MBA students - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Nov 2012
First Look

First Look: November 13

constructive suggestions for how to teach about the BSC in MBA and executive programs. Accelerate! Author:John P. Kotter Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 11 (November 2012) Abstract An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 2013
First Look

First Look: October 1

and 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45613 Management: Theory and Practice, and Cases By: Nolan, Richard L. Abstract—This working paper reports on a major Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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

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

23 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings

that I've done over the course of the last 10 years has been field-based, working in conjunction with HBS student teams, partners in business and the nonprofit sector, and especially through the nonprofit that I founded, Doorways to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

“Most [business scholars] would agree that our primary duties include teaching our students and generating new knowledge in our research,” writes Toffel. “But the lack of practical relevance of much of our research might suggest that few... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

04 Jun 2018
What Do You Think?

Are There Conditions Under Which Directors Should Consider Hiring a CEO Fired Elsewhere for Inappropriate Behavior?

opposed to the simulated experience we try to create here) MBA classroom at HBS in which students and the instructor alike teach and learn. The answer: Take time out to agree on labels and definitions. So we... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Research Summary

Research Thrust

By: Rakesh Khurana

I am trained in organizational sociology and my main areas of interest lie in macro-organizational theory and the dynamics of executive labor markets. To date, my research has focused on two themes. The first revolves around understanding the forces that govern the... View Details

26 Aug 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Built for Global Competition from the Start

MBA 2010), who founded the company when he was a second-year student at HBS. In the case, EverTrue is creating a mobile application that would allow schools to connect more easily to their alumni networks.... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Education

18 Jun 2001
Lessons from the Classroom

Why Leaders Need Great Books

percentage of my sleep right off the top. — So I'm telling you, okay?" So go the first lines to author Allan Gurganus's short story, "Blessed Assurance." As one of the works of literature that HBS MBA View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

08 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Management Education’s Unanswered Questions

sides of the aisle. As a doctoral student at Harvard he completed all his MBA coursework and went on to earn a master's in sociology and a PhD in organizational behavior. Now he teaches in the View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

18 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals

staff, and MBA and doctoral students—the campus feels like a small town. (This number excludes the more than nine thousand yearly executive-education enrollees, who typically spend only a few weeks on campus, as well as residents of View Details

Keywords: Education

26 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Clayton M. Christensen, Acclaimed Author and Teacher, Dies At 67

Christensen joined the HBS faculty in 1992. He earned a B.A. with highest honors in economics from Brigham Young University (1975); an M.Phil. in applied econometrics from Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar (1977); and an View Details

30 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Harvard and HBS: The Next 100 Years

forefront of business education. As it contemplates how to educate future business leaders, it should aspire to go beyond just teaching students to make a living or be the best at their professions; HBS must create leaders who have the... View Details

Keywords: Education

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Wired and Black: Focus on Careers

Black: Career Development in the New Economy," said newly minted MBAs should be able to learn quickly, handle problems, and build relationships with coworkers over workplace divisions. The panelists also advised View Details

Keywords: by Carrie Levine

18 Aug 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs

extraordinary” "As long as students really dig hard and ask questions about themselves and the opportunity at hand, the contest is a terrific part of the MBA experience that has only gained strength over the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

17 Feb 2015
HBS Case

HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco

Allison Ciechanover (Harvard MBA 2002) and Kunal Modi (Harvard MBA/MPP 2013), a manager at McKinsey & Co. in San Francisco. The influx of wealthy tech workers into San Francisco'sneighborhoods is the subject of a case... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

27 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 27

managers and recruiters are questioning conventional business education. Their concerns? Among other things, MBA programs aren't giving students the heightened cultural awareness and global perspectives they... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS

Wadhwani Q: The Newcomen Fellow is expected to participate in the school's business history courses, seminars, and case development activities. Can you tell us about your teaching experience here at HBS? I imagine that your previous teaching experience was with View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard; Banking; Financial Services

08 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’

Fifty years ago, when America was unquestionably a man's world, one small but influential part of it officially opened its doors to women: the MBA program at Harvard Business School. On Thursday, about 800 of the School's roughly 11,000... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette

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