MBA students - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Dec 2007
First Look

First Look: December 4, 2007

Leader(ship) Development Harvard Business School Note 408-064 Designed for use in the first year of an MBA program, can be included within a core course on leadership or used more broadly to orient students... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 Nov 2011
Research & Ideas

Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism

learning how to operate in the public arena without getting into trouble. It's hard." Addressing The Problems HBS has made significant strides in preparing students to be the kind of leaders that the book calls for, says Leonard, noting... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

03 Dec 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Against the Grain

Corruption doesn't announce itself with a capital C. It is subtler and thornier than that—as one HBS student found out the hard way during a recent summer internship in Tanzania. In a new case detailing his experience, the View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Food & Beverage

31 May 2016
HBS Case

Who Owns Space?

case entitled Blue Origin, NASA, and New Space, which he uses as part of his course in the MBA elective curriculum, The Role of Government in Market Economies. In that course, Weinzierl and his students... View Details

Keywords: Re: Matthew C. Weinzierl; Aerospace

26 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

young Indigenous Australian university student who created the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME), a nonprofit organization he formed to respond to the problem of Indigenous high school View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

20 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Workshop Encourages Corporate Reporting on Environmental and Social Sustainability

computing, can make a major contribution in the production of information by companies and its use by investors and other stakeholders," Eccles said after the conference. "The question is more one of will and commitment rather than technical... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Accounting

26 Oct 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

The New Deal: Negotiauctions

Back in 2001, I wanted to test some theoretical predictions about negotiations versus auctions. At the time I was co-course head for the first-year required course on Negotiation at HBS, so I designed an elaborate experiment that used all 900 first-year View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

14 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina

with opportunities on the ground. They have also partnered with these organizations to attract $17 million in funding from national foundations to support reform in New Orleans. Q: What are the reactions of MBA View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education

23 May 2019
Book

These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems

challenges in every corner of the world. Gerdeman: Were there any big surprises from your research? Stevenson: I first arrived at Soldiers Field as an MBA student in 1963, stayed to do my doctoral work, and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Green Technology

28 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections

October working paper The Air War versus The Ground Game: An Analysis of Multi-Channel Marketing in US Presidential Elections, was cowritten with HBS doctoral student Lingling Zhang. Chung and Zhang pored over 18,650 observations on... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

07 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Exit Interview: HBS Dean Kim Clark

management; in global research and scholarship; and in its commitment to values and leadership as core elements of its curriculum and mission. Clark also oversaw a significant expansion of the faculty, an extensive refurbishing of the campus and enhancement of the... View Details

Keywords: by HBS Alumni Bulletin Staff

07 Nov 2016
Research & Ideas

Corporate Tax Strategies Mirror Personal Returns of Top Execs

effective tax rate. Both investors and MBA students can benefit from the research, Pérez Cavazos says. Because executives’ preferences should be sticky over time, investors can get a sense of how the company... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

20 May 2008
First Look

First Look: May 20, 2008

prepared to accompany the CommonAngels case (No. 807-149), enables students to decide whether to invite an entrepreneur to present to potential angel investors. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Feb 2014
HBS Case

Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines

One morning last fall, Gautam Mukunda told the MBA students in his first-year Leadership and Organizational Behavior class to crawl under their desks and stay there. He wanted them to experience a sense of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

30 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers

and incentives—whether organizations promoted and rewarded employees based on performance and tried to keep the best performers from quitting. To collect the data, the researchers hired teams of MBA students... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

21 Nov 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

Clustering Customers at Chateau This case was written for the EC course “Managing with Data Science.” The course provides MBA students with no programming experience an introduction to the field of data... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Apr 2014
HBS Case

Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?

companies have gotten in on the game. Quelch, who holds a joint appointment at HBS and Harvard School of Public Health, wrote the case for a new course debuting next year called "Consumers, Corporations, and Public Health," which will enroll both View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Advertising

28 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

HBS Celebrates Social Enterprise Initiative

educational activities within the HBS community. Our vigorous research program pushed outward the knowledge frontiers and created a rich portfolio of courses and learning opportunities for MBA students and... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

23 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together

and who are Indian American. They probably look at things in a very similar way and are unlikely to challenge each other. But at the early stage of a company, you want the people around the table to challenge each other." Gompers and Xuan make a point of sharing the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

13 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview

because I'm such a perfectionist." The researchers hired 122 college students to explain how they would answer the interview question, and why they would answer that way. Two independent coders evaluated the responses according to the... View Details