Rigor And Relevance - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Aug 2005
HBS Case

Classic Cases Live On at HBS

Everyone talks about how quickly business changes, yet some HBS cases remain reliably relevant decades after they are written. We take a behind-the-scenes look at five cases that are at least twenty years old, are still regularly taught... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

01 Dec 2012
News

From Where We Stand

disjointed series of industries and job titles. These threads have become my expertise, and the diversity of my experiences enables me to make unique and View Details

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06 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Best Place for Retirement Funds

"medical" expenditures. Such a debate would be relevant to a variety of federal programs, including the ESAs and to medical savings accounts. Q: Why is the U.S. Survey of Consumer Finances such a... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

13 Jul 2020
News

The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)

role? “As some of my classmates can attest to, I often ping friends asking for a copy of a case I think would be relevant to a particular challenge at work. Most recently, I’ve been thinking about the classes I took related to strategy... View Details

10 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor

fixture from one sheet of metal and his peers respect his craftsmanship, then he has nothing to be ashamed of; quite the contrary. Moreover, a gradual shift towards computer-aided design made these craftsmen less View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing

14 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

The Big Money for Big Projects

it creates a legally independent project company and finances that company with nonrecourse debt (i.e., the debt must be repaid by cash flows from the project company only.) The relevant question is: Why... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

01 Apr 2000
News

Getting the Message

different ads -- yours relevant to your areas of interest and mine targeted to my areas of interest." Beyond helping advertisers precisely target Web users, the technology is also able to report -- in real... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

19 Aug 2024
News

Quantum Leap

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details

21 Nov 2017
News

Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy

sources advance; the scale and existing network effect of traditional fuel sources is simply too large to dismantle in any short period of time. “To answer the second question, on which courses were most View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; solar power; wind power

01 Jun 2009
News

Inside the Partnership

how those problems and opportunities are changing and might change as time passes and circumstances develop; to keep all the relevant people at... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

06 Feb 2025
News

How to Judge Your Next Job

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to... View Details

05 Mar 2020
News

Green Light

to be producing a nutritionally relevant meal; and I do not want to only be in the business of feeding rich people,” she says. But if vertical farming is going to feed the world, it will also need to expand... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Scott Nobles

01 Sep 2022
News

Your Family, Your Work, Your Way

my support team? So I encourage each of my clients to think of it as a big reset and as an opportunity to take charge and to take a fresh look at how you’re combining career View Details

01 Dec 2007
News

The Wise Men

bunch. I believe the School will stay relevant through its emphasis on interactive learning, and by maintaining its willingness to look ahead and dive into areas for which... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna

01 Mar 2019
News

The One That Got Away

the media vertical) more profitable. A May 2011 investment memo [cowritten with former colleagues Sunil Nagaraj (MBA 2009) and David Cowan (MBA 1992)] had this to say: Peter and his team were “pioneering the... View Details

01 Dec 2016
News

Alumni Books of 2016

understanding of war’s complexities to tell the story of CST-2, a unit of women handpicked from the Army to serve in this highly specialized and challenging role. Reading Reconsidered: A Practical Guide to View Details

01 Jun 1996
News

Class Acts

follow we present 6 of the 788 students who personify the remarkable qualities and achievements typical of the class as a whole. Al Dobron, Raj Kapoor, J.B. Lyon, Melissa Ma, Emma Minto, and Tarrus... View Details

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