MBA Class Of 2017 - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?

incorporates a focus on gender issues. His studies include a comprehensive global survey of board members, as well as a series of case studies that approach the issue of women... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

20 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business

recent study estimates that between 1990 and 1997, two hundred thousand more people moved out of the state than into it, in large part due to housing prices. Poorvu: Analyzing a mix of socioeconomic factors.... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Real Estate

05 Aug 2008
First Look

First Look: August 5, 2008

/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708499 Name Your Price: Compensation Negotiation at Whole Health Management (A) Harvard Business School Case 908-064 MBA student Monroe Davies is asked by a potential employer to determine his own... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax

foreign direct investment and for sustainable economic growth? These questions and more are explored in a forthcoming business case coauthored by Alfaro along with HBS professor Rafael M. Di Tella, Executive Director of the HBS Europe... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

25 May 2010
First Look

First Look: May 25

advance class discussion of the (A) and (B) cases to encompass events as they unfolded. Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/210066-PDF-ENG CityCenter (D): Financial Crisis, Grand... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Aug 2019
What Do You Think?

Has the Twitter Age Left the Case Method Behind?

everyone in the class is calculating what each minute of class time is costing them? One study found that between 2015 and 2017, only 16 percent View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

19 Jul 2011
First Look

First Look: July 19

J. DeLong, and Jevan SooHarvard Business School Case 411-031 Describes the problems facing a recent MBA graduate in his job as general manager of a medical device company owned by a parent corporation.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Mar 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar

growing a business, for better or for worse. “I tell my students that they'll get a better framework in this 14-week course than I got in 14 years at the school of hard knocks.” Chester A. "Chet" Huber (HBS View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto

29 Apr 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks

that no one else does” That's exactly what Cohen has been doing for the last three years in the MBA field course Stock Pitching, which he co-teaches with Christopher J. Malloy, the Sylvan C. Coleman Professor View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

02 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Ray A. Goldberg

and some 1,000 cases. By the time he became professor emeritus in 1997, he had taught some seven thousand Harvard MBA students and ten thousand Executive Education participants in programs at Soldiers Field and abroad, while advising... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Agriculture & Agribusiness

18 Apr 2005
Lessons from the Classroom

NFL Players Touch Down at HBS

each other as well as with HBS faculty and MBA students. "Usually on the field you just want to knock the crap out of each other," said Je'Rod Cherry, defensive back for the New England Patriots.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports

22 May 2020
In Practice

Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

at the US Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The pandemic has made it clear that this must change. Richard Hamermesh (@RHamermesh) is a Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice and... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

20 Aug 2007
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively

implementations." In this e-mail interview Miller discusses lessons learned with colleagues Vincent Dessain (HBS MBA '87) and Daniela Beyersdorfer of the Paris-based HBS Europe Research Center. Dessain,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities

03 Feb 2016
What Do You Think?

How Do You Hire an 'Impostor'?

prestigious school, an award, or even a particular job that you’ve always prized? Students in my Harvard Business School MBA classes often expressed the notion that they were “admissions mistakes.” In my... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

for savvy dealmakers. The siren song of real estate never sounded so sweet. Then the music stopped. Dan Dubrowski (HBS MBA '90) remembers it well. "When I came to HBS in 1988, real estate was hot. When... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate

07 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

The Quest for Better Layoffs

company ravaged by a massive fire. "They were very upset," says Sucher, the MBA Class of 1966 Professor of Management Practice and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

22 Apr 2002
Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught

the Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration, Paul W. Marshall, the MBA Class of 1960 Professor of... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

18 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates

course of action—in boarder guards' example, signs of who might be a security threat—then the silence becomes vocal. Let's return to HBS's context. Most teaching notes (used by faculty members to prepare... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

26 Oct 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

The New Deal: Negotiauctions

Back in 2001, I wanted to test some theoretical predictions about negotiations versus auctions. At the time I was co-course head for the first-year required course on Negotiation at HBS, so I designed an elaborate experiment that used all 900 first-year View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

07 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Immigrant Workers Cluster in Particular Industries

Research. Kerr is the MBA Class of 1975 Professor of Entrepreneurial Management. “If your group is concentrated, you are making an extra premium... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Transportation; Beauty & Cosmetics; Retail

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