Qualitative Method - Publications - Faculty & Research

Ryan L. Raffaelli

Ryan Raffaelli is the Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He created and teaches the MBA course "Leadership: Execution and Action Planning" (LEAP) and serves... View Details

Keywords: publishing industry; advertising; consulting; information technology industry; grocery; nonprofit industry; retailing; consumer products; federal government

July 2006
Article

Bringing History (Back) into International Business

By: G. Jones and Tarun Khanna

We argue that the field of international business should evolve its rhetoric from the relatively uncontroversial idea that 'history matters' to exploring how it matters. We discuss four conceptual channels through which history matters, illustrating each with a major... View Details

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2015
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Financial Patent Quality: Finance Patents After State Street

By: Josh Lerner, Andrew Speen, Mark Baker and Ann Leamon

In the past two decades, patents of inventions related to financial services ("finance patents"), as well as litigation around these patents, have surged. One of the repeated concerns voiced by academics and practitioners alike has been about the quality of these... View Details

Keywords: Patents; Lawsuits and Litigation; Finance

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PhD Programs - Doctoral

research topics. Explore more here about each program’s requirements & curriculum, read student profiles for each discipline as well as student research , and placement information. The PhD in Business Administration grounds students in the disciplinary theories and... View Details

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By: Andy Wu

How can technology entrepreneurs build competitive advantage from the ground up? Professor Andy Wu conducts scholarly research and develops course materials that document how technology entrepreneurs can (1) organize for innovation to create new market opportunities... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Growth Management; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Technology Platform; Technological Innovation; Information Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Video Game Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States; China; Southeast Asia; South Asia

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Program Requirements - Doctoral

behavior courses: Micro Topics in Organizational Behavior (HBS 4882) Macro Topics in Organizational Behavior (HBS 4880) Completion of four term-length courses in research methods: Two term-length courses in quantitative methods (FAS... View Details

26 Jul 2011
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PublicationsPolicy Bundling to Overcome Loss Aversion: A Method for Improving Legislative Outcomes Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Mary Carol Mazza, Lisa L. Shu, Chia-Jung Tsay, and Max H. Bazerman Publication:Organizational Behavior and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 May 2024
What Do You Think?

Have You Had Enough?

within rather than how it gets compared in the trivial world with tangible possessions.” Michael Levin reminded us that it’s not easy to determine enough when he said, “Happiness, enough, and a metric for life are a hard trio to dance to. Life measured against View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

05 May 2009
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lines. The discussion can end with comparisons of the Mexican political and government circumstances that encourage this method of producing workforce housing as compared with the U.S., China, India, and other markets. Purchase this case: View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Feb 2015
HBS Seminar

Jeffrey Schnapp, Harvard Graduate School of Design

20 Aug 2021
Blog Post

Is the MBA Worth It? Hear What Recent HBS Grads Have to Say

HBS MBA worth it? I graduated from a liberal arts undergrad with a major in American Studies. Despite working in private equity for a few years pre-MBA, I felt I needed a proper business education. HBS provided me with the technical and View Details

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About the Center - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

About the Center The C. Roland Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning was established in 2004 to promote and support teaching excellence and innovation within Harvard Business School. It also provides leadership and expertise about case View Details

10 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

Portraiture is a method of qualitative research that blurs the boundaries of aesthetics and empiricism in an effort to capture the complexity, dynamics, and subtlety of human experience and organizational... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

11 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

The High Risks of Short-Term Management

companies are being managed for the long term." Their first order of business was to determine a method for categorizing companies on the short-term/long-term continuum. The answer came in the very words used by executives to discuss... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

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Faculty - Race, Gender & Equity

Feldberg Assistant Professor of Business Administration Alexandra (Allie) Feldberg is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. Professor Feldberg uses qualitative... View Details

02 Jun 2016
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Applying to the JD/MBA Program

pursue an MBA to gain both (1) substantive perspective on how to run companies and (2) qualitative perspective on how to lead. In the long term, the types of organizations I hope to help lead are those focused on impact, so I also decided... View Details

28 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It

the right times. They'd done it by implementing techniques and technologies at an unprecedented pace; among them, the lean production method introduced by W. Edwards Deming, just-in-time manufacturing, single-source suppliers, and global... View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

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Real Estate Investing - Course Catalog

important part of this section. Success and Failure The last module will reflect an investment committee style organization highlighting key decision-making characteristics that may lead to success or failure. Pedagogical Mix Real estate lends itself to case View Details

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Real Property - Course Catalog

terms of project asset class or objective. The final module discusses important emerging trends in the industry including novel asset classes, Fintech, globalization and opportunities in emerging markets, sustainability and infrastructure. Pedagogical Mix Real estate... View Details

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Steve Alden

Steve Alden has unimpeachable credentials in quantitative analytics, placing first in Massachusetts on the CPA exam in 2007, and in the top-ten nationwide. But when it came time to assess potential MBA programs, Steve gave qualitative... View Details

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