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21 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases

requiring the person to undertake two tasks: internalizing a leader identity (coming to see oneself and being seen by others as a leader) and developing an elevated sense of purpose. This article is part of a continuing series on faculty... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

10 Mar 2015
First Look

First Look: March 10

decade. These secular trends have profound implications for our theories of innovation and organizations. Our extant theory and research is increasingly uncoupled from the phenomena. We would be well served to revisit the nature, locus,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

08 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’

unthinkable to the eight women who joined the program in 1963. This article is part of a continuing series on faculty research and teaching commemorating the 50th anniversary of the first women to enter... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette

10 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Corporate Responsibility and the Environment: What is the Right Thing To Do?

sustainable basis? Should firms sacrifice profits for positive environmental impacts? And do firms at least sometimes behave this way? Striving to find authoritative insights into those questions, three Harvard faculty members hosted a... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

07 Jul 2009
First Look

First Look: July 7

pattern common to important narratives around the world. A supporting website facilitates sharing of teaching materials and experiences by faculty using the case series. We report results from using this curriculum with undergraduate and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

You, our readers, are especially hungry for information about individual leadership, according to a tally of the most-read feature stories and faculty working papers over the past year, half of which focused either on how to be a better... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

22 May 2020
In Practice

Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

apps for frontline employees to contain the pandemic. The experience will like reshape the entire health care industry for years to come. We asked faculty members affiliated with the Health Care Initiative at Harvard Business School how... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

09 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Incentives and Operational Excellence

incentives, many operational problems can be traced to poor controls in interorganizational settings: interorganizational because the medical supply company deals with a hospital group and the video store acquires its products from movie studios. In a talk he gave to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

09 Mar 2016
Lessons from the Classroom

In This Classroom, Beer Can Improve Your Grade

simulations, but Strategic Brew stands alone in scope. All 940 first-year students play the game simultaneously as part of the required Strategy course. Roughly 40 faculty and project members manage and supervise the events. “It’s a... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Education; Food & Beverage

11 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

The Future of Boards

that realm," he says. Lorsch is the Louis Kirstein Professor of Human Relations at HBS, where he has taught and researched for over 47 years. He is the author of many articles and books about boards of directors, including Pawns or... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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) and the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) began to discuss how... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark; Education

26 Oct 2010
First Look

First Look: October 26, 2010

University Mays School of Business and at Erasmus Academie Rotterdam in June 2009, and a version is taught at the Erasmus University Law School.) The course is still under development and will be for several more years. The research... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Feb 2009
What Do You Think?

Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?

the search for effective competitive strategies. At our institution, like many others, we've addressed the problem by hiring at least four people for every one that we expect to succeed at the tasks of teaching and research that our View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

16 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?

conference rooms all across our country. And they also will need to come from classrooms and research seminars in the country's business schools. Thus I think we have a responsibility to participate and be involved in this process. So let... View Details

Keywords: by Kim B. Clark

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite

companies? In their recent book, Breaking Through: The Making of Minority Executives in Corporate America (Harvard Business School Press), two HBS faculty members, Associate Professor David Thomas and Professor John Gabarro, explain that... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

22 Apr 2020
Research Event

How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities

Until a few years ago, climate change’s potential impact seemed abstract for many investors. Now, as sea levels rise, hurricanes intensify, and droughts threaten food supplies, many investors are confronting its financial realities. But it’s not a simple calculation.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

08 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

Business History, and Faculty Chair of the School's Business History Initiative, to discuss the making of the book and to bring us up to date on the current situations in Argentina and Chile. The book demonstrates both the opportunities,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

18 Jan 2021
Book

How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems

adapting the skills and practices of entrepreneurship for the public sector,” he says. Before joining the HBS faculty and creating the MBA course Public Entrepreneurship, Weiss was chief of staff to Boston Mayor Thomas Menino. In 2010,... View Details