George P. Baker - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Nov 2016
News

HBS and SEAS Explore Opportunities for Innovative Thinking

discussion, including the work conducted by Daniel P. Schrag, a SEAS professor who directs Harvard’s Center for the Environment, and Forest Reinhardt, HBS’s John D. Black Professor of Business Administration who also cochairs the School’s... View Details

02 Jul 2014
What Do You Think?

Are Today’s Business Heroes Challenging Our Ideas About Leadership?

concerned about the outcomes of business practices and products on our global society, and evaluate leaders accordingly." Yadeed Lobo commented that "the mark of a great leader is the impression they leave on any employee." G. View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Apr 1999
News

New Releases

strong team of interdisciplinary scholars interested in organizations and markets, Jensen soon became a full-time member of the faculty. In this chapter, Jensen and his HBS faculty coauthors, George P.... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

15 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 1/5

Goldfields April 8, 2020: Kenya April 15, 2020: Economic Inequality April 22, 2020: US Mass Incarceration April 29, 2020: Detroit: on the Right Track? May 2020: Murders of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and Ahmaud Arbery These are cases... View Details

02 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

Dominique Strauss-Kahn is just the latest in a string of high-profile leaders making the perp walk. What went wrong, and how can we learn from it? Professor Bill George discusses how powerful people lose their moral bearings. To stay... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

1982
Book

Business Law: Text and Cases

By: Henry B. Reiling, George C. Thompson, Gerald P. Brady and Frank J. Macchiarola

Keywords: Law; Cases

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Find at Harvard

01 Oct 2002
News

View from the Top

Art by Digital Vision Corporate leadership is a much-discussed topic these days. With financial scandals making headlines daily, the CEO hero worship that was common during the late 1990s is out and increased skepticism is in. “The imperial chief executive, hailed not... View Details

01 Sep 2005
News

Clark Bids Farewell to HBS

and enhancement of the student residential experience, and a successful $500 million capital campaign that included the opening of the Spangler and Rock Centers, the construction of Hawes Hall, and the renovation of Baker Library. Shortly... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

27 Sep 2017
Research & Ideas

What Happens When Ordinary People Get Creative?

Source: FangXiaNuo The topic of creativity tends to conjure conversations about individual geniuses whose artistic or scientific contributions have rocked history—the Ludwig Van Beethovens, the Emily Dickinsons, or the George Washington... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

30 Jan 2017
News

HBS Deans' Message on White House Travel Ban

Faculty George F. Baker Professor of Administration Das Narayandas Senior Associate Dean, External Relations and Harvard Business Publishing Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration Dear... View Details

07 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics

two-week spectacle that captures the attention of people around the world. With the Games of the XXX Olympiad off and running in London, three Harvard Business School professors offer their insights. Stephen A. Greyser, Richard P. Chapman... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Sports

01 Feb 2000
News

Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care

conference included a dinner talk by William W. George (MBA '66), CEO of Medtronic, on "The Future of 21st-Century Health: The Right Care" and a lively session moderated by HBS professor emeritus James L. Heskett on the role health-care... View Details

25 Oct 2011
First Look

First Look: October 25

Course MaterialsMatrix Capital Management (A) Malcolm P. Baker and David LaneHarvard Business School Case 211-017 Ben Balbale, a partner at hedge fund Matrix Capital, must decide whether to exit their... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 May 2020
In Practice

Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On

advice on how the social enterprise can restructure or redeploy its staff to be more effective. Preserving cash is the dominant issue. F. Warren McFarlan is the T.J. Dermot Dunphy Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration,... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

01 Jan 2003
News

Greylock

Daniel S. Gregory, MBA 1957, Founding Partner Henry F. McCance, MBA 1966, General Partner Charles P. Waite, MBA 1959, Founding Partner (From left to right) Howard E. Cox, Jr., Charles P. Waite, Henry F.... View Details

1999
Chapter

Organizations and Markets at Harvard Business School, 1984-1996

By: George P. Baker, Michael C. Jensen, Carliss Y. Baldwin and Karen H. Wruck

Keywords: Higher Education; Markets; Organizations

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01 Dec 2019
News

John McArthur

above: photo by Bill Gallery John H. McArthur, a member of the Harvard Business School community for more than six decades—as a student (MBA 1959, DBA 1963), as a faculty member (beginning in 1962), as Dean (from 1980 to 1995), and as Dean and View Details

Keywords: Dean

01 Aug 2001
News

Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success

Communications and creator of The Weather Channel; and Bill George (MBA '66), chairman of Medtronic, Clark cited a "pattern of broad and deep leadership" that is global in perspective, entrepreneurial in spirit, literate in information... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Frank Batten (MBA '52); Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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

01 Mar 2023
News

March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Invisible Trillions: How Financial Secrecy Is Imperiling Capitalism and Democracy—and the Way to Renew Our Broken System By Raymond W. Baker (MBA 1960) Berrett-Koehler Publishers Over the last half... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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