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- 02 Jul 2008
- News
No Pulp Fiction Allowed
case method of instruction, contending that it teaches skills largely irrelevant to what managers actually do. Mintzberg devotes the second half of his book to a description of what works in management... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
afforded me so many opportunities.” (The EiR position is unpaid.) Novakovich also researched and wrote a case with HBS faculty Mike Roberts and Bill Sahlman and offered a four-part “how-to” series for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
school in one ranking fail to make the top five in others? The answer lies in the methods the publications use to evaluate schools. The big five — Bloomberg Businessweek, U.S. News & World Report, Forbes, the Financial Times, and the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Realities of the Refugee Crisis
Professor Kristin Fabbe conducted a large-scale survey of Syrian refugees in Turkey, and Professor Gunnar Trumbull coauthored a case on Europe’s response. “Refugee flows are going to be a growing issue as we see an increasing number of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 12 May 2016
- News
Food Rescue Is on a Mission
being discarded everywhere, particularly at the local Prahran market where they regularly shopped, so he researched the issue, then reached out to lend a hand. With their three young kids, the Carsons filled the back of their Volvo... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 08 Apr 2021
- News
Real Talk
this type of approach where their senior leaders share personal stories of domestic abuse, alcoholism, things that have gone wrong in their lives or challenges they’ve had,” says Harmeling, who is also founder of the International Case... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
research findings, including highlights from an unprecedented HBS alumni survey on competitiveness, are presented in a special March issue of the Harvard Business Review. “The extensive data we’ve reviewed show that US competitiveness is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
commercial operation." "Big budget museums don't have a lot of financial leeway," adds HBS professor William J. Poorvu, treasurer and trustee of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, who has written a case about this quirky Boston... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Building a Network for Social Enterprise in Latin America
Angela Serino, manager of corporate responsibility for Natura, a Brazilian cosmetics company, and Maria de Graça Fernandes Branco, principal of Matilde Elementary and High School. The pair are subjects of a case produced by the SEKN that... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
women—whose careers could provide some insight into these questions. “I wanted to understand what it is that they did to crack the code,” Kraus says of her research. Through interviews, Kraus and her research team found some common... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
no services. Macomber has spent time doing research in such an environment, the sprawling Mumbai slum of Dharavi, where scenes from the movie Slumdog Millionaire were filmed. As described in an HBS case he... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Artist Christo Visits HBS
To illustrate entrepreneurship from a different angle, HBS professors Josh Lerner and Felda Hardymon and research associate Ann Leamon wrote a case about Christo and Jeanne-Claude, the husband-wife team... View Details
- 05 Mar 2025
- News
Uncertain Terms
After Amar Bhidé (MBA 1979/DBA 1988) became an HBS assistant professor in 1988, then-dean John H. McArthur (MBA 1959/DBA 1963) gave him a copy of economist Frank Knight’s 1921 book Risk, Uncertainty and Profit. Knight’s idea that “uncertainty” must be distinguished... View Details
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
the Haitian Ministry of Commerce and Trade. “We’ve given a team of 30 farmers a crash course in strategy based on the HBS case method, and we’ve accompanied them on trips to meet potential customers—from coffee dealers in Seattle to mango... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
Labor Relations Board then notifies the business owner that a secret ballot election must take place within six weeks. During that time employers wishing to make the case to their employees that they would be better off without a union... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
New Global Initiative Director Takes Broad Outlook
research activities in the region," Ryan says. "We also talked to local business leaders about what we will be doing there and outlined the benefits of being featured in a case study." (A complete report on... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
Manage Urban School Districts," for example, a best-selling 2006 Harvard Business Review article written by PELP faculty, has sold 6,000 copies and was made available free of charge to educators in 2012. PELP researchers have written 62... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Supporting Women in Leadership
while she was there as a student. Much has been accomplished, she acknowledges, but the fact that there's more work to be done inspired Kordestani and her husband, Omid, to establish the Gisel (MBA 2003) and Omid Kordestani Research Fund.... View Details
Keywords: W50
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Bridging the Gap
Harvard Business School faculty, in collaboration with colleagues across Harvard University, have been addressing these issues by conducting research into education reform, technology innovations, and programs that fill the middle-skills... View Details
- 20 Mar 2019
- News
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
political community has failed.” These comments were echoed in remarks by guest speaker Roland Hwang, managing director of NRDC’s Climate and Clean Energy Program. Drawing on 10 years of research and her hugely successful MBA course,... View Details