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- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
learning how to manage. Ultimately though, he would go on to spend 35 years at the company, becoming CEO in 2001. He was so dedicated to GE that, at age 50, he got the company's logo tattooed on his leg. Immelt, now venture partner at New Enterprise View Details
- 09 Jun 2017
- News
Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes WildChina founder Zhang Mei (MBA 1996) released her first book this year: Travels Through Dali with a Leg of Ham, a travelogue and recipe collection culled from the kitchens of her hometown. She speaks... View Details
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
this article, we argue that the beneficial effects of goal setting have been overstated and that systematic harm caused by goal setting has been largely ignored. We identify specific side effects associated with goal setting, including a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
history of the republic is off to a rockier start. What I teach my students is that great leaders—like Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs—are fast learners, and they continue to invest in learning throughout their careers. Moreover,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
product should have been, says HBS entrepreneurial management professor Thomas R. Eisenmann. In his new MBA course, Launching Technology Ventures, Eisenmann introduces students to the idea of the lean startup—a methodology that has proven... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
management team, supported by an external consulting firm, introduced a series of aggressive cost-cutting measures that resulted in a downsizing of the workforce, and impacted some distinctive features of the services provided by RegionFly that had been historically... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 6, 2007
the firm and MIS research to argue that some types of information technology (IT) will be deployed only within hierarchical governance structures. This argument introduces a contingency into the 'electronic markets hypothesis,' which holds that greater use of IT is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
advertising and marketing filled with stark depictions of the harsh realities of drug use. On this episode of Skydeck, Langford speaks with associate editor Julia Hanna about how they’ll craft these messages, how effective they can be—and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
lesson plans before they arrive, to building a special cafeteria to accommodate school groups, where three shifts of 450 students eat lunch almost every weekday. While McCarter is proud that the Field has increased the number of... View Details
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
biased forecasts for potential future employers are more likely to face favorable career outcomes and bank executives appear to profit from the analysts' bias since the bias is associated with higher levels of insider trading. Our results... View Details
- 13 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Life of Leaders
candidacy in the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute and then applying for and being granted a waiver of medical and psychiatric prerequisites so that I could receive full training in clinical psychoanalysis. The American Psychoanalytic View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/facpubs/workingpapers/papers0809.html#wp09-018 Responding to Public and Private Politics: Corporate Disclosure of Climate Change Strategies Authors:Erin M.Reid, Michael W. Toffel Abstract The challenges View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
differently than many companies' product development processes, but allows this company to produce very high profit margin products that retain their margins for a very long time in an industry in which products come and go very quickly. The case helps View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Numbers on Social Investments
In what is believed to be the largest study of its kind, MBA students at Harvard Business School recently analyzed the financial returns generated by 110 early-stage companies backed by Investors' Circle, a national network dedicated to... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 10 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 10
across the United States: proximity to historical mining deposits is associated with bigger firms and fewer start-ups in the middle of the 20th century. We use mines as an instrument for our entrepreneurship measures and find a persistent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 16
and harness the wisdom of crowds. Most organizations, however, don't find it easy or natural to use these new tools initially. And executives see many possible pitfalls associated with them. Enterprise 2.0 explores these concerns and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
What Perceived Power Brings to Negotiations
other party and how that party viewed them. Wolfe is a research associate at Princeton, while McGinn is the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. In her office at Baker Library, McGinn discussed the... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
behalf of their own interests and their shareholders' interests, but to use that influence on behalf of their employees, their communities, and society as a whole.” AUGUST 10 MBA Student Association... View Details
- 28 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 28
Publications October 2014 John Wiley & Sons International Strategy: Context, Concepts and Implications By: Collis, David J. Abstract—This book is designed for every student who will be involved in managing and advising companies... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Nov 2016
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November 8, 2016
approaches on the subject in terms of longitudinal and geographical scope. We suggest that the straightforward association of the general environmental settings of market immaturities and institutional voids with the existence of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne