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  • 08 Nov 2021
  • Blog Post

4 Ways the MS/MBA is Preparing Me for a Career in Health Care and the Life Sciences

learned a lot at McKinsey about business and strategy, but I really missed the science. The plan was to pursue an MS in biomedical engineering, until a few colleagues sent me press articles about the new... View Details
  • 03 Nov 2021
  • Blog Post

Recent Grad Reflections: From Being Cold Called to Becoming a Case Protagonist

opportunities for themselves, and miss chances to create opportunities for others.” As a member of the Class of 2020, my final semester and commencement was abruptly disrupted by the global pandemic. I graduated from HBS virtually and... View Details
  • 01 May 2020
  • What Do You Think?

Does Remote Work Mix with Organizational Culture?

SUMMING UP Is Management the Missing Ingredient in Melding Organization Culture and Remote Work? Those who have experienced remote work are largely vocal supporters of the notion. Its success is dependent, on the one hand, on an effective... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 11 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Neuroeconomics: Eyes, Brain, Business

robots, or sock puppets. But there is a point at which an object looks almost human, yet not quite human enough, and the result is disturbing. It's called the uncanny valley. And for Christine Looser, it's the starting point for a line of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 07 Aug 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?

respondents to this month's column is that judgment has a dominant role to play in some decisions while it is an element in all decisions. That assumes, of course, that we can arrive at some agreement about what the term means. Seena... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 31 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

extreme vetting may be even better. But banning everyone from a few poor Muslim countries is not vetting at all. Since the 9/11 terrorists came mostly from Egypt and Saudi Arabia, this executive order would have View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • Blog

How the Pandemic Changed Case Development in Latin America

At HBS, research and case development are tightly intertwined. Cases provide the opportunity for faculty to develop ideas, gain insight into nascent research questions, and illustrate theory in practice. In addition, case writing provides... View Details
  • 04 Oct 2022
  • What Do You Think?

Have Managers Underestimated the Need for Face-to-Face Contact?

the supply-demand ratio for talent? Will the need for recognition and advancement on the job lure people back to the office? Or have the attractions of working at home changed the job satisfaction equation permanently? Just as important... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 29 Sep 2021
  • Research & Ideas

For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas

gain experience, they get worse at predicting timelines." Record venture capital investment and a surge of new businesses launched during the COVID-19 pandemic are raising the stakes for entrepreneurs. In a domain that prizes speed,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

Banking on Success

the owner. And, of course, on the personal side, having a wife and family sets up a whole new list of priorities that weren't present at graduation. Is there anything that you've missed out on because of the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
  • 30 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 30

Experiment By: Cole, Shawn, Xavier Giné, and James Vickery Abstract—Weather is a key source of income risk, particularly in emerging market economies. This paper uses a randomized controlled trial involving a sample of Indian farmers to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Feb 2001
  • Research & Ideas

David, Goliath, and Disruption

relating the story, Miller said, "I believe in Christensen's fundamental premise that you find very few of those guys who are actually successful at disrupting the market, and [then disrupting] themselves." How To Not View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 04 Jan 2016
  • Blog Post

Motherhood and the MBA

Being an MBA student can be hectic, overwhelming, and a lot of fun - and the same can be said for being a mom. When you’re juggling being an MBA student and a mom at the same time, things can get pretty crazy. We connected with mom and... View Details
  • 15 Jul 2019
  • Book

Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence

of those in finance as they benefit from the obfuscation; it creates more mystery about what they do. This is particularly true when one looks at the array of differing institutions that interact in capital markets. In one of the chapters... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

Bibliography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

http://www.immigrantentrepreneurship.org/entry.php?rec=20 . Auletta, Ken. Greed and Glory on Wall Street: The Fall of the House of Lehman . 1st ed. New York: Random House, 1986. Birmingham, Stephen. Our Crowd: The Great Jewish Families of... View Details
  • 17 Sep 2018
  • Blog Post

My Summer as a Venture Capitalist

This summer I had the opportunity to intern at a venture firm based in Boston called Underscore. Their approach during the interview process really stood out to me and set me up for a summer where I was able to make an impact. What do you... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

Eight Among Many: Alfred A. Checchi

explains, "is the understanding that each generation must make things better for the next." For Checchi, making things better has extended beyond the well-being of his immediate family to society at large, including a 1998 bid for the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • Web

Bibliography – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

Administration, 1966. Roethlisberger, Fritz Jules. The Elusive Phenomena: an Autobiographical Account of My Work in the Field of Organizational Behavior at the Harvard Business School . Boston: Division of Research, Graduate School of... View Details
  • 06 Oct 2010
  • Research & Ideas

John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea

"confounding questions, inane comments, and verbal bullets." This excerpt looks at attack strategies used by naysayers: fear mongering, delay, confusion, ridicule. For more information, read Kotter's HBR.org blog post, Know Your... View Details
Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead
  • 30 Apr 2018
  • Blog Post

HBS Grad Drives Lori Systems to Success

eye toward uncovering the obstacles – and possibly arriving at a means for relieving them. The big problem? Trucking. Too many (and all too common) missed connections and miscommunications led to long delays... View Details