAGONISTS: HOW IS HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL DOING A YEAR LATER?

central role in the steps that followed, including by reaching out to the HBS African-American Alumni Association, current students, and faculty to identify promising case leads. As a result of this... View Details

30 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Diversifying Our Case Protagonists: How is Harvard Business School Doing a Year Later?

central role in the steps that followed, including by reaching out to the HBS African-American Alumni Association, current students, and faculty to identify promising case leads. As a result of this... View Details

29 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

Building a Powerful Prestige Brand

operation with a compelling reputation. Several issues were critical in the Lauders' thinking. First, they wanted to reach large numbers of middle-class and wealthy consumers, women with sufficient means to buy premium-priced products View Details

Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn; Beauty & Cosmetics; Consumer Products; Retail

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Placement - Doctoral

Career Success and HBS Career and Professional Development . Students on the Job Market Every year, the HBS Doctoral Programs produces an impressive list of students who are preparing to enter the job... View Details

12 Mar 2024
Research & Ideas

Publish or Perish: What the Research Says About Productivity in Academia

candidate; Rachel Mural, a doctoral candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School; Jerry Thursby and Marie Thursby, visiting scholars at the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard’s Laboratory for Innovation Science; HBS data science research... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Education

15 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat

power of states. But the world is not flat, argues HBS professor Pankaj Ghemawat. Think of it as partly globalized, or "semiglobalized." "Strategies that presume complete global integration tend to place far too much... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

20 Mar 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018

women, three are African-American, and not one is an African-American woman. What’s going on? The authors studied the careers of the roughly 2,300 alumni of African descent who have graduated from Harvard Business School since its... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

Amazon, eBay and the Bidding Wars

competitors hiding in the grass. It's not over 'til it's over. Q: What are you working on now? A: Several of my current projects have to do with market design, with trying to get the rules right. With Tayfun Sonmez and Parag Pathak here at View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Web Services; Technology

31 Aug 2010
Working Paper Summaries

Multinational Firms, Labor Market Discrimination, and the Capture of Competitive Advantage by Exploiting the Social Divide

Keywords: by Jordan I. Siegel, Lynn Pyun & B.Y. Cheon

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