Financial Services - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Dec 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

excluded the use of sulfites, while in Europe some use was permitted. For winemakers, distributors and retailers, navigating the complex layers of regulations regarding organic wine was enormously time intensive. Many winemakers chose to forego organic certification so... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2

investment. Complex multinational business groups emerged controlling large investments in natural resources, processing, and services in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. Nominal versus Indexed Debt: A Quantitative Horse Race... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Nov 2008
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA

with valuable, current business and management knowledge. If companies wanted new hires with cutting-edge insights, they'd hire an MBA. According to several deans, that's no longer true. Financial services... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson & HBS Bulletin; Education

25 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 25

implications are discussed. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51617 forthcoming Management Science Discretionary Task Ordering: Queue Management in Radiological Services By: Ibanez, Maria, Jonathan R. Clark,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Nov 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching The Moral Leader

25-year business career that included 10 years in fashion retailing; 12 years in mutual fund and brokerage financial services; serving as a director on nonprofit and corporate boards; and chairing the Better Business Bureau here in... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education

2011
Article

Strategic Change and the Jazz Mindset: Exploring Practices That Enhance Dynamic Capabilities for Organizational Improvisation

By: Ethan S. Bernstein and Frank J. Barrett

How can leaders adopt a mindset that maximizes learning, remains responsive to short-term emergent opportunities, and simultaneously strengthens longer-term dynamic capabilities of the organization? This chapter explores the organizational decisions and practices... View Details