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    W. Earl Sasser

    Earl Sasser is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and has been a member of the faculty there since 1969. He received a B.A. in Mathematics from Duke University in 1965, an MBA from the University of North Carolina in 1967, and a Ph.D. in... View Details

    Keywords: airline; automotive; banking; broadcasting; communications; construction; credit card; education industry; entertainment; fast food; hotels ＆ motels; insurance industry; marketing industry; oil ＆ gas; restaurant; retailing; service industry; sports; tourism; transportation
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    PhD Programs - Doctoral

    students join the Business Economics program directly from an undergraduate or master's program, others have worked in economic consulting firms or as research assistants at universities or intergovernmental... View Details
    • 26 Apr 2022
    • Blog Post

    How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Vasilis Mornto

    your 2+2 admission? I deferred for a total of three academic years. What job(s) did you have during your deferral? I spent the first two years working in consulting in Greece and other countries in Europe. And I loved it! I was fortunate... View Details
    • 12 Dec 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: December 12, 2006

    http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207041 Clinical Change at Intermountain Healthcare Harvard Business School Case 607-023 Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607023 DLA Piper: Becoming a Global... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace

      Malcolm S. Salter

      Malcolm Salter has been a member of the Harvard Business School faculty since 1967. His teaching and research focus on issues of corporate strategy, organization, and governance.

      In addition to teaching at HBS, he has held faculty positions at the Harvard... View Details

      Keywords: arts; automobiles; energy; investment banking industry; retailing; venture capital industry
      • January 1997 (Revised December 1999)
      • Case

      OXO International

      By: H. Kent Bowen, Marilyn Matis and Sylvie Ryckebusch
      OXO, a kitchen tools and gadgets company, was started by a businessman who had 30 years of experience in the housewares industry. With his wife and son as founders, he creates a new niche in the gadgets industry for high-end gourmet stores. The company has headquarters... View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Supply Chain Management; Production; Design; Ownership; Business Startups; Acquisition; Consumer Products Industry; Asia; New York (city, NY); Connecticut
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      • 01 Sep 2015
      • First Look

      First Look -- September 1, 2015

      across firms. Using information disclosed in proxy statements of publicly traded companies, I predict and find that firms connected through board interlocks or common compensation consultants display a... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • November 2009 (Revised March 2013)
      • Case

      Miles Everson at PricewaterhouseCoopers

      By: Robert G. Eccles and David Lane
      Miles Everson, a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), is the Global Engagement Partner (GEP) for a large U.S. financial institution and about to take over this role for a much larger global financial institution. The GEP role is a critical one at PwC. GEPs have... View Details
      Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Customer Relationship Management; Globalized Firms and Management; Managerial Roles; Consulting Industry
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        Paul W. Marshall

        MBA Class of 1960 Professor of Management, Paul W. Marshall, is affiliated with the Entrepreneurial Management Unit and teaches The Entrepreneurial Manager in the Turnaround Environment. This Elective Curriculum course focuses on the role of... View Details

        Keywords: consulting; consulting; consulting; consulting; consulting; consulting; consulting; consulting; consulting; consulting; consulting; consulting; consulting

          James L. Heskett

          James L. Heskett is UPS Foundation Professor Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author of his latest book, With From Within: Build Organizational Culture for Competitive... View Details

          • March 2012
          • Article

          Performance Pressure as a Double-edged Sword: Enhancing Team Motivation but Undermining the Use of Team Knowledge

          By: Heidi K. Gardner
          In this paper, I develop and empirically test the proposition that performance pressure acts as a double-edged sword for teams, providing positive effects by enhancing the team's motivation to achieve good results while simultaneously triggering process losses. I... View Details
          Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Behavior; Groups and Teams; Performance
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            Hacking Heroin

            “Hacking Heroin” was the first hackathon that Annie Rittgers, founder of Cincinnati-based consultancy firm 17a, had organized or even attended. “There will continue to be a lot of preventable overdose deaths and wasted potential if the opioid crisis continues... View Details
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            Overview

            I am an ethnographer and field researcher studying how people experience and interpret their work and cultural contexts, as well as how this shapes inequality and organizational outcomes like normative control. I specialize in utilizing in-depth, inductive field... View Details
            • 08 Oct 2013
            • First Look

            First Look: October 8

            opacity and agility. Clients find it very difficult to judge a firm's performance in advance, because they are usually hiring it for specialized knowledge and capability that they themselves lack. Price becomes a proxy for quality. And the top View Details
            Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
            • November 1999
            • Case

            Interactive Minds (B)

            By: Ashish Nanda, Thomas J. DeLong, Christina L. Darwall and Scot H. Landry
            Two recent Harvard Business School graduates start a venture capital/consulting firm focused on opportunities related to the Internet. View Details
            Keywords: History; Venture Capital; Internet and the Web; Capital Structure; Entrepreneurship; Consulting Industry
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            Faculty & Advisors | MBA

            M.D. MS/MBA Program Faculty Co-Chair for MS Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard University, Chief of Pathways Consult Service at Massachusetts General Hospital Douglas Melton, Ph.D. MS/MBA Program Faculty Co-Chair... View Details
            • 31 Oct 2023
            • HBS Case

            Checking Your Ethics: Would You Speak Up in These 3 Sticky Situations?

            Imagine you’re a consultant and you notice a few eyebrow-raising behaviors, such as a colleague who misuses a client’s meal stipend or an executive who screams inappropriately at his staff. Should you step in and speak up? For... View Details
            Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consulting

              Performance Pressure as a Double-edged Sword: Enhancing Team Motivation but Undermining the Use of Team Knowledge

              In this paper, I develop and empirically test the proposition that performance pressure acts as a double-edged sword for teams, providing positive effects by enhancing the team’s motivation to achieve good results while simultaneously triggering process losses. I... View Details

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              Curriculum | MBA

              Strategy Harvard Business School Social Purpose of the Firm (SPF) Harvard Business School Life Science, Ethics, and Management Seminar More on the MBA Required Curriculum SUMMER Students are free to pursue an internship of their choosing... View Details
              • August 1993 (Revised December 1993)
              • Case

              Scudder, Stevens & Clark

              By: Jay O. Light and James O. Sailer
              A large multi-product investment counseling firm considers its positioning in the mutual fund business. View Details
              Keywords: Investment; Investment Funds; Product Positioning; Consulting Industry; Consulting Industry
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