Purpose Of Business Schools - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 May 2019
What Do You Think?

Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?

internet startups, two Stanford Graduate School of Business professors, Jim Collins and Jerry Porras, wrote an influential book about “successful habits View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

04 Aug 2023
Blog Post

Aaron Sabin (MS/MBA 2023): Engineering a Climate Change Solution by Cutting the Cost of Carbon Capture

MS/MBA program of the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard Business School... View Details

31 Oct 2019
Blog Post

5 Things on My Mind in the Second Year of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

several years before HBS. 2. Engineering classes: problem sets are back! Students spend most of their time at the business school during the first year View Details

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan

Knowledge senior editor Martha Lagace, Deighton explains how it continues to carve out territory in the marketplace.Lagace: Were you surprised that Webvan failed? Deighton: No. The purpose of writing the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products; Retail

22 Nov 2015
News

Start-Up Leaders Embrace Lobbying as Part of the Job

research organizations and the political press to rethink labor laws for the digital age. “We have old rules about how you act as an employer,” said Ms. Sapone, 29, who started Hello Alfred with a Harvard Business View Details

01 Apr 1997
News

Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT

and build a Web page that describes the company to potential investors. Of these electives, the new interdisciplinary course Business and the Internet: Strategy, Law, and Policy is a joint offering View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb

08 Nov 2018

HBS Information Session at the University of Southern California

Join us to learn more about Harvard Business School and the 2+2 admissions process to the MBA at HBS. The event will include a presentation about our college programs and an opportunity to ask questions with... View Details

08 Jul 2002
What Do You Think?

Have We Carried the Concept of Alignment Too Far?

with options so far underwater that they may not surface in the span of a management career.— James Heskett Is it possible that one culprit is a highly appealing concept universally taught in business View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

04 Jun 2020
Blog Post

What MBAs can do in Defense of Black Lives

grassroots activists influence business leaders, public officials, and other decisionmakers. Educate yourself about anti-Black racism to supplement your business school... View Details

01 Dec 2000
News

In War-Torn Liberia, Student Gains a Wealth of Experience

environment." A joint-degree candidate working on her MBA at HBS and her master's in public administration at the Kennedy School of Government, Ballou spent eight weeks in the West African nation, helping... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Mining (except Oil and Gas); Mining

22 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist

As Harvard Business School professor Laura Phillips Sawyer sifted through historical documents to trace the history of competition policy in the United States, an interesting... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Health; Legal Services

June 2021
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Akira Fukabori and Kevin Kajitani at avatarin (A)

By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Tedards

In 2016, Akira Fukabori and Kevin Kajitani, aeronautical engineers at All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd., began to wonder why, in a world of accelerating globalization and digital connectivity, those who lived in far-remote villages or impoverished urban areas could not... View Details

Keywords: Agility; Ecosystem; Innovation Ecosystems; Crowdsourcing; Open Innovation; Partnership; Government; Collaboration; Co-creation; Purpose; Impact; Social Impact; Movement; Organizational Behavior; Organizational Ambidexterity; Ambidexterity; Culture; Culture Change; Global Teams; Experimentation; Space; Airline Industry; Start-up; Platform Business; Platform Strategy; Platform; Digital; Robotics; Robots; Mobility; Strategy; COVID-19; Intrapreneurship; Public-private Partnership; XPRIZE; Space Industry; Avatar; Telepresence; Innovation Lab; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Partners and Partnerships; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Alignment; Leadership; Leading Change; Diversity; Organizational Culture; Change Management; Entrepreneurship; Digital Platforms; Transportation Industry; Aerospace Industry; Japan

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07 Nov 2016
Research & Ideas

Corporate Tax Strategies Mirror Personal Returns of Top Execs

financial advisers and accountants. It boils down to personal preference, according to Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Gerardo Pérez Cavazos. “High net worth individuals have a wide range View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

11 Jan 2024
Blog Post

My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service

photographer, so many of my favorite childhood and adult memories took place in national parks. I spent 80% of the pandemic going up and down parks along the Pacific Coast Highway. Using View Details

02 Jan 2024
Research & Ideas

10 Trends to Watch in 2024

The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

14 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout

Government officials should have poured much more money into producing and distributing COVID-19 vaccines to save more lives and rescue the economy faster, according to new research co-authored by 16 researchers including Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

21 Aug 2015
Blog Post

My Fear of Student Debt: Funding the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

but then prevented or delayed me from pursuing them because of student loans? Financial aid opportunities for joint HBS/HKS students As I looked more closely at joint degree programs, the financial aid available at Harvard stood out. Not... View Details

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Related Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade

scenes related to maritime affairs. The holdings also include original reports of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service as well as catalogues of Chinese products displayed in international expositions.... View Details

17 Oct 2017

HBS Information Session at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign