MBA Class of 2005 - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?

Alvarez, and research associate Dan Greenberg (Harvard MBA 2012). Their new book Retail Revolution: Will Your Brick-and-Mortar Store Survive?, predicts, among many other things, the continuing decline of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

11 Aug 2016
Cold Call Podcast

Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night

for anybody, but you need to apply to all of these places because all of them are getting in many more applications than quite frankly they need or deserve. Brian: Right, so you've taught this case in View Details

Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Education

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

18 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Breaking Through a Growth Stall

identify your core customers and build a scalable platform for growth around them. That's the message from Frank V. Cespedes, the MBA Class of 1973 Senior Lecturer View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

19 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

academics and policymakers alike. Ready When Called Moss certainly didn’t research hundreds of years of financial history in order to weigh in on a future crash. “It’s hard to anticipate what ends up being... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

Jr., who teaches the MBA elective The Business World: Moral and Spiritual Inquiry Through Literature, adds, "What we're seeing is an increasingly felt need for people to integrate the spiritual dimension View Details

Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso

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

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

11 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

How Do You Grade Out as a Negotiator?

then at least in the fog” "We negotiate, if not in the dark, then at least in the fog," says Michael Wheeler, a senior fellow at Harvard Business School and retired MBA Class View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

15 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Founding CEO’s Dilemma: Stay or Go?

Noam Wasserman is an assistant professor and MBA Class of 1961 Fellow in the entrepreneurial management unit at Harvard Business School. His paper "Founder-CEO Succession... View Details

04 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From

Sucher is the MBA Class of 1966 Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School and Shalene Gupta is a research associate. They... View Details

Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta

13 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview

vulnerability. For instance, when teaching a Negotiation class to first-year MBA students, she shares the story of the time she flubbed an important negotiation situation in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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