Close Relationships - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Aug 2016
Cold Call Podcast

Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night

scientists and with labs and who have a close working relationship with their faculty. Brian: Does that show up in the rankings? Does that somehow make itself apparent? Bill: No, because usually Williams,... View Details

Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Education

01 Sep 2004
News

Promise & Perils

Events: Dancing dragons greeted alumni at the closing gala inside the new Science and Technology Museum. Photos by Philip Chau Standing before nearly 1,000 HBS alumni, faculty, and guests in a packed Shanghai hotel auditorium, HBS... View Details

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

26 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity

tasks can cost physicians extra coordination time, plus doctors still need to review and authorize orders in an EHR before they are submitted. The study examined the relationship between physician productivity, the degree of digital... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO

industrial and energy services—and was close to defaulting on its financial obligations. Some managers felt the company was also bankrupt in terms of ideas. There was insufficient communication across the company, including few common... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

09 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit

strength than the UK. Don’t finalize the divorce Rather than completely divorce itself from European markets, Britain should aim to achieve a trading agreement with the EU that is as open as possible. The UK also has much to gain from maintaining regulations that are... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Apr 1997
News

A Conversation with Dean Clark

and opportunities - as it always will - and he was encouraging me to approach them head-on. BULLETIN: And how is the School's relationship with the rest of the University? CLARK: Healthy and productive. [Harvard University President] Neil... View Details

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Strategy for Small Fish

dependencies. Tradition holds that tightly coupled relationships are by nature more efficient; for example, close collaboration between customers and suppliers is usually favored in existing management... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien

21 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It

With the advent of customer relationship management (CRM) in the late 1990s, companies came to believe that by using technology to tailor their offerings to individual consumers' needs, customer loyalty—and company profits—would... View Details

Keywords: by Jean Ayers

16 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs

percent. The cost of creating this closed ecosystem of top-tier executives is more than the price of CEO compensation and searches. It is also the cost of the failed messiahs who could not deliver the promised results. Industry wisdom,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Jan 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

Laura, Nick Bloom, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger, Patrick Legros, Andrew F. Newman, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Abstract—Little is known theoretically, and even less empirically, about the relationship between firm boundaries... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Student-Profile

Do Yoon Kim

Strategy program shine. The HBS Experience Coming here, I knew my research interests would change, but I don't think I believed they would change this much. There was a lot of letting go and painful realizations as I discussed ideas kept View Details

01 Oct 1998
News

Class of 1949 Gift Supports HBS Faculty Development

when competition for outstanding talent has intensified among private industry and other top-tier business schools." The Class of 1949, one of the first post-World War II HBS classes to be awarded MBA degrees, has a long-standing, close... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite

strengthen their relationships with colleagues and supervisors," he says. As a result, people of color typically begin having notable careers when they break into middle management. "Minority managers do, in fact, have to be... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

11 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Know Your Audience - Recruiting HBS Students for Venture Capital

Director and Career Coach Katja Frey – Recruiting Relations Manager Together, Jonathan and Katja make up the Career & Professional Development team that manages relationships with venture capital firms and works View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity

Web

Expatriate Traders in the Treaty Port Communities - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Westerners appreciated for its European ambiance. 53 “The hills and the Bay with its islands were as beautiful as ever,” John Heard wrote, “and looked like Paradise.” 54 Western traders maintained close View Details

25 May 2021
Blog Post

The Surprising Power of Nostalgia at Work

actually works. When people engage in nostalgia, they’re accessing personally meaningful autobiographical events typically shared with family, friends, and other close connections. It isn’t just a happy trip down memory lane — in fact,... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

04 Dec 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/119022-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 807-028 Jamnalal Bajaj, Mahatma Gandhi, and the Struggle for Indian Independence Describes the role of a leading Indian business leader in the campaign for independence before 1947 and... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

26 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

A Clear Eye for Innovation

taking a close look at the real world, examining how actual, contemporary businesses fare when they attempt to pursue innovations that lie beyond their current products or markets. Do they succeed in achieving breakthroughs? Do their... View Details

Keywords: by Charles A. O'Reilly III & Michael L. Tushman

15 Feb 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective

IPO in 1990 to a $10-billion company today, with a market value of close to $140 billion! I'm also doing research for a case on Drugstore.com, which is essentially a drug store "built" on the Internet. It's getting ready to... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

10 Mar 2015
First Look

First Look: March 10

solely on the merits of its strategic value to Oasys. He was forced to evaluate the strategic benefit alongside the likelihood of actually closing a deal, the specific terms of each deal, and especially the speed with which a deal could... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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