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- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
growing a business, for better or for worse. “I tell my students that they'll get a better framework in this 14-week course than I got in 14 years at the school of hard knocks.” Chester A. "Chet" Huber (HBS MBA '79) says the... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Looking for CEOs in All the Wrong Places
Nitin Nohria as a graduate student in 1994. To learn the extent to which chief executive turnover affects corporations, they studied the performance of two hundred of the largest U.S. companies before and after chief executive... View Details
- 06 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 6, 2015
our understanding of the psychology behind consumers' decision making, their interactions with other consumers, and the effects of societal factors on consumption. The Cambridge Handbook of Consumer Psychology will act as a valuable guide for faculty as well as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 14
Case provides confidential information for students assuming the role of senior executives of Keurig, a startup that has developed an innovative "portion pack" coffee brewing solution, in a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS
Wadhwani Q: The Newcomen Fellow is expected to participate in the school's business history courses, seminars, and case development activities. Can you tell us about your teaching experience here at HBS? I imagine that your previous teaching experience was with View Details
- 24 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Upgrading School with a Startup Mentality
launch his own network of schools because he believed typical elementary education was not preparing students adequately for the future. Instead, Ventilla created "microschools," each with 80 to 150 K-8 students, with a focus on... View Details
- 02 Aug 2024
- HBS Case
How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture
On a hectic Friday in October 2016, Josh Domingues wondered if he had made a mistake quitting the security of a well-paying job managing contracts for professional hockey players to start a new venture selling nearly expired groceries at discount prices. After all, a... View Details
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Around the World of Entrepreneurial Ventures
Walter Kuemmerle. These realities include the importance of local context and the need to adhere to a global perspective on opportunities and access to resources. These same issues provide fascinating research fodder for the course he teaches to Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught
the Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration, Paul W. Marshall, the MBA Class of 1960 Professor of Management Practice and course head for The Entrepreneurial Manager, and Richard G. Hamermesh, senior lecturer and instructor for... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 10 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
Working for a Shamed Company Can Hurt Your Future Compensation
work. It does seem like companies make some distinctions between employees, who are not all painted with the same broad brush. Senior executives suffer a 6.5 percent compensation discount on average while financial executives take a 10... View Details
- 27 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses
to finding solutions to huge challenges? For example, should blocks of the HBS curriculum focus on big, multidisciplinary problems—such as the world's water shortage—and how to solve them? How about increasing the number of MBA students... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Women Leading Business: A New Kind of Conversation
issues—dual career families, the glass ceiling, and so on—and while those issues are certainly worth discussing, they are not what I intended for this program. "Women Leading Business" is about senior executive decision-making,... View Details
Keywords: Re: Myra M. Hart & Cynthia A. Montgomery
- 30 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Under a Research Microscope
away, might encourage more people to use it. The early, surprising answer: yes. Whereas free is sometimes equated with no value, people who pay even a little bit for Clorin are more likely to use it and use more of it, according to the researchers. HBS View Details
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
overview of property and casualty insurance, the Chinese insurance market and the challenges that foreign-based insurers have in entering an emerging market. Students are asked to decide what Chubb's China strategy should be moving... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat
employees, rapidly rising health-care costs, and the likely loss of existing protection against lawsuits for pain and suffering from medical events. She then disclosed the results of a 1999 KPMG survey of CEOs and consumers about consumer-driven health care. The firm... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
in the future? By examining hundreds of job profiles developed by executive-search firm Heidrick & Struggles and interviewing numerous senior managers, the authors have identified some clear trends. One strikingly consistent finding... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
effective "career narrative"―a tool for packaging and sharing a professional's past achievements, long-term goals, and forward-looking needs through a compelling story. It focuses mostly on the ways junior professionals can leverage their career story, but... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
New Paths to Success in Asia
senior researcher in the Global Research Group who has been working recently with a number of faculty members to develop Asian-based cases for the School's curriculum. "There's one Chinese company, for example, that has established... View Details
Keywords: by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
academics are uniquely suited to play, says Karen Mills, former administrator of the US Small Business Administration (SBA) and now a senior fellow at HBS. “When I went to Washington, I saw a tremendous need for fact-based analysis to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding