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

12 Jan 2018
Cold Call Podcast

Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.

“And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land. So, I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes... View Details

16 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

Healthcare, and Leadership. "The Initiative designation is meant to acknowledge a new phase of activity: one that we hope will engage the faculty, students, staff, and alumni in enhancing and extending both knowledge creation and... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman

24 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

The Trick of Balancing Business and Government

session called "Institutional Foundations," sometimes drawing in questions from among the approximately sixty audience members, mostly MBA students, who attended the March 8 conference. ...trying to build institutions is like... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

18 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups

people are evaluated jointly rather than separately regarding their future performance. These findings are presented in the working paper When Performance Trumps Gender Bias: Joint versus Separate Evaluation, coauthored by HKS Professor and academic View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

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

academic sent me the link [to the petition] after I expressed sympathy for her situation I opened my class today echoing the Harvard president and HBS dean that all voices, religions, nationalities and values belong at Harvard and are... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

16 Jun 2015
First Look

First Look: June 16, 2015

strategy. Without such a strategy, companies will have a hard time weighing the trade-offs of various practices-such as crowdsourcing and customer co-creation-and so may end up with a grab bag of approaches. They View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?

relative availability of credit is the Federal Reserve's Senior Loan Officer Survey (SLOS). This survey shows that demand for small business loans tightened significantly in 2009 and began loosening slightly in 2010, but only at... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Manufacturing

04 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Harder Than I Thought

the book is a sequel to their 2009 work The Adventures of an IT Leader "We hope that this book inspires reflection and makes a contribution to developing our knowledge about CEO leadership in ways that can help us meet the needs of the... View Details

Keywords: by Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan & Shannon O'Donnell; Aerospace

19 Jan 2022
In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details

Keywords: by HBS News

06 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

budgets. These include affirmative budgeting (full influence), consultative budgeting (moderate influence), and authoritative budgeting (low influence). When organizations communicate that employees will be involved in budgeting,... View Details

02 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part One]

former HBS professor who is now dean at the new Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy at Tokyo's Hitotsubashi University; and Sakakibara, a former Ministry of Trade and Industry (MITI) official with a doctorate from Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer

29 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy

rapidly changing. Harvard Business School Senior Associate Dean Matthew Weinzierl’s new research explores the business opportunities hidden among the stars, particularly in data from and through space, but also in tourism, manufacturing,... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Aerospace

03 Jan 2017
First Look

January 3, 2017

financial information induces a trade externality: if speculators refrain from trading, hedgers do the same, depressing the asset price. Market transparency reinforces this mechanism, by making speculators’ trades more visible to hedgers. As a consequence, asset... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

04 Mar 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar

play interference in OnStar's early years, it never would have succeeded, Huber maintains. Today, he shares that experience with MBA students to illustrate a key lesson: If you try to do something profoundly disruptive within a large... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto

28 Oct 2014
First Look

First Look: October 28

Publications October 2014 John Wiley & Sons International Strategy: Context, Concepts and Implications By: Collis, David J. Abstract—This book is designed for every student who will be involved in managing and advising companies... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

15 Feb 2017
Op-Ed

What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects

the great cities of America. But there will likely be massive arguments about how to raise the money and how to invest it. The solution may lie in finance models that have proven successful in several nations across the Atlantic Ocean—not... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction

12 Nov 2008
Research & Ideas

The Marketing of a President

fundraising prowess was aided by his appreciation and use of all communications media, notably the Internet, to engage voters. Obama picked up where Howard Dean left off. He leveraged his website, the blogosphere, and even user-generated... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

14 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Understanding Users of Social Networks

do not hold for one network: Twitter. Looking at who uses Twitter, which restricts users to 140-character messages, Piskorski and student-researcher Bill Heil (HBS MBA '09) found that 90 percent of Twitter posts were created by only 10... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Advertising; Publishing

16 Aug 2024
In Practice

Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?

leaders will report new lessons on the art of building trust during a time when it looks remarkably difficult. Sandra J. Sucher is the MBA Class of 1966 Professor of Management Practice in the General... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

28 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections

selling accounted for Barack Obama's victories in the 2008 and 2012 elections. Advertising was critical only in a close election—George W. Bush's (HBS MBA '75) victory in 2004. There was no one-size-fits-all marketing approach that swayed... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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