Curriculum and Courses - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

What Great American Leaders Teach Us

the captains of industry that have forged the foundation upon which business stands today? Over the course of the last few years, we set out to address these questions. In the process, we created a database of 860 individuals who stand... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

20 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

parlayed his fame as a celebrity real estate developer into a winning pitch to voters as a Washington outsider. Emphasizing his decades of experience as a wheeler-dealer building luxury hotels, casinos, and golf View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese

08 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

You Won't Make It If You Fake It

is essential to surround yourself with more experienced leaders as Zuckerberg found with Sandberg. Google founders Page and Sergey Brin followed a similar course by recruiting Eric Schmidt as CEO. It is also... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

New Paths to Success in Asia

future course of Asian business. "Asia has always been a tough place to do research," notes McFarlan, the driving force behind a joint HBS-Tsinghua University executive education program that premiered in January. "With a... View Details

Keywords: by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg

21 Jan 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Managing the Family Business: Market Basket’s Lessons About Buyouts

approach? The most common arguments are: "We can't agree on price." Of course you don't agree. The side that wants to leave generally wants a higher price (or terms of the buyout) than the side that wants to stay on as owners.... View Details

Keywords: Retail

01 Aug 2012
What Do You Think?

Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’

become too big to succeed? Of course neither prospect is particularly inviting. But if a growing body of data supports the notion that bigness is not necessarily good, particularly for customers and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing; Financial Services

07 Jun 2019
Book

Are You a Digital Manager?

relationships in the course of doing their work. So you already have a set of contacts. What’s needed, though, is not merely contacts but a network: a set of ongoing, enduring relationships with those you depend on View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

25 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

An Organization Your Customers Understand

new administration began telling our students that they were customers. In hindsight, the result was predictable: As paying "customers," students demanded that their professors respond promptly to their preferences. Professors View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

03 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance

into how firms structure their worldwide operations given limited disclosure requirements. To crack open the multinational firm and study these decisions, new data sources and nontraditional methods were... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

02 Sep 2019
What Do You Think?

Are Overlooked Forces Shielding the US from Severe Economic Downturns?

of commercial activity. Further, they require comparatively little inventory, eliminating another source of inventory fluctuations. There are of course many factors and interactions contributing to a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Service

02 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Ray A. Goldberg

himself to return to the family business. In his second year in the MBA Program, Goldberg cross-registered for a course "across the river" with Professor John D. Black, a prominent agricultural economist who became his mentor... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Agriculture & Agribusiness

06 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Women MBAs at Harvard Business School

asking her, "Tell me why you're here at HBS taking a place away from a man." HBS professors' attitudes toward women were a mixed bag, too. As early as the 1940s and into the 1960s, several HBS faculty members would cross the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

08 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid?

run? “It's a question of who will make money and which business models are effective” "There's a huge opportunity to make money here," Henderson, codirector of the Business & Environment Initiative at HBS, told students who... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Energy; Utilities

31 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?

work on money as an important part of my Leadership and Happiness course and look forward to catching up with his newest efforts. My extended family has agreed to share The... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Information; Publishing

03 Dec 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Against the Grain

What should Jim do? The array of ethical choices forms the basis of discussion in the MBA required course Leadership and Corporate Accountability. Supply And Demand... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Food & Beverage

23 Mar 2021
Book

Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World

When the pandemic forced employees to flee offices and work from home in droves last year, many business leaders worried that productivity might take a dive. Would remote workers be too tempted by the lures of Netflix or too distracted by... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

17 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos

they won't know what the video is advertising. The solution, based on Teixeira's research, is a technique called "brand pulsing," wherein the brand or product is shown repeatedly but not too intrusively throughout the course of the video.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

06 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track

face. More than 1,500 MBA students at Harvard Business School have experienced these groups since 2005, as well as participants in executive education courses and World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders.... View Details