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- 24 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural Haiti
under-staffed facility,” Mukherjee explains in the case study. “Our goal cannot be to deliver care at the cheapest cost; it should be to have sufficient resources to do what is right for the patient.” One clear benefit of using... View Details
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Chan Jillian Jordan Amit Goldenberg Kadeem Noray Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Negotiation and Diplomacy James Sebenius Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 TALK: How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life Alison Wood Brooks Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 War & Peace: The Lessons of History for Leadership,... View Details
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on Brittain in 2011. Charles Bush MBA 1972 Charles Bush was an American civil rights activist, senior corporate executive, and United States Air Force officer. Bush was one of the first African Americans to graduate from the United States... View Details
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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Boston Magazine ’s “The 100 Most Influential People in Boston Right Now” in 2020. Lauren H. Cohen : Winner of the 2020 Best Paper Prize in Quantitative Investments at the Annual Meeting of the Financial Management Association with Huaizhi... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
the vehicle, and up to 1,000 meters ahead, in order to drive those long stretches of highway safely, saving the human drivers for shorter distance pickups and deliveries in cities and towns. The company had 70 trucks on the road... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
a beginning, a middle, and a finish. Their ready-to-drink cocktails are naturally low in sugar and calories (less than 2 grams and 35 calories). They are bottled and labeled with a sense of sophistication that would feel right at home on... View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
growth requires. This article explores six common mistakes that executives make in this arena: 1) Failing to provide the right kind of oversight. The CEO should spend meaningful time with the team and with potential customers; 2) Not... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 01 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?
put it succinctly in saying, “Free speech, free thought and the right to be heard. How far do we go to secure the block chain of information to ensure that content is free from hate?” Gene identified the misuse of technology as the... View Details
- 21 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now
When our team reached out to 600 CEOs during the pandemic’s early stages to ask them about their greatest concerns, many cited communication with employees. While the right communication strategy has been critical during the pandemic, it... View Details
- 13 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm
major changes. Instead, they wait until the climate is right to resume normal operations. Crises offer rare opportunities to make major changes in an organization because they lessen the resistance that exists in good times. Leaders... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
experience,” she says. “No one ever spoke about culture; it was embedded. We were in it together.” That interest in the very human aspect of how work gets done is more than clinical. When asked, anyone who has worked closely with Enan... View Details
- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
with those five factors. Once you have those things, if they are all pointing in the right direction, it's a lot easier to market the product. Relative advantage is the starting point. It's a necessary but not sufficient condition. You... View Details
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Read excerpts from DENIAL
The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears
Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)
From Denial: Why Business... View Details
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Aaron Mitchell
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? Having a background in Human Resources, I thought it was absolutely necessary to have a broad understanding of business. Earning an MBA at HBS has provided me with not only a deep... View Details
- 16 Dec 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Marrying Distance and Classroom Education
style and personality; it could be language. Language is a barrier. I'm teaching in an executive program right now and the Koreans and the Japanese speak very rarely. It's not that they don't have a lot to contribute, it's that they can... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Kanwaljit Bakshi
her dual law and business degrees to fight some of the world's most disturbing criminals. Since 2011, Brochu, 42, has been the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime's Expert on Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking, a position she... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
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Frank Spencer
Frank Spencer (MBA 1986) helped to build his first Habitat for Humanity house in 1988. It was in the Belmont neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, and, like many Habitat homes, was constructed over approximately 10 weeks, with... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Can Our Parenting Struggles Make Us Better Leaders?
control. Permissive parents allow for too much autonomy on the part of children. Negligent parents don’t allow for either control or autonomy—they’re simply absent or uninvolved. A fourth option is better suited for human growth than... View Details
- 05 Nov 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are We Entering an Era of Neuromanagement?
don't know enough about the human brain to make hiring judgments based on monitoring activity within certain parts of the brain, or about the people who plan to use neuromanagement or about their motives I caution you to be careful what... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- January 1992 (Revised August 1992)
- Case
Lexon Corp. (A)
By: Lynn S. Paine
A general manager at Lexon Computer Corp. must decide whether interception and surveillance of employees' e-mail is acceptable company practice, and whether to follow the advice of his computer operations manager who wants to fire the person who complained that the... View Details
Keywords: Information; Rights; Managerial Roles; Interpersonal Communication; Employee Relationship Management; Ethics; Computer Industry
Paine, Lynn S. "Lexon Corp. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 392-071, January 1992. (Revised August 1992.)