Isle of Man - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Difficulties for Women Bridging Racial, Generational, and Global Divides

groups and asked to assess a series of hypothetical workplace conflicts between two managers. Each group reviewed identical situations—except for the names of the arguing characters: Adam and Steven (two... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

04 Jan 2016
News

Taking Time Out for a Challenge

After living in Sierra Leone from 2006 to 2010, where she worked as a founding board member of the Welbodi Partnership, which supports the country’s health system in delivering essential services to women and children, HBS doctoral... View Details

Keywords: ebola; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

27 Mar 2007
First Look

First Look: March 27, 2007

Working PapersFrom Manufacturing to Design: An Essay on the Work of Kim B. Clark Authors:Sylvain Lenfle and Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract Kim Clark occupies a unique place in management scholarship. As a member View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Apr 2002
News

The Simplest Taste

cachet to mail-order shopping. Although he mixed easily with the wealthy and famous, and came to be considered an arbiter of correctness, Marcus never forgot his business roots, declaring that "no man is too... View Details

Keywords: Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing

09 Feb 2016
News

Applying Business Principles to Military Problems

Donald Reidy (MBA 1990) is director of strategic planning and resource allocation for the Naval Special Warfare Command, in California. In this video, he talks about applying business management principles learned at HBS to his role in... View Details

18 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

Enterprising Women—a History

"Where is the historiography of business? Why have businessmen, and now women, had to fight their way into history?" Yeager is conducting research on Miriam Beard and Henrietta Larson, who were deeply engaged in writing about... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

22 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

Work, Family, Private Life: Why Not All Three?

power and sexual prowess. Between then and now, he asserted, women have fought for equality and in so doing have lost their souls. They have responded to the model of the classical hero—the man who battled... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

21 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know

continue with additional tests to clarify and expand on the results. "At this point we have more questions than answers," Fletcher says. One idea is to give test participants the option to choose a man or woman for a partner,... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

07 Dec 1999
Research & Ideas

Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century

Today we might point to Heinz and Noble's skill in exploiting economies of scope, in developing additional goods that utilized existing inputs and organizational capabilities. 48 But neither man thought in... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn

14 Feb 2021
Blog Post

Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2021

offshore, he was working long days on a high-rise project, and neither of us had any intention of slowing down. I didn’t think it was possible for someone to share my ambitions, passions, and silliness or... View Details

01 Sep 2011
News

Just Doing His Job

industry in a varied portfolio of investments (Thoroughbred horse racing and breeding are a special interest) for a man who has made a reputation based on “his philanthropy, a keen intellect, and a tough... View Details

Keywords: Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services

01 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls

this kind of enterprise "is the worst business in the world. Period. The end." He was smart and ambitious enough as a young man to get himself into the Harvard Business School—though he also... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas H. Davenport & Brook Manville; Consumer Products

25 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

An Organization Your Customers Understand

identical, and every effort of every man and woman in the company is focused on satisfying those needs."5 Accordingly, the most critical decision in designing any organization is deciding who the... View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

10 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

The Negotiator’s Secret: More Than Merely Effective

better results. To advance the full set of their interests, they understand and shape the other side's choice—deal versus no deal—such that the other chooses what they want. As Francois de Callieres, an eighteenth-century commentator,... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

01 Jun 2002
News

HBS Vets Support Homeless Comrades

the nearby Spangler Center, a small green tent on the grounds of the School took on symbolic importance for students and other members of the HBS community last February. The two-person tent was pitched by... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

16 Sep 2008
News

Last Look - September 2008

Chester (MBA ’49).” Barooah thought the man with a striped tie is Robert James (MBA 6/’48) and identified the man with his hand in his pocket as Bert Grand (MBA ’49). Greg Pilkington, a Bulletin reader who... View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson

01 Jan 2012
News

Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952

While a number of people consider Pitch Johnson a pioneer, he doesn’t see it that way. When he began his venture career, he says, he was “just trying to feed the kids and form some capital.” The man who... View Details

18 Aug 2009
First Look

First Look: August 18

repurchases, consistent with repurchases representing less of a commitment. The End of the Great Man Authors:Scott A. Snook and Rakesh Khurana Publication:In The Essential... View Details