Graduation - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

The Knowledge Coach

and the smarts more shallow as they were passed down the line and across the world—but some value was always transmitted. You Don't Always Need To Be An Expert To Be A Knowledge Coach In 1967, a young graduate of Bombay's Indian Institute... View Details

Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap

05 Dec 2017
Research & Ideas

What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets

themes are being produced. Cheng Gao: From a graduate student perspective, the interviews are a terrific way to gain a bottom-up insight on how business is conducted in emerging markets. Challenges one reads about in textbooks become... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

22 Apr 2002
Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught

first place), then what we do is to give them some tools and techniques to improve their odds of success. RH: We can't guarantee that every HBS graduate is going to be a great entrepreneur, but we can teach a body of knowledge that... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

02 Nov 2010
First Look

First Look: November 2, 2010

students and faculty worked to launch the first MBA Oath Ceremony conducted on campus during Harvard graduation week. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/411024-PDF-ENG Highland Capital Partners: Investing in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Jan 2018
Cold Call Podcast

Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.

So, that was a very positive environment he grew up in. But, meanwhile, around him, there was a tremendous amount of racism. Kenny: You mention the fact that he went to college at a young age, but he talks about the fact that when he got there, even though he had View Details

28 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur

India was hiring in 1960s were all English-speaking and English-educated graduates from St. Stephen’s College and other elite schools of India that were more like British schools that Prince Harry would go to. That was surprising to me... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Advertising

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 of visionary companies.” In it, they advanced their theories based on an extensive... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

02 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

Sanginga had founded a youth “agripreneurs” program, which would train young university graduates on improved agricultural practices, food processing, and strategies for starting an agribusiness. Since its establishment in 2012, the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

24 Jul 2018
Op-Ed

4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World

PeopleImages New business school graduates have now made their way from campus to workplace. For them, this should be a time of optimism and energy, of setting ambitious goals and testing new ideas. At Harvard Business School, where I... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

13 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Reinvigorating America

restrictions included the ability to get visas for highly talented foreign workers and graduate students. One of the great strengths of America is our phenomenal system of higher education; we have educated the world's engineers and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

10 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 10

PublicationsHow Will You Measure Your Life? Authors:Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, and Karen Dillon Publication:HarperBusiness, forthcoming Abstract In 2010 world-renowned innovation expert Clayton M. Christensen gave a powerful speech to the Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

07 Dec 2010
First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

Business School's lottery-based system and Kellogg Graduate School of Management's bidding-based system. The case has been designed to discuss the benefits and drawbacks of each system and their desirability (or lack thereof) depending on... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Jun 2010
Research & Ideas

Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets

might, with sellers of talent (such as graduates of business schools). For managers, if their business growth is predicated on hiring appropriate amounts of talent—as it invariably is—what do they do to compensate for the absence of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

07 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 7, 2009

as possible enter and graduate from college, expanding the list of acceptable partners might make sense. But CEO Deborah Bial believed that selective colleges provided Posse scholars with more than just superior career opportunities—they... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Apr 2008
Research Event

Venture Capital

Centennial celebration. Through it, HBS honors the important contributions made by its graduates to the development of the VC industry, and who today are estimated to make up more than 20 percent of the world's venture capitalists. The... View Details

Keywords: by Josh Lerner; Financial Services

19 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Digital Technology’s Profound Game Change for Marketers

When I was a kid, "The Graduate" was a generation-defining hit movie, with Dustin Hoffman playing an aimless college graduate. In the middle of a graduation party, an older businessman takes the wayward Hoffman aside and... View Details

Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang; Advertising; Technology

16 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

Why ‘Sleep on It’ No Longer Sounds Like Great Advice

believe that with all of these positive cognitive effects, you might also get benefits for decision making,” says Karmarkar, who conducted the research with UMass Amherst psychology professor Rebecca Spencer and Stanford Graduate School... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail

13 May 2008
First Look

First Look: May 13, 2008

Business School Case 308-072 As it entered its seventh academic year, Codman Academy, an expeditionary learning charter school located in Dorchester, Massachusetts, was reflecting on its successes and challenges. The school had succeeded in placing every member of its... View Details