MBA - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2015
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing

hall from John, has studied the ways in which organizations hide information from consumers-sometimes duplicitously. In a previous paper about U.S. News & World Report college rankings of MBA programs, for example, he found a strong... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

18 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift

developing a course on cross-cultural management for the second-year MBA program. While this project has persuaded me that leading companies around the world are gravitating toward a set of what might be termed "generally accepted... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

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

02 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

Negotiating in Three Dimensions

are hardly alone. Exceedingly popular negotiation courses for MBAs and executives abound at major business schools. Negotiation analysis, in all its three dimensions—tactics, deal design, and set up—is the province of a wide range of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

24 Jun 2013
Working Paper Summaries

The Entrepreneurial Gap: How Managers Adjust Span of Accountability and Span of Control to Implement Business Strategy

Keywords: by Robert L. Simons

Teaching Interest

Overview

Teaching has been a lifelong passion of mine. As the third generation of academics in my family, I see good teaching as a means to give back and to encourage others to share my passion for discovery. I’ve been very lucky to have many teaching opportunities, both as an... View Details

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

began to move into the position of dominance that it enjoys in the MBA curriculum today. Building on the foundational work of Adolf Berle and Gardiner Means on the separation of ownership and control in the large corporation, and of... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

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

20 Dec 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

How to Design a Better Customer Experience

(The accompanying teaching note is available to instructors to help them run the exercise.) Thomke, who has worked with global firms on upping their customer experience game, has taught the class in the HBS executive education programs, View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Entertainment & Recreation

26 Sep 2011
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Lady Gaga

Elberse. "That was just three years ago, and now she is, by many measures, the biggest celebrity on the planet. Gaga is a marketing phenomenon." This fall, Elberse will teach a case on Lady Gaga's meteoric career in her popular second-year View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Entertainment & Recreation; Music

31 Jul 2017
HBS Case

It’s Hard to Fix the Family Business Without Offending the Family

Transitioning to next-generation leadership in a family-run restaurant business is a tricky recipe. Credit: ansonmiao Harvard Business School case studies are often set in large corporations, where the wide range of problems encountered by managers serve as lessons... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

The New Global Business Manager

really is less about managing content and more about managing or framing context, creating an environment in which these people can negotiate the best solution for the organization. Q: What is your advice for people who want to develop skills as a global manager? A:... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

20 Jan 2022
Op-Ed

3 Steps to Help Companies Rebuild Trust During the Pandemic

rebuilt successfully, it can come back even stronger. Sandra J. Sucher is the MBA Class of 1966 Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School and served as vice president of corporate quality at Fidelity Investments, where... View Details

Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta

17 Jun 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Excellence Comes From Saying No

through a new course for MBA students, Why You Should Care: Creating the Conditions for Excellence, co-taught with Senior Lecturer and venture capital guru Amy Schulman. Together, they created a course unlike any other at the school, both... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

22 Nov 2011
First Look

First Look: November 22

PublicationsCompeting through Business Models Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Joan E. Ricart Publication:In Handbook of Research on Competitive Strategy, edited by Giovanni Battista Dagnino. Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming An abstract is unavailable at this... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Aug 2020
What Do You Think?

Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?

(iStock) iStock SUMMING UP Does Diversity Really Enhance Performance? As I’ve pointed out in the past, a tenet of the MBA classroom is that if a case problem splits the class, it will produce a good discussion. This appears to have been... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

22 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

Does Spirituality Drive Success?

Company based in Boston, Glassman (HBS MBA '69) said issues such as homelessness, women's rights and outreach to the gay and lesbian community have shaped his own life and the life of his business. Seven years ago, for instance,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace, Sean Silverthorne & Wendy Guild

18 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask

sufficient passion for those tasks you choose to spend time on. This is a critical area of advice that I regularly give to MBA students as they are thinking about their first job and industry choice. The prospect of financial gain is a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

30 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup

interviewed dozens of founders of failed businesses for his upcoming book, tentatively titled Why Startups Fail. He has also been sharing his insights with MBA students in a new course called Entrepreneurial Failure. Knowing when it’s... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

06 Mar 2020
Book

A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading

Click to watch. “The best teachers are leaders, and the best leaders are also teachers,” says Harvard Business School Professor Thomas DeLong, who since 1997 has taught more than 20,000 MBAs and executives on campus and around the globe.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

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