Partners and Partnerships - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

are as passionate about how they partner and collaborate with their peers as they are about how their own teams perform. Resist fiefdoms and resolve rifts between teams as soon... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

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Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online

partnerships with established pharmaceuticals, and other crucial activities are now even clearer to me because of CORe. Enrique Garcia-Rivera Pursuing a PhD in Chemical Biology in Boston BSc,... View Details

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Careers Blog

2020) Santosh Iyer Author Alumni tag Alumni Interviews Transitions & Paths Santosh Iyer (MBA 2020) bridges engineering, medicine, and business to drive health care innovation. As Founder & CEO of Moonshot View Details

01 Mar 2024
News

In My Humble Opinion: Role Model

One of four daughters of Pakistani immigrants, Salma Qarnain (MBA 2002) grew up in the midwestern “I” states of Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana before attending Stanford University. “It was my first experience feeling happy and comfortable in a place that had diversity,”... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; acting; theater; diversity; career path; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

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Dan Lufkin | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

James Sharpe Extrusion Technology Carl Sloane Temple, Barker & Sloane C.D. Spangler C.D. Spangler Construction Co. Thomas Stemberg Staples Thomas Weisel Thomas Weisel Partners LLC John Whitehead Goldman Sachs Profiles... View Details

Trust

Entrepreneurial ventures often fail in the developing world because of the lack of something taken for granted in the developed world: trust. Over centuries, the developed world has built customs and institutions such as enforceable contracts, an impartial legal... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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Elevator Pitch: Standard of Care

Illustration by Drue Wagner Mike H. M. Teodorescu (DBA 2018) CEO, SurgiBox Dan Brown (DBA 2019) CFO Concept: Founded in the wake of Haiti’s 2010 earthquake, SurgiBox’s lead product is a portable operating room that fits into a backpack and runs on a rechargeable... View Details

Keywords: entrepreneurship; healthcare; surgery; Ukraine; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

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Community | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

of the foundation and limited partner at Goldman Sachs, was an early supporter of the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative and served on the Advisory Board. Recipients are invited... View Details

01 Dec 2023
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Rounding the Bend

Illustration by Fernando Cobelo To help people visualize what a circular economy could look like and bring the challenges down to a closet-sized scale, Emily Bolon (MBA/MPA 2007) recommends the following exercise. First, make a mental tally of the number of garments... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing

19 Jan 2023
Research & Ideas

What Makes Employees Trust (vs. Second-Guess) AI?

researchers say. “Companies are trying to make the decision: ‘Do we invest in AI or not?’ And it's very expensive,” says Timothy DeStefano, an affiliated researcher with the LISH team from Harvard Business School View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

14 Sep 2023
Blog Post

MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures

develop our product prototype and formally study the financial impact a digitally-enabled solar irrigation business can have on rural entrepreneurs and their communities. Based on the results of the pilot,... View Details

06 Sep 2022
Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment

Summer Associate at Izuba Energy Izuba Energy is a leading developer of renewable energy in Fragile States in Africa. Izuba’s projects are often first-in-class and allow industrial partners to produce in... View Details

01 Mar 2019
News

The Burden Legacy

airline industry at MIT and was an aviation business analyst until the early 1940s. His impact on HBS began in 1942 when he partnered with Dean Donald K. David to establish the HBS Research Program on... View Details

Keywords: Linda Kush

23 Jan 2024
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A Wide Net

Growing up in Mumbai, Navroz Udwadia (MBA 2005) spent most of his time on the tennis court, where he was an internationally ranked athlete. Today, as cofounder and partner of Alpha Wave, a global investment group with a multibillion-dollar stake in India’s startup... View Details

Keywords: April White

05 Apr 2004
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Six Ways to Build Trust in Negotiations

What began as a misunderstanding about specifications and deadlines between a manager at RLX, a software development firm, and a manager at Impress, one of its clients, had escalated into a conflict charged... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra

29 Sep 2022
Op-Ed

Inclusive Leadership Advice: Get Comfortable With the Uncomfortable

“Difference is an acquired preference,” a colleague once told me. The statement seemed rather strange to me at first. Upon reflection, though, I understood what my colleague was saying: Difference is uncomfortable, unfamiliar, and... View Details

Keywords: by Francesca Gino

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Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab | About

1982). Originally from Chicago, Judy earned a BS of Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois and an MBA from Harvard Business School (MBA 1983). She is the managing partner of PagsGroup, where... View Details

Research Summary

Current working papers

Organizational restructuring: the influence of formal and informal structure on tie formation. This paper considers how changes in formal structure and a key element of informal structure – the embeddedness of employee... View Details

11 May 2009
Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

making more explicit business arguments for IT in the context of senior leadership meetings, and inviting the CEO and partners into important, risk trade-off decisions. An... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

15 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

This Workplace Certification Made Already Safe Companies Even Safer

the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management. He partnered on the research with HBS doctoral student Kala Viswanathan and Duke University professor Matthew Johnson. Widespread adoption, but... View Details