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- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
extraordinary” "As long as students really dig hard and ask questions about themselves and the opportunity at hand, the contest is a terrific part of the MBA experience that has only gained strength over the years," says HBS professor... View Details
- 09 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 9, 2007
Working PapersNone this week Cases & Course MaterialsDeveloping Leaders Harvard Business School Note 407-015 Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407015 Merton's Ethos of Science: Excerpts and Summaries Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
For too long, scholarship in the field of management has looked at economic performance rather than social welfare, argue HBS professor Joshua Margolis and colleagues James P. Walsh, of University of Michigan Business School, and Klaus... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 13 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding
real-world challenges and anxieties faced by increasing numbers of Americans.” As HBS professor Anat Keinan explains, "Today, underdog brand biographies are being used by both large and small companies and across categories,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
How the U.S. Army Develops Leaders
The U.S. Army is one of the best training institutions in the world, says HBS professor Scott A. Snook, a retired Army colonel. How does the Army develop leaders? Snook discusses his new book, Making Sense of Officership: Developing a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
Program Requirements - Doctoral
macroeconomics course series. Other possible courses could be in mathematics, statistics, computer science, or psychology. The advisor’s approval of the course selected for this requirement is necessary. Completion of the business history... View Details
- 05 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity
management team and bring in a whole new team, but rather add key outsiders—who don't have the same history and the same biases—to the mix. So, one issue is: How does our prior thinking about an industry constrain the way that we might... View Details
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?
brand over another based on their patients' requests? A recent study, Physicians Report on Patient Encounters Involving Direct to Consumer Advertising, focused on one aspect of pharma DCTA: What do physicians think about all of this? What follows is an View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 04 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
The Peek Weekend Stem Cohort Experience
all very helpful before, throughout, and after the program. Peek for me was an HBS sampler for an intensive few days; with cases drawn from real life, everything we learned was very applicable. I never knew about the network effect until... View Details
- 19 Nov 2013
- News
Harvard Business School Exhibit Looks at Art of American Advertising
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
1988), appeared. Stung by the description in the book, Xerox chairman David Kearns established a task force with the mandate of preventing the repetition of such a failure to capitalize on Xerox innovations. The task force reviewed Xerox's View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society
customers over long periods of time. What's the secret of long-running megabrands such as Mountain Dew, Nike, and Budweiser? The magical sweet spot when a brand delivers imaginative stories that are perfectly attuned to society's desires. His new research, which he... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Secrets of the Successful Businesswoman
business," declared Nancy Koehn in her opening keynote talk at the conference. A historian, author, and Harvard Business School professor, Koehn drew on exciting moments from the history of women in business to offer her audience a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 May 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Just Say No to Wall Street: Putting A Stop to the Earnings Game
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
We all know the importance of mentors and other early career experiences in shaping the kind of leaders we ultimately become. But how important to that development are the particular companies we work for? For Harvard Business School professor Monica Higgins, who has... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 14 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Are You Managing To a ‘T’? Time To Break With Tradition
time. The approach is novel but, when properly implemented, quite powerful. The entire history of the T-shaped manager at BP is one of continually fine-tuning the tension between the manager's horizontal and vertical roles, an evolution... View Details
Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen & Bolko Von Oetinger
- 09 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off
history of empirical work on the search for a relationship between corporate social performance (CSP) and corporate financial performance (CFP). Second, we critically appraise the quality of this work. And third, we question the... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
- 06 Jan 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is a Stringent Climate Change Agreement a Pot of Gold?
conversion of inventions into commercially viable innovation. As Allen Roberts points out, " lacking as we do a worthwhile VC industry the history of the last 100 years where Australia exports all its great ideas with little return... View Details
- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
PublicationsPathologies of Online Display Advertising Marketplaces Author:Benjamin Edelman Publication:ACM Sigecom Exchanges, June 2010 Abstract Much has been written about online search advertising, where Google enjoys 90% plus market share in numerous countries and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Aug 2010
- Working Paper Summaries