General Business - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Health is Wealth | The Path to Creating a Venture

Runway and Birchbox became resources for Rachel to use in building out her own startup. “That was one of the reasons I went to HBS, and it’s fun to see and be a part of the next generation of female founders coming out of it.” Advice to... View Details

14 Sep 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO

pointed out, he justified his assertions by cherry-picking research on gender differences. The real risk of Damore’s generalizations, expressed in a business context, is that they give license to people to behave as if those beliefs are... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

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Annual Report 2016 - Annual Report 2016

The Year in Review Exploring the intersection of engineering and entrepreneurship. Advancing precision medicine. Launching the Race, Gender & Equity Initiative. Dedicating the Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center. Engaging alumni around the world through The Harvard View Details

19 Jul 2011
First Look

First Look: July 19

J. DeLong, and Jevan SooHarvard Business School Case 411-031 Describes the problems facing a recent MBA graduate in his job as general manager of a medical device company owned by a parent corporation.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Nov 2024
News

How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details

Student-Profile

Patrick Ferguson

faculty advisors to pursue unconventional lines of inquiry. “I was a little nervous about studying general managerial accounting questions in a sports context, but my advisors, Professors Dennis Campbell and Karim Lakhani, pushed me to... View Details

01 Sep 2013
News

Who Are We?

international general manager. "After the earthquake, I was asked to serve on the government commission charged with improving Japan's IT and telecom emergency preparedness and responsiveness," he says. "Over 500 central and local... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Julia Hanna; Dan Morrell; social media,; Twitter; SodaStream; consulting; consultant; CEO; farming; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation

16 Dec 2013
Blog Post

A first semester reflection

to companies; what was more of a shock was how much time I spent talking to my peers. I was blown away by how generous my fellow students were with their time. I found myself emailing complete strangers asking for 30 minutes of their... View Details

Profile

Eric Sonnier

As a resident of Houston, Texas, it may have been inevitable that Eric Sonnier’s first business experience as a co-op student during his junior year in college was related to the oil and gas industry. At Caterpillar Global Petroleum... View Details

Profile

Andrew Goldin

experience prepared him for yet another transition. "The education reform 'buzz' was all about applying lessons from the private sector," says Andrew. "As I became interested in how the school district was managed, I wanted to acquire the decision-making... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

INK: The Bookshelf

is not a general book about public speaking. ...It is a guide for business leaders and, in particular, people on their way up.” —Tim Calkins (MBA 1991), clinical professor of marketing at the Kellogg School... View Details

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Tough Tech Ventures - Course Catalog

strategies and tactics for managing risk vs. reward. Historically, most entrepreneurship courses (at HBS, and elsewhere) disproportionately focus on consumer- and /or software-centric business model and product experimentation tools... View Details

15 Dec 2009
First Look

First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

Massachusetts General Hospital's efforts to restructure quality and safety to illustrate the value of beginning with a focus on organizational culture, using a systematic process of engaging clinical leadership, developing an... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 5, 2008

markets. Behind such corporations was a market for capital in which entrepreneurs had to attract investors to buy either debt or equity. This paper examines the investor protections included in corporate bylaws that enabled corporations in Brazil to attract investors... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2009
News

Letters to the Editor

untested, financial system,’ one that has proven to be unexpectedly fragile in a way that nobody really understood.” This is the Harvard Business School? If the basics of the financial system are not understood here, then perhaps the... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Oct 2021
News

Helping Leaders Chart an Ethical Path

commitments. Hsieh, the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration and the Joseph L. Rice III Faculty Fellow, guides students through some of the most challenging dilemmas in the business world. In... View Details

08 Jan 2001
What Do You Think?

Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?

Summing Up "What we are looking at is a fundamental challenge to our assumptions about which corporate structures work," commented Daniel Hayes in response to the recent piece on the future bounds of the organization. Raman Julka was just as dramatic:... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

15 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care

at its upper end." Christensen sees the same pattern in health care. Sophisticated procedures and treatments, along with an abundance of highly trained professionals, have combined to drive costs out of sight. Today's general... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Health

16 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 16

With less internally generated cash flow available to fund the project, management had to decide how much capital to raise, what kind to raise, and when to raise it. These decisions would determine its capital structure, at least in the... View Details