Professional Services - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

22 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Negotiation is Like Jazz

negotiation requires adapting your communication acts to the most advantageous pattern. Learning The Notes Imagine you're a sales rep negotiating with the procurement manager of a professional services firm.... View Details

Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn

18 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation

solutions to these problems. Taking this SIP in my RC year has set me up for a continued deep inquiry over the next year and a half at HBS to learn how I can create a climate adaptation lens to look through as I design my personal and View Details

06 Sep 2016
First Look

September 6, 2016

buyer characteristics. Consider the experiences of condo developers targeting retirees who wanted to downsize their homes. Sales were weak until the developers realized their business was not construction but transitioning lives. Instead of adding more features to the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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

05 Apr 2016
First Look

April 5, 2016

start-up seem too risky? There is a radical third path open to you: you can buy a small business and run it as CEO. Purchasing a small company offers significant financial rewards—as well as personal and professional fulfillment. Leading... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

21 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle

millions of customers are able to track how marketing investments affect individual customer's behavior. Every aspect of behavior is being monitored—a customer's first encounter with the firm, the initial and subsequent purchases, and the post-purchase View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

31 Jan 2023
News

Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups

highlighted the successes of many UK entrepreneurs, it also provided inspiration for aspiring founders among UK alumni. Gernon opened the evening’s conversation with a reminder of the many programs and services the Rock Center offers for... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

03 Mar 2017
News

Big Blue’s Big Bet

asking if Watson might pick up some of the burden of their professional lives. “We even went on a tour of hosting various dinners with prominent physicians,” Hogan says, all with a single aim: “We were looking for dramatic improvements in... View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

01 Sep 2017
News

History’s Lessons

individuals who can and want to embrace the disruption, who understand how to thrive in ambiguity and respond quickly to its unforeseen challenges. These aspects, the leader realized, depend more heavily on an individual’s temperament and outlook than they do on View Details

Keywords: Abraham Lincoln; Ernest Shackelford; Rachel Carson

07 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 7, 2009

Addleshaw-Goddard (AG), the 15th largest law firm in the U.K., is seeking ways to serve larger clients on more important legal matters. Part of this strategy involves its "Client Development Centre (CDC)," an innovative idea and set of View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 Oct 2013
News

The Federator

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08 Dec 2015
News

Harvard’s Alumni Impact

Keywords: Harvard; alumni; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

03 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 3, 2009

Lehman Brothers Harvard Business School Case 409-042 Explores how two senior Wall St. executives created a successful commercial opportunity for Lehman Brothers that focused on building relationships with minority- and women-owned financial View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Aug 2012
First Look

First Look: August 7

direct evidence that incentive contracts distort judgment and beliefs, even among trained professionals with many years of experience. Loans evaluated under more permissive incentive schemes are rated significantly less risky than the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Aug 2024
News

Quantum Leap

transformative also make it fiendishly difficult to implement—and almost impossible for anyone but professional physicists to fully understand. The bits that classical computers use to store data and perform calculations have only two... View Details

01 Jun 2022
News

What We’re Reading

“dedication to a cause greater than oneself,” and success and happiness will flow from it. The book influenced me to change the path I was on, and that has made all the difference. —Nate Boaz (MBA 2006) is a dad, author, US Marine Corps veteran, and recovering View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Online Entrepreneurial Marketing Course | HBS Online

go-to-market execution. The course did an excellent job of blending theory with practical applications, featuring case studies from real startup founders and marketing leaders." Chudhary Kashif Grow your organization’s new product or View Details

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Key Metrics | Annual Report 2024

professional (exempt); research associates; internal post docs; service & trade hourly employed by Harvard Business School (HBS); and support staff (non-exempt). It does not include Harvard Business... View Details

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