Business And Community Relations - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 May 2021
Research & Ideas

Who Has Potential? For Many White Men, It’s Often Other White Men

the partners worried the high turnover was damaging the firm’s competitive edge, according to research by Robin Ely, the Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

21 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Malcolm McClain (MBA/MPP 2023) Named First RISE Career Fellow

Malcolm McClain (MBA/MPP 2023) has been named the first recipient of the Harvard Business School (HBS) RISE (Recognizing Individuals Seeking Equity) Career Fellow, with his income supplemented for one year following graduation so he can... View Details

30 Nov 2007
What Do You Think?

What Is Management’s Role in Innovation?

Summing Up Can creativity and innovation be managed? Judging from responses to questions posed by practitioner panelists at a recent colloquium on "Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

12 Jun 2023
Blog Post

What Does PRIDE at HBS Mean to You?

continue fostering an environment of love, acceptance, and celebration of diversity within HBS and beyond. Oscar Yuan (MBA 2003) PRIDE at HBS was, for me, a respite and a... View Details

06 Sep 2016
First Look

September 6, 2016

September 2016 Harvard Business Review How to Tackle Your Toughest Decisions By: Badaracco, Joseph L. Abstract—The toughest calls managers have to make come in situations when they have worked hard to gather the facts View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Alumni - Global

April White 01 Sep 2023 HBS Alumni Bulletin Made in Italy MBA students learn about capitalism and the country’s cultural heritage during Immersive Field Course Re: Paul Styslinger (MBA 2023); Basak Sunar (MBA 2023); Greg Marsh (MBA 2006);... View Details

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Public Education Goes to School

Can the art and science of management help public schools improve student performance? In the fall of 2001, faculty and staff from the Harvard Business School (HBS) View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark; Education

11 May 2022
Blog Post

MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS

have over 20 mothers on campus. While we still have a long way to go to make our business school classrooms, board rooms, and executive leadership teams representative of their constituents – including... View Details

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

research here . Related Themes: Credit Markets More Info The Decline of Big-Bank Lending to Small Business: Dynamic Impacts on Local Credit and Labor Markets By: Brian S. Chen, Samuel G. Hanson & Jeremy C.... View Details

01 May 2020
Blog Post

5 Reasons to Join a Club at HBS

Many of these conferences, like the Africa Business Conference and Dynamic Women in Business Conference, are not just staple events in the HBS View Details

04 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

The Right Way to Restructure Conglomerates in Emerging Markets

More fundamentally, though, breaking up these mammoth organizations could reduce their gross inefficiencies and promote greater entrepreneurship. Implicitly or explicitly, then, the Western financial View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna & Krishna Palepu

23 Apr 2020
Blog Post

Fireside Chats with Harvard Faculty: A COVID-19 Symposium

leading role in organizing the business community in the fight against COVID-19—will be the symposium’s keynote speaker. Perspectives on the COVID-19 Pandemic: View Video Keynote Speaker Mr. Ken Chenault,... View Details

11 Oct 2023
News

Soldier On

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes In November of 2022, 33-year-old Phillip Jones (MPA/MBA 2021) was elected mayor of Newport News, Virginia, where he had spent part of his childhood. The son of two Air Force veterans, he served six years in... View Details

23 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It’s Effective

Editor's note: Please see related story, Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society. Although companies are increasingly reporting on their corporate sustainability responsibility... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

17 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete

Harvard Business School professors Raffaella Sadun and Leemore Dafny are both economists who have studied hospitals extensively—Sadun’s research has looked at the economics of management, while Dafny’s... View Details

Keywords: by Alumni Bulletin Staff; Health

21 Jan 2020
Blog Post

Meet the AFAA Club

The mission of the Armed Forces Alumni Association (AFAA) is to assist in the professional development and job search process of members; to promote camaraderie among members; and to raise awareness View Details

Keywords: All Industries

Blog

Mark your calendars! HBS Executive Education reunions are back on campus!

friends, you'll stay informed about the latest business trends and best practices. This year's program includes the latest thought leadership from faculty and guest speakers on... View Details

16 Apr 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom

1946, Christensen began working with Business Policy chair George Albert Smith to encourage students to examine companies' policies and strategies in relation to the... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education

04 Jan 2022
What Do You Think?

Firing McDonald’s Easterbrook: What Could the Board Have Done Differently?

Harvard Business School, the outcome doesn't mean the decision made was a good one. Knowing doesn't lessen the value of discussing the issues. "Executives fired for cause rarely go quietly. They usually sue to keep the money they... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

12 Apr 2011
First Look

First Look: April 12

Business School Case ###-### Can an online discussion forum supply insight into the evolution of brand meaning? In 2003 Porsche launched a sport utility vehicle, dividing Porsche purists from newcomers to the brand. Vocal members of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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