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  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

A Quiet Force: Remembering Jay Light

Jay O. Light, Dean of Harvard Business School from 2005 to 2010, died on October 15, 2022, at his home in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts, of cancer. He was 81 years old. Light served on the HBS faculty for more than four decades. He loved... View Details
Keywords: leadership; HBS Dean; obituary; academia
  • 26 Oct 2020
  • News

Harvard Business School Students Credit Datar’s Experience But Question His Commitment to Diversity

  • 11 Nov 2012
  • News

Protecting the American Dream Should Be the President’s Top Priority

  • July 2004 (Revised May 2009)
  • Case

Getting Participant-centered Learning to Work

By: Thomas R. Piper, James L. Heskett and Gustavo Herrero
The newly appointed dean of a South American business school is eager to transform the learning process from the traditional lecture method to one that actively engages students and contributes to the development of critical managerial skills, attitudes, and world... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Business Education; Leading Change; Business Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Alliances; Education Industry; South America
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  • 29 Jul 2010
  • News

A post-crisis case study

  • November 2020 (Revised February 2022)
  • Case

CommonSpirit Health: Integrating a Merger of Equals

By: Robert S. Huckman, Hise Gibson and Nicole Gilmore
Soon after closing the 2019 merger of Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) and Dignity Health to create CommonSpirit Health, Lloyd Dean and Kevin Lofton-–jointly appointed to the role of CEO—must make several operational and strategic decisions related to the integration... View Details
Keywords: Health Care Delivery; Hospital; Merger; Merger Integration; Hospital Mergers; Health Information Technology; CEOs; Health Care and Treatment; Mergers and Acquisitions; Integration; Leadership; Customer Value and Value Chain; Decision Choices and Conditions; Governance; Information Technology; Health Industry; United States
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    Srikant M. Datar

    Srikant M. Datar became the eleventh dean of Harvard Business School on 1 January 2021. During his tenure as a faculty member, he served as Senior Associate Dean for University Affairs (including Faculty Chair of the Harvard Innovation Lab), for Research, for... View Details

    Keywords: accounting industry; airline; automobiles; banking; biotechnology; communications; consumer products; e-commerce industry; health care; high technology; investment banking industry; management consulting; manufacturing; pharmaceuticals; venture capital industry

      F. Warren McFarlan

      Professor McFarlan earned his AB from Harvard University in 1959, and his MBA and DBA from the Harvard Business School in 1961 and 1965 respectively. He has had a significant role in introducing materials on Management Information Systems to all major programs at... View Details

      Keywords: communications; computer; e-commerce industry; health care; information; information technology industry; nonprofit industry

        William C. Kirby

        William C. Kirby is T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He is a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor. He serves as Chairman of the Harvard... View Details

        Keywords: education industry; wine
        • 17 Dec 2008
        • Lessons from the Classroom

        ‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’

        borders of the home country. Instead, he shouts: 'Wake up!' " Throughout his career, in different ways, Levitt kept shouting. When HBS Dean John McArthur appointed him editor of HBR (a position he held... View Details
        Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Retail

          Robert H. Hayes

          Robert Hayes is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, at the Harvard Business School. Prior to his appointment to the Harvard Faculty in 1966, he worked for I.B.M. and McKinsey & Company. He received his Ph.D. degree in 1966 from... View Details

            John A. Quelch

            John A. Quelch is Executive Vice Chancellor and Distinguished Professor of Social Science at Duke Kunshan University. He is also John DeButts Professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.  Between 2017 and 2023 he was the Leonard M. Miller University... View Details

            Keywords: advertising; broadcasting; consumer products; e-commerce industry; fashion; fast food; federal government; financial services; food; food processing; health care; high technology; marketing industry; media
            • September 2012 (Revised September 2014)
            • Case

            Doing Business in Malaysia

            By: C. Fritz Foley, Michael Shih-Ta Chen and Keith Chi-Ho Wong
            This case focuses on the current business environment in Malaysia as of 2012 by introducing the main economic, political and cultural aspects of the country for those interested in doing business there. The advantages and challenges of investing and doing business in... View Details
            Keywords: Emerging Market Finance; Emergent Countries; Business History; Economic History; Fieldwork; Emerging Markets; Business Ventures; Strategy; Malaysia
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              David B. Yoffie

              Professor David B. Yoffie is the Max and Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration at Harvard Business School. A member of the HBS faculty since 1981, Professor Yoffie received his Bachelor's degree summa cum laude and Phi Beta... View Details

              Keywords: communications; computer; e-commerce industry; electronics; financial services; information; information technology industry; internet; retail financial services; semiconductor; soft drink; telecommunications; video games

                Howard H. Stevenson

                Howard H. Stevenson is Sarofim-Rock Baker Foundation Professor emeritus, former Senior Associate Dean, Director of Publishing, and Chair of the Harvard Business Publishing Company board. The Sarofim-Rock Chair was established in 1982 to provide a continuing base for... View Details

                Keywords: broadcasting; communications; computer; construction; financial services; forest products; health care; high technology; industrial goods; insurance industry; investment banking industry; manufacturing; paper; professional services; real estate; service industry; software; venture capital industry
                • August 2000
                • Case

                Developing Nurse Practitioners at the College of St. Catherine

                By: Clayton M. Christensen and Sarah S. Khetani
                Margaret McLaughlin has just begun her new appointment as the Dean of Health Professions at the College of St. Catherine in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota. As an education leader, her charge is to develop Minnesota's health care workforce for the future. She is... View Details
                Keywords: Trends; Debates; Decision Choices and Conditions; Higher Education; Teaching; Growth and Development; Technological Innovation; Leading Change; Goals and Objectives; Value Creation; Health Industry
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                • 2023
                • Article

                A Randomized Trial of Behavioral Nudges Delivered through Text Messages to Increase Influenza Vaccination among Patients with an Upcoming Primary Care Visit

                By: Mitesh S. Patel, Katherine L. Milkman, Linnea Gandhi, Heather N. Graci, Dena Gromet, Hung Ho, Joseph S. Kay, Timothy W. Lee, Jake Rothschild, Modupe Akinola, John Beshears, Jonathan E. Bogard, Alison Buttenheim, Christopher Chabris, Gretchen B. Chapman, James J. Choi, Hengchen Dai, Craig R. Fox, Amir Goren, Matthew D. Hilchey, Jillian Hmurovic, Leslie John, Dean Karlan, Melanie Kim, David Laibson, Cait Lamberton, Brigitte C. Madrian, Michelle N. Meyer, Maria Modanu, Jimin Nam, Todd Rogers, Renante Rondina, Silvia Saccardo, Maheen Shermohammed, Dilip Soman, Jehan Sparks, Caleb Warren, Megan Weber, Ron Berman, Chalanda N. Evans, Seung Hyeong Lee, Christopher K. Snider, Eli Tsukayama, Christophe Van den Bulte, Kevin G. Volpp and Angela L. Duckworth
                Purpose: To evaluate if nudges delivered by text message prior to an upcoming primary care visit can increase influenza vaccination rates.
                Design: Randomized, controlled trial.
                Setting: Two health systems in the Northeastern US between September 2020 and... View Details
                Keywords: Vaccination; Health Care and Treatment; Interpersonal Communication; Communication Technology; Behavior; Health Industry
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                • 11 Apr 2023
                • Op-Ed

                The First 90 Hours: What New CEOs Should—and Shouldn't—Do to Set the Right Tone

                headhunters will have tempted away your best executives. 7 steps to a successful start Here are seven recommendations newly appointed leaders should consider following—and it would be best to get all of this work done by the end of their... View Details
                Keywords: by John Quelch
                • Web

                Enter Elton Mayo – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

                home and abroad. In 1923, Mayo became a research associate at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, studying the effects of fatigue on employee turnover. His science-based research and multi-disciplinary approach caught the attention of Wallace B. Donham,... View Details
                • Web

                Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center | About

                she embodied the spirit of the love of learning in this university community.” Also at the time of the gift, the Honorable Elaine L. Chao (MBA 1979), US Secretary of Labor from 2001 to 2009, subsequently US Secretary of Transportation 2017-2021, and the first... View Details