General Business - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 May 2007
Research & Ideas

Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect

of each segment is changing, and how the company's products and services address the needs of each segment. The product was developed by Gail McGovern, a professor of management practice, and John Quelch, the Senior Associate Dean and Lincoln Filene Professor of View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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4.4 Harvard University Identification Cards Policy | MBA

4.4 Harvard University Identification Cards Policy 4.0 General Policies Harvard University provides its students, faculty, and staff with a Harvard identification card that affords access to numerous activities and locations on campus.... View Details

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MBA > Academic-experience > Joint Degree Programs > Engineering Sciences | MBA

technology ventures. Harvard Business School (HBS) and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) through the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences offer a joint degree program for aspiring entrepreneurs,... View Details

25 May 2011
News

Singapore Star

Yeo: As Singapore’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, addressing the UN General Assembly, September 2010. When Singapore’s George Yeo (MBA ’85) was a young man, his intellect and achievement made clear to his country’s leaders that he was... View Details

01 Oct 1998
News

Beyond the Numbers

movement, in the mid-1970s Robinson was a strategic financial manager for General Foods' (GF) domestic grocery products. After scanning a decade's worth of data and analyzing GF's investments in new product development, Robinson says he... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

03 Jun 2002
What Do You Think?

Are We Entering an Era of European Management Leadership?

idea of a "European" style of management, pointing out that there is no one style. In some parts of Europe "(As a manager) I'm a human being." In others, "I'm just a number." In general "we (Europeans)... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Feb 2002
What Do You Think?

Will the Societal Effects of Enron Exceed Those of September 11?

Queda" (Mike Donahue). Among the many commenting on the Enron case, nearly all felt that change was warranted, but few believed that significant change would come from it. The general sense of these comments was that investors, by... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

30 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Do Social Movements Sway Voters? Not Really, Except for One

important implications in an election year marked by widespread protests. Harvard Business School Professor Vincent Pons teamed up with Amory Gethin, a fellow economist at the World Bank Development Research Group, to study 14 major... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

08 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model

flexibility were limited. The new e-business models emerging on the Internet can be classified within one or more of the generic market roles. In addition, the models can be grouped into two categories. First, and most relevant for our... View Details

Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate

29 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater

of things to test—in scientific terms, the generation of hypotheses—is a fundamentally creative act. In many business situations, the hypothesis, problem, or opportunity is not well-defined, nor does it... View Details

Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin

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South Asia - Global Activities 2021

the School’s current portfolio of comprehensive general management programs, and attract a new segment of business leaders from exciting companies operating in India.” SELPI’s success, Palepu notes, prompted... View Details

01 Sep 2009
News

Over the Top

right to nominate directors into something that is real — and has a real chance of holding boards of directors accountable to company owners.” Major business groups lost no time denouncing the reform measures as vehicles for ceding... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Government

24 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Can Obamacare Be Saved?

quality or prices for consumers. Such mergers reduce competition in the insurance market, ultimately dampening much-needed innovation. What’s more, there’s no requirement or expectation that any savings from synergies generated from the... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch and Emily Boudreau; Insurance; Health

30 Jul 2024
News

Reddit’s Rise

disruption. I love all of it. I’m the first one to download the new music on Tuesdays. I’m the first one to download some new crazy app and test it out. I love that. And I think it makes me better at my job. I’ve generally worked in... View Details

07 May 2013
First Look

First Look: May 7

relative inflation-indexed bond issuance generate return predictability. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=40097 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 113-058... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

16 Jul 2021
Op-Ed

For Entrepreneurs, the Benefits of Slowing Down

LinkedIn. Follow Jeffrey Bussgang on LinkedIn to read more of his posts. About the Author Jeffrey J. Bussgang is a senior lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at the Harvard Business School as well as co-founder and View Details

Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang

28 Oct 2024
Op-Ed

Latino Voters Have Grown More Politically Divided. That’s Not Surprising.

Like: Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict the Next President Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace? How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation Feedback or... View Details

Keywords: by Richard Calvo, Vincent Pons, and Jesse M. Shapiro

20 Dec 2019
Blog Post

Top 10 MBA Voices Blogs of 2019

It's been quite a year for HBS students, and as 2019 comes to a close we wanted to share some of the highlights from the MBA Voices Blog. In no particular order (since we love them all) here are the top 10 posts from 2019: How Being an Introvert Influenced My View Details

01 Dec 1997
News

New Releases

Technology Integration by Marco Iansiti (Harvard Business School Press) In the old days, coping with technological change was simple: you kept track of developments, tried to decide if they had legs, and implemented them when the market... View Details

Keywords: Robert Binstock

01 Oct 2002
News

Jeremiah P. Murphy, Jr.

It's sad but true: Design Research, the Wursthaus, Elsie's, and a score of other local businesses once patronized by members of the Class of 1977 have long since closed their doors. But those who venture across the river during this... View Details

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