Materials Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy

Beginning with the influential work of Professor Emeritus Robert N. Anthony in the 1960s and 1970s, Harvard Business School has given a prominent place to research and course development focusing on the intersection of strategy and View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert Simons

01 Sep 2012
News

Joint Venture

inventors of entire industries (such as management consulting and venture capital) and as leaders in so many other areas, have provided rich raw material for academics to study, refine, and condense into... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

14 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

Desktop Search and Revenue Streams

efforts to refine search capabilities. With that in mind, panel moderator Thomas R. Eisenmann, associate professor of Entrepreneurial Management at HBS, noted that the next wave in search tools is going beyond View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

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Reimagining Capitalism: Business and Big Problems - Course Catalog

investors rely on to balance impact and profit, and How to scale solutions that address societal and environmental issues. A general management course, ReCap resides at the intersection of strategy, entrepreneurship, leadership, finance,... View Details

Profile

Laura Arjona

mind." As part of her scholarship, Laura fulfilled a summer internship with Baker Hughes Oil Tools, working on material design projects to improve drill attachments that screened out sand. "While I found the work interesting, it... View Details

16 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Confronting the Reality of Web Services

What's next for Web services? In his case summary "Will Web Services Really Transform Collaboration?" published in the Winter 2005 edition of MIT Sloan Management Review, HBS associate professor Andrew P. McAfee argues that the... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant

17 Apr 2014
News

A Family Investment

so when his father showed him the HBS campus at the age of 13, the younger Özyeg in began to map out his future. “HBS got into my blood,” he says with a laugh. After studying management and economics at Carnegie Mellon University and... View Details

01 Jun 2001
News

Platforms and Collaborations

would deliver course materials to MBA students in a coordinated way. Not just spreadsheets but audio and video clips, with an eye toward multimedia cases, would be available online, personalized to each student’s courseload. A key element... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

01 Dec 1998
News

Novartis AG Establishes Global Research Fund

face and the strategy that will guide our future success as a worldwide leader in life sciences. The quality of the HBS faculty has been tremendous and has helped our top management to develop a new Novartis mindset and an aligned... View Details

Keywords: Anne Kavanagh

01 Dec 2008
News

Faculty Books

Moral Gray Zones: Side Productions, Identity, and Regulation in an Aeronautic Plant by Michel Anteby (Princeton University Press) Employees know that not every workplace regulation must be followed. When management consistently overlooks... View Details

17 Jul 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence

not only changed how Yoffie designed the course, called Strategy and Technology, but it's also changing how managers in tech-intensive companies are dealing with this issue on the front lines. Yoffie begins the course by exploring the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer; Education

Profile

Jeremy Lipstein

where, with one professor and fifteen student colleagues, Jeremy studied "international economics and global capital markets." Colgate proved a training ground for leadership as well. In his senior year, Jeremy became student body president. There, he learned... View Details

01 Jun 2016
News

@Soldiers Field

Photo courtesy of Harvard Business School Former Baker Scholar and Bain consultant Chad Losee (MBA 2013) succeeded Dee Leopold (MBA 1980) as managing director of MBA admissions and financial aid in March. “My goal as Dee’s successor,”... View Details

05 Feb 2015
Research & Ideas

How New BofA Executives Learn its ’Deep Smarts’

stakeholders and steps the new executive can take to manage the transition, including building necessary relationships and adapting to the culture. The plan also identifies archival materials that would be... View Details

Keywords: Re: Dorothy A. Leonard; Banking

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Leadership and Happiness - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Leadership and Happiness Course Number 1885 Senior Fellow Arthur Brooks Spring; Q3; 1.5 credits 14 Sessions Overview: According to the best research available (which we will read in this class), to be a successful leader, you need to understand... View Details

Discovery Process

South and the British West Indies. I describe how all kinds of sophisticated quantitative management practices thrived under the circumstances of slavery. Before my year at HBS, I thought of my audience as primarily one of professional... View Details

16 Sep 2015
Op-Ed

The Real Duty of the Board of Directors

ownership of modern corporations is a central point of our new paper, Materiality in Corporate Governance: The Statement of Significant Audiences and Materiality. Aiming to improve corporations’ public disclosures, we argue that the board... View Details

Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & Tim Youmans

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Online Transforming Customer Experiences Course | HBS Online

This course is part of the Entrepreneurship & Innovation and Leadership & Management track. Introduction to Transforming Customer Experiences ENROLL NOW No application needed for our certificate programs. Start your journey today! New... View Details

15 Jun 2021
News

Diversifying HBS's Case Collection

better understand the challenges various groups face and appreciate what each person brings to the table. “A core general management skill today and tomorrow is the ability to make the most out of human differences,” Rivkin notes.... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

05 Sep 2000
What Do You Think?

Whither the Information Economy?

Harlan Cleveland's piece, "Information as a Resource" that appeared in 1982 in The Futurist. In it, Cleveland, a scholar and former Undersecretary of State, argued that a society based on information would look very different than one based on raw View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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