futures - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 May 2022
What Do You Think?

Can the Case Method Survive Another Hundred Years?

that management challenges and opportunities posed by such things as the need for sustainability, the development of the metaverse, questions about the future of work and the workplace, grey swans such as pandemics, and on and on, are... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

08 Mar 2024
Blog Post

History of the HBS Women's Student Association

women to connect, share experiences, and strategize for future success. As we reflect on the evolution of the WSA, it becomes evident that its impact extends far beyond the HBS campus. The association's enduring legacy is a testament to... View Details

20 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

How Partisan Politics Play Out in American Boardrooms

inequities, such as conducting internal company climate surveys and anti-bias trainings. Finally, she says, companies need to be aware that taking a strong stance on controversial political issues may end up alienating current and future... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

23 Jun 2023
News

Highlights from the Spring 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

that has defined the transformational experience of an HBS MBA. "Will we continue to get the most promising young students and future leaders and attract the most remarkable faculty and staff that creates this transformational experience... View Details

11 Aug 2021
Blog Post

The Equity Network: How HBS Helped Me Launch a Tech-Enabled Social Enterprise

all, we are taught to network by leveraging our similarities, rather than our differences — a practice that disadvantages Black, Latinx, and Native American communities, some of the least-represented groups in corporate America. Two months before school started, I met... View Details

26 Nov 2001
Op-Ed

Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed

performance—by legitimate means or, if push comes to shove, by illegitimate ones. If the measure is profits, for instance, she will have a strong incentive to increase the current year's earnings at the expense of next year's, either by pushing expenses into the View Details

Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Revolving Doors on Analyst Incentive.” Josh Lerner : Appointed Vice Chair, Global Agenda Council on Future of Investing, World Economic Forum, 2014-2016. Kristin W. Mugford : Received the 2015 Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching at HBS... View Details

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Research - Race, Gender & Equity

strategy as its strategic partners and customers could become future competitors in a quickly changing AI based human resources and talent management industry 2023 Working Paper Was That a Microaggression: A Multilevel Theory of... View Details

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Considering Retirement - Alumni

what will you do with it? What kinds of activities will you find meaningful? Time spent considering your future now will yield returns in the quality of the time you spend in retirement. In fact, the people who are most satisfied with... View Details

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News & Commentary - Advancing Racial Equity

announcing its annual conference, and the Managing the Future of Work team discusses the distributed workforce, diversity, and opportunity post COVID-19. Messages of Support African American Student Union The Forum for Growth & Innovation... View Details

02 Dec 2019
News

Championing the HBS Fund

Andreas Stavropoulos (MBA 1997) and Christy Dosiou Andreas Stavropoulos and Chrysoula “Christy” Dosiou are steadfast advocates for the HBS Fund. The couple, who were high school sweethearts in their native Greece, see the flexible support that the Fund provides as key... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

26 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

To Motivate Employees, Give an Unexpected Bonus (or Penalty)

another's, or peer pressure to work on behalf of the larger group. All of those forms of incentive influence individual decisions, which are driven by expectations of future outcomes. “We make choices in anticipation of what the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing

08 May 2020
Blog Post

Building a World of Trusted Leaders: Taking the MBA Oath

discrimination and exploitation. I will protect the right of future generations to advance their standard of living and enjoy a healthy planet. I will report the performance and risks of my enterprise accurately and honestly. I will... View Details

04 Feb 2014
What Do You Think?

Has Listening Become a Lost Art?

ourselves. As a result, we shouldn't trust anything that we say or plan. He cites studies that conclude that people deceive themselves into thinking they will do things in the future that, when the time comes, they have no intention of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

27 Oct 2015
News

Sweet Success

York chefs. “We had all this land, with about 20,000 old-growth sugar maples and red maples,” relates Turner. “Big picture, this was 2009 and we were newcomers in a rural area where the unemployment rate was 15 percent. We wanted to protect the forest for View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

04 Aug 2011
What Do You Think?

How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?

learned something from it that we can use in making future decisions. As a result, we give unwarranted credit to such things as experience, intuition, and even common sense. Watts challenges our ability to assess the validity of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

09 Jun 2024
Blog Post

The EC Formula: MBA Class of 2024 Looks Back

class and how will you apply it in the future?The value driver framework, especially Professor Esty’s belief that value creation can create win-win-wins in society without sacrificing shareholder value. In my onboarding discussions with View Details

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

humanity,” it boldly and accurately captures that the challenge ahead of us is not just about carbon emissions, but for the future of our businesses, our economy, our people and our planet. Now is the time for bold leadership, swift... View Details

01 Oct 2021
News

Furthering the Legacy of Whitney Bowman (MBA 2006)

Whitney Bowman (MBA 2006) and Brittanie Bowman When Whitney Bowman died unexpectedly at the age of 41, he left a tremendous void in the lives of his family, friends, and colleagues. He also left a legacy of support and inspiration for generations of View Details

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

cost performance of IT technologies over the first forty years changed by roughly 107, and for the foreseeable future will continue to evolve at the same rate. That is in sharp contrast to a train, which after eighty years moved six times... View Details

Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan

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