Business Interest Association - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Jan 2016
News

What the Fed’s Rate Hike Means for America’s Small Businesses

Deals: The Economic Structure of Business Transactions

Business transactions take widely varying forms―from multibillion-dollar corporate mergers to patent licenses to the signing of an all-star quarterback. Yet every deal shares the same goal, or at least should: to maximize the joint value created and to distribute... View Details

26 Mar 2021
News

Are FinTech Solutions the Key to Unlocking Small Business Growth?

22 Jun 2018
News

Harvard Business School Welcomes Dwyane Wade As Executive Fellow

2020
Working Paper

The Effects of Hierarchy on Learning and Performance in Business Experimentation

By: Sourobh Ghosh, Stefan Thomke and Hazjier Pourkhalkhali

Do senior managers help or hurt business experiments? Despite the widespread adoption of business experiments to guide strategic decision-making, we lack a scholarly understanding of what role senior managers play in firm experimentation. Using proprietary data of live... View Details

Keywords: Experimentation; Innovation; Search; New Product Development; Innovation and Invention; Organizational Design; Learning; Performance

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Business History - Faculty & Research

Business History Business History 2014 Book Business History By: Walter A. Friedman and Geoffrey Jones This volume contains a selection of 42 foundational articles on the... View Details

01 Dec 2002
News

Bad Times for Business

relate to your areas of interest and expertise. Then we'll discuss some of the challenges they pose. Brian, what about the issue of top-management compensation? Brian Hall: As you all know, stock options were intended to give executives... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

15 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business of Free Software

recent research at Harvard Business School. In "The Business of Free Software: Enterprise Incentives, Investment, and Motivation in the Open Source Community," the authors—HBS professor Marco... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer

15 Jan 2020
News

The Business of Access

take Lisle’s business know-how—she had led revenue generation and growth opportunities in the private sector at companies like Oracle, Zefer, and Wellbourne International—and apply it to nonprofits rooted in the social services. The... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Feb 2012
What Do You Think?

Is Support for Small Business Misplaced?

Summing Up Do Concerns About Job Creation By Small Businesses Miss The Point? Judging from responses to this month's column, there appears to be a visceral reaction to any suggestion that small business... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

05 Jul 2011
News

The Business of Champions

outstanding performance this year. One fan watching with particular interest was Ken Baumgartner (MBA ’02), investment director at Wellington Management in Boston. He along with Gord Kluzak (MBA ’98) is not only an HBS alum but also a... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

29 Aug 2023
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Harvard Business School Welcomes the MBA Class of 2025

25 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business

Software Platforms Drive Innovation and Transform Industries, available October 4 from MIT Press. Evans is Managing Director of the Global Competitive Policy Practice at LEGC LLC. Hagiu is a professor in the Strategy unit at Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

30 Nov 2021
In Practice

What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?

The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details

Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman

19 May 2009
News

Harvard Business School to Accept Either GRE® or GMAT® Scores

23 Dec 2010
News

Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads named one of the best business books of 2010 by Strategy + Business magazine

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Past Programs - Crossover Into Business

Past Programs Past Programs A pilot program, launched in the fall of 2017 in partnership with the National Basketball Association (NBA), involved ten active and recently active NBA players as well as twenty second-year MBA students and... View Details

07 Oct 2015
HBS Seminar

Ann Majchrzak, USC Marshall School of Business

07 Jul 2013
News

Harvard academics find rituals can be the rite stuff for business

September 2024 (Revised May 2025)
Case

Carrie Wang: Choosing Between the Family Firm and the Family Spirit

By: Lauren Cohen, Fei Wu and Sophia Pan

Carrie Wang, Investment Head of the Wang’s single-family office, contemplated her next career steps. As one of the first businessmen who had risen from China’s industrial rise, her father had grown his wealth to a considerable level, eventually requesting that his... View Details

Keywords: Family Office; Interests Of Consumers; Family Business; Business Growth and Maturation; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Financial Markets; Investment Portfolio; Investment Return; Private Equity; Customer Relationship Management; Interests; Reputation; Work-Life Balance; Real Estate Industry; China