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Research Links: Records of Railroad Companies & Personal Papers - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Railroads: The Transformation of Capitalism Introduction The Pre-Industrial Era The First... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
physicians are skeptical of recent innovations. Their “first do no harm” training favors a trial-and-error approach based on treating for the most likely diagnosis first, and moving on to something else if that doesn’t work. Third, physician View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
leveraged, interconnected, and therefore vulnerable to shocks; inadequate rule of law and protection for property rights and contracts; underperforming education systems; massive internal and international migration motivated by income... View Details
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Venus Miller
understand the challenges of education reform from the inside so that I could learn how to apply private sector resources to drive change from the outside. The experience has changed my vision of what I'd... View Details
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
year. Early research shows that students in schools led by NLNS principals are outperforming their peers, but Fenton remains driven by his vision of a system-wide, scalable model for education reform that... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Steven C. Watson
schools — were having limited success,” he explains. “My take is that with the huge bureaucracies in public education and the teachers' unions, reform needs to happen from the inside out. To make a... View Details
- 2011
- Article
Organizational Errors: Directions for Future Research
By: Paul S. Goodman, Rangaraj Ramanujam, John S. Carroll and Amy C. Edmondson
The goal of this paper is to promote research about organizational errors—i.e., the actions of multiple organizational participants that deviate from organizationally specified rules and can potentially result in adverse organizational outcomes. To that end, we advance... View Details
Keywords: Research; Organizations; Interests; Managerial Roles; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Management Practices and Processes; Learning
Goodman, Paul S., Rangaraj Ramanujam, John S. Carroll, and Amy C. Edmondson. "Organizational Errors: Directions for Future Research." Research in Organizational Behavior 31 (2011): 151–176.
- 16 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters
Chinese care about China, of course, but they are rooting for America as well” Management educators talk frequently about best practices and use case studies to illustrate by example. For more than a century global observers have... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
Chairman, The Carlyle Group Former Chairman & CEO, IBM Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION Dartmouth College, 1963 B.S., Engineering LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS "HBS was superb at reminding us that asking the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
without coverage in the United States — to establish a tax-supported way to fund their health care. That said, in my view, meaningful reform almost always begins in the private sector. I am encouraged that many employers are offering new... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Short Takes
managers' time to educate them, communicate with them, and develop informal relationships with them so those owners will have a better understanding of what the company is trying to do." Who Gets the Credit for Bankruptcy? The number of... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A U.S. Turnaround?
electronics industries were developing momentum. We took our leadership for granted, ignored this shift, and became complacent. Our problems became more serious when communism failed in Russia, Chairman Mao died, and reforms that were... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing, 21st November, 2003
colonial bases. This will enable the USA to dominate the region and intervene in Saudi Arabia when the monarchy falls. But they will not aggravate ordinary Iraqis. Educated Iraqis are pragmatic. They can control the firebrands. What we... View Details
- 17 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
The Fifth Year of Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) at HBS
higher education system and some knowledge of the obstacles and opportunities for change based on having worked with K-12 schools,” said Amara Warren (MBA 2023). “This SIP helped me narrow my focus and made me even more committed to... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
reality is one reason the district is in such dire straits. When former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett took office in 2011, he cut statewide education funding by $1 billion, which meant a $5 million reduction for Scranton. While other... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Faculty Books
The CEO Within: Why Inside Outsiders Are the Key to Succession Planning by Joseph L. Bower (HBS Press) Professor Bower explains how companies can develop internal candidates for the CEO role by grooming “inside outsiders” — leaders with the perspective of someone who... View Details
- 23 Sep 2010
- News
Hobbling Science and Scientists
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
measured? How does India’s accountability rank against other countries? Does accountability affect economic and social performance? He examines the mechanisms that hold governance institutions accountable, explains why many governance View Details
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
stickiness and foster growth. However, as the company tried to push the cross-selling agenda across its various divisions, it faced myriad issues. It needed to educate its divisional sales staff about the services provided by divisions... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Ray A. Goldberg
and some 1,000 cases. By the time he became professor emeritus in 1997, he had taught some seven thousand Harvard MBA students and ten thousand Executive Education participants in programs at Soldiers Field and abroad, while advising... View Details