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22 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs

the older worker is shown to the door," said Harvard Business School Associate Professor William R. Kerr, who recently cowrote a working paper called Skilled Immigration and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Computer; Financial Services

10 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution

three-part interview with Harvard Business School Marketing professors Rajiv Lal and José B. Alvarez, they discuss who is winning this revolution and which brands appear to be... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

11 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 11

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2311152 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 614-044 Infection Control at Massachusetts General... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant

idea with Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria. Nohria remembered that he and his HBS colleague, Rakesh Khurana, had noticed a similar effect in CEO data—that some chief... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

28 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections

New research from Harvard Business School shows that mass advertising is better at swaying undecided consumers while face-to-face personal selling is more suited at closing the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

02 Oct 2013
What Do You Think?

Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?

pp. 44-58. Eric Reis, The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses, (New York: Crown Business, 2011). Michael L. Tushman and Charles A. O'Reilly III, Winning Through Innovation: A Practical Guide to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

12 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 12

industry practice and discuss potential directions for future research. Download the article: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-125.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsBlackRock Money Market Management in September 2008 (A) Kenneth A. Froot and David LaneHarvard View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Nov 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

The New Challenge of Leading Financial Firms

challenges that an executive can undertake, requiring mastery of talent management, change management, and ethics. “The business today is much more complex than ten or twenty years ago" —Paul M. Healy "The View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

02 May 2016
Research & Ideas

Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps

strictly an American phenomenon. “Voter turnout has been declining in many Western democracies over the past decades,” says Vincent Pons, assistant professor at Harvard Business View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Communications; Public Relations

03 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?

system is in better shape. Professors Victoria Ivashina, David Scharfstein, and Arthur Segel, all members of the Harvard Business School Finance Unit, examine the current state... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Banking; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate

28 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Improving Accountability at the World Bank

Thank you for inviting me to testify before you. My name is Alnoor Ebrahim, and I am an Associate Professor at Harvard Business School and a Principal of the Hauser Center For... View Details

Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim

17 Jul 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence

and Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration at Harvard Business School and an expert in technology strategy. So when... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer; Education

07 Feb 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Creating the Founders’ Dilemmas Course

If Noam Wasserman's entrepreneurship elective were a start-up company, investors would be delighted with its growth. When the Harvard Business School professor first offered... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

05 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond

on the 1040 form—but it's a start. Tufano is the Sylvan C. Coleman Professor of Financial Management at Harvard Business School. He is a senior associate dean of the school and... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services

24 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Debora L. Spar

In the long run, even the most fundamental innovations have a way of being influenced by government, says Harvard Business School professor Debora Spar. That's why View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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 View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

23 Jul 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Innovation Is Magic. Really

When business executives create innovative products or services, they often look to impress their customers by delivering an experience more meaningful, more delightful, than possibly expected. A true "wow!" moment. And View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products

11 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

The Future of Boards

In discussions that continue to swirl in the aftermath of the financial crisis, the question of corporate governance's role is often front and center. In The Future of Boards: Meeting the Governance Challenges of the Twenty-First Century, View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

09 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

Career Advancement Without Experience

used by contract workers to obtain stretchwork. O'Mahony is an assistant professor at Harvard Business School while Bechky is an assistant professor at the Graduate View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Motion Pictures & Video; Technology

07 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict the Next President

would be better off flipping a coin to determine a probable winner. “We find that even guessing at a 50-50 level is just as good, if not actually better, than using some demographic forecasts,” says Vincent Pons, the Byron Wien Professor of View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

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