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- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
repurchases, consistent with repurchases representing less of a commitment. The End of the Great Man Authors:Scott A. Snook and Rakesh Khurana Publication:In The Essential Bennis. Jossey-Bass, 2009 Publisher's book link:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2017
- Research Event
Who is Responsible for the Future of Cities?
CAMBRIDGE, Mass — On a rainy afternoon in late October, Mohsen Mostafavi stood before a packed auditorium at Harvard University and considered the history of cities in terms of three cooked eggs. Mostafavi, the Dean of the Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 03 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment
about $29,000, or about two years’ worth of the average young college graduate’s wage premium over a high school grad. A course of study and internships that lead to a college-level job usually will yield returns sufficient to prevent... View Details
- 05 Feb 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?
Freeman would ask, "... how will the selected individual handle power?" Edward Hare suggested that results fall short of expectations "... because we don't understand motives (of the candidate for the leadership position)... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
in which matching is made contingent on the percentage of others who give (e.g., "if X% of others give, we will match all donations"). A field experiment shows that a 75% contingent match (where matches "kick in" only... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
serving as the School's Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Planning and Development, and Steve was Director of the MBA program. By the time we had a chance to think seriously about this project again, in the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Ray A. Goldberg
and some 1,000 cases. By the time he became professor emeritus in 1997, he had taught some seven thousand Harvard MBA students and ten thousand Executive Education participants in programs at Soldiers Field and abroad, while advising... View Details
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
key problem for organization design will be the management of distributed innovation in such dynamic ecosystems. Specifically, how should diverse entities be integrated into a coherent network that generates goods in the present and new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Global Change in the Built Environment
leadership of the real estate industry around the world. I also was able to share what we are trying to teach in our real estate MBA curriculum and get feedback on what we now teach or might teach in the future. Several alumni proposed... View Details
- 24 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Upgrading School with a Startup Mentality
funding, which it will use to open four more schools in the fall of 2015—in Brooklyn and Palo Alto, along with two more in San Francisco. Harvard Business School Senior Lecturer John Kim (HBS MBA '93) became... View Details
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
address the need for virtual health care. Laura Huang (@LauraHuangLA) is the MBA Class of 1954 Associate Professor of Business Administration. Robert S. Kaplan: Physician time will be used more efficiently... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
Clustering Customers at Chateau This case was written for the EC course “Managing with Data Science.” The course provides MBA students with no programming experience an introduction to the field of data science and its applications in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
Cases & Course MaterialsGLOBIS Mukti Khaire, Akiko Kanno, and Nobuo SatoHarvard Business School Case 811-061 Yoshito Hori, dean of the Graduate School of Management, GLOBIS University, was planning to launch a full-time English View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business
Software Platforms Drive Innovation and Transform Industries, available October 4 from MIT Press. Evans is Managing Director of the Global Competitive Policy Practice at LEGC LLC. Hagiu is a professor in the Strategy unit at Harvard Business School. Schmalensee is John... View Details
- 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 carefully research any company... View Details
Keywords: by Carrie Levine
- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
week for it to clear will be equally unfathomable. Technology is transforming the banking industry so rapidly that anything less than around-the-clock electronic access to bank accounts seems unthinkable. While predictions vary widely as... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
new strategy. Purchase this note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/908416-PDF-ENG Toby Johnson (A): Leading After School Boris Groysberg, Leslie Danford, Amy Lodge, and Tereh SaylesHarvard Business School Case 410-103 After completing her View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research
whether people will let him cut in line at the airport for a $10 bribe. These experiments are proving integral in learning not only what makes people tick but also how that matters for business. "Over the last decade, scholars and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 03 Nov 2008
- HBS Case
Economics of the Ethanol Business
Reinhardt, with Senior Researcher James Weber and Agribusiness Program Director Mary Shelman (HBS MBA '87), examines the complex political and economic underpinnings of the ethanol industry and the dilemma facing the farmers of... View Details
- 27 Aug 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning From Japan’s Remarkable Disaster Recovery
It's common in Harvard Business School classrooms to discuss the "pivot," the moment an enterprise changes direction to pursue a new strategy. On a visit to eastern Japan, MBA students talked to Masamichi Ono, CEO of... View Details