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11 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now

inappropriate behavior that can lead to an awkward office environment, lawsuits, and reputation damage. But how exactly can companies do better? Ammerman, along with three HBS faculty members, provided some practical advice executives can... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

26 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity

Weatherhead III Professor of Business Administration and faculty cochair of the HBS Healthcare Initiative, set out with Adler-Milstein to discover what happens to productivity when doctors delegated their data entry. Did it free up their... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

07 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

Video: Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela

graduating from HBS. A few may be in a government role. More will be in the private sector as investors or entrepreneurs or managers in big companies, and they will be working all over the world in new cities. Q: Besides you, faculty... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Construction; Real Estate

26 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade

field study requires a lot of ingenuity and trust from both the academics and the field participants. "Doing Empirical Research in, with, and through Companies" was the topic of a lively session last week at the annual Harvard Business School View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

16 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?

loving family” As with the work that won the Nobel Prize, “with Wagaroo, we’re trying to solve some standard economic problems related to market design,” says Exley, who joined the Harvard Business School faculty in June, as an assistant... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

27 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Building Businesses in Turbulent Times

explains how large and small companies can position themselves to survive—and thrive—in turbulent times. Applegate is head of the School's Entrepreneurial Management Unit and faculty chair of the Executive Education Owner/President... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

08 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]

faculty member.) In the interview, he discussed his latest book, Can Japan Compete?, cowritten with Hirotaka Takeuchi and Mariko Sakakibara, as well as the book's implications for business practices beyond Japan. In this second part,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer

22 Apr 2020
Research Event

How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities

Professors Ramana Nanda, co-director of the HBS Private Capital Project, Michael Toffel, faculty chair of the HBS Business and Environment Initiative (BEI), and George Serafeim, who leads the HBS Impact Weighted Accounts Project,... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)

Change What role should business leaders play in trying to affect climate change? Harvard Business School faculty share their thoughts. A: Actuarial Thinking. Assessing probabilities and portfolio risk is how property insurance companies... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Energy; Utilities

14 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Business Summit: China in the Global Economy

Editor's Note: This is a summary of an HBS Business Summit presentation. View a full summary and video of the event on the HBS Centennial Web site linked below. Date of Event: October 14, 2008 Moderator: William C. Kirby, HBS Faculty... View Details

Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby

24 Nov 2008
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA

faculty colloquium in May intended to frame the issues for potential curriculum changes at HBS. (To ensure open discussion, comments made during the two colloquia were not for attribution.) For their research project, Datar and Garvin... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson & HBS Bulletin; Education

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade

Readers also benefitted when, in 2008, we began to publish HBS faculty working papers—often the first expressions of emerging ideas on the cutting edge of management research. The most popular paper looks at the dark side of goal-setting,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

08 May 2013
Research & Ideas

A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity

This article is part of a continuing series on faculty research and teaching commemorating the 50th anniversary of the first women to enter Harvard Business School's two-year MBA program. As the first longitudinal examination of the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

25 Jun 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing

the method prepared future business leaders, however, Harvard faculty and administrators have long been aware of a nagging truth: learning how business operates and actually doing business are very different things. No matter how well... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

07 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs

still a junior faculty member, focused on making tenure and writing a second book. That’s the year she got a call from the law firm Leigh Day, which was looking to sue the British government for reparations on behalf of the Kikuyu... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

18 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Breaking Through a Growth Stall

and help entrepreneurs better understand the implications of change. Q: What are you working on now? A: I'm finishing a book on aligning strategy and sales. I am faculty chair of an executive program on this topic at HBS and have worked... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

05 Jul 2011
First Look

First Look: July 5

Resorts (B) faculty namesHarvard Business School Supplement 111-015 This case describes how employees are rewarded and compensated and is a supplement to "Aman Resorts." Purchase this... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Jul 2009
Research Event

Business Summit: Real Estate

Editor's Note: This is a summary of an HBS Business Summit presentation. View a full summary and video of the event on the HBS Centennial Web site linked below. Date of Event: October 14, 2008 Moderator: Howard H. Stevenson, HBS Faculty... View Details

Keywords: Re: Howard H. Stevenson; Construction; Real Estate

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

three HBS faculty members with various perspectives on the issue provide some insights on these questions. A Sense Of Purpose "I see the movement to incorporate more of a spiritual feeling in business as a reflection of people's... View Details

Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso

10 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 10, 2007

schools. We argue that executive education is an underutilized context that can enhance the quality of faculty research as well as our impact on managerial practice. Using evaluation data from variations of a single executive education... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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