class of 49 - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Jun 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Does ‘Could’ Lead to Good? Toward a Theory of Moral Insight

Keywords: by Ting Zhang, Francesca Gino & Joshua D. Margolis

01 Dec 1998
News

Managing the Business of Life

With the 15th Reunion for the Class of 1984 just around the corner, the Bulletin revisits five members of the class we've been keeping tabs on... View Details

26 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

The Power of the Noncompete Clause

classes assigned to their patents by the U.S. Patent Office. Inventors whose patents are all in one class, or in just a couple of classes, are said to be more specialized. These results confirmed our initial... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

06 Jul 2016
What Do You Think?

How Do We Pay for the Costs of Globalization?

there is anything illegal about what Carrier, or many companies before it, is doing. It is carrying out the wishes of shareholders of its parent, United Technologies. As UT’s CEO, Greg Harris, put it in... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett; Manufacturing

19 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Empathy: The Brand Equity of Retail

business of rationality or emotionality?” To kick off the conversation, Raman relayed what happened when Cleveland Clinic CEO Delos "Toby" Cosgrove visited a class at HBS a few years ago to discuss a case... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

01 Mar 2018
News

Realizing The Potential Of One Harvard

Collaboration Leads to New Programs for Business and Education Two new programs developed and led by HBS faculty in collaboration with colleagues from across Harvard University—one in business analytics and another in school leadership—are demonstrating the real-world... View Details

01 Mar 2004
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors

Fischer I am happy to report that the HBSAA Board of Directors is off to another great start. This dynamic group of more than forty alumni — including class secretaries, club... View Details

Keywords: Ted Fischer; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2018
News

Making Sense of the Modern Startup

put it mildly, this was an overly rich valuation—Parker’s entire investment up to that point had been an Apple II and 10 used diskettes. With Parker’s enthusiastic assent, Sahlman used the TDC business plan as the focus of his very first... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)

26 Jul 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Accountability of Independent Directors-Evidence from Firms Subject to Securities Litigation

Keywords: by Francois Brochet & Suraj Srinivasan

19 May 2023
Blog Post

Creating and Nurturing a Sense of Belonging at HBS

of the class will share this experience. We’ve had events ranging from a Protective Hairstyle Workshop to how to get VC funding as a minority founder. It has been so nurturing to be a part View Details

16 Nov 2017
News

The Business of Social Justice

Committee. “You are only a student at HBS for a couple of years, but you are an alum for the rest of your life,” Brooks says. “Our class was very special; we were there... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Dec 2000
News

Stevenson Named Director of External Relations

In his recent appointment as senior associate dean and director of External Relations, Professor Howard H. Stevenson assumes the responsibility of serving as a liaison between HBS and its alumni. "I am... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

July 2001
Case

Paula Evans and the Redesign of the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (A)

By: Linda A. Hill, Kristin Doughty and Ellen Pruyne

Paula Evans is in her second year as principal of the only high school in Cambridge, MA. Her mandate when she arrived was to redesign the high school so that long-standing inequities in academic achievement rates across race and socioeconomic class were removed. In her... View Details

Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Strategy; Secondary Education; Restructuring; Leadership; Conflict Management; Education Industry; Cambridge

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10 Mar 2017
News

The Business of Lego Batman

you like about that work? Do you think it's particularly well suited to MBAs? Do you use your MBA skills in what you do? Lin: Yeah, I mean, it depends on which part of the process. There's so many different parts View Details

Keywords: LEGO; Lego

23 Apr 2018
News

Sowing the Seeds of Leadership

socially responsible development projects in economically challenged communities. Students come from 48 countries, predominately in Latin America and Africa. The admissions team and faculty personally conduct up to 1,000 interviews in prospective students’ home... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

September 2013 (Revised June 2017)
Case

IBM and the Reinvention of High School (A): Proving the P-TECH Concept

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone

IBM's Corporate Citizenship office created a social and organizational innovation in public education through a business-school partnership. IBM's Stanley Litow was the key architect in designing Pathways in Technology Early College High School, known as P-TECH. The... View Details

Keywords: Innovation; Partnerships; Leadership; Partners and Partnerships; Education; Business and Community Relations; Change; Innovation and Invention; Education Industry

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23 Jan 2019
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The Promise of Personalized Medicine

has risen significantly. The productivity out of the pipelines has decreased significantly over time and so that begs the question of where do we go next for treating mankind’s diseases. One View Details

20 Dec 2019
News

The 19 Musts of 2019

work on signaling and persuasion can help enact urgently needed change.” —Laura Huang, MBA Class of 1954 Associate Professor of Business Administration and author View Details

Keywords: podcast; Arts, Entertainment

Do Bonuses Enhance Sales Productivity? A Dynamic Structural Analysis of Bonus-Based Compensation Plans

We estimate a dynamic structural model of sales force response to a bonus based compensation plan. Substantively, the paper sheds insights on how different elements of the compensation plan enhance productivity. We find evidence that: (1) bonuses enhance productivity... View Details

01 Oct 2021
News

Furthering the Legacy of Whitney Bowman (MBA 2006)

Whitney Bowman (MBA 2006) and Brittanie Bowman When Whitney Bowman died unexpectedly at the age of 41, he left a tremendous void in the lives of his family, friends, and colleagues. He also left a legacy... View Details

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