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- 11 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
A World of Difference: What Keeps Companies from Becoming More Inclusive
short, intensive course for MBA students called Anatomy of a Badass, which was a primer on being unapologetically authentic at work. Here, they talk with the HBS Alumni Bulletin about understanding... View Details
Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
buying and maintaining technology hardware. "You've seen the cost of launching a new company go from $10 to $15 million down to $500,000 to $1 million," comments MBA Class... View Details
- 22 May 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
A Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding Business Leaders
Business of Aesthetics to second-year MBA students and select applicants from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. The course looks at the role View Details
- Research Summary
Teaching Information Technology
Upton is also developing a tutorial and a case-based module for the MBA program, as well as external audiences. The objective of this work is to develop materials that provide general managers with sufficient knowledge of Information Systems to be effective in the... View Details
- 31 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants
immigrants are responsible for a lot of great companies,” says William Kerr, the Dmitri V. D’Arbeloff — MBA Class of 1955 Professor View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 25 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments
experiments for second-year MBA students and in his 2020 book, The Power of Experiments: Decision-Making in a Data-Driven World, co-written with Max H. Bazerman, the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 2003
- Article
Venture Capital and Private Equity: A Course Overview
By: Josh Lerner
This paper describes a course exploring the private equity industry, "Venture Capital and Private Equity". The goals of this article are two-fold: to make the structure and content of the class available to a broader audience beyond the audience of MBAs and executives... View Details
Lerner, Josh. "Venture Capital and Private Equity: A Course Overview." International Journal of Entrepreneurship Education 1, no. 3 (2003): 359–384.
- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
Harvard MBA students visit the Bo-Kaap area of Cape Town, May 1, 2017 (Photo credit: Caroline Elkins) Recently, a first-year MBA student at Harvard Business School was... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Deflategate and the Sustained Success of the New England Patriots
Technology and Operations Management. The case was rolled out to the entire first year of the MBA program comprising close to one thousand MBA students. “It was probably one... View Details
- 14 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout
dollars in value, Kominers and his co-authors reported in Market Design to Accelerate COVID-19 Vaccine Supply in the March 12 issue of Science. “The value of being able to produce vaccines at scale the... View Details
- 28 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Football Stars Debate ‘The Social Capital of the Savvy Athlete’
Association and an MBA candidate in the class of 2015 at Harvard Business School. The event was moderated by Anita Elberse, the Lincoln Filene Professor View Details
- 16 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities
paper was written by Nikhil Naik, a Prize Fellow at Harvard University; Scott Duke Kominers, the Harvard Business School MBA Class of 1960 Associate Professor; Edward L.... View Details
- October 2009 (Revised April 2021)
- Case
Ingrid Johnson and Nedbank Business Banking
By: Michael Tushman and David Kiron
This case discusses the issue of leading change at the business banking division of Nedbank, a prominent South African bank, between 2005 and 2009. (This timeframe, beginning just 11 years after Apartheid's end, covers Ingrid Johnson's leadership of this division... View Details
Keywords: Leadership And Change Management; Leadership; Leading Change; Banks and Banking; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Change Management; Leadership Style; Banking Industry; South Africa
Tushman, Michael, and David Kiron. "Ingrid Johnson and Nedbank Business Banking." Harvard Business School Case 410-003, October 2009. (Revised April 2021.)
- 2019
- Book
Problem Solving: HBS Alumni Making a Difference in the World
By: Howard H. Stevenson, Russ Banham and Shirley Spence
Problem Solving is the culmination of four years of research conducted by a small project team from 2015 through 2018 in collaboration with HBS alumni, students, faculty, and staff. Its broad and deep knowledge base is derived from a survey of 13 MBA classes... View Details
Stevenson, Howard H., Russ Banham, and Shirley Spence. Problem Solving: HBS Alumni Making a Difference in the World. Southwestern Publishing Group, 2019.
- April 2006
- Module Note
Asset Allocation: A Half-Course Module Note
By: Luis M. Viceira
Provides an overview of the main ideas and structure of a 15-session module on long-term asset allocation designed for MBA graduate students and investment professionals. This module is taught as part of a full-length, 30-session elective class on investment management... View Details
Keywords: Asset Management; Investment; Decisions; Management; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Teaching; Theory
Viceira, Luis M. "Asset Allocation: A Half-Course Module Note." Harvard Business School Module Note 206-133, April 2006.
- April 2014
- Supplement
Ingrid Johnson: Reflections on Leading Change
By: Michael Tushman
This case discusses the issue of leading change at the business banking division of Nedbank, a prominent South African bank, between 2005 and 2009. (This timeframe, beginning just 11 years after Apartheid's end, covers Ingrid Johnson's leadership of this division... View Details
Keywords: Leading Change; Restructuring; Personal Development and Career; Commercial Banking; Banking Industry; South Africa
Tushman, Michael. "Ingrid Johnson: Reflections on Leading Change." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 414-709, April 2014.
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
doing these manual negotiations, why not just use online auctions? Glenn Meakhem HBS MBA '91 founder and CEO, FreeMarkets That was a pretty radical notion in June 1994, but it worked. What I learned very quickly was that it wasn't just a... View Details
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
is the impact of foreign bank entry on the pricing and availability of credit in developing economies? The Mexican banking system provides a quasi-experiment to address this question because in 1997 the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
role (himself MBA '75, PhD '82, he is D'Arbeloff MBA Class of 1955 professor of business administration and... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 17 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?
recently as "technology has made it easier to build marketplaces for services and fine-tune the degree of control exerted over service provider-customer interactions." HourlyNerd allows consultants (typically View Details