Influencers - Publications - Faculty & Research

December 2011
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Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing?

By: Lauren Cohen, Joshua Coval and Christopher J. Malloy

This paper employs a new empirical approach for identifying the impact of government spending on the private sector. Our key innovation is to use changes in congressional committee chairmanship as a source of exogenous variation in state-level federal expenditures. In... View Details

Keywords: Spending; Private Sector; Taxation; Innovation and Invention; Interest Rates; Business and Government Relations; Investment; Employment; Power and Influence

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Eryn Schultz

months into my new job, and I’ve been able to apply so much of what I learned in school in both my internship and my current job – things ranging from how incentives influence behavior to how to manage a P&L. In addition, the friends... View Details

Keywords: Services; Consumer Products

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Ximena Garcia-Rada

Ximena’s research focuses primarily on consumer behavior in the context of close, personal relationships. She considers how the experiences consumers share with their friends and family members affect those relationships. She is also investigating the ways in which... View Details

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Tim Day Fitness Room | About

30 years, building one of the foremost companies in the processed-meat industry. Tim served on active duty as a line officer in the Marine Corps from 1959 to 1962. This experience profoundly influenced his values, personal traits, and... View Details

01 Jun 2012
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Giving Through HBS

transformational educational experience. Every day at HBS, students challenge, inspire, and learn from each other, and they also influence those of us who have the privilege of teaching them. Upon graduation, our alumni use their HBS... View Details

Keywords: Professor Howard Stevenson

01 Sep 2017
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3-Minute Briefing: Jeetendr Sehdev (MBA 2004)

freedom to live your life, your way. I look at celebrities through a stark business lens. Instead of agreeing that Beyoncé is one of the most influential people in the world because Time magazine said so, or because she has the most Twitter followers, I measure View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

18 Jun 2014
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Robert (MBA 1964) and Lynn Burt

financial aid for MBA students, with a preference for US Marine Corps veterans. “My two biggest influences have been the Marines and Harvard,” says Burt, who after attending Princeton on an NROTC scholarship served three years in the... View Details

01 Mar 2017
News

Expanding Horizons

Nishant Sharma (MBA 2006) For Nishant Sharma (MBA 2006), cofounder and managing director of Kedaara Capital Advisors LLP in Mumbai, the impact of HBS has been significant. While the School has had a positive influence on his life, Nishant... View Details

07 Apr 2003
What Do You Think?

Should Global Business Initiatives Be Devalued?

an interesting concept of the importance of a "national brand."—Jim Heskett Others, while agreeing with this thesis, were not so sanguine about whether this will happen without greater efforts to influence foreign policy by... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Ripple Effect | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

involved in transforming low-performing schools into outstanding schools. I love the work.” Looking back, Nicolette credits many things for influencing his career trajectory: “Being part of the HBS social enterprise community, interacting... View Details

01 Sep 2011
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Letters to the Editor

up with a look at the many HBS alums who have played similar roles in business schools around the country. For example, after selling my first venture, I launched UC Irvine's program in 1984 and then Pepperdine's program in 1989, where I teach today. Our class at HBS... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2016
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Faculty Q&A: Price Check

products—such as price and the number of similar products sold at the same time—that we could map to features of new products as a way to predict demand. We also took into account the need to price multiple products in the same category at the same time, since demand... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade

01 Mar 2005
News

Campaign Passes Goal, Continues

In addition, our new first-year course in leadership and corporate accountability is influencing business schools everywhere. The cost of being a pioneer in all these domains is high.” HBS, he noted, continually strives to improve its... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Dec 2011
News

Letters to the Editor

be noted that these green fruits are born from the entrepreneurial seeds sown over the years by HBS faculty, such as Howard Stevenson, Lynn Bollinger, and Georges Doriot, to name a few who influenced so many. I am personally grateful to... View Details

Keywords: HBS Show; Personal and Laundry Services; Personal Services; Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities

30 Sep 2019
Book

Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership

respect to black leaders’ economic influence over the past century. Most remarkably, the former president of the United States, Barack Obama, was placed at the helm of the US economy in the midst of the Great Recession and executed... View Details

Keywords: Re: Andi Wang

04 Sep 2019
News

The School that Donham Built

various courses by getting regularly from industry problems which are current and illustrative?” By 1923, two-thirds of the School’s courses were taught by the case method, supported by field-based research that had already begun to View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Sep 2012
News

Joint Venture

faculty have introduced game-changing thinking to management and business practice. And that work continues apace in the 21st century. In the pages that follow, we spotlight some of the “big ideas” HBS faculty are unveiling that we believe will have significant View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2019
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Research Brief: Subject Expert Matters

expert committees, which are ubiquitous in science. Yet exactly how those experts deliberate and what factors may influence or bias their determinations has remained a mystery. “To ensure that the decisions coming out of such committees... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

July 2012
Case

Johannes Linden: Managing the Global Executive Committee

By: Linda A. Hill and Mark Rennella

Johannes Linden is the Director of the Washer and Dryer division of Fluss, a large Swiss appliance manufacturer. Soon after the company completes its revenue projections and bonus targets for the upcoming year, Linden shares some good news with his leadership team, the... View Details

Keywords: Leadership Style; Groups and Teams; Organizational Culture; Management Style; Motivation and Incentives; Power and Influence; Multinational Firms and Management; Manufacturing Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Switzerland

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Norway Sells Wal-Mart

By: Robert C. Pozen and Aldo Sesia

In June 2006, Norway's Pension Fund decided to divest its position in Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. after an investigation by the Fund's Ethics Council. According to a spokesperson of Norway's Finance Ministry, "The recommendation to exclude Wal-Mart cites serious and... View Details