House Of Cards - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2017
News

Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award

photographed by Susan Young; edited by Julia Hanna and April White See full profiles and more photographs here. Recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award reflect the broad influence of HBS alumni as... View Details

20 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Are Company Founders Underpaid?

No one says the life of the entrepreneur is glamorous, at least in the start-up phase. Financing pressures. Bad diet. Family—what family? And now new research from Harvard Business School professor Noam Wasserman reveals another... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services; Technology

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS

book manuscript and seeking a publisher for it. This includes filling a few gaps in my research by using historical collections that are housed here at HBS and at a number of other libraries in the Boston... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard; Banking; Financial Services

01 Dec 2020
News

New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books

his subsequent investigation of the conditions in East Harlem that led young people to be involved in drug-selling and criminal activity. Besides the trial itself, the book is the story of the failures in... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2022 Commencement Remarks | About

EKTA dance competition; in discussions with the Student Association leadership; or at end-of-semester parties in the Dean’s House Garden that you were all so curious to see. I've also spoken with every faculty member at the School, hosted... View Details

01 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

How to Choose the Best Deal

value to the table. For example, if two potential buyers have bid up the asking price of your house and then one drops out, the other offer shouldn't go down. In fact, if you sense that the remaining bidder... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler

04 Apr 2024
Blog Post

Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #16: Tim Murdoch, HBS MBA 1990 – Learning about Climate Change and Water

pleasure. Some 75 years ago, Tim’s grandfather began spending summers in a remote section of Ontario, Canada. He homesteaded a three-acre island for $90 in the Upper French River and built a house on the... View Details

13 Feb 2019
News

We’re All Going to Get Hacked

Rothrock’s cell phone rings. Rothrock (MBA 1988) is the CEO of the cybersecurity firm Red Seal, and a higher-up at Sony was looking for his help. After the breach, he told Rothrock, the company essentially hit factory reset on their... View Details

13 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?

those who care about the renewed, continued competitiveness of the United States," he told attendees who gathered recently at the national summit held at HBS, America on the Move: Transportation and Infrastructure for the 21st... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation; Air Transportation; Auto

24 Nov 2014
Research & Ideas

Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes

In a 2012 Harvard Business School case on corruption at German conglomerate Siemens AG, Peter Solmssen —brought in to clean house —reflects on how people approach a business bribe. "The stupid ones say, very simply, what are you going to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

of Winthrop House at Harvard College. He is the first African American ever appointed Faculty Dean in Harvard's history. He is a founding member and Senior Fellow of the... View Details

22 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients

When the COVID-19 virus spread worldwide and normal life ground to a halt last year, we thought voluntary employee turnover would drop as well. But the opposite happened in one area: Lift outs—a group of workers who defect... View Details

Keywords: by Robin Abrahams, Boris Groysberg, and Steven L. Manchel

24 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care

back in vogue in Washington D.C. House Republicans will start to fill in the details on a tax proposal ultimately expected to reach a thousand pages. The goal is to get the bill signed into law by President Donald Trump by the end View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

12 Jul 2021
News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

receive a portion for their local medical personnel. Following that initial publicity, requests came in from organizations including the Cleveland Clinic, the City of Boston, rural police departments in Ohio, and nursing homes View Details

18 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

GM’s IPO: Back to the Future

decision by the Bush White House to provide more than $20 billion to GM, Chrysler, and their financial subsidiaries, the auto task force put together by President Obama managed a restructuring of both... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

20 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

Editor's note: When did America's declining global competitiveness begin? One starting spot might be 2008, the last year the country topped the World Economic Forum's list of most globally competitive nations. Four years later, the US has... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin

01 Dec 1999
News

From the Editors

There is an inescapable sense of history in the Bulletin's Sherman Hall offices, where three eight-foot-long bookshelves sag under the weight of 75 years of musty,... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

19 Feb 2021
News

A Playbook for Progress

an unstoppable force.” Dan: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Jacqui Adams (MBA 1978) is CEO of a communication strategy firm that she launched after more than two decades as an Emmy award-winning... View Details

01 Jun 1998
News

Diversity and Community

shines on White House honorees - illuminated these issues, and their HBS champions, in high relief. It was an indication of how much these matters have come to the fore. At a February 11 awards ceremony and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

26 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom on proper sequencing: "Get your own house in order first." Yet this was not the path that President George H. W. Bush followed in preparing for the first... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

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