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- 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
- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
conference featured a practitioner panel of executives who have roles in promoting women. HBS Dean Nitin Nohria and keynote speaker Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter also shared their thoughts with participants. Associate Professor and Hellman View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research Event
What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?
Mensah recently at Harvard Business School’s fourth annual Gender & Work Symposium. “Men talk to me all the time about wanting to be more effective (with women) in certain settings,” said Mensah, an adjunct faculty member at Baruch... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Oct 2024
- In Practice
Research-Based Advice for the Seasonally Overwhelmed and Schedule Challenged
more meaningful priorities at work and at home. As we begin the last quarter of 2024, Harvard Business School faculty experts provide research-based methods to deepen the quality of both working and personal lives. Their recommendations... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 12 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Private Sector, Public Good
for public good is viewed with suspicion—in my view for very good reasons." Yet more than three dozen faculty and doctoral students from a variety of institutions gathered January 30 to give the idea serious consideration during the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations
Professor David M. Upton is the faculty chair of BCAO. He spoke with an Executive Education staff member about the course.EE: How do you define the term "operations"? Upton: "Operations" constitutes all of the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Rapid Response: Inside the Retailing Revolution
and John T. Dunlop of the Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and David Weil of Boston University. Their recent book, A Stitch in Time: Lean Retailing and the Transformation of... View Details
- 14 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Polluters, Encouraging Protectors
Citizens, industrial polluters, and scholars do not usually see eye to eye—but that may change with a new Web site that monitors corporate environmental performance in the United States. According to the university professors who created... View Details
- 27 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Beware the Lasting Impression of a 'Temporary' Selfie
Faculty of Economics and Management of the University of Lucerne; Roland Rüppell, of Simon-Kucher & Partners; and John, of Harvard. What could possibly go wrong? To better understand how temporary... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 18 Jun 2007
- Op-Ed
Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field
appear before you today to discuss the accounting and tax treatment of incentive compensation. I am an associate professor of finance at Harvard Business School and a faculty research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research.... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
What do Sir Thomas More, Chinua Achebe, and Sophocles have to offer today's business leaders? For MBA students in HBS professor Sandra Sucher's course, The Moral Leader, great literature helps them find their own definition of moral leadership. Sucher is one of a... View Details
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
Mental Health in the Aftermath of Conflict Authors: Quy-Toan Do and Lakshmi Iyer Publication: In Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Peace and Conflict, edited by Michelle Garfinkel and Stergios Skaperdas. Oxford University Press,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance
dovetailed nicely with my role as senior associate dean for Planning and University Affairs. Q: It would seem that the timing was perfect given the many consumer credit and debt issues that played key roles in the economic crisis that hit... View Details
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
In our January 2 update, we featured the first part of a two-part interview with HBS professor Michael E. Porter, an internationally influential expert on strategy and competition. (Porter was recently appointed to a University... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 01 Jun 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Challenges of Investing in Science-Based Innovation
Breakthroughs faculty draw on a broad range of cases to address decisions faced by senior leaders of science-based organizations. Consider Kodak and the digital revolution. "Kodak saw that film was going to be outmoded, but it wasn't... View Details
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Companies Must Forget—and Borrow
effective business strategies. Companies might ultimately find more power in adopting a nuanced approach that borrows tested traditional tactics and combines them with fresh, new ideas, said Bharat N. Anand, Henry R. Byers Professor of Business Administration at HBS... View Details
- 06 Aug 2014
- What Do You Think?
What Is Warren Bennis’s Legacy?
was his faculty advisor. Warren Briggs, a Professor Emeritus, wrote that "He was a favorite professor (and) an effective mentor to many, both personally and professionally." According to Karen Page, coauthor of Becoming a Chef... View Details
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
academic circles; others are working more quietly behind the scenes to effect change. “The university is a nonprofit institution. It has a charter from the state, and it exists in large part to serve society,” says David A. Moss, the Paul... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
Tsuchiya Publication:In The Yearbook on International Investment Law and Policy 2010-2011, edited by Karl P. Sauvant. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity
subtle way that you might be changing existing communication patterns among staff," says Harvard Business School Professor Robert S. Huckman, who recently cowrote The Impact of Electronic Health Record Use on Physician Productivity with View Details