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- 30 Jan 2017
- News
HBS Deans' Message on White House Travel Ban
wondering whether their families will be able to join them for Commencement, faculty are debating whether they should travel to conduct their research and teaching, class visitors are cancelling their trips, alumni are uncertain whether... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Leadership on a Global Stage
the attendees usable knowledge and actionable insights, now and in the future. “The networking aspect is also important. These are unique communities of proven leaders, and the service academies want their graduates to make a difference... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- Web
Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog
discusses how institutions can be developed which focus the uncoordinated actions of individual households and firms as well as voters and politicians on good, rather than bad, overall outcomes. Such institutions are key determinants of... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
like. From what they’ve heard and read about you—or if they’ve taken courses from you previously—they have expectations of how you facilitate, govern, and teach the class . I like to begin each class with a... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a... View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
without paying for it. The FCC, committed to developing a robust local broadcasting industry, first intervened to restrict a cable operator's actions in the Carter Mountain case of 1959, when it denied the Riverton, Wyoming cable company... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
oversees more than $16 billion. Compare these figures with data from 2003, when the entire asset class consisted of only a handful of funds managing about $12 billion. Activist investors, once considered Wall Street outcasts, are now... View Details
- 03 Jan 2018
- What Do You Think?
In the Wake of #MeToo, Should Corporate Boards Hire Compliance Officers?
SUMMING UP Would More Women in Leadership Help Mitigate #MeToo Concerns? If a good case study is one that splits a class down the middle on an important issue while surfacing creative responses, this month's column on how best to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
and trademarked brand. While “green” (as it relates to the environment) was not in the vocabularies of John, Pat, and Abe in 1969, behaving responsibly certainly was. Thanks to all who have led and continue to lead the School with results that bear fruit long after... View Details
- 16 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities
paper was written by Nikhil Naik, a Prize Fellow at Harvard University; Scott Duke Kominers, the Harvard Business School MBA Class of 1960 Associate Professor; Edward L. Glaeser, the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Exchange: Takeaways from the Takedown
entrepreneurs who may have to navigate the murky areas and inherent risks of building new industries? Dey: If you’re a high-flying entrepreneur, risk is not a bad thing. We teach students in our governance-controls classes that, if you’re... View Details
- 21 May 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: From Trash to Treasure: Inside a Waste Management Site in Mumbai
of sustainability efforts, decarbonization, and net zero in the context of a broader development agenda. The class culminated in a series of site visits in January 2024 in Mumbai and Bangalore and this is one of 14 student essays that... View Details
- 18 May 2017
- News
Pioneer Spirit
humanities class of the semester, he met Fern, his future wife. “We were married four hours after we both graduated from Kansas State (Ross earned a BS in mathematics and Fern earned a BS in business education) and immediately moved to... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
working paper, published this year, titled "Promoting a Management Revolution in Public Education." Mallory Stark: How does the PELP program operate? Stacey Childress and Allen Grossman: PELP operates as a learning laboratory with seed funding from the HBS... View Details
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
that's the interesting part. It is those intentional activities. What can we do to influence our actions and thoughts every single day when we get out of bed to flip our brain into a positive mindset? And that's what I've been trying to... View Details
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
advantage of factor cost differences. We find that overwhelmingly, multinationals tend to own the stages of production proximate to their final production giving rise to a class of high-skill intra-industry vertical FDI. Download the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Past Issues - Alumni
to learn Leading with Heart How personal tragedy shaped the empathetic management style of Panera CEO Niren Chaudhary My Favorite Case Alumni reflect on the class discussions and case protagonists that indelibly shaped their lives and... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
honored to be a part of such a committed and enthusiastic group of people, all of whom have worked very hard during the year to ensure that thoughtful and actionable committee recommendations were delivered and projects completed. We have... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
discrimination and harassment lawsuit a woman cofounder lodged against the Tinder dating app to the comments of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who advised women against asking for a raise, but instead “knowing and having faith that the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
actions on performance. However, standard regression models estimate only the average effects of these actions across firms. Our paper discusses how random coefficient models (RCMs) may generate new insights... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman