Integrated Practice Unit - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 May 2013
Research & Ideas

A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity

gender and work, the paper, An Outside- Inside Internalization of Shifting Gender Logics in Professional Work, identifies cycles of organizational analysis and resulting actions sparked by transformations in societal beliefs and practices... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

01 Dec 2005
News

Buy the Book

as a sublime integration of operations and marketing,” says Deighton, who taught the case to MBAs for the first time this fall in the elective course Consumer Marketing. “Patterson understands that if you want shelf space you need to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2010
News

$how Me the Money

It’s a problem that is “capitalism’s Achilles heel,” declares Raymond Baker (MBA ’60), executive director of the Washington, D.C.–based organization Global Financial Integrity (GFI). This month at the G20 conference in Canada, Baker will... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Legal Services; Professional Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

02 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: Companies Must Forget—and Borrow

As companies ride the digital wave, many find that switching up old, tired practices and deviating from the norm can be crucial to survival. But sometimes things can be taken too far. During the Digital Initiative Summit at Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education; Advertising

25 Mar 2021
News

Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy

educational programs, intellectual ambition for widespread impact, internationalization for global understanding, inclusion to enhance culture and community, and integration with Harvard University. “Alumni and close friends of the School... View Details

01 Sep 2003
News

CGLV Plenary Session

Last May, a plenary session was held to summarize and integrate the findings and recommendations gleaned from four workshops held at HBS during the academic year. Known as Corporate Governance, Leadership, and Values (CGLV), the workshop... View Details

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

09 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’

businesspeople were forcefully reminded, yet again, of the ups and downs of the economy. By World War I, there were only about ten forecasting agencies operating in the United States. Professional economists, like Irving Fisher and Warren... View Details

Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman

31 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories of 2012

might help phone-addled employees better control their workdays and lives. 6. HBS Cases: Sir Alex Ferguson--Managing Manchester United Published: November 7, 2012 For almost three decades, Sir Alex Ferguson has developed the Manchester... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Oct 1997
News

Terence P. Stewart

For more than twenty years, Terry Stewart's work has placed him at the middle of some of the world's most contentious border disputes - the trade and legal battles that erupt when countries engage in practices such as dumping or... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

19 Jan 2017
News

Finding Purpose in Profit

As an undergraduate at Princeton, Coupounas majored in philosophy and then spent a year at Oxford studying philosophical theology as a Rotary Foundation Graduate Fellow. She also sang and acted in various choral groups and theater productions, and View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; B corporations

01 Jun 1996
News

Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course

rooted in the popular MBA elective, The Coming of Managerial Capitalism: The United States, an offering designed in the 1980s by HBS professors Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., and Richard S. Tedlow. To expand this course into the global arena... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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Julio Cedeno

Julio Cedeno was born in Texas just months after his mother and father (originally from Mexico and Venezuela respectively) arrived in the United States from Venezuela. As the oldest among a generation of siblings and cousins, Julio was... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy

01 Apr 1996
News

Technology for Learning's Sake

would really enable us to take it to the next level - the ability to combine integrated digitized text and exhibits - was only developed very recently." "We're at a juncture today in the technology where all the work we've been doing over... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig

25 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

An Organization Your Customers Understand

subordinate to the functions? Maybe you should organize by product, with separate units set up to serve specific markets. You play with the different combinations in your hands. How to decide ... This is the most obvious—and... View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

01 Mar 2016
News

Ink

Reading “For those who love history and like thinking about why our American system (with all of its flaws) kind of works, these two books help to frame how lucky we are and why the way we do things in the United States does not work so... View Details

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding

CEOs typically receive just 6 percent of the $69 billion available in venture capital in the United States, according to the VC research firm VentureOne. In an effort to boost the odds, 23 women took the podium at HBS as part of the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

June 2020
Supplement

TransDigm in 2017: Congressional Hearing on the DoD Inspector General’s Report (5/15/19)

By: Benjamin C. Esty

This video accompanies the case, “TransDigm in 2017: The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning?” View Details

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01 Jun 2010
News

M.I.A. Boards

a Professor of Management Practice at HBS who serves on the boards of ExxonMobil and Goldman Sachs, told a forum of directors in 2008, “Serving on a board is about one thing: It’s about responsibility for the preservation and growth of... View Details

Keywords: John Gillespie;David Zweig; Finance

01 Mar 2013
News

Commitment to Leadership

community and a set of organizational capabilities so that talented individuals can collaborate and engage in discovery-driven learning and integrative decision-making. At HBS, we see our alumni as partners in all we do. Our graduates are... View Details

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