by HBS Working Knowledge - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Nov 2016
Video

The Making of an Internship: Impact

03 Sep 2018
News

Moving Pictures

while working at McKinsey. So he began tinkering with stories, eventually making a pact with himself during business school: “I decided to write two hours a day—and if I actually had something to say, maybe I was a writer. View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Christina Gandolfo; Arts, Entertainment

15 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience

Updates—Even After CrowdStrike's Flaw How Workplace Wellness Programs Can Give Employees the Energy Boost They Need Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch

25 Aug 2022
News

Open Market

Gretchen Howard (MBA 2002) came to HBS in part because she had a story in her mind about how her career would start: It was 2000, the apex of the dotcom bubble. She would move to Boston, study business, partner with a technologist from... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Keith Negley; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

07 Nov 2006
First Look

First Look: November 7, 2006

interconnected by different "gatekeepers," individuals who bridge one group with another. Historically, engineers and scientists tended to work within local clusters of collaboration that were... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Tarun Khanna

Tarun Khanna is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School. For almost three decades, he has studied entrepreneurship as a means to social and economic development in emerging markets. At HBS since 1993, after obtaining degrees from Princeton... View Details

14 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog

Impact Center (Harvard Business School) Your CEO Succession Plan Can’t Wait (Harvard Business Review) A Pandemic Won’t Kill The Open Office, But Slack Could(Vanity Fair) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

03 Jun 2016
News

Again in a Great City

history. As the 68-year-old real estate developer navigates the central business district, he sketches an idiosyncratic map of the city—almost three decades of knowledge of what each piece of property used to be, what it could have been,... View Details

Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly

19 Feb 2020
News

Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change

organized by the HBS Business & Environment Initiative and the HBS Club of Washington, DC. The expert panel featured voices from the energy, environmental, and governmental... View Details

Keywords: April White; photos by Jack Conroy

Tsedal Neeley

Tsedal Neeley is the Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development and Research, and Faculty Chair of the Christensen Center for Teaching... View Details

Gerald Zaltman

*Joined Harvard Faculty: 1991
Prior Faculty Appointments: Northwestern University, 1968-75;
University of Pittsburgh, 1975-91

*Doctoral Degree in Sociology Received from: The John Hopkins University;
MBA Degree Received from: The University of... View Details

Keywords: advertising; apparel; automotive; beverage; biotechnology; consumer products; entertainment; financial services; food; health care; marketing industry; pharmaceuticals; retailing; sports; telecommunications

06 Dec 2018
News

Source Code

ago when Jeff Hawkins came across a Scientific American article by Francis Crick—famed half of the DNA discovery duo Watson and Crick. “He wrote this powerful essay about how we have no idea how the brain works, and how we need a... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Daniel Hertzberg

04 Sep 2019
News

Deep Dive

Everest. Vescovo had reached that summit on his second try in 2010. The battered ice axe he had relied on during the climb was now secured within the the submersible’s body. It reminded him of the intense physical strain of those days on the mountain, the punishing... View Details

Keywords: April White; photo by Jeff Wilson; Scientific Research and Development Services

March, 2023
Article

Academic Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurial Advisors and Their Advisees' Outcomes

By: Maria P. Roche

The transfer of complex knowledge and skills is difficult, often requiring intensive interaction and extensive periods of co-working between a mentor and mentee, which is particularly true in apprenticeship-like settings and on-the-job training. This paper studies a... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Higher Education; Training; Personal Development and Career; Knowledge Dissemination

Citation

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28 Sep 2010
First Look

First Look: September 28, 2010

http://people.hbs.edu/dscharfstein/Articles/FT-Article_09-14-10.pdf Working PapersThe Profits of Power: Commercial Realpolitik in Europe and Eurasia Author:Rawi Abdelal An abstract is unavailable at this time. Download the paper:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Right from the Start: Common Traps for the New Leader

because they are incapable or outdated, or even wish to mislead. Falling Prey To Successor Syndrome At greatest risk is the new leader hired as second-in-command with the expectation that success will lead to promotion to the top position. In the absence of a solid... View Details

Keywords: by Dan Ciampa & Michael D. Watkins

20 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: September 20

D. Margolis Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 9 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2011/09/a-global-leaders-guide-to-managing-business-conduct/ar/1 Working PapersDynamically Integrating... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Aug 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

women’s career narratives and demonstrate that some women deviate significantly from gender stereotypes by narrating their success using extreme levels of agency typically associated with men. Download View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Harder Than I Thought

the book is a sequel to their 2009 work The Adventures of an IT Leader "We hope that this book inspires reflection and makes a contribution to developing our knowledge about CEO leadership in ways that can... View Details

Keywords: by Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan & Shannon O'Donnell; Aerospace

January 2011 (Revised August 2013)
Case

An Intern's Dilemma

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Matthew Preble

An HBS student is asked to misrepresent himself during the course of his summer internship by his employer in order to obtain data from industry competitors. View Details