Filter Results:
(1,911)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,911)
- People (9)
- News (466)
- Research (1,190)
- Events (2)
- Multimedia (10)
- Faculty Publications (275)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,911)
- People (9)
- News (466)
- Research (1,190)
- Events (2)
- Multimedia (10)
- Faculty Publications (275)
- Web
Becoming a Board Member - Alumni
Marketing, financial, or technical expertise Risk management experience + – Resume Tips Your resume should include a Summary section that highlights your attributes relevant to a board role, as opposed to a management role. The rest of... View Details
- July 2016 (Revised June 2019)
- Case
Hamilton: An American Musical
By: Anita Elberse and Jennifer Schoppe
In July 2013, composer, writer, actor and rapper Lin-Manuel Miranda, director Tommy Kail, and producer Jeffrey Seller met to discuss how to launch Hamilton, a new musical based on the life of the first Treasury Secretary of the United States, Alexander Hamilton.... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment; Creative Industries; Performing Arts; (General) Management; Blockbusters; Non-profit; Theater Entertainment; Strategy; Risk Management; Nonprofit Organizations; Arts; Creativity; Product Launch; Product Development; Marketing; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States
Elberse, Anita, and Jennifer Schoppe. "Hamilton: An American Musical." Harvard Business School Case 517-015, July 2016. (Revised June 2019.)
- 09 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
The MBA Class of 2022 Looks Back
help you realize them. Be bold by taking risks and being vulnerable. Do what you may have never thought about doing before—in and out of the classroom—and show up authentically. These next two years will be... View Details
- 16 Feb 2023
- HBS Case
ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?
The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details
- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=706442 Central Bank: The ChexSystems(SM) QualiFile(R) Decision Harvard Business School Case 208-029 The "Central Bank" series analyzes the use of information and product design for managing the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
their perspectives on the bill and its key provisions. Their opinions range from calling it a major step forward to concern that it will actually raise the risk to the system. Robert Steven Kaplan, Professor Of Management Practice:... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 10 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
Technology and COVID Upended Tipping Norms. Will Consumers Keep Paying?
payment. But what about after taking a ride-share ride? Or after getting a haircut? Many of those establishments prompt tipping either through their online app or on a tablet at checkout. Have you been surprised by the prompt? You’re not... View Details
Keywords: by Anna Lamb, Harvard Gazette
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
ratings that guide investors to select "socially responsible," and avoid "socially irresponsible," companies. We examine how several hundred firms respond to corporate environmental ratings issued by a prominent independent social rating agency and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Oct 2018
- What Do You Think?
What is the Function of Fear in Leadership?
culture, won’t even scratch the surface of the performance problem.” As Jerry put it, “My experience with fear based management was that employees were reluctant to innovate because there was a risk that if anything went awry they would... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Strategy Curriculum - Faculty & Research
and how to sustain competitive advantage. How to generate superior value for customers by designing the optimum configuration of the product mix and functional activities. How to balance the opportunities and risks associated with dynamic... View Details
- 15 Nov 2022
- Book
Stop Ignoring Bad Behavior: 6 Tips for Better Ethics at Work
and distributors. It took a village of complicity to create an opioid epidemic that has led to a surge in overdose deaths, says Max H. Bazerman, the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “It's View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 14 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 14, 2015
risk of adverse effects that arise from taking a single approach. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49334 Working Papers Selling to a Moving Target: Dynamic Marketing Effects... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2023
- In Practice
What Does the Failure of Silicon Valley Bank Say About the State of Finance?
bank was different, and it is highlighted in its name and in the history of its public statement. "The bottom line: The art is not to predict whether a run might take place, but when." For example, it is very clear that there is no other... View Details
- 16 Jun 2021
- HBS Case
Cruising in Crisis: How Carnival Is Riding Out the COVID-19 Storm
management, accepting the reality of the situation and taking big actions relatively quickly." Carnival’s success has been due in part to investors’ faith in the company’s ability to right itself, but corporate leaders also made some... View Details
- 09 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization
James Lemoine, an assistant professor in the Organization and Human Resources Department of the School of Management at the University at Buffalo, have written extensively on VUCA, and argue, “If VUCA is seen as general, unavoidable, and unsolvable, leaders will View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 08 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 8, 2006
positive recency in choices. At the same time, there remains an overall consistency between choices and assessments. A third study validates the results in a field study. The results show that, after a negative rare-event (i.e., a suicide bombing) people believe the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2021
- Blog Post
The Drive to Succeed: Silvio Memme (MBA 2020) and the Transition to Venture Capital
Memme wrote in his article for Medium. “The ability to combine critical thinking skills, an understanding of what it takes to commercialize innovation, and my love of all things entrepreneurial convinced me I had a lot of value to add.... View Details
- 28 Nov 2023
- Book
Economic Growth Draws Companies to Asia. Can They Handle Its Authoritarian Regimes?
understanding people before you judge them and taking their pasts and experiences seriously. Silverthorne: Can you explain the relationship between capitalists and autocrats? Rithmire: Precarious Ties answers a series of theoretical... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2024
- News
Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Kathy Giusti (MBA 1985) was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 1996, she was overwhelmed. It was the pre-Internet era, with limited available information, but... View Details
- 13 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
Are Companies Actually Greener—or Are They All Talk?
Most companies now account for social good in their financial reports in some way, but with regulation scattershot and evolving, it’s complicated for investors to assess so-called ESG reports. The disclosures, known as Environmental, Social, and Governance reports,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne