MBA students - Publications - Faculty & Research

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

history of the republic is off to a rockier start. What I teach my students is that great leaders—like Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs—are fast learners, and they continue to invest in learning throughout their careers. Moreover,... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

02 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

product should have been, says HBS entrepreneurial management professor Thomas R. Eisenmann. In his new MBA course, Launching Technology Ventures, Eisenmann introduces students to the idea of the lean... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders

terms of not only financial performance but management practices and reputation in the community. The result of her efforts is the MBA elective course Globalization, Culture, and Management. According to Paine, as View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

04 Sep 2001
Lessons from the Classroom

Getting Back on Course

families. As Professor of Management Practice and co-head of the HBS Entrepreneurial and Service Management unit, Myra Hart has been particularly interested in women in business. Since joining the faculty in 1995, she has created both executive education and View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

20 May 2008
First Look

First Look: May 20, 2008

prepared to accompany the CommonAngels case (No. 807-149), enables students to decide whether to invite an entrepreneur to present to potential angel investors. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Why Manufacturing Matters

operate. Pisano: One of our key messages is to get students to appreciate that manufacturing involves a lot of knowledge work. There has almost been a whole generation of MBA View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Manufacturing

01 Aug 2019
What Do You Think?

Has the Twitter Age Left the Case Method Behind?

general dislike of the case method (in addition) engineers find it very difficult to accept that there is not one single solution. Further, with today’s short attention span, having longer dialogues with students on their stand doesn’t... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

21 Nov 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

Clustering Customers at Chateau This case was written for the EC course “Managing with Data Science.” The course provides MBA students with no programming experience an introduction to the field of data... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers

and incentives—whether organizations promoted and rewarded employees based on performance and tried to keep the best performers from quitting. To collect the data, the researchers hired teams of MBA students... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

13 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Turning High Potential into Real Reward

product alternatives that come from the technology, and of customer needs that come from pressures in the marketplace, to see where opportunity will emerge. What that means is that most MBA students should... View Details

Keywords: Re: Joseph B. Lassiter; Consumer Products

24 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model

poor." His ambition is to cure the poor of the world for one dollar a day. Shetty's model is based on staffing doctors who are extremely well-trained and dedicated, yet are willing to take a 50 percent pay cut compared to what they would earn in the West. The... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

10 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later

people who directly impact the world, and not just by teaching MBA students and executives here at HBS. It's through consulting. It's through activism. I've always been interested in that. Ely: You published... View Details

Keywords: by Robin J. Ely

10 Apr 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

perspective is at the same time grounded in theory and in the experiences of particular places. Reviewing state-of-the-art of economic geography, setting agendas, and with illustrations and empirical evidence from all over the world, the book should be an essential... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview

because I'm such a perfectionist." The researchers hired 122 college students to explain how they would answer the interview question, and why they would answer that way. Two independent coders evaluated the responses according to the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Stuart Gilson

guarantee to my MBA students: Within three years of graduating, every single one of them will encounter a restructuring on their jobs—whether it involves their own company, or the restructuring of a competitor, customer, or supplier. So... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

10 Dec 2007
HBS Case

One Laptop per Child

should surely be pleased when the commercial sector is motivated to bring its resources to bear on the problem at hand, and prospectively accelerate the distribution of low-cost personal computers to more people much faster than would have occurred otherwise." The... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Computer

07 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

Video: Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela

each ran whatever happened in their area—all the activities, all the housing, all the building, most of the food, a lot of the sanitation. As a result, there was an interesting public-private coordination to look at. Q: How will HBS View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Construction; Real Estate

01 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 1, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=508056 INSEAD Harvard Business School Case 308-009 In the spring of 2008, INSEAD offered a one-year MBA, PhD, executive MBA, and non-degree management education programs to nearly 900 View Details