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- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings
The financial field may be permanently changed by the explosive ups and downs of the tech sector, but old standards of quality and planning will still make or break new businesses, HBS professor Howard H. Stevenson said. In his keynote... View Details
Keywords: by Carrie Levine
- 24 Jul 2018
- Op-Ed
4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World
they feel a lack of “agency,” a sense that only the highest rank of management can effect positive social change from within a business. Ironically, an increasing number of C-suite executives, including former Starbucks CEO Howard... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
we have rebels like Tupac Shakur, Howard Stern, and Dennis Rodman. The problem with both the breadwinner and rebel models is that each has an undesirable underbelly, a stigma that ultimately makes the model less than ideal. Even the most... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- April 2009 (Revised January 2015)
- Case
Dr. Benjamin Hooks and Children's Health Forum
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Charles J. Ogletree Jr, Howard Koh, Abbye Atkinson, Carmel Salhi and Aldo Sesia
"Dr. Benjamin Hooks and Children's Health Forum" charts the many different career paths of Hooks, a civil rights activist and pioneer. Hooks' positions ranged from lawyer, judge, preacher, entrepreneur to the first African American commissioner of the Federal... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Health Care and Treatment; Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Personal Development and Career; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Issues
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, Charles J. Ogletree Jr, Howard Koh, Abbye Atkinson, Carmel Salhi, and Aldo Sesia. "Dr. Benjamin Hooks and Children's Health Forum." Harvard Business School Case 309-111, April 2009. (Revised January 2015.)
- 01 Aug 2008
- What Do You Think?
Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?
Yet others viewed it as a means of getting more for less out of people, something to be tried when other approaches don't work. Howard Esbin likens it to "strategic scenario planning or futurism. The more one is able to ask 'what if'... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52103 forthcoming Negotiation Journal Learning from Howard Raiffa: Interpersonal, Intellectual, and Institutional Nuggets By: Sebenius, James K. Abstract—Rightly known as the “father of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 5, 2006
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=805139 Gordon Bethune at Continental Airlines Harvard Business School Case 406-073 Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=406073 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
this global pandemic has subsided. Robert S. Huckman is the Albert J. Weatherhead III Professor of Business Administration and the Howard Cox Health Care Initiative Faculty Chair. Joseph Fuller: Businesses face a changed workforce In... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 01 Feb 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?
sustainability is more achievable "if the concept is integrated into the business model at inception." And as Laura Howard put it, "This works best in small companies who can design their entire business and brand around a... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
A Latin American Vision: New HBS Research Center Opens
Herrero. HBS Professor Howard H. Stevenson, chair of the HBS Latin America Initiative, noted that the entire project was sparked by an idea of Dean Kim Clark's two years ago. The Latin America Research Center has been a key element of the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
Authors:Jane Wei-Skillern, James Austin, Herman Leonard, and Howard Stevenson Publication:Sage Publications, forthcoming Abstract Written for students and practitioners, this unique text, with Harvard cases, provides analysis and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807169 EZAmuse Negotiation (D): Rob Bonham Background Harvard Business School Supplement 807-171 Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this supplement:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
Tony Lee is preparing to present a project to the investment committee of Howard Street Capital. He will be recommending an investment in Project Sun Devil, a high-quality 225-unit student housing rental property near Tempe, Arizona. Tony... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
"having more richness to it than other relationships."' And Starbucks chairman and CEO Howard Schultz illustrated the importance of the partnership to Starbucks when he said: "We have to weigh what's affordable against what... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 07 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018
recollection of how Howard revolutionized the field of negotiation and how those insights are now affecting broader areas of the social science. Raiffa received the 1999 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Association for... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
steps to re-virtualize the company under his leadership. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/813057-PDF-ENG Peter Jepsen Howard H. Stevenson, Michael J. Roberts, and Jim SharpeHarvard Business School Case 813-046 Peter Jepsen, a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
century Britain; Henry Heinz and Marshall Field building strong brands and companies in the nascent food-processing and department store sectors; Esteé Lauder working in prestige cosmetics; Howard Schultz building the burgeoning market... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 29 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?
working definition of entrepreneurship is Howard Stevenson's assertion that entrepreneurship is "the pursuit of opportunity beyond the resources controlled." If this is correct, then most entrepreneurs, after figuring out what... View Details
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
face constraints in their attempts to grow. August 2013 Mind, Work, and Life: A Festschrift on the Occasion of Howard Gardner's 70th Birthday Big C, Little C, Howard, and Me: Approaches to Understanding Creativity By: Amabile, Teresa M.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
using a precisely constructed matched sample, we estimate the effect of a scientist becoming a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator (HHMI) on citations to articles the scientist published before the prize was awarded. We do find evidence of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne