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16 Apr 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom

intones, "How do you prepare to deal with the unexpected that's coming up? Get there early, set the place up. Read every signal you can get. So it's intuitive, but it's also systematic." Those two qualities—systematic... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education

01 Dec 2012
News

From Where We Stand

experiences, and the meaning of leadership. Click on each heading below to read their responses. What career advice do you have for today's female MBAs? As a trailblazer, how did you proceed when there was no established route to your... View Details

20 Jul 2010
First Look

First Look: July 20

payments, and deferred taxes are incrementally value-relevant but that only the impairment of goodwill and deferred taxes reveal new information. Our results indicate that mandatory IFRS adoption alters investors' beliefs about stock prices. View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2013
News

Who Are We?

in Asia but in the Middle East that really got Kondo excited about social media. After a stint as a World Fellow at Yale (where he developed Table for Two, a nonprofit he cofounded to fight both hunger and obesity internationally), he... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Julia Hanna; Dan Morrell; social media,; Twitter; SodaStream; consulting; consultant; CEO; farming; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation

11 May 2021
Blog Post

Q+A on the Socioeconomic Inclusion Task Force with Holly Fetter (MBA 2020) and Alexxis Isaac (MBA 2020)

directly. That was a big takeaway, that this is the beginning and shouldn't be the end of this process. There's a lot to uncover and address. Holly: A lot of what we found were issues that we had suspected were there, but were still staggering to View Details

15 Feb 2023
News

Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains

wait. Meghan Kenny (MBA 2019) and Jonas Lee (MBA 1993) READ MORE In this episode we're headed to the company's headquarters in Downtown Los Angeles, where the Hobbes prototype was built. And to Southwest Wyoming where the company is... View Details

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

their work. Joining the discussion was Professor Debora Spar, a political scientist who recently traced the historical development of several pioneering technologies. Leading Research: Let's begin by talking about what led to the writing... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

01 Mar 2006
News

The Producers

then at actor Will Smith’s production company, Overbrook Entertainment, producing last year’s hit comedy Hitch and 2004’s Saving Face, a romantic comedy about a Chinese-American lesbian’s coming out in her tradition-bound community. Now an independent producer, Zee is... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information

08 Sep 2016
News

How We Make It Work

born, I read up on child development and learned the special importance of the first several years. From that point on, I gave extra priority to spending quality time with our children whenever I was home... View Details

03 Jun 2015
What Do You Think?

Is the Time Right for Self-Management?

Summing Up When and Where Will Holacracy Work Best? Holacracy, or self-management, is an interesting concept and not entirely new. It can work, but only under the right conditions. And its applications will be limited. That's what one might conclude from View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

04 Mar 2015
What Do You Think?

Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?

wage disparity, which is more a symptom than a cause of the larger problem. These discussions often elicit an observation that, in many developed economies, too many workers can't live on the money they make. For whatever... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

05 May 2010
What Do You Think?

Is Denial Endemic to Management?

"data-driven decision style" (David Cawlfield), the development of "early warning indicators" combined with an "external interference mechanism" (Gopal Padinjaruveetil), scenario planning of the type... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

Web

Black History Month | Baker Library

of the Harvard Business School today and into the future. Collection activities focus on the career and professional development needs of our MBA students and alumni, as well as on access to business content to the Harvard University... View Details

Web

Expatriate Traders in the Treaty Port Communities - A Chronicle of the China Trade

breakfast.” 52 Other recreational activities included billiards, bowling, cricket, fencing, amateur theatricals, and reading in lending libraries established in the treaty ports. Augustine Heard, Jr. explained that “it was the dream of... View Details

01 Dec 1998
News

A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill

Business School provided him with the managerial know-how and business contacts to begin to turn that dream into a reality. "When I came to Harvard, I was keenly interested in leadership and in what the best companies were doing to make it possible for their employees... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Sep 2005
News

Predictable Surprises

completely off guard. Drawing on social science theory, he developed a tentative notion that “there are negative events out there waiting to happen, which people have sufficient information to predict or prevent, but for various reasons... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

10 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

Lessons from the Browser Wars

order to slow the build-up of network effects around the first mover and ensure that the second mover's product begins to build up a critical mass. A number of smaller strategic elements converge to generate this window of opportunity, but I encourage people to View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Computer; Consumer Products; Technology

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Stuart Gilson

unambiguously reduced the firm's cash labor costs, by a significant amount—and at a time the other major airlines were laying off tens of thousands of employees. Q: Who can benefit by reading this book? A: I am trying to reach multiple... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

02 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?

most potent and vital exemplars of the man-of-action hero, beginning with Sam Walton, Lee Iacocca, and Steve Jobs, then Ted Turner and Phil Knight, and then the dozens of celebrated e-commerce heroes who would destroy and reinvent the economy. If you View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

Career Coach

Vincent Dessain

Vincent (HBS MBA’87) draws on more than 25 years of experience as a higher education senior executive at HBS and INSEAD and in the corporate world both in the US and in Europe to counsel students and alumni as they evaluate, prepare for and pursue their career options.... View Details

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