Publications

16 Oct 2023
HBS Case

Advancing Black Talent: From the Flight Ramp to 'Family-Sustaining' Careers at Delta

At the end of 2020—seven months after COVID-19 had sent the airline industry into a tailspin and five months after George Floyd’s murder by Minneapolis police provoked nationwide protests for racial justice—Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Air Transportation

01 Feb 2001
News

What Makes a Good Leader

authority on leadership — sees this phenomenon as a sign of the times. "The transition from the industrial age to the information age is a huge shift," he notes. "In all of human history, there have only been two other socioeconomic... View Details

Keywords: Management

17 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’

later: "What business are you really in?" "An industry begins with the customer and his or her needs, not with a patent, a raw material, or a selling skill," wrote Levitt, citing the railroads as one example of a... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Education

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HBS - The year in Review

plays in addressing the world’s most complex challenges and opportunities. Reimagining management education for the 21st century across all of the School’s educational programs. Students Arrive Approximately... View Details

02 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 2, 2009

http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309065 Montgomery County Business Roundtable for Education Harvard Business School Case 309-105 Montgomery County Business Roundtable for Education... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2024
News

In Harmony

in 1963, brought swift economic growth to the country—but by the 1970s he was also a de facto dictator, torturing and killing citizens who dared to protest for a more democratic government. Education was another driver for the family’s... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographs by Jun Michael Park; private equity; fiction; financial crisis; leadership; Korea

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Community College Report - Managing the Future of Work

more relevant and effective in three areas: training and education aligned with industry needs, commitments to hire community college students, and sharing of data on the supply and demand for talent. Read... View Details

December 2008
Article

The Teaching of Strategy: From General Manager to Analyst and Back Again?

By: Joseph L. Bower

Courses in strategy are an outgrowth of the business policy course first taught at Harvard Business School in 1912. This article examines how the teaching of a course concerned with the development and implementation of the goals and policies of a firm changed during... View Details

Keywords: Business Education; Curriculum and Courses; Teaching; Policy; Business History; Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy

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September 2024
Case

Topaz: Navigating Governance, Legacy, and Change

By: Christina R. Wing and Carla Larangeira

Since its founding in 2011, the Garza Sada brothers and their father positioned Topaz among leading family offices in Monterrey, Mexico, with several assets under management. Topaz aspired to have a transformative impact across multiple Mexican industries. An industry... View Details

Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Family Business; Governing and Advisory Boards; Managerial Roles; Management Succession; Family Ownership; Corporate Governance; Organizational Structure; Adoption; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Latin America; Mexico

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Research Services - Faculty & Research

industry and with expert reference support. Dissemination of research As an institution committed to impacting practice, HBS helps its faculty members disseminate their research via its impressive network of alumni, collaborators, and... View Details

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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

and Purpose ; Decisions ; Marketing Strategy ; Organizational Structure ; Banking Industry ; United States Citation Educators Related Riley, James, and Bernal Cortés. "Greenwood Online: A Fin-Tech Service... View Details

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Faculty & Research - Health Care

Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship Led by Peter Barrett and provides a select group of alumni with the opportunity to work with Harvard inventors to promote the commercialization of life science technologies with significant market potential. GENiE... View Details

Profile

Joy Chen

which I could learn from the best and potentially have more independent agency as a young person.” Exploring opportunities, seeking inspiration Joy’s business career took her from nonprofits to financial services (Fidelity Investments), the apparel View Details

November 2023 (Revised April 2024)
Case

Khanmigo: Revolutionizing Learning with GenAI

By: William A. Sahlman, Allison M. Ciechanover and Emily Grandjean

Already a leader in the edtech space since its 2008 launch, Khan Academy was now one of the first edtech organizations to embrace generative artificial intelligence ("genAI"). In March 2023, Khan Academy began beta testing Khanmigo, a genAI “guide” and tutor built with... View Details

Keywords: Technology Adoption; Leading Change; Entrepreneurship; Risk and Uncertainty; Education; AI and Machine Learning; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Education Industry; Education Industry; United States; San Francisco

William Sahlman is a Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

Mr. Sahlman received an A.B. degree in Economics from Princeton University (1972), an M.B.A. from Harvard University (1975), and a Ph.D. in Business... View Details

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Accelerating Solutions - Business & Environment

does society need to finance a decarbonized future? Investors weigh in. Highlights Video Full Panel Video Collaboration, Living Wages, Trade-focused Education to Drive a Climate Workforce Building a climate workforce requires herculean... View Details

04 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage

They look for disruptors that will "unfreeze" a stable industry and the companies that compete within them. They look for business models that worked well in one market and can be adapted and applied in another. They recognize... View Details

Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate

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Health Care - Faculty & Research

; Medical Specialties ; Health Industry ; Technology Industry ; United States Citation Educators Related Li, Michael Lingzhi, and Tinglong Dai. "The Future in Sight:... View Details

January 2021 (Revised May 2023)
Case

Pearson: Efficacy 2.0

By: Elie Ofek, Marco Bertini, Oded Koenigsberg and James Weber

Pearson, which billed itself as the "world's learning company," faced a host of critical decisions in mid-2020. Several years prior, it had embarked on a new path that put the learner at the heart of the business and committed to a new strategic orientation. The new... View Details

Keywords: Efficacy; Learning; Outcome or Result; Measurement and Metrics; Brands and Branding; Marketing Communications; Strategic Planning; Education Industry