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- 26 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Podcast: Preventing Future Financial Failures
Podcast with: David Moss Interviewer: Jim Aisner Running Time: 21 min., 03 sec. To listen to this interview with professor David Moss, click on the triangular Play button below. The Macromedia Flash plug-in... View Details
Robert C. Merton
Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details
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Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni
society today. Friday, June 13 Video Recording Dean’s Welcome Address 8:30–9:30 a.m. ET Speaker: Srikant Datar , Dean of the Faculty, George F. Baker Professor of Administration Dean Srikant Datar kicks off Reunion Weekend by sharing... View Details
- 20 Oct 2014
- News
The quiet art of being a good listener
- November 2007
- Article
Solve the Succession Crisis by Growing Inside-Outside Leaders
By: Joseph L. Bower
This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. In his interviews and data analysis, Harvard Business School professor Bower found... View Details
Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Leadership Development; Management Practices and Processes; Management Succession; Planning
Bower, Joseph L. "Solve the Succession Crisis by Growing Inside-Outside Leaders." Harvard Business Review 85, no. 11 (November 2007).
- 03 Dec 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Against the Grain
many people. “There is a central tension in the case between the student feeling at once helpless against a corrupt system and surprisingly powerful given his novitiate status.” The case, Against the Grain: Jim Teague in Tanzania, was... View Details
- 01 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Choose the Best Deal
million, though the price may be negotiable. The other site, a former apple orchard of about one hundred acres, was acquired by a local bank through a foreclosure. The bank is preparing to list the property but has yet to set an asking price. An optimist by nature,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 07 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat
year, the system has been slow to respond. Other highlights of the conference included a dinner talk by William W. George (MBA '66), CEO of Medtronic, on "The Future of 21st-Century Health: The Right Care" and a lively session moderated by HBS View Details
- 05 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?
were not realized. Four years later, another company working on the same technology went public to great acclaim and fanfare. The firm? Netscape Communications, under the leadership of Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark. 2 Because its new... View Details
Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
manufacturers increased by 5.9% from April 2003 to April 2004). In June 2004, as the newly appointed vice-president of the meals division, Jim Murphy was facing a crisis with one of General Mills' key brands, Hamburger Helper. The metrics... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?
School’s Hong Luo, an assistant professor in the Strategy Unit, studies entrepreneurship in Hollywood. Like other entrepreneurs, screenwriters struggle with the decision of how to advance their product. Should they pitch just a story line... View Details
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Geography of Corporate Giving
profitability. But in a review of all of the studies that have been published on the topic over the past thirty years, HBS professor Joshua Margolis and Jim Walsh concluded that the connection between social... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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About Michael Porter - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
HBS ISC About Michael Porter About Michael Porter A Letter from Michael Porter Biography The Essential Porter Honors & Awards Affiliated Organizations & Institutions VBHCD Initiative About Michael Porter “He has influenced more executives - and more nations - than any... View Details
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
School's 75th anniversary in 1984, a case-method colloquium organized by Christensen and colleagues Jim Heskett and David Garvin drew 85 participants from 60 universities around the world. That same year,... View Details
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Shaping the Learning Environment - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
transition to participant-centered learning can be difficult for both teacher and student. It is critical to create a climate of empathy that encourages students to share their ideas. Transcript The Learning Contract Jim View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO
the IT department or needed to coordinate their launches with help from sales representatives in the field. Jim Kilts encouraged the formation of operating committees in each business unit or regional group, and then further encouraged... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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Entrepreneurial Management Faculty - Faculty & Research
Mary V. and Mark A. Stevens Associate Professor of Business Administration Joshua Lev Krieger Høegh Family Associate Professor of Business Administration Todd A. Lensman Assistant View Details
- 19 Feb 2012
- News
No Bitter Aftertaste From This Stock Offering
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
We all know the importance of mentors and other early career experiences in shaping the kind of leaders we ultimately become. But how important to that development are the particular companies we work for? For Harvard Business School View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark