Alumni Achievement Awards - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 May 2013
First Look

First Look: May 7

couple significantly strengthened the organization's talent, focused on innovation, growth, and provided a learning environment for their employees. Through cost efficiencies and pricing strategies, Elasto Therm was able to achieve higher... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

16 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce

regarding female labor force participation were more progressive than those of women in the accounts-only group. Their husbands’ beliefs remained unchanged, but the men’s perceptions of women and work became more progressive—a result View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

02 Apr 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Making the Move to General Manager

People achieve success in the early years of their career by specializing and becoming functional experts—in essence, they succeed by knowing more and more about less and less, says Benjamin C. Esty, chair of the General Management... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

history, who continued to practice, focusing on shaving milliseconds off his time. Phelps never stopped improving. Similarly, consider the career of Dirk Nowitzski, the first European player to win an MVP award after moving to the... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

30 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Are You Supporting Your B Players?

and yet pose a drag on the organization because they require constant reinforcement. So who is there to care about the B players? According to HBS professor Thomas J. DeLong, both in a reunion session for HBS alumni and in a recent... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 May 2015
First Look

First Look: May 5

Regulation? By: Drake, David F., and Robin L. Just Abstract—A regulator's ability to incentivize environmental improvement among firms is vital in achieving long-term sustainability. However, firms can and do respond to environmental... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

while “applied” research sets out specifically to address a practical problem, with the intent of solving it. That poses a potential dilemma for scholars who want to influence business practice and achieve the requisite journal... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

03 Nov 2014
Research & Ideas

Brand Lessons From the Nobel Prize

honor achievements for the benefit of mankind. Longevity: The prizes have been awarded since 1901. Urde and Greyser note that the international prizes made a big impression from the beginning because they... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

11 May 2020
Op-Ed

Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness

It is no secret that immigration has reshaped American innovation. Immigrants are the backbone of America’s most innovative industries, provide a quarter of our patent applications, and are numerous among our science and engineering superstars. Taken from World... View Details

Keywords: by William R. Kerr

13 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Create Winning Streaks

investing in people even prior to the achievement of results. Context Using examples from sports and business, and responding to numerous listener questions, Professor Kanter discussed her research and conclusions from her most recent... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel

19 May 2016
Research Event

Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

While other companies settled the suits, FindTheBest decided to fight. A judge initially ruled in favor of FindTheBest, awarding the company $300,000 in damages. Lumen appealed, and a three-judge panel reduced the damage View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel

01 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

CEOs and Coaches: How Important is Organizational 'Fit?'

first head coaching job in 2006 with the New Orleans Saints, and won the Associated Press NFL Coach of the Year award that year; Chuck Noll, who took his first head coach job with the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1969 and coached the team to... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports

15 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Founding CEO’s Dilemma: Stay or Go?

Aage Sorensen Memorial Award for sociological research. With his coauthor, Rock Center Entrepreneur-in-Residence Henry McCance of Greylock Partners, professor Wasserman recently completed a case study about founder-CEO succession at Wily... View Details

22 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

at speeds reaching more than 2,000 miles per hour. By the time it glided to a landing two hours later the ship had won the coveted Ansari X PRIZE, a $10 million award for the first privately funded manned spacecraft to break through the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

When Do Alliances Make Sense?

solo. He found it in a unique set of data: leases for oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. Firms competing to drill in the region have historically bid on 5,000-acre tracts, submitting sealed bids with lease rights awarded to the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy; Utilities

05 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?

business for China," Greyser says. It achieved mixed results. When first awarded the Games, the country promised improvements in human rights and media access, on which it largely failed to deliver. On the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports; Advertising

01 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 1, 2008

balancing profit, growth and control. Difficulties encountered in the business are due to management's attempts to design and use formal control systems to achieve profit and performance goals. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

HBS Celebrates Social Enterprise Initiative

dramatically, particularly over the last decade. Our alumni are delighted at this increased attention by the School because it corresponds to their experience of high engagement in social sector activities subsequent to graduation. They... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

29 May 2020
Op-Ed

How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents

Solving: HBS Alumni Making a Difference in the World, and more recent conversations specifically about COVID-19 impacts and responses, we’ve talked with many Harvard Business School alumni the world over.... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Agriculture & Agribusiness

29 May 2006
Research & Ideas

Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play

experiences of General Electric alumni who went to new companies. Among the findings: "Even gifted executives with the best and most admired management training don't necessarily make star CEOs," the authors report. This excerpt... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Andrew N. McLean & Nitin Nohria; Employment

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