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  • 31 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not

socializing; keeping team members informed about stressful situations; addressing subordinates' negative feelings; and disclosing personal information); (3) recognizing good work privately and publicly; and (4) consulting subordinates... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 27 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 27, 2009

industry and services. Although each Mubadala investment is supposed to earn large returns, the strategy balances financial against "strategic" returns. ADIA and Mubadala are the institutional architecture to manage the wealth... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Recruiting Partners - Health Care

International Biogen Idec BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. bioMerieux, Inc. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Blue Shield of California Boehringer Laboratories Boston Consulting Group, The Boston Medical Center Boston MedTech Advisors... View Details
  • 07 Apr 2015
  • News

Warrior Spirit

been against this particular risk—safely through HBS, her son had received lucrative job offers from Wall Street and consulting firms. Six months in, the group had grown to 10, but they were served with an eviction notice when the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries
  • 11 May 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

with a diverse set of companies. "In this way, we could pool all this knowledge and distill it down to the essential principles that CIOs can generally apply, regardless of industry or size of firm, while describing 'realistic' and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Fast Facts - Health Care

Health Care Initiative Fast Facts Events 1,325 Alumni attended Health Care Initiative events in 2019 MBA Health Care Career Placement 2018 Biotech / Pharma Consulting Devices & Diagnostics Digital Health & Other Services Financial... View Details
  • 22 Mar 2024
  • Blog Post

Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015)

take what I learned from one situation and apply it to another while bringing people together.” While at HBS, Nneka naturalized as a US citizen and considered staying in the United States, which had also begun to feel like home. She explored View Details
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Awards | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

occupations with unmet needs or in areas with unmet needs, and For or under the direction of a governmental unit or a Section 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Additional information can be found in Section 5 of IRS Publication 970 (pdf) . If you have additional... View Details
  • 13 Mar 2018
  • First Look

March 13, 2018

of firm-level total factor productivity (TFP), sales and cash-flow, higher probabilities to engage in R&D, and export. We find no significant effects for firms from industrialized economies and negative effects for firms in other... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Mar 2023
  • Blog Post

Career Journey: Karan Khimji, Co-Founder of 44.01

environmental damage on the nature that I loved. I saw coral bleaching and algal blooms that killed fish and kept us off the beaches for weeks at a time. I saw immense amounts of plastic waste flowing into the oceans. I saw rising temperatures and increasing numbers of... View Details
  • 29 Feb 2024
  • Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on Social Enterprise

in the field consistently learning and shaping the evolution of solutions. Kirt Matthews (MBA 2025) Where is your hometown? My hometown is Elkhart, Indiana. What was your pre-MBA industry and role? Before HBS, I worked in View Details
  • 17 Dec 2008
  • Lessons from the Classroom

‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’

later: "What business are you really in?" "An industry begins with the customer and his or her needs, not with a patent, a raw material, or a selling skill," wrote Levitt, citing the railroads as one example of a... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Retail
  • 11 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why Budgeting Kills Your Company

keep a tight rein on costs—but the dynamics of the budgeting process often undermine this effort. "In tough times like these, any significant real cost growth feels imprudent and is hard to justify for most businesses," writes Mike Baxter, a partner in the... View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gary
  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

author Alexander Mirza proposes a solution to the human capital challenges faced by service industries amidst unprecedented labor shortages, and technological and geopolitical shifts, and offers a framework for diagnosing the root causes... View Details
Keywords: podcasts
  • October 2009 (Revised April 2010)
  • Case

Societe Generale (A): The Jerome Kerviel Affair

By: Francois Brochet
This case illustrates the tension/balance that firms with complex and risky business models must consider in designing their internal controls. It describes the environment in which a derivatives trader engaged in massive directional positions on major European stocks... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Problems and Challenges; Complexity; Cost Management; Balance and Stability; Business Model; Design; Stocks; Crisis Management; Financial Markets; Consulting Industry; Europe
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  • 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
  • April 2002
  • Case

Pallotta TeamWorks

By: Allen S. Grossman and Elizabeth Kind
Pallotta Team Works is a for-profit, privately owned company that produces multiday fundraising events for nonprofit organizations. Dan Pallotta, the 40-year-old CEO, founded the enterprise in 1992. The company has grown rapidly, having raised over $200 million for... View Details
Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Business Model; Nonprofit Organizations; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Social Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Service Industry; Service Industry; United States
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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

Benjamin N. Roth Natalia Rigol Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Business Solutions for the Poor (Global and Local) (also listed under General Management and Marketing) Kash Rangan Benjamin N. Roth Natalia Rigol Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant... View Details
  • 06 Aug 2019
  • Blog Post

Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism - Discovering the Business of Storytelling

classes we took, I did write a case on Raj Kapoor, one of the early entrepreneurs in Bollywood, for Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism, a class taught by the inimitable Geoffrey Jones.    And I did quit my job as a consultant to start... View Details
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Treynor Prize from The Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance (Q-Group) for "Lazy Prices" with Christopher J. Malloy and Quoc Nguyen. Lauren H. Cohen : Winner of the 2016 Best Paper Prize of the Journal of Investment Consulting... View Details