MBA students - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 May 2017
Research & Ideas

Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job’s Fault

out that the sales and marketing folks were overtaxed, while the demands were too soft on software engineers. “The tool gave us insight for each job on how to improve it,” he says. Why that job is so hard Prior to developing the online tool, Simons used a paper model... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

07 Nov 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Sir Alex Ferguson--Managing Manchester United

the greatest (and most high-strung) athletes in the world, staying current on the latest training regimens and technology, and plotting strategy both for on-field play and organizational success. Elberse first taught the case, Sir Alex Ferguson: Managing Manchester... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports; Entertainment & Recreation

09 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government

School who has created a new MBA course, Public Entrepreneurship. "The course allows students to consider the alternative that government can work—or they can help make it work." “We have many... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

03 May 2011
First Look

First Look: May 3

MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads Authors:Srikant M. Datar, David A. Garvin, and Patrick Cullen Publication:Journal of Management Development 30, no. 5 (2011) Abstract The paper seeks to examine major challenges facing MBA programs... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Managers, Here’s How to Bond with New Hires Remotely

expressing an interest in studying its shift to a remote model. In a typical year, the organization, which the researchers didn’t identify, brought in about 3,000 undergraduate and MBA students to work for... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

19 Mar 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of ‘Englishnization’

In March 2010, CEO Hiroshi Mikitani (HBS MBA '93) stood in front of his employees at online retail giant Rakuten's Tokyo headquarters and dropped a bomb: all 7,100 workers would have two years to become proficient in English—the... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

14 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need

curricula. The good news, says Huckman, is that many of these skills can be learned simultaneously with clinical skills. “Like medicine,” he says, “leadership is best taught through observation, experience, and practice.” In fact, the case study method used in View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

18 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask

sufficient passion for those tasks you choose to spend time on. This is a critical area of advice that I regularly give to MBA students as they are thinking about their first job and industry choice. The... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

13 Jan 2015
First Look

First Look: January 13

http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138794313/ January 2015 Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Strategic Disclosure: The Case of Business School Rankings By: Luca, Michael, and Jonathan Smith Abstract—We empirically analyze disclosure decisions made... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Dec 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Grooming Next-Generation Leaders

true deficiency in finance and quantitative methods, says Sasser. While PLD students learn a variety of business specialties including strategy, finance, marketing, and innovation, the point is that future leaders often need to break out... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Apr 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Making the Move to General Manager

Esty. To that end, readings and classroom discussions in GMP are very different from the Harvard MBA program, and from other HBS leadership programs. Where the MBA program develops functional skills, GMP... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

18 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education

How can schools around the world educate their students better? What does the future hold? Most researchers who study these questions in the field of education peer through the lenses of sociology and public policy. HBS professor Clayton... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

30 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup

interviewed dozens of founders of failed businesses for his upcoming book, tentatively titled Why Startups Fail. He has also been sharing his insights with MBA students in a new course called Entrepreneurial... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

04 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

The Business of Life

of our lives, we just deprive ourselves of a very important input." Christensen explores the synergies between economic logic and personal conviction in his new book, How Will You Measure Your Life? Coauthored with James Allworth (HBS MBA... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

03 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2010

naturally proactive, according to Harvard Business School professor Francesca Gino. What Is the Future of MBA Education? Why get an MBA degree? Transformations in business and society make this question... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

02 Mar 2021
HBS Case

The Tulsa Massacre: Is Racial Justice Possible 100 Years Later?

case goes well beyond legal considerations, says Desai. “Fundamentally, it’s a question of how to handle historic injustices,” he says, “and there are profound arguments on both sides.” Desai led a case discussion with first-year HBS MBA... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

04 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors

have enough career experience? (About 5 percent of students at HBS decide to leap into entrepreneurship immediately upon completing the MBA program, but up to 50 percent will have founded a company within a... View Details

Keywords: by Noam Wasserman

09 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns

Accountability, a required course for first-year MBA students that examines the responsibilities business leaders have to their shareholders, customers, employees, and to society Click Here Cote visited... View Details

Keywords: by Sandra Sucher & Susan Winterberg; Aerospace; Electronics

23 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform

Business School whose former students James Reinhart and Chris Homer (both MBA 2009) cofounded the company. "Buyers valued the convenience of quicker service and more consistent quality, so thredUP pivoted... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

30 Jun 2021
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

all of that, I’ve also been enjoying Mezzanine, a recent book of poetry by my spectacular doctoral student Zoë Hitzig, and Peter Winkler’s newest Mathematical Puzzles compendium. Scott Duke Kominers (@skominers) is the View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

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