MBA students - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 May 2007
Research & Ideas

Health Care Under a Research Microscope

particular segment of the population." HBS is also training current and future health care leaders. The School's executive education program offers custom programs to boost the management skills of Boston-area hospital executives. And HBS View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Biotechnology

03 Dec 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Against the Grain

Corruption doesn't announce itself with a capital C. It is subtler and thornier than that—as one HBS student found out the hard way during a recent summer internship in Tanzania. In a new case detailing his experience, the View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Food & Beverage

14 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina

with opportunities on the ground. They have also partnered with these organizations to attract $17 million in funding from national foundations to support reform in New Orleans. Q: What are the reactions of MBA View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education

31 May 2016
HBS Case

Who Owns Space?

case entitled Blue Origin, NASA, and New Space, which he uses as part of his course in the MBA elective curriculum, The Role of Government in Market Economies. In that course, Weinzierl and his students... View Details

Keywords: Re: Matthew C. Weinzierl; Aerospace

07 Nov 2016
Research & Ideas

Corporate Tax Strategies Mirror Personal Returns of Top Execs

effective tax rate. Both investors and MBA students can benefit from the research, Pérez Cavazos says. Because executives’ preferences should be sticky over time, investors can get a sense of how the company... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

10 Feb 2014
HBS Case

Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines

One morning last fall, Gautam Mukunda told the MBA students in his first-year Leadership and Organizational Behavior class to crawl under their desks and stay there. He wanted them to experience a sense of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

02 Jan 2013
What Do You Think?

Should We Rethink the Promise of Teams?

failing MBA students are about helping the students overcome their fears of engaging in classroom discussion, to improve the frequency of their classroom contributions.) These... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

18 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates

well as the number of students in our entering MBA cohort (900 or more), it's hard to deny that something on a large scale is being attempted. By contrast, the term "morals" evokes what many people... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Professors Introduce Valuation Software

tool? Paul Healy: The tool was first developed to show students who were taking BAV how discounted cash flow (DCF) and earnings-based valuations work and can be reconciled. Over time, based on feedback from View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

17 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 17, 2007

leading global player in the baking industry, expands into China while at the same time undertaking initiatives to make its U.S. and South American operations more profitable. Allows students to analyze the company's entire global... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Europe Lags in Pharmaceuticals and Biotech

do not have access to the drugs or drug makers do not receive a fair reimbursement, panelists said. Lessons Of A Lemon-aid Stand But differences are as much cultural as regulatory. Cultural differences favor entrepreneurship and risk-taking in the U.S. more than... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Health; Pharmaceutical; Technology

23 Apr 2014
HBS Case

Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?

companies have gotten in on the game. Quelch, who holds a joint appointment at HBS and Harvard School of Public Health, wrote the case for a new course debuting next year called "Consumers, Corporations, and Public Health," which will enroll both View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Advertising

28 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

HBS Celebrates Social Enterprise Initiative

educational activities within the HBS community. Our vigorous research program pushed outward the knowledge frontiers and created a rich portfolio of courses and learning opportunities for MBA students and... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

23 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together

and who are Indian American. They probably look at things in a very similar way and are unlikely to challenge each other. But at the early stage of a company, you want the people around the table to challenge each other." Gompers and Xuan make a point of sharing the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

02 Nov 2010
First Look

First Look: November 2, 2010

students and faculty worked to launch the first MBA Oath Ceremony conducted on campus during Harvard graduation week. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/411024-PDF-ENG Highland Capital... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19

fingertips: Harvard MBA students. Over the course of three months, they created the Global Policy Tracker, an interactive site that compares government policies and financial maneuvers for dozens of countries and regions around the world.... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

24 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

and envisioned strategy and operations. With this context, students are invited to consider how aggressively OCP Group should pursue downstream integration (and specifically its Africa strategy), as well as how OCP can best leverage its... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy

materials into the classroom and refined the concepts and models through discussions with students in my MBA course, Achieving Profit Goals and Strategies. The result is the fourteen chapters of this book,... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert Simons

07 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs

Harvard MBA students visit the Bo-Kaap area of Cape Town, May 1, 2017 (Photo credit: Caroline Elkins) Recently, a first-year MBA student at... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

26 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

young Indigenous Australian university student who created the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME), a nonprofit organization he formed to respond to the problem of Indigenous high school View Details