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- 05 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008
The story behind Dean Kamen's Segway scooter, and his combustive meeting with the kingpins of Apple and Amazon. Excerpt from Code Name Ginger. 5. Updating a Classic: Writing a Great Business Plan Harvard Business School professor William... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 18 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups
people are evaluated jointly rather than separately regarding their future performance. These findings are presented in the working paper When Performance Trumps Gender Bias: Joint versus Separate Evaluation, coauthored by HKS Professor and academic View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 27 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments
None of these social networks even existed at the beginning of the decade. Leaders like IBM's Sam Palmisano, PepsiCo's Indra Nooyi, Apple's Steve Jobs, Microsoft's Steve Ballmer, Carlson's Marilyn Nelson, and Harvard Business School Dean... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 25 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business
Software Platforms Drive Innovation and Transform Industries, available October 4 from MIT Press. Evans is Managing Director of the Global Competitive Policy Practice at LEGC LLC. Hagiu is a professor in the Strategy unit at Harvard Business School. Schmalensee is John... View Details
- 21 May 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
CORe: HBS Powers Up Online Program on Business Fundamentals
epiphany, Narayanan approached HBS Dean Nitin Nohria about using a similar technique to teach accounting concepts. Mastery Of Business Fundamentals Under the umbrella of HBX, Harvard Business School's online learning initiative, and... View Details
- 18 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 18
Case 313-058 Milwaukee (B): Civic Leaders No description available. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/313058-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 313-060 Milwaukee (B1): Dean Amhaus, President, Water Council No description... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 20 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals
of Quest Diagnostics who now serves as dean of Boston University School of Management. Freeman said that when he became dean, his plush CEO-like office was on the top floor, so he decided to move to a small windowless office in close... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
Cases & Course MaterialsGLOBIS Mukti Khaire, Akiko Kanno, and Nobuo SatoHarvard Business School Case 811-061 Yoshito Hori, dean of the Graduate School of Management, GLOBIS University, was planning to launch a full-time English MBA... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Research and Prospects
life sciences. The initiative was started in 1997 at the behest of Dean Kim Clark. We asked professor Gary P. Pisano, who heads up the initiative, to give HBS Working Knowledge a peek into the work being accomplished in the initiative.... View Details
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
and how to measure collaborative success. Several audience members weighed in, including HBS Dean Nitin Nohria. “My real dream is that we should build in Allston a company like Google or Facebook,” Nohria said. “Yes, I celebrate the fact... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 21 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases
organization, but was far from broken. "Women's progress has really leveled off, and has been stuck for at least 10 years," says Robin J. Ely, the Warren Alpert Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and senior associate View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 21 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect
of each segment is changing, and how the company's products and services address the needs of each segment. The product was developed by Gail McGovern, a professor of management practice, and John Quelch, the Senior Associate Dean and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise
Jim Austin, picked by Dean John McArthur to lead the new initiative, saw the potential for research, curriculum, and career development around the challenges of social enterprises, including both nonprofit and for-profit organizations.... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 05 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research
indication that experimental research is becoming more mainstream is the fact that a number of faculty who are not primarily experimentalists use the CLER, including HBS Dean Nitin Nohria. The Tipping Point To explain this surging... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Improving Public Health for the Poor
healthcare. As a joint endeavor, Project Antares was born from conversations between Chu, the School of Public Health's Barry Bloom, who is dean of the faculty, and David Bloom (not related), a professor of population and health... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
program discussed in the (A) case. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/618009-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 717-500 Talent@Tencent On November 11, 2016, Xi Dan, Senior Vice President of Tencent, and Ma Yongwu, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
serving as the School's Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Planning and Development, and Steve was Director of the MBA program. By the time we had a chance to think seriously about this project again, in the late '90s, we came to the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
of the case and now dean of the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, "Sealed Air is the perfect case for opening a class with the question, 'What are you going to do?' There's really no wiggle room. After some analytics,... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
million people around the globe lacked access to safe drinking water. Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway, sought to bring fresh water to poor and rural areas with the Slingshot, a water purification device. Kamen's challenge was to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
learned, take action based upon these lessons, then adapt and iterate and react to what they observed." Enter FIELD. First proposed at the end of 2010, the idea was so enthusiastically embraced by incoming Dean Nitin Nohria that he... View Details