HBS history - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Aug 2015
Blog Post

Takeaways from the Class of 2015

How do you sum up your biggest takeaways from business school in just a few sentences? This year, the Class of 2015 was challenged to do just that. After reflecting on their two years at HBS during the Bridges programming, each student... View Details

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

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

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One

A conversation with Nancy Koehn, author of Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers' Trust From Wedgwood to Dell, HBS Press, 2001. "I am just fascinated by the power, the quirks, the determination, and the durability of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

18 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Embracing Activism for Social Change

behavioral health professionals in situations where their expertise would make a critical difference in resolving crisis situations, or even preventing them in the first place,” explains 2020–2021 HBS Leadership Fellow Sarika Mendu (MBA... View Details

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

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Initiatives & Projects - Faculty & Research

Research Initiatives & Projects Throughout the School’s history, a hallmark of HBS faculty research has been its power in practice. Increasingly, this impact extends beyond the management of firms to the large-scale, cross-disciplinary... View Details

15 Jun 2016
News

Why Harvard Business School teaches students about whaling

11 Jun 2024
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2024

As the vacation season looms, Harvard Business School faculty members share recommendations for a little light reading. Spoiler alert: Lessons in Chemistry tops two of their beach-read lists. For those whose brains can’t—or won’t—turn off, HBS faculty also suggest some... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

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

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities

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

15 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

The Right Connections

of the picture, a young company must clear many hurdles before convincing potential investors that its future prosperity is a good bet. New research by HBS associate professor Monica Higgins and Associate Professor Ranjay Gulati of the... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

07 Jan 2009
What Do You Think?

Is the World Really Flat?

policies that encourage the provision of venture capital? Or is the world really flat? Do the "techno-nationalists" have it right? What do you think? To read more: Amar Bhidé, The Venturesome Economy: How Innovation Sustains Prosperity in a More Connected... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

05 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?

specialize in their respective niches—politely eying each other and making sure not to overlap too directly. Such niche specialization is a fixture of many other nascent markets. It remains to be seen whether more head-on competition will occur later; however, if the... View Details

Keywords: by Michel Anteby; Health

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Research Areas - Doctoral

economic growth. 13. Other. It is impossible to capture all that HBS faculty study. If you have a specific interest in an area not listed above, please select this category to describe an area of research within the disciplines of... View Details

02 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part One]

former HBS professor who is now dean at the new Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy at Tokyo's Hitotsubashi University; and Sakakibara, a former Ministry of Trade and Industry (MITI) official with a doctorate from Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer

02 Apr 2010
What Do You Think?

Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?

wondering whether they have anything to do with one another. The first is a news release from The Conference Board reporting that its most recent periodic poll showed that only 45 percent of workers in the U.S. were satisfied with their jobs, the lowest level in the... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

22 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

unwittingly created the mother of all moral hazards—implicit rescue guarantees as far as the eye can see? No doubt about it, says HBS professor and economic historian David Moss. "The extension of implicit guarantees to all systemically... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

The Intellectual Underpinnings of Entrepreneurial Management

What are the roots of entrepreneurship as an academic field of interest? The term entrepreneur—literally, "undertaker"—has been around for over two centuries, having been introduced in the early eighteenth century by the Parisian banker Richard Cantillon.... View Details

Keywords: by Howard H. Stevenson & Teresa M. Amabile

26 Jul 2022
Blog Post

Driving Change in Education-to-Employment

The HBS Summer Fellows Program enables students to apply their classroom training as they explore career opportunities in roles or regions where compensation is generally lower than the traditional MBA level. This summer, we are... View Details

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