Coupling - Publications - Faculty & Research

Ernest T. Weir

Having formed National Steel through the consolidation of three small steel firms and a furnace company, Weir managed his enterprise in a somewhat hard-line manner, implementing whatever profit-generating methods he deemed appropriate. These measures, View Details

Keywords: Metals

Career Coach

Fran Davis

Harvard College and through the Extension School. In addition to her work at Harvard, Dr. Davis maintains a private practice for career consulting and individual, couples and family psychotherapy in the Boston suburbs. View Details

02 Sep 2022
News

Strength in Numbers

bring a curation engine that’s really unrivaled nationally—and, eventually, globally—to understand what’s working with respect to mental health, and bring scale and resources to bear, so that we can help these organizations and create a network effect?” asks Verdi. To... View Details

01 Jun 2002
News

A Fine Collection

The Williamses: a place in the art world. Dave Williams (MBA '61) and his wife, Reba White Williams (MBA '70), were Wall Street executives when they married in 1975. To ensure that their friends would not all be drawn from their work environment — which Reba Williams... View Details

31 Jul 2007
First Look

First Look: July 31, 2007

Working PapersCoupled Search Processes: Why Is It So Difficult to Find that Organizational Design Matters? Authors:Nicolaj Siggelkow and Jan W. Rivkin Abstract Organizational design affects performance via coupled search processes. At... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Jenny Huang | MBA

that the Tech Innovation Fellowship has to offer and to learning from faculty and the incredible peers in my cohort. Tech areas of interest: Learning, Product, Data Engineering Formative experience at the intersection of technology and business: A View Details

01 Jun 2011
News

Map Quest

use your GPS to locate the brand-new Map & Atlas Museum at 7825 Fay Avenue. Or better yet, unfold a crinkly old paper street map to find it. Mike Stone (MBA ’88) might find that latter method more appropriate. A couple of decades ago,... View Details

Keywords: maps

01 May 2013
News

Celeste A. Guth, MBA 1986

Celeste Guth vividly recalls the day she received her acceptance letter to HBS. “When I opened the admissions packet, I was thrilled beyond belief,” shares Guth, a partner with global responsibility for the Financial Institutions group in Goldman Sach’s Investment... View Details

16 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 16

other, are open-source software communities, in which the participants are much more loosely coupled by comparison. The mirroring hypothesis predicts that these different organizational forms will produce products with distinctly... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Portrait Project

Zhongjue (Drew) Chen

London. Over the next couple of months, I struggled to learn English, to understand British culture, and to simply fit in. As the only Chinese person in my school, I was bombarded with questions about China from my classmates and I always... View Details

Portrait Project

Marissa Kaplan

We were living a romantic comedy – a young couple in love in Manhattan. Mornings in the park with chocolate croissants, The New York Times in print, sporadic sirens and street performers. Walks to the bookstore with linked arms and fake... View Details

08 Sep 2016
Blog Post

4 Unexpected Things I Learned at HBS

classmates with a finance background for help. After some tutoring, I began having better comprehension around the lessons being taught and found myself more engaged in the following class sessions. After a couple weeks, I was very... View Details

Leading with the Long View

had a couple of friends in the class, so I decided to take it. I didn’t know there was this business history niche at HBS, and it ended up being an awesome class. The cases we discussed were international and covered a longer time horizon... View Details

21 Feb 2018
News

Can Farming Save the Planet?

good return on their product, more than enough to offset the increased cost of additional labor, says Wiviott. “You do the conversions for a couple of years,” he says, “and then after that you have a very stable cash flow from these... View Details

09 Nov 2017
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A Chance to Lead

the president and the CEO. “We were tiny, we were $4 billion in assets, a couple of hundred people. But I look at Vanguard [today], it's a thousand times as big as when I joined. And it's a far better company. Most companies that grow... View Details

26 Aug 2008
First Look

First Look: August 26, 2008

topic for future research. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-016.pdf Stability and Nash Implementation in Matching Markets with Couples Authors:Claus-Jochen Haake, Bettina-Elisabeth Klaus Abstract We consider... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Herbert A. Sklenar

as crushed stone for concrete, where Vulcan is the nation’s largest and most profitable producer. Coupled with this investment and expansion, Sklenar also instituted an array of cost cutting measures, all of which allowed the firm to... View Details

Keywords: Construction & Real Estate

04 Feb 2008
Research & Ideas

Podcast: The Potential Partnership of India and China

Podcast with: Tarun Khanna Interviewer: Sean Silverthorne Running Time: 14 min., 33 sec. The world has an estimated population of 6.6 billion people. One-third of that total resides in just 2 nations: China (1.3 billion) and India (1.1 billion). On the strength of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

Portrait Project

Alfredo Arreba

But I also need risk and adventure to be happy. Most couples go to Hawaii or Venice for their honeymoon – I am going to Burma despite the travel warnings. The thrill of the adventure is the strongest feeling I have ever had. Similarly,... View Details

01 Sep 2003
News

Joe Badaracco

A graduate of St. Louis University and a Rhodes Scholar, Joseph L. Badaracco, Jr., had never considered attending HBS. Then he spent a couple of years in the business world, at Price Waterhouse. “I became much more interested in business,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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