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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
By Invitation Only: How We Built Gilt and Changed the Way Millions Shop by Alexis Maybank and Alexandra Wilkis Wilson (both MBA 2004) (Portfolio) The founders of Gilt Groupe reveal how they built the web’s most famous fusion of high tech and high fashion. Sample sales... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Anti-Social Media
Li Photo courtesy Altimeter Group A former executive at Forrester Research and consultant at Monitor, in 2008 Charlene Li (MBA 1993) founded the Altimeter Group, which designs pragmatic strategies to help companies leverage disruptive trends. She is also the author and... View Details
- 30 Apr 2019
- News
Founder of Hinge Has Some Thoughts on Your Dating Profile
Photo courtesy of Justin McLeod, via Instagram Photo courtesy of Justin McLeod, via Instagram Justin McLeod (MBA 2011), the self-proclaimed romantic and founder of Hinge, the fast-growing dating app, thinks you can learn from his story. In an interview with Vogue, he... View Details
- 09 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 9
significant changes in teaming networks and behaviors in ways that improved operational performance. Implications of team scaffolds for theory and practice are discussed. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1987724 Cases &... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
The Softer Side of Business at HBS
reflection. In your EC year, there is an even greater chance to dive into these areas. The Organizational Behavior Unit has courses on Authentic Leadership Development, Managing Human Capital, and Power and Influence. The Negotiations... View Details
- 05 Mar 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
The Impacts of Increasing Search Frictions on Online Shopping Behavior: Evidence from a Field Experiment
- January 1991 (Revised March 2010)
- Supplement
Westchester Distributing, Inc. (B)
By: Robert L. Simons and Robert Boxwell
Describes the actions taken by the owner/president to resolve the dilemma. View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Customers; Problems and Challenges; Governance Controls; Compensation and Benefits; Behavior; Distribution Industry
Simons, Robert L., and Robert Boxwell. "Westchester Distributing, Inc. (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 191-119, January 1991. (Revised March 2010.)
- Article
How to Bounce Back from Adversity
By: Joshua D. Margolis and Paul G. Stoltz
The article focuses on how companies can be managed to overcome adversity with resilience. The characteristics of resilient managers who provide leadership for their teams and can build resilience in their employees are discussed. The manager's ability to shift... View Details
Keywords: Competency and Skills; Leadership; Crisis Management; Managerial Roles; Behavior; Cognition and Thinking
Margolis, Joshua D., and Paul G. Stoltz. "How to Bounce Back from Adversity." Harvard Business Review 88, nos. 1/2 (January–February 2010).
- Second Quarter 2008
- Article
How Does Investor Sentiment Affect the Cross-Section of Returns
By: Malcolm Baker, Johnathan Wang and Jeffrey Wurgler
Broad waves of investor sentiment should have larger impacts on securities that are more difficult to value and to arbitrage. Consistent with this intuition, we find that when an index of investor sentiment takes low values, small, young, high volatility,... View Details
Baker, Malcolm, Johnathan Wang, and Jeffrey Wurgler. "How Does Investor Sentiment Affect the Cross-Section of Returns." Journal of Investment Management 6, no. 2 (Second Quarter 2008): 57–72.
- October 2003 (Revised January 2016)
- Supplement
The BCPC Internet Strategy Team: Terry Maneri
By: Amy C. Edmondson and Laura Feldman
Accompanies The BCPC Internet Strategy Team: An Exercise and provides unique background information on one of the team members. View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Knowledge Sharing; Groups and Teams; Behavior; Perspective; Strategy; Cooperation; Telecommunications Industry
Edmondson, Amy C., and Laura Feldman. "The BCPC Internet Strategy Team: Terry Maneri." Harvard Business School Supplement 604-040, October 2003. (Revised January 2016.)
- 24 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashing Greatness in Others
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The MBA Turns 100
Six months before Harvard Business School officially opened in October 1908, the School had no classrooms, no faculty, and no curriculum. But its proponents had a Big Idea: Create a professional school designed to train managers for a rapidly industrializing economy,... View Details
- 06 Jun 2017
- News
Is the Real Estate Market Going to Collapse?
In a wide-ranging Los Angeles Times interview Robert Sulentic (MBA 1984), president and CEO of CBRE Group Inc. (long known as Coldwell Banker & Co.), is bullish about the real estate market, the future of brick-and-mortar retail, and the growth of entrepreneurship... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
Cooking Up Connections
It’s a fundamental truth Alexander Blanc (GMP 8) learned at an early age: food brings people together. As a child growing up in Russia, Blanc remembers helping his mother cook so much food on his birthday that they used their apartment balcony to refrigerate leftovers.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Connection, Engagement, Participation
Learn more about how you can get involved at alumni.hbs.edu View Details
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Connecting with the Past
Photography by Owen Egan Stanley Diamond (MBA 1958) was thinking about the health of future generations of his family when he went searching for records of his relatives in Poland. Prompted by the diagnosis of his nephew, Mark Diamond (MBA 1978), as a carrier of the... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
C.D. Spangler's School of Thought
C.D. Spangler At HBS, C.D. ("Dick") Spangler Jr. (MBA 1956) has long been known as "both gracious and wise." In May, a Harvard University citation made it official, describing Spangler in those words as he was awarded an honorary doctor of laws degree at the... View Details
- 29 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Get Off the Dime!
urgency—with on-your-toes behavior that looks for opportunities and problems, that energizes colleagues, that beams a sense of "let's go." Without enough urgency, large-scale change can become an exercise in pushing a gigantic... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter & Dan S. Cohen