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  • 01 Sep 2023
  • Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces 2023 Goldsmith Fellows

Harvard Business School (HBS) has announced the 2023 recipients of its Horace W. Goldsmith Fellowships. Established in 1988 by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation and Richard L. Menschel (MBA 1959), a former director of the foundation and... View Details
  • 21 Feb 2005
  • Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

Frederick Taylor's application of scientific methods to the study of physical labor had begun to be extended to the organization of industry as well as to spheres such as higher education and government. While Taylorism was quickly... View Details
Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice
  • 03 Apr 2015
  • News

How To Run A Business Without Any Bosses

  • 05 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Business and the Global Poor

Are the world's poor, who individually have less than $5 a day in disposable income, a viable market for new goods and services? Consider the fact that there are four billion people around the globe that fit this description and you have the start of an answer. But... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Sep 2020
  • News

The Business of Access

nonprofits and social services organizations whose staffs had the skills to help, and plotted a different way to give back. “My thinking was, if I were to help people here in California,” she recalls, “that would pay it forward for... View Details
  • 27 Jan 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Discretion Within the Constraints of Opportunity: Gender Homophily and Structure in a Formal Organization

Keywords: by Adam M. Kleinbaum, Toby E. Stuart & Michael L. Tushman
  • 2008
  • Chapter

The Evidence Does Not Speak for Itself: Expert Witnesses and the Organization of DNA-Typing Companies

By: Arthur A. Daemmrich
During the past 15 years, new biotechnology companies have promoted DNA typing as a sophisticated criminal and paternity identification technique. Private testing laboratories produce results that link individuals with crime scenes and fathers to their children.... View Details
Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Courts and Trials; Organizational Structure; Practice; Genetics; Science-Based Business; Trust; Commercialization; Vertical Integration
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  • April 1993 (Revised June 1993)
  • Background Note

Business Process Reengineering: IT-Enabled Radical Change

Provides a conceptual framework for understanding business process redesign and change management. View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Information Technology; Business Processes
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  • 22 Jul 2009
  • News

Harvard Business School Historian Thomas McCraw Wins Lifetime Achievement Award

    BUSINESS ETHICS: WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW

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    • 18 Oct 2012
    • HBS Seminar

    Julie Battilana, Harvard Business School

    • 01 Mar 2004
    • News

    The Business of Babies

    “We have a business that doesn’t feel like a business,” she noted. “Nobody wants to acknowledge the extent of commercialization.” Yet Americans alone spent $2.7 billion on fertility treatments in 2002. Procedures such as egg and sperm... View Details
    Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
    • 01 Jun 2011
    • News

    Undergrads Tackle Business Research

    For the first time this summer, HBS is sponsoring a ten-week program for fifteen Harvard undergrads to assist faculty with research projects. The Program for Research in Markets and Organizations (PRIMO) will introduce “an incredible pool... View Details
    • 31 Jul 2015
    • Blog Post

    Transitioning From the Military to Business School

    Back in 2009 David Ulrey became a West Point graduate – five years later he made the move to Boston and joined the Class of 2016 at HBS. In the years before coming to business school, David was commissioned as a Financial Management... View Details
    • March 2022 (Revised May 2022)
    • Case

    Winning Business at Russell Reynolds (A)

    By: Ethan Bernstein and Cara Mazzucco
    In an effort to make compensation drive collaboration, Russell Reynolds Associates’ (RRA) CEO Clarke Murphy sought to re-engineer the bonus system for his executive search consultants in 2016. As his HR analytics guru, Kelly Smith, points out, that risks upsetting–and... View Details
    Keywords: Compensation; Collaboration; Executive Search Firms; Consulting Firms; Compensation and Benefits; Restructuring; Human Resources; Human Capital; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Social and Collaborative Networks; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Talent and Talent Management; Consulting Industry; Employment Industry; Asia; Europe; Latin America; Middle East; North and Central America; South America; Oceania
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    • 11 Jan 2016
    • Blog Post

    Meet the Business and Environment Initiative

    BEI organizes conferences, seminars, and symposia that increase the visibility of environmental problems and their solutions among students, alumni, and the broader business community. What are the... View Details
    • 27 Aug 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses

    Education offerings that teach scientists business and organizational fundamentals? What about joint MBA/Ph.D. programs? How about science/business seminars, more science-based cases, and more science-savvy faculty to teach them? We don't... View Details
    Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Biotechnology; Health
    • 01 Jul 2013
    • News

    The Nature of Business

    protecting Adirondack parks, improving fishing practices—in his new book, Nature's Fortune: How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature, coauthored by conservation biologist Jonathan S. Adams. One of TNC's strategies, as... View Details
    Keywords: Jill Radsken; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Diversified Business Groups in the West: History and Theory

    By: Asli M. Colpan and Takashi Hikino
    This working paper examines the historical origins, evolutionary paths, and long-term resilience of diversified business groups in contemporary developed economies of Western Europe, North America, and Oceania. It aims to come up with a new theoretical understanding of... View Details
    Keywords: History; Diversification; Business Divisions; Theory; Oceania; North America; Europe
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    • 01 Sep 2004
    • News

    HBS Business Plan Contest

    The School’s eighth annual Business Plan Contest proved that entrepreneurship is alive and well at HBS: Close to forty teams entered plans to be judged by a panel of experts. This year’s traditional track winner was Extend Fertility,... View Details