MBA students - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

29 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Global Change in the Built Environment

leadership of the real estate industry around the world. I also was able to share what we are trying to teach in our real estate MBA curriculum and get feedback on what we now teach or might teach in the future. Several alumni proposed... View Details

Keywords: by Arthur Segel; Construction; Real Estate

18 Apr 2005
Lessons from the Classroom

NFL Players Touch Down at HBS

School. Photo: Susan Young Players were in the classroom at 8 a.m. each day, studying and participating in case study discussions with faculty. In the evenings, the students met with other HBS MBAs and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports

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

14 Nov 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

with Data Science.” The course provides MBA students with no programming experience an introduction to the field of data science and its applications in business. Students... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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

04 Dec 2007
First Look

First Look: December 4, 2007

Leader(ship) Development Harvard Business School Note 408-064 Designed for use in the first year of an MBA program, can be included within a core course on leadership or used more broadly to orient students... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 Nov 2011
Research & Ideas

Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism

learning how to operate in the public arena without getting into trouble. It's hard." Addressing The Problems HBS has made significant strides in preparing students to be the kind of leaders that the book calls for, says Leonard, noting... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

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

11 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing

professor Robert S. Kaplan and Acorn Systems founder and chairman Steven R. Anderson (HBS MBA '95) introduce a system that calculates product, customer, and regional or branch P&Ls quickly and inexpensively. The work marries the... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

06 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower

elective course, Managing Global Health: Applying Behavioral Economics to Create Impact, which she teaches to second-year MBA students at HBS and select students from Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education; Health

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

12 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

Prevention programs disrupted "The pandemic threatens to dismantle all the gains made in the US in the recent six-year fight against opioids and heroin,” says Jim Langford (HBS MBA 1984), Executive Director of the Georgia Prevention... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health

26 Jan 2009
Research & Ideas

Where is Home for the Global Firm?

in my MBA elective course International Financial Management, students are required to write a paper. Two really great students—Billy Rahm and Stefan Kowski (both MBA... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

13 Dec 2006
Research & Ideas

Improving Public Health for the Poor

model of microfinance to impact the health of the poor, the two shared with him their extensive knowledge on health in developing countries. Out of that came a framework for the project. Roslyn Payne, an HBS alumna (HBS MBA '70) with deep... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

14 Jan 2014
First Look

First Look: January 14

Education Leveraging Crowdsourced Peer-to-Peer Assessments to Enhance the Case Method of Learning By: Avery, Jill Abstract—Many marketing educators use the case method to help their students strengthen their decision-making skills.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Feb 2005
What Do You Think?

If You Blink, Will You Miss?

time, whether a marriage will succeed or fail. Rarely, it seems, is "thin slicing" innate. Our MBA students often like to think that they are practicing blink. It goes by the common name of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Digital Designs on the Inner City

the inner city will require a commitment not only by the government, but also by the private sector, a five-member panel, moderated by Randal Pinkett of the MIT Media Laboratory, told HBS students and alumni. And once the inner city is... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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

12 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide

Harvard Business School, where he teaches courses in supply chain management, service operations, and the investor's perspective on operations to MBA students and executive education participants. Fisher,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Retail; Auto

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