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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
Ask The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track Related Links Watch Professor Joshua Margolis on teaching business ethics to MBA students Watch Dean Nohria's TED Talk on practicing moral humility The sense of excitement... View Details
- 23 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far
with other deliberate managerial actions. “My hope is that this research throws a bucket of ice water on the idea that there's no tradeoff...” That said, in general, I do think the open office space “revolution” has gone too far. If... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
between sectors within countries, as international. Agriculture will need ever-greater amounts of water to feed growing populations, even as burgeoning cities — with their greater wealth and political clout — typically draw off more water for their residents,... View Details
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Past Issues - Alumni
Records, with ambitions of preserving the local music scene and supporting the careers of indie artists Keeping the Faith A new course investigates the powerful connections between belief, spirituality, and leadership Complete Table of... View Details
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
practice, disciplinary rigor, and successful search for powerful generalizations help explain the lasting impact of their 1965 book, A Behavioral Theory of Labor Negotiations. Central to their argument are three important... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
least in part due to managers' reputational or status concerns. The ROE increase was predominantly driven by improvements in margins, which was partially driven by cutting R&D intensity—a potentially unintended consequence. Our findings suggest that indexes can... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
tenure, the 9/11 terrorist attacks shook the nation, and the company, to its core. GE was connected to nearly every part of the tragedy—GE-financed planes powered by GE-manufactured engines had just destroyed real estate that was insured... View Details
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
paper uses data from the 1983 Survey of Consumer Finances to test the relationship between the banks' market power and households' self-reported levels of credit constraints. The 1983 Survey was the last to identify households' geographic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
good education entrepreneurship case is the same as with any case—is there a decision point or managerial tension that students can struggle through together in the class discussion? NSNO developed a strategy to focus on a subset of... View Details
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
argue that this rule is feasible despite the limited powers of central authorities. We also offer a framework for reasoning about future prices of IP addresses and then explore the role of rentals in sharing information about the value of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
context of the economic turmoil at the turn of the 20th century, the alumni asked whether Harvard might develop a school to educate professional managers who would improve the quality and integrity of the managerial class, much as the law... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
to make “transforming commitments” — managerial actions like exiting a legacy business, publicly committing to a new goal, or firing a powerful executive who defends the status quo. Such actions break the... View Details
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
piracy strategically to improve its market position? From a managerial perspective, these are significant questions. If it turns out that OSS will incontestably displace traditional software, software firms need to adapt as quickly as... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
failures thus create managerial challenges and opportunities for focal firms and their competitors. Focal firm failures often result in sales decreases and cost increases associated with remedial public relations and manufacturing... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
Periodical:Organization Science (forthcoming) Abstract We develop a perspective on how managers search for a strategy. In the spirit of Cyert and March (1963), we aim for a perspective that reflects the reality of managerial behavior;... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
the early 1990s, but to reposition the company to lead the industry. The powerful lesson from the IBM story is that innovation is not a side business to running the real business. Innovation is the business. Breakthrough innovations that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
business unit managers' attention toward longer-term activities. Non-financial measures similarly direct managerial attention toward longer-term activities, although not to the same degree as accounting return measures. We conclude that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
India, Brazil, and other developing nations shook off decades of economic stagnation to achieve remarkable growth. Concurrently, world trade advanced to the point that capital and products now flow freely around the globe. All these changes View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
things," says Greg Thompson (MBA 2005), CEO of the Tennessee Charter School Incubator, which provides managerial training and school launch support for charter school leaders. "Now we need systems to make sure high-quality people have the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
and extraordinarily detailed maps. Leading YOU: The Power of Self-Leadership to Build your Executive Brand and Drive Career Success by Brenda Bence (MBA 1991) (Global Insight Communications, LLC) The most important driver of overall... View Details