Filter Results:
(7,138)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(7,138)
- People (10)
- News (2,035)
- Research (4,270)
- Events (32)
- Multimedia (7)
- Faculty Publications (2,945)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(7,138)
- People (10)
- News (2,035)
- Research (4,270)
- Events (32)
- Multimedia (7)
- Faculty Publications (2,945)
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Making a Difference
the image of women as victims in conflict zones and reshaping development programs targeted at poor countries. As a deputy director at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, she is uniquely positioned to see her ideas through. Bailey, View Details
- June 2018
- Teaching Note
The Transformation of Microsoft
By: C. Fritz Foley and F. Katelynn Boland
Teaching Note for HBS No. 218-048. In early 2015, Amy Hood, CFO of Microsoft, and the rest of the senior leadership team faced a set of fundamental choices. The firm had opportunities to serve customers in ways that would be associated with higher growth but lower... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
performance rather than individual or unit performance. Beer and Katz thus suggest that instead of putting energy into designing complicated incentive plans intended to motivate executives, top managers should focus on developing an... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues
health care management and policy, leading through crisis, adapting your business, leveraging technology, and work life. Faculty members have shared their ideas and offered practical solutions through working papers, articles, op-eds,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Trouble in Mouse Land
amply rewarded; over the course of ten years, annual profits of WDC went from $291 million to $1.11 billion under the management of Eisner (CEO and chairman) and Wells (president and COO). By the mid-1990s, however, storm clouds had... View Details
- 15 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience
disaster, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Some research reports estimate that the cost of the CrowdStrike event could exceed $1 billion. Preparation for a crisis is just as crucial as the response. We... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Hawes Hall Groundbreaking
Groundbreaking took place in early June for Hawes Hall, a new classroom building that will be constructed adjacent to the northeast corner of Aldrich Hall, facing Baker Library. Dean Kim B. Clark opened the ceremony by welcoming the Hawes family, including Beverly and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Last Look - September 2007
Our thanks to MBA 1976 classmates John Adams, Dottie Stephenson (both Section C), Sam Yates (Section D), and many others who provided details about this model rocket launch in Harvard Stadium. Yates wrote: “We had a first-year Marketing case called ‘Estes Rocket... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
The Changing Nature of Research
the globe. As a leader in management education, Harvard Business School has a strong commitment to improving the practice of management and to advancing a world that is more sustainable and inclusive,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2017
- News
New Regional Offices Broaden HBS’s Intellectual Reach
Geoffrey Jones (photo by Susan Young) Professor Geoffrey Jones (photo by Susan Young) Two decades ago, HBS launched the Global Initiative to strengthen the School's engagement with businesses and business leaders around the world and to deepen the faculty's... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Air Time
People often ask me how I managed with the morning study groups: I simply did not attend them. I studied on my own. How about case prep with a toddler? I studied all my cases on the weekend. It was a journey where I had to carve my own... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Acumen Award-winning professor, management consultant, and virtual communications expert Andrew Brodsky is here to tell you that, yes, that meeting could have been an email. And that email? Maybe it should have been a voice note.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
From Fellowship Recipient to ‘The Most Influential Business Thinker On Earth’
1992 and hasn’t looked back since. Named last year by Thinkers50, the biennial global ranking of management thinkers, as “the most influential business thinker on earth,” Christensen has profoundly altered the field of business View Details
Keywords: awards
- May 2004
- Article
Environmental Implications of Wireless Technologies: News Delivery and Business Meetings
By: Michael W. Toffel and Arpad Horvath
Keywords: Information Technology; Communication; Information; Environmental Sustainability; Business Ventures; Technology Industry
Toffel, Michael W., and Arpad Horvath. "Environmental Implications of Wireless Technologies: News Delivery and Business Meetings." Environmental Science & Technology 38, no. 11 (May 2004): 2961–2970.
- November 1999 (Revised March 2002)
- Case
Red Hat and the Linux Revolution
By: Alan D. MacCormack and Kerry Herman
The case describes the history of the Linux operating system and the open-source movement in general. Focuses on a critical decision being made by Red Hat, the largest distributor of Linux, about its future development efforts. The decision allows students to explore... View Details
Keywords: Open Source Distribution; Applications and Software; Product Development; Change Management; Research and Development; Business Processes; Disruptive Innovation; Information Technology Industry; North Carolina
MacCormack, Alan D., and Kerry Herman. "Red Hat and the Linux Revolution." Harvard Business School Case 600-009, November 1999. (Revised March 2002.)
- 1978
- Book
Public Management: Text and Cases
By: Joseph L. Bower
Bower, Joseph L. Public Management: Text and Cases. Homewood, IL: Richard D. Irwin, 1978.
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Business Plan Contest
Gyaana faculty advisor Professor of Management Practice Allen S. Grossman with team members Meghna Modi, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Raj K. De Datta (all MBA ’03). FBC team members Brian T. Hoskins (MBA ’03) and Alejandro Simkievich, a... View Details
- March 2006
- Book Review
Review of Capitalism, Social Privilege and Managerial Ideologies, by Ernesto R. Gantman. Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing, 2005.
By: Rakesh Khurana
Khurana, Rakesh. "Review of Capitalism, Social Privilege and Managerial Ideologies, by Ernesto R. Gantman. Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing, 2005." American Journal of Sociology 111, no. 5 (March 2006): 1608–1611.
- July 1993
- Case
Air Miles Canada
By: Thomas O. Jones, Leonard A. Schlesinger and Roger H. Hallowell
Air Miles Canada both increases customer loyalty by rewarding shopping frequency at specified merchants, and enables its sponsors to develop a new, more complex understanding of their customers' (and potential customers') shopping habits, thus making future customer... View Details
Keywords: Programs; Customer Relationship Management; Information Management; Air Transportation Industry; Canada
Jones, Thomas O., Leonard A. Schlesinger, and Roger H. Hallowell. "Air Miles Canada." Harvard Business School Case 694-008, July 1993.