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Faculty & Advisors | MBA

all. Paul Clancy MBA, Columbia University; BS, Babson College Paul has worked in the biotech industry for the last twenty-three years and spent fourteen years in the consumer products industry. He served as the Chief Financial Officer for... View Details
  • 18 Oct 2006
  • Research & Ideas

New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light

teaching the second-year MBA courses on investment management and capital markets. Later in the decade, he took a two-year leave of absence to serve as director of investment and financial policies for the Ford Foundation, returning in... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education
  • 25 Jun 2014
  • Lessons from the Classroom

FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing

simple concept was a runaway success for the students who created it. "They could produce this map for a few cents, sell it in Harvard Square for a few dollars and turn a quick profit. From a financial revenue perspective it was very... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education
  • 16 Jun 2020
  • Working Paper Summaries

Government Incentives for Entrepreneurship

Keywords: by Josh Lerner
  • August 2012
  • Case

ARISE: A Destination-for-a-Day Spa

By: Michael Beer and Lynda St. Clair
A new Dallas-based health and beauty spa aims to use a highly distinctive human resource system as the foundation of its competitive strategy. By encouraging employees to act as "personal wellness coaches" (PWCs) with high commitment and broad responsibilities, the... View Details
Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Motivation and Incentives; Organizational Design; Organizational Culture; Service Delivery; Competitive Strategy; Innovation Strategy; Health Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Service Industry; Texas
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  • 25 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 25

their manufacturing operations in order to reduce costs. But we are now seeing the alarming long-term effect of those choices: in many cases, once manufacturing capabilities go away, so does much of the ability to innovate and compete.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 2011
  • Case

Masdar and Tianjin: Eco-Cities

By: John D. Macomber
Compares Masdar City and Tianjin Eco-City, two high profile "sustainable cities." Each showcases technological and financial innovation. Is it real? Is it replicable and defensible? The case is intended to introduce main concepts and tradeoffs with respect to rapid... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Business Model; Development Economics; Urban Development; Cash Flow; Project Finance; Competitive Advantage; Environmental Sustainability; City; Infrastructure
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  • 03 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 4, 2008

stronger for longer maturities, and (iv) following periods when arbitrageurs have lost money, both supply and the term spread are stronger predictors of excess returns. Download the paper from SSRN.com ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13806 Household Saving... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Aug 2004
  • What Do You Think?

For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?

Summing Up Responses to this month's column raise questions about whether Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, requiring that senior managers certify the integrity of the processes by which their companies' financial reports are... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Strategy - Doctoral

relationship between non-market experience and the use and outcome of patent strategies by pharmaceutical firms; the antecedents and consequences of corporate strategy decision-making, specifically focusing on divestitures and governance; the impact of religion on... View Details
  • 17 Jul 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Money Isn’t Everything: The Dos and Don’ts of Motivating Employees

wouldn’t otherwise do, and good incentive systems create a market of sorts inside companies with a series of pressure points, Hall says. Whether it’s raising your hand for extra work, prioritizing innovative projects, or staying with a... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman

    The Founder's Dilemmas


    Often downplayed in the excitement of starting up a new business venture is one of the most important decisions entrepreneurs will face: should they go it alone, or bring in... View Details

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    Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

    into our lives, as well as the lives of those we love. Video Recording Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well 11:45 a.m.–1:00 p.m. ET Speaker: Amy Edmondson , Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management As the push to View Details
    • 10 Oct 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

    forthcoming New York: Palgrave Macmillan New Perspectives on the History of Political Economy By: Fredona, Robert, and Sophus A. Reinert, eds. Abstract—This volume offers a snapshot of the resurgent historiography of political economy in the wake of the ongoing global... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

      Ricardo Salinas Pliego

      Keywords: Diversified
      • February 2018
      • Case

      Rosslyn Resource: Monetization and Sales Strategy

      By: Robert J. Dolan and Sunru Yong
      Rosslyn Resource identifies exploration targets (potential mineral deposits) in the mining industry and advances them until the project can be monetized, usually through sale to a larger mining company, in return for an upfront fee and a royalty on future revenues.... View Details
      Keywords: Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Business Model; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Mining Industry
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        Eliminate Strategic Overload

        As companies respond to intensifying competitive pressures and challenges, they ask more and more of their employees. But organizations often have very little to show for the efforts of their talented and engaged workers. By selecting fewer initiatives with... View Details
        • 11 May 2010
        • First Look

        First Look: May 11

          PublicationsBlock-by-Blockbuster Innovation Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter Publication:Harvard Business Review 88, no. 5 (May 2010) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Preview the Article:... View Details
        Keywords: Martha Lagace
        • December 1999
        • Case

        E Ink: Financing Growth

        By: William A. Sahlman and Matthew C. Lieb
        A set of financial and strategic decisions confront the management of a company trying to develop a technology for creating "electronic ink." If successful, the company will be able to create "radio paper," essentially turning a piece of paper into a computer monitor... View Details
        Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Financial Management; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Strategy; Hardware
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        Lara Hodgson

        patented the mechanism, which allows us to take the risk. Instead of financial institutions making 100 small business loans, they lend to us and we buy the assets from those companies. The dollars get into the hands of small businesses in... View Details