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  • 09 Nov 2012
  • News

For Obama, where has Lincoln Gone?

    Eva Ascarza

    Eva Ascarza is the Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Marketing Unit.  She is the co-founder of the Customer Intelligence Lab at the D^3 institute at Harvard Business School. She teaches the Marketing core in the MBA required... View Details

    Keywords: telecommunications; e-commerce industry; entertainment; financial services; retailing
    • Research Summary

    Teaching and Research Interests

    Professor Morris is highly regarded for his research on social judgment, the study of how people make sense of events observed in their environment (both internal and external to their work settings). One of his main emphases is on the effects of cross-cultural... View Details
    • March 2008
    • Exercise

    Exercise: Challenging Operational Assumptions

    By: Frances X. Frei
    This exercise provides students with an opportunity to thoroughly test an operating assumption. Students state an assumption as a testable hypothesis, collect and analyze relevant data, and communicate the results. At HBS, it is incorporated in a second-year elective... View Details
    Keywords: Customers; Employees; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Service Operations; Performance Improvement
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    • 28 Feb 2011
    • News

    Harvard 'Ohio Competitiveness' report shows Kasich has a steep mountain to climb

    • 08 Mar 2016
    • News

    Leadership tips from ancient Rome

    • June 2013
    • Case

    Hess Corporation

    By: Jay W. Lorsch and Kathleen Durante
    On January 29, 2013, Elliott Management, a hedge fund run by Paul E. Singer, which owned 4.5% of Hess Corporation stock, put forward a slate of five independent directors it wanted elected to improve the company's performance. Elliott argued that Hess lacked focus and... View Details
    Keywords: Takeover Attempt; Board; Hess; Governing and Advisory Boards; Organizational Structure; Acquisition; Financial Services Industry; Energy Industry
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    • April 2019 (Revised June 2019)
    • Case

    Voatz

    By: Mitchell Weiss and Maddy Halyard
    Nimit Sawhney scrolled through the tweet stream on his phone, unsure of what to make of it on August 6, 2018 or how to respond. Voatz, the Boston-based startup he co-founded and led, provided a mobile-voting platform. In March of 2018, had successfully piloted the new... View Details
    Keywords: Mobile App; Business Startups; Voting; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Safety; Cybersecurity
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      Kris Johnson Ferreira

      Kris Ferreira is the Edgerley Family Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management (TOM) Unit. She teaches the Supply Chain Management course in the MBA elective curriculum and analytics in numerous Executive Education... View Details

      Keywords: retailing

        William A. Sahlman

        William Sahlman is a Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

        Mr. Sahlman received an A.B. degree in Economics from Princeton University (1972), an M.B.A. from Harvard University (1975), and a Ph.D. in Business... View Details

        Keywords: airline; beverage; biotechnology; broadcasting; clothing; communications; computer; consumer products; e-commerce industry; education industry; electronics; energy; entertainment; fiber optics; financial services; food processing; furniture; grocery; health care; high technology; hotels ＆ motels; information; information technology industry; internet; investment banking industry; management consulting; manufacturing; marketing industry; medical supplies; motorcycles; nonprofit industry; pharmaceuticals; professional services; publishing industry; real estate; recreation; restaurant; retailing; semiconductor; service industry; soft drink; software; telecommunications; toy; transportation; travel; venture capital industry; video games
        • September 2003
        • Case

        Nelson Mandela, Turnaround Leader

        By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Euvin Naidoo
        Nelson Mandela was the first democratically elected president of South Africa. He had to shift the culture of a country after the end of the apartheid regime, which enforced separation of the races and stifled freedom of the press. He established more open dialogue,... View Details
        Keywords: Leadership; Government and Politics; Governance; Policy; Political Elections; Culture; Communication Intention and Meaning; Relationships; Leadership Style; Welfare; South Africa
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        • Research Summary

        Agency Conflicts in Private Equity Transactions

        Professor El-Hage has led the development of the Elective Curriculum course, Private Equity Finance.  in this course, El-Hage studies private equity transactions, with particualr focus on agency conflicts in this business that prides itself on "alignment of... View Details
        • 20 Sep 2017
        • News

        Harvard Business School report highlights ranked choice voting among reforms

        • 11 Jan 2008
        • News

        HBS Course Uses Literature To Teach Moral Leadership

          Carliss Y. Baldwin

          Carliss Y. Baldwin is the William L. White Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. She studies the process of design and its impact of design architecture on firm strategy, platforms, and business ecosystems. With Kim Clark, she authored... View Details

          Keywords: computer; electronics; software
          • 23 Oct 2020
          • News

          Students Pair with Local Black-Owned Businesses in New MBA Field Course

          • 31 Jan 2020
          • Video

          Students Participate in January Short Intensive Programs

          • June 2018
          • Case

          Forta Furniture: International Expansion

          By: John A. Quelch and Karthik Easwar
          The Forta Furniture case highlights the need to consider new market expansion to grow a firm. It demonstrates that simply doing what has always been done is not sustainable when other competitors enter the market with differentiated or potentially superior offerings.... View Details
          Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Global Range; Decision Making; Analysis; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Expansion
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          • 08 Jul 2014
          • News

          Reframing infrastructure: It's really mobility

            Robert S. Kaplan

            Robert S. Kaplan is Senior Fellow and Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. He joined the HBS faculty in 1984 after spending 16 years on the faculty of the business school at Carnegie-Mellon University, where he... View Details

            Keywords: health care; nonprofit industry