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  • 11 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The High Risks of Short-Term Management

set a "tone at the top" that promotes long-term value creation. Serafeim: I am working on a big research project under the banner "Innovating for Sustainability." Professor Bob Eccles and I have created an MBA elective course, an... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
  • 16 May 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising

environment for doing marketing." Deighton, who is the coeditor of the Journal of Interactive Marketing, heads the required MBA course in marketing and teaches an interactive marketing elective. He explains that traditional marketing... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
  • 11 Apr 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategy

painfully." “Lean startups don't try to scale up the business until they have product market fit, a magical event-more easily recognized in retrospect than in the moment-when they finally have a solution that matches the problem.” Eisenmann has developed a new... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Computer
  • 21 Feb 2005
  • Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

Frederick Taylor's application of scientific methods to the study of physical labor had begun to be extended to the organization of industry as well as to spheres such as higher education and government. While Taylorism was quickly... View Details
Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice
  • 11 Feb 2020
  • Sharpening Your Skills

10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI

for neural networks increase, as does accessibility to off-the-shelf APIs from big tech and academic institutions that help speed up innovation. Entrepreneurs have also learned the wisdom of targeting AI applications toward specific,... View Details
Keywords: by Rocio Wu
  • 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 of aesthetics in strategy, organizational structure, succession... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Beauty & Cosmetics; Apparel & Accessories; Auto; Tourism
  • 04 Jun 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Business of Life

unusual application of an economic term delighted Christensen, a management professor known around HBS and the globe as both a brilliant business thinker and a deeply religious man. For more than a decade he has been a go-to consultant... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Jul 2005
  • What Do You Think?

How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant?

solution to bringing practical focus into the curriculum is "a year-long on-the-job exposure" for students after the first year of the MBA curriculum as well as "mandatory association with industry projects." "One... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 04 Jun 2018
  • What Do You Think?

Are There Conditions Under Which Directors Should Consider Hiring a CEO Fired Elsewhere for Inappropriate Behavior?

unlikely to respond to methods aimed at improving behavioral problems.” CLT commented: “The refusal of an applicant to honor a policy is (more than) reason enough to dismiss the applicant from further... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 23 Jan 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform

Business School whose former students James Reinhart and Chris Homer (both MBA 2009) cofounded the company. "Buyers valued the convenience of quicker service and more consistent quality, so thredUP pivoted to a reseller model. From the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 16 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow

furthering her own organization." Women's World Banking, based in New York, also utilizes a network strategy in its work. When president Nancy Barry (HBS MBA '75) started leading the organization in 1990, it served approximately... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jun 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings

the things I write about in these papers are applicable to a large range of Americans. Programs such as automatic defaults and 401(k) defaults, as embodied in proposals like the auto-IRA and AutoSave, are effective and would appeal to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 19 Sep 2016
  • Research & Ideas

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

considered to be especially important. “I have had papers rejected because they are ‘of interest to a specialized audience and not to a general audience,’” says Shane Greenstein, the MBA Class of 1957 Professor of Business Administration... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education
  • 13 Oct 2009
  • Research & Ideas

7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm

the storm. For seasoned leaders, the most applicable are Lessons #5 and #7, "Never waste a good crisis" and "Go on offense: focus on winning now." So often the go-to strategy for veteran leaders when a crisis strikes... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 02 Sep 2002
  • What Do You Think?

What Can Business Schools Do to Avoid Bad Apples?

Summing Up This month's column resulted in a number of suggestions for sorting out the "bad apples" among applicants to MBA programs across the country. But just as many respondents questioned the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 18 Feb 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery

Venture capital firms ask themselves tough questions these days. Among them: how can they dig out of the dot-com collapse? How should they invest going forward? How should the leader of a firm strike the right note for the future? And is it a field that graduating... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications
  • 18 Aug 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Have a Better Idea To Improve Health Care?

dissemination of ideas," says Richard G. Hamermesh., MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School, and a faculty steering committee member of the Forum, which is a joint collaboration between HBS and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 26 Aug 2013
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Built for Global Competition from the Start

MBA 2010), who founded the company when he was a second-year student at HBS. In the case, EverTrue is creating a mobile application that would allow schools to connect more easily to their alumni networks.... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Education
  • 15 Apr 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Solving the Search vs. Display Advertising Quandary

these investments motivated consumers to plunk down their credit cards or fill out an application for a service. That's why the Internet has been such a godsend to companies, says Sunil Gupta, the Edward W. Carter Professor of Business... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising
  • 11 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Wired and Black: Focus on Careers

sometimes may need to be convinced. "You may find yourself selling what an MBA can do at some smaller companies," he said. Big or small, Butler and the other panelists said job applicants should... View Details
Keywords: by Carrie Levine
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