Will Dean (MBA 2009) - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?

brought home to many students that offshoring could affect them personally." Nearly 900 members of the MBA Class of 2009 participated in the exercise, with students divided into learning teams of five or six... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

18 Mar 2009
Research & Ideas

Marketing After the Recession

consumers to lead you into recovery. But don't forget to stock up to take advantage of the pent-up demand that will be unleashed once other consumers get their confidence back. Don't assume a return to normal. The longer and deeper the... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Retail

01 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

A Latin American Vision: New HBS Research Center Opens

talked with many of the deans and professors from the region, one of the things we've discovered is that there is a desire for up-to-date, relevant material."One long-term goal of the Center is to develop a clearinghouse for cases... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

28 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Meeting China’s Need for Management Education

of those areas. However, our experience has been that by working at both the institutional level (with universities and ministries of education) and with individual faculty and their deans and leaders we have been able to build strong... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

16 Apr 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom

Garvin remembers Christensen as "incredibly open," a trait echoed by Robert Bruner (HBS MBA '74, DBA '82), who served as a summer case-writing assistant to Christensen. "He supervised me in the same way that he taught—he... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education

25 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out

you over and right away you will be a star working for us." (Indeed, at the end of the 2009 season, Epstein had publicly stated that his team was "kind of in a bridge period." This was... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports; Banking

08 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 8

CEIBS MBA program had been ranked 8th in the world and 1st in Asia in the 2009 Financial Times Global MBA Rankings. This was the first time the program had been ranked in the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Why Manufacturing Matters

After decades of destructive outsourcing, America's ability to innovate and create high-tech products essential for future prosperity is on the decline, argue professors Gary Pisano and Willy Shih. They won the prestigious McKinsey Award for their July-August View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Manufacturing

13 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?

When Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria first moved from India to the United States more than 30 years ago, he was impressed with how well the highways and airports hummed along in this country. Yet Nohria said in recent years he... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation; Air Transportation; Auto

15 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

Amazon Prime Day: The Logic Behind a Retailer’s Made-up Holiday

huge motivation to try something like this." Amazon is not the first to try launching its own shopping holiday. Chinese e-commerce behemoth Alibaba manufactured its own event in 2009 with "Singles Day," which takes place on... View Details

Keywords: Re: Sunil Gupta; Retail

18 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?

over the next 40 years. “The basic problem from the farmers' point of view is that the water is in the wrong place at the wrong time.” The 2009 case "Woolf Farming & Processing" illustrates many of these challenges through... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Agriculture & Agribusiness

26 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity

Digital Doctor In recent years, many physicians have put away pen-and-paper and taken up the keyboard or tablet to maintain patient health records. One motivation was the 2009 Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

27 Jan 2015
First Look

First Look: January 27

January 2015 Journal of Financial Stability The Capital Purchase Program and Subsequent Bank SEOs By: Khan, Mozaffar N., and Dushyantkumar Vyas Abstract—We find that in the aftermath of the recent financial crisis banks replenished only 12% of crisis-related losses... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 May 2010
First Look

First Look: May 4

PublicationsAnnual Review of Financial Economics Editors:Andrew W. Lo and Robert C. Merton Publication:Vol. 1. Palo Alto: Annual Reviews, 2009 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Book Abstract:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 May 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

CORe: HBS Powers Up Online Program on Business Fundamentals

team, Narayanan is developing one of three modules that will comprise a new online learning program for college students and non-business graduate students. "Each year, we admit 900 students to HBS's View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

22 Dec 2016
Op-Ed

The Small Business Administration is a Model for How to Drive Economic Growth

the key decisions facing the next president’s administration, from Dodd-Frank reform to the anticipated overhaul of the Affordable Care Act. If you ask small business owners what they need to grow and thrive, they will talk about lower... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills

23 May 2019
Book

These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems

In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Green Technology

19 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”

level. Yet the corporation's senior management and human resource professionals resisted changing the scheme, pointing out the high quality of junior hires that the firm was making. It was not until 2009 that the firm's management agreed... View Details

Keywords: by Josh Lerner; Financial Services

07 Apr 2015
First Look

First Look: April 7

many users but also multiple types of users. For example, it's not enough that many customers want to book taxis by smartphone. Drivers must also be willing to accept smartphone bookings. Harvard Business School professor Ben Edelman has... View Details