Generalized Additive Model - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 1998
News

A Community Investment

responsibility. Corporate America today realizes it has broader responsibilities that go beyond concerns for its shareholders, its employees, and its customers. It has an additional responsibility to the community. Ince: While companies... View Details

01 Oct 2002
News

The Class of 1977

others. I view my volunteer efforts as a way to perpetuate the University as a renewable resource that will benefit others for generations to come.” is partner and national director of China for Ernst & Young. Born and raised in Hong... View Details

Keywords: Desmond Wong

20 Feb 2006
HBS Case

Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive

focused on IT businesses and involved male protagonists. Mends thought it would be exciting to explore a wider range of model companies and leaders, and Koehn, whose work has often focused on entrepreneurs in unconventional settings,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation

06 Mar 2007
First Look

First Look: March 6, 2007

multi-sided business, its technology offering and early business model, its efforts to shift to a new model based on media distribution, and its chief competitors in that market space. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Annual Report 2016 - Annual Report 2016

fast-casual restaurant, a hair salon, a donut shop, and a hip burger restaurant, and students worked in small teams on problems such as marketing, finance, sales, and growth strategy. Making Robotics Fly HUBweek, a civic collaboration founded by The Boston Globe, MIT,... View Details

01 Sep 2014
News

All For One

Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration, she’d taught Harvard’s leadership course during the 1990s, but had begun to suspect that the visionary model of leadership on which it was based wasn’t ideal for creating a... View Details

Keywords: Michael Blanding; faculty; research; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services

08 Jun 2018
News

My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses

or a resource-based problem-- so that all the stakeholders can succeed. I've had an additional career in health care. I've been the CEO of my local hospital, and I took these same principles forward there. And instead of looking for blame... View Details

20 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

the general rise in all stock prices. Executives benefited from the run-up in the stock market, rather than for taking their companies to the next level. Kanter: There's a danger, however, in focusing only on boards and compensation and... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

01 Sep 2008
News

Balanced Equation

for IM, voice, and video calls. I always carry my cellphone. What qualities do you think leaders today need? Leaders need to be courageous and fearless. They need to be fast because the time they have to get things done is shrinking. In View Details

Keywords: James Aisner;Deborah Blagg;Julia Hanna;Susan Young; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

11 Apr 2018
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The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)

Photos courtesy of Regan Turner Regan Turner (MBA/MPP 2013) is executive director of The Mission Continues, a national nonprofit that “deploys” military veterans to community-impact projects to help them find purpose and to serve as role View Details

01 Mar 2017
News

The Middle Way

low-key approach. “You hardly even knew he was there, but then when he intervened, he did it in a manner where everybody would listen,” says Jeffery. “It’s difficult to understand how to work your way through to a solution. But here’s a View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous

10 Mar 2021
News

New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts

for prosperity and effective government for the following century. In addition to granting him his rightful place among British Prime Ministers on both domestic and foreign policy grounds, Hutchinson advances how a proper regard for... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

20 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

handles that. And can he use those negotiating skills and those communication skills and create shared value skills in a situation where there’s no walk-away option and he doesn’t have the leverage. Command and control management model... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese

07 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

had a "system" of hiring MBAs in cohorts of ten to fifteen. These young MBAs were generally placed into "assistant to" positions (assisting the head of a division, for example) for a couple of years to learn the... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

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Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

around 1805. The inclusion of a Ghost Dance on this advertising trade card for Kickapoo Indian Remedies shows the company’s awareness of the practice but no serious attempt to understand its significance to Indigenous communities. The bright colors and lively... View Details

01 Jun 1996
News

Class Acts

on the enormous success of the event, last summer the Dean's Office invited Dobron to work full-time to refine and implement suggestions for improving campus life that were generated during the case discussions. "Our efforts were mainly... View Details

20 Aug 2007
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively

strong investor relations (IR) departments, according to HBS professor Gregory S. Miller. Two cases he recently coauthored describe how these different firms in the oil and gas industry—controversial of late for its mile-high profits—have carved a path as View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities

10 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: January 10

connections (measured as campaign donations to politicians who won an election). Yet, we do not find evidence that BNDES is systematically bailing out firms. In general, BNDES appears to be generally selecting firms with capacity to repay... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Jul 2009
First Look

First Look: July 7

so-called "enrollment crisis" in IS education, especially with the generation of "digital natives" who have come of age in an environment crowded with engaging approaches to communication and entertainment that compete... View Details