Will Dean (MBA 2009) - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Jul 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence

Following the dot-com bust at the turn of the century, the technology business went through a gloomy period, 2001-2002, when innovation dried up, MBAs looked for careers in finance, and investors put their funds in a holding pattern.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer; Education

18 Jan 2021
Book

How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems

adapting the skills and practices of entrepreneurship for the public sector,” he says. Before joining the HBS faculty and creating the MBA course Public Entrepreneurship, Weiss was chief of staff to Boston Mayor Thomas Menino. In 2010,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 2

superior performance and competitive advantage at the individual, organizational, and social levels and 2) empowers the three virtue phenomena of morality, ethics, and legality. We also demonstrate that applying cost-benefit analysis to honoring your word guarantees... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 May 2008
Research & Ideas

The Intellectual History of Harvard Business School

elsewhere. The Leadership and Organizational Behavior course in the First Year of the MBA program has a number of daunting assignments. First, it has to overcome the skepticism that some people have about whether leadership can in fact be... View Details

Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow; Education

23 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

AIDS in Africa—What’s the Solution?

and a thirty-year veteran of the pharmaceutical industry in East and West Africa, said that while it is unlikely that many governments will suddenly find more money for fighting AIDS, they must focus the resources they do have. "The... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

07 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

Video: Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela

for instance. All these considerations resonate in India, where it's estimated that some 400 million people are moving into urban areas. They all can't go to Mumbai and Calcutta. They will have to go to new cities. Might there be best... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Construction; Real Estate

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

New Paths to Success in Asia

the Tsinghua program and will find their way into the School's MBA and Executive Education Programs. They range from a study of a century-old Hong Kong-based trading company that has extended its global... View Details

Keywords: by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg

22 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 22

regulation and an overview of how those changes will affect almost everyone. Publisher's link: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118758714.html August 2013 Review of Economics and Statistics Savings in Transnational... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Marketing Wine to the World

Michael Roberto: My parents are Italian immigrants, and my family back in Tuscany and the Campania region of Italy continue to make their own wine. Therefore, I've always had an interest in the wine-making process. A few years ago, when teaching the Strategy course in... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage

20 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

What’s Next for Japan

critical than Porter of the Japanese government's role in industry, panelist Yoshito Hori (HBS MBA '91) went far beyond Porter in his call for liberalization. "I really don't care about the government," Hori declared. "I... View Details

Keywords: by Hilah Geer

30 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning

the idea that people will use a product or service more right after they pay for it. How can companies make this work for them? A: Sunk costs are a curious bit of psychology. Economists say that attending to sunk costs is not... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Mahoney

03 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

The Basics of Consumer Marketing in Asia

Internet," when he and his partner launched Rakuten in 1997, Mikitani (HBS MBA '93) said. The 9,331 merchants who do a brisk business over the Rakuten site, which Mikitani describes as a cross between eBay and Amazon, are now proving... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

16 Jul 2014
HBS Case

Marketing Obamacare

that means is that despite the enormous costs—both financial and political—of setting up these exchanges, fewer than 10 percent of uninsured people in the US have so far been insured as a result. “This is not like Field of Dreams, where if you build it they View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

04 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

unresponsive or inefficient system? A: I think there is a big 3 here, an iron triangle, and those are the hospitals, the insurers, and the government. They want power. It's very understandable. Everybody wants to be powerful, and the way they View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health

07 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

had a "system" of hiring MBAs in cohorts of ten to fifteen. These young MBAs were generally placed into "assistant to" positions (assisting the head of a division, for example) for a... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

08 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 8

http://media.swissre.com/documents/pub_risk_dialogue_Integrative_Risk_Management.pdf Organising Response to Extreme Emergencies: The Victorian Bushfires of 2009 Authors:Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard and Arnold M. Howitt... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings

The financial field may be permanently changed by the explosive ups and downs of the tech sector, but old standards of quality and planning will still make or break new businesses, HBS professor Howard H. Stevenson said. In his keynote... View Details

Keywords: by Carrie Levine

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders

"As different cultural traditions meet in the marketplace and inside organizations, managers face tough choices about the values that they and their organizations will live by," HBS professor Lynn Sharp Paine told participants... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

28 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Football Stars Debate ‘The Social Capital of the Savvy Athlete’

Association and an MBA candidate in the class of 2015 at Harvard Business School. The event was moderated by Anita Elberse, the Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, whose research focuses on... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports

12 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

Can Our Parenting Struggles Make Us Better Leaders?

that meet the company’s standards on safety, caring, delivery and presentation. So if a customer service employee decides on the spot to waive a ticket holder’s fee because of an injury, she is confident that the company will approve.... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati; Air Transportation

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