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- 04 Aug 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?
propositions that most people consider prudent " Duncan Watts himself found it "surprisingly hard to pin down. Roughly speaking, it is the loosely organized set of facts, observations, experiences, insights, and pieces of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Jul 2005
- What Do You Think?
How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant?
difference. . . ." Fernando das Neves Gomes suggests that "If ways are found . . . in the classroom . . . [to address issues such as] how to win real clients, how to deal with competition—then the courses will become closer to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class
into HBS and HKS. However, she knew she wanted to make an impact in agriculture and found that starting her own businesses was her ideal path forward. Now, as the CEO and Co-Founder of a Fork and Goode, Gupta is building on her experience... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
The Exchange: Where Ethics Meet Economics
Max Bazerman and Mike Luca (Image by John Ritter) What makes people behave the way they do—and to what degree are design choices influencing that? Associate Professor Mike Luca studies the design of online platforms, while Professor Max Bazerman’s work focuses on... View Details
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James Sharpe | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
found it in Extrusion Technology, Inc., a small manufacturing company in Massachusetts that provides customized metal parts to diverse industries. Jim talked about the distinctive path he took in entrepreneurship in an interview from his... View Details
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2.3.4 Sexual & Gender Based Harassment & Other Sexual Misconduct - MBA
Contact Information The University’s policies on sexual and gender based harassment and other sexual misconduct and their associated grievance procedures, can be found on the Harvard University Office for Gender Equity website . In all... View Details
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- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
THE 6 MYTHS OF CREATIVITY
don’t think about pay on a day-to-day basis. Time Pressure Fuels Creativity. People are least creative when they’re fighting the clock “on a treadmill,” having a fragmented day that doesn’t allow them to concentrate on a single important problem. In our research, we... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
founder of the Tobin Project, an independent, interdisciplinary initiative that uses academic research to tackle massive real-world problems like economic inequality, national security, and government regulation. “We’ve found that working... View Details
- 30 Jun 2021
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021
What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details
Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland
- 25 Jan 2023
- News
The Road to the C-Suite, with Citi CFO Mark Mason
school, he says, and sold bubblegum and baseball cards to his classmates over lunch. Later, Mason enrolled in Howard University’s premed program but switched to the business program by the second semester. There, earning his degree in finance and studying with the case... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)
Founding Chairman, Egon Zehnder International, Inc. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Earlier Education University of Zurich, 1949 A.B., Classics University of Zurich, 1953 Ph.D., Law (including one year at the University of... View Details
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Sergio Velasquez-Terjesen
would go into biotech and genetics," he says of his initial ambitions. But after two years as a lab assistant at Louisiana State University, he found that, although the science was "fascinating," the work was "lonely,... View Details
- 20 May 2022
- Blog Post
Nucleate Eco: Connecting Aspiring MBA Entrepreneurs with Cutting Edge Climate Research
national and looks to expand to even more US cities next year. Our founding goal was to help take university research out of the lab and help form startups around it to tackle real-world problems in sustainability. Our teams are focused... View Details
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
affects innovation incentives in medical technologies. Prior studies have found early mover regulatory advantages for drugs. I find the opposite for medical devices, where pioneer entrants spend 34% (7.2 months) longer than follow-on... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Are You Supporting Your B Players?
said, can do their training out of public view. But managers almost always train on the job. Managers can take three steps to enhance their company's human capital especially vis-à-vis B players, DeLong said. Create an agenda. John Kotter's work on highly successful... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
In a Landscape of 'Me Too' Drug Development, What Spurs Radical Innovation?
too difficult to compare in terms of structural uniqueness. However, the researchers also found that cash windfalls led to an increase in the number of biologics developed. “They put that cash to work, so it seems, by working on more... View Details
- 24 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software
communicate with each other on the large-scale—particularly, the global scale—necessary to share such information.” Security of individual accounts. Of the 10 most-used software packages in the analysis, the CII team found that seven were... View Details
- 20 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting the Marketing Mix Right
firms; and by using direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA). First, they employed the complex mathematical formulas of traditional models to study different marketing strategies used by the drug companies. They found that the IPS property... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman