Professional Services - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?

and not just inside the Beltway. At HBS, a group of MBAs last spring crafted and sent to Washington a bold proposal to create a nonprofit, public-private Corporate Governance College to employ and train a cadre of professional directors... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson

17 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook

research is widely confirmed throughout the essays of the Handbook. Chandler was primarily concerned with understanding the growth of large, diversified, and professionally managed firms from the late 19th century. The growth of big... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

09 Dec 2021
News

Higher Returns

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Parsec Ventures CEO Richard Steel (OPM 45, 2014) has had a wide range of professional experiences, including everything from running... View Details

18 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas, April 18

organizational behavior as a field of study. He was a pioneer in creating a body of work on organization design, leadership, and change in both the private and public sectors. Lawrence’s professional work was rooted in an aspiration to do... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

03 Dec 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Against the Grain

weaknesses that underlie corruption everywhere. As an emerging professional he must also weigh the trust value of the personal relationships he is forming; his own comfort zone for ethical trade-offs; and the inherent uncertainties of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Food & Beverage

18 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 18

professional service firm reshaped its activities and beliefs over nearly two decades as it adapted to shifts in the social discourse regarding gender and work. Analyzing archival data from the firm over... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

entrepreneurs wielding private capital, the new one is driven by professional investors working for or on behalf of deep-pocketed institutions, like pension funds and endowments. Even individual investors can buy a piece of the action.... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate

04 Nov 2020
News

The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises

51 years later? First, my years in the Navy were anything but a dead end. I supervised 70 sailors, providing accounting and logistic services to a scout submarine squadron. My boss, commander, and later a Rear Admiral, Ted Walker, was one... View Details

06 Jun 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

services firm, comprising over 1,000 applications and over 3,000 dependencies between them. Our methods allow us to disentangle the effects of different types and levels of coupling. Our analysis reveals that applications with higher... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Web

Past Issues - Alumni

and Again How rituals help us create order from chaos, affect performance, and ascribe meaning to the mundane details of our personal and professional lives Quantum Leap Quantum computing has revolutionary potential, but it’s been stuck... View Details

10 May 2022
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2022

an impairment test.” Alliance: “A few years ago I worked with local government and pulled in others to help revive and redesign a funeral home that’s served African Americans in North Minneapolis for the last 50 years that was about to be shut down. George Floyd’s... View Details

01 Mar 2010
News

A Wonderful Whirl

Mounted atop the Soldiers Field Park Garage, two wind turbines — 40-foot towers with 11.5-foot blades — represent Harvard’s biggest wind-energy project to date. Weighing more than 1,000 pounds each, the turbines are expected to supply 5 to 10 percent of the seven-story... View Details

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20 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 20, 2008

information about how to switch to export crops, makes in-kind loans for the purchase of the agricultural inputs, and provides marketing services by facilitating the transaction with exporters. The experimental evaluation design randomly... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2006
News

Light Years Ahead

interdisciplinary life-sciences research center on Western Avenue across from the HBS campus, and several of the Harvard professional schools are scheduled to move next to us within several years. This will eventually position us at the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Educational Services; Educational Services

01 Feb 1997
News

Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS

Marketing; Entrepreneurship, Creativity, and Organization; Real Property Asset Management; Venture Capital and Private Equity; Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector; and Running and Growing the Small Company. Several related courses include View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry and Susan Young; profiles by Garry Emmons

01 Sep 2011
News

Rolling Stock in Baker Exhibit

Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism, an exhibit in the Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, confirms there is still much to learn about railroads, whose scale and complexity spawned modern business’s management model. Recent scholarship compares the rise of... View Details

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01 Mar 2008
News

An American Odyssey

issues at the intersection of race and business,” states HBS professor David Thomas. “He was the first to look at the experience of African-American professionals and managers in the post–civil rights era, and he continues to blaze trails... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Lawrence Fouraker; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services

28 Oct 2013
News

The Federator

Keywords: Reva; Mahindra; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services

28 Jun 2011
First Look

First Look: June 28

Thomas R. Eisenmann and Michael PaoHarvard Business School Case 811-065 Dropbox is a venture-backed Silicon valley startup, founded in 2006, that provides online storage and backup services to millions of customers using a... View Details