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- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
private capital sources," says Dubrowski, a founding partner of The Lionstone Group, a Houston-based investment firm. They took big risks and hoped for big rewards. The 1980s brought additional players to the table, none driven by... View Details
- 24 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Upgrading School with a Startup Mentality
It used to be that you risked detention for disrupting an elementary school classroom. Nowadays, disrupting the entire school system can earn you millions of dollars in startup funding. Consider AltSchool, the idea of entrepreneur Max Ventilla (a View Details
- 07 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Intellectual History of Harvard Business School
particular genius and the institution of which they were a part permitted their ambitions to be realized. What insights or surprises did you walk away with? I found it remarkable that so many of the most important figures in HBS history,... View Details
- 21 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
Enron Jury Sent the Right Message
Enron case should not be taken as a one-off judgment by a business school professor. Many years ago, at the dedication of the Harvard Business School campus on June 24, 1927, Owen Young—a lawyer, visionary capitalist, founding chairman of... View Details
Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter
- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
pro-health attitudes. Show gratitude and facilitate social time to boost morale Whillans: Recent studies have found links between employee happiness and organizational outcomes, such as productivity, absenteeism, and motivation. However,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
School Case 510-033 Woolf Farming Company, a privately owned family farming business in California's Central Valley, found its business threatened by a lack of water, brought on by a combination of drought, poor quality well water, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
transactions and markets we see. When my colleagues and I have helped design markets and allocation procedures, we have often found that distaste for certain kinds of transactions is a real constraint, every bit as real as the constraints... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety
stores, schools, and other food-handling establishments, checking whether they adhere to public health regulations. The rules are strict. Food businesses where serious violations are found must clean up their acts quickly or risk being... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
been systematically implemented and evaluated. This article describes early time-driven activity-based costing work at several leading healthcare organizations in the United States and Europe. It identifies the opportunities they found to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’
fortune telling. In a typical prosecution dating from 1918, a woman was arrested in New York and charged under the state Code of Criminal Procedure (section 899-3); she was found to be a "disorderly person" who was "pretending to tell... View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
supposed to go to Qingdao, China, to help with a chain of beauty salons. Conversations were difficult given language barriers, leading to difficulties understanding the scope of the business until students were just about to leave. "Eventually we View Details
- 06 Aug 2014
- What Do You Think?
What Is Warren Bennis’s Legacy?
sustenance for many of us helping prepare students for leadership.) His legacy is found in other influential practitioners and scholars of leadership. As I prepared the original piece on Bennis, Jay Lorsch, a colleague, reminded me that... View Details
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
entrepreneurial hub); pick a stage ("jungle," "dirt road," or "highway"); and pick a winner (do due diligence on the founding team, the market, and the business model). Once you’ve made those choices, you’ll need to sell yourself, and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/315046-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 116-047 RegionFly: Cutting Costs in the Airline Industry RegionFly is a small, private airline specializing in ultra-premium services. Founded shortly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
prepared a grave for NBC as the 2012 London Olympics approached. Indeed, critics created #NBCFail to characterize their expectations. Yet, as the Games wound down, it was NBC that was smiling. Their forecast had paid off. They found that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
were Ms. X, what would you do?", in literature we get to see "the rest of the story." Because we are searching for examples of moral leadership, we want to understand the impact of characters' choices on the situation they View Details
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
negative elements by changing norms and work practices to the benefit of individual workers and the organization as a whole. Q: Do you think you'd have found similar results in a more common, less dangerous workplace such as the corporate... View Details
- 06 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
Unexpected Exercise Advice for the Super Busy: Ditch the Rigid Routine
with the convenience of an on-site facility, some busy Google employees found it difficult to stay active. Academic literature would suggest that they just needed the right cues and environment to help them establish a habit they would... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 02 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Indulgence vs. Regret: Investing in Future Memories
feel more regretful. One group was asked to consider their decision from the distance of 10 years in the future; the other group was asked to predict how they would feel about their purchase the following day. “We don't have to wait 40 years to learn from the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Ray A. Goldberg
response to events in Europe, from the cloning of Dolly to the recent spread of mad-cow disease, Goldberg founded an annual forum at the School where farmers, industry representatives, professors, scientists, public-policy leaders, and... View Details