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- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2025
curiosity.” High gear: “I’ve always been a mediocre but very resilient athlete. Cycling is a great exercise that teaches discipline, forces you to administer a plan, and takes you to beautiful places with friends.” Back to top Deborah A. Farrington (MBA 1976) Cofounder... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
academic institution for shaping ideas about management and enterprise in the field of life sciences. “What was needed,” he says, “was an initiative to pull things together and examine the business and industrial dynamics of it.” When... View Details
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
Developed in 2006, the Value-Based Health Care Delivery strategy includes a seven-part agenda to restructure health care. Part one calls for creating "integrated practice units," each organized around a particular medical... View Details
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
co-chair of the School’s Global Energy Seminar; Daniel J. Needleman, the Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics at SEAS and Principal Investigator at the Needleman Lab; and Vicki Sato, who servers both as Professor of Management View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
retailers rely on temporary workers during the holiday season, so training and managing frontline staff becomes essential. Finally, retail executives should be highly focused on customer service. Consumers who shop in person will likely... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
president and had attended Georgetown, that’s where I set my sights.” Brown soon established herself as a student leader at Georgetown. One of the university’s board members, Lloyd Campbell, then a managing director at Credit Suisse First... View Details
- 25 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Country Effect: Does Location Matter?
School's ongoing International Seminar Series. This area of research is of universal interest. After all, a basic question that any multinational business would like to answer is this: Is there a single business model or set of best View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 17
volatility, whereas shadow banks tend to hold relatively liquid assets. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/shanson/banks_20150305_FINAL.pdf March 2015 Production and Operations Management Managing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
leaders will report new lessons on the art of building trust during a time when it looks remarkably difficult. Sandra J. Sucher is the MBA Class of 1966 Professor of Management Practice in the General View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 06 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Local Events Shake Up Corporate Philanthropy
thought was that globalization was making the world so similar that [location] didn't matter," says Christopher Marquis, an associate professor at Harvard Business School, who coauthored the paper with András Tilcsik (HBS PhDOB '12), an assistant professor of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
A Letter from the Women in Investing Club
to also play an active role in addressing them. We are calling on our sponsors and other buy-side firms to evaluate their hiring and retention practices for the investing team, to be thoughtful as they bring on board members and senior... View Details
- 30 Jun 2019
- News
Alumni in France honor self-made entrepreneurs; Shih talks trade in Buffalo
Cizik Professor of Management Practice in Business Administration, teaches in the MBA and Executive Education programs. According to HBSCB president Bing Sherrill (MBA 1962), about 45 alumni from HBS,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Do I Dare Say Something?
enterprises as well. In this e-mail interview, Edmondson and Detert discuss their research and how managers can create environments that encourage and support "upward voice." Their paper is called "Latent Voice Episodes:... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 03 Dec 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Against the Grain
corrupt practices in business and government in his country. Of course, dealing with China's hypersensitive national propaganda apparatus means that Wang has to be especially delicate in choosing whom to go after and when. The case,... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
these actors to change established practices and entrenched behaviors within a short timeframe to help Unilever meet its sustainability targets and also to improve the operations of its partners in the value chain? By encouraging... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?
Here are key requirements to ask of any service provider offering to certify your work setting as a healthy building. These best practices apply for employers, employees, and customers alike. Our research over many decades in public... View Details
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value Across Borders
Business sat down with HBS associate professor Walter Kuemmerle to discuss the entrepreneurial process in an international setting. Kuemmerle, a Novartis Fellow, holds a joint appointment in Entrepreneurial and Service Management and... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age
management systems used by direct marketers; software for creating and managing graphics, video, and sound; and convergence technologies such as broadband that provide simultaneous, high-speed transmission... View Details
- 28 Mar 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
These conversations and the ever-changing art had a huge impact on him. In 1994, Shibayama went to work as the managing director of Sotheby’s in Japan, even training as an auctioneer. His time at Sotheby’s gave him a lot of experience... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 13 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
Hiding Products From Customers May Ultimately Boost Sales
Concealment, co-authored by Kris Johnson Ferreira and Joel Goh, both assistant professors in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. The paper is novel in that it considers product categories in which... View Details