Henry - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Mar 2015
What Do You Think?

Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?

be found." This was tried by Henry Ford, Nanninga continued, "who reasoned that by paying higher wages there would be more people on the streets who could afford his products." Others would place less reliance on a free... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

05 May 2010
What Do You Think?

Is Denial Endemic to Management?

"denial is avoidable and leads to failure," such as Henry Ford's presumption that consumers would continue to want black autos in the face of evidence that they were becoming more interested in color; IBM's dogged pursuit of PC... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

19 Jun 2018
News

Pittsburgh Alumni Annual Meeting Features PPG’s McGarry

Association of Thailand Hosts Collis for Strategy Talk David J. Collis (MBA 1958), the Thomas Henry Carroll Ford Foundation Adjunct Professor of Business Administration within the Strategy Unit at HBS, treated about 70 HBS alumni and... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jan 2006
News

Ann S. Moore, MBA 1978

magazines than Time cofounder Henry R. Luce. In 2004 alone, she introduced four new publications, including a revitalized version of Life magazine, which is now distributed on weekends in leading U.S. newspapers. In 1991, she was named... View Details

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

something in their company, in their industry, and in society. In addition, they all had a searing insight they were able to communicate clearly and concisely to others--like Henry Ford's observation at the beginning of the 20th century... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

04 Feb 2015
What Do You Think?

Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?

Henry Ellis added that wWhile Google is massive and profitable, "they have one product that makes all the money the primary key to their success is patience, determination, and luck, with luck being the spark." Questions about... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

04 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter

moment of crisis the delegates could have chosen either of two of the most accomplished politicians in America, William Henry Seward or Salmon P. Chase. Both had been United States senators and governors of major states. Both were... View Details

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Smaller Collections - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

Included are portraits (a few bearing autographs) of Andrew Carnegie, Walter Percy Chrysler, Pierre Samuel DuPont, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, J. P. Morgan, Andrew Mellon, and Thomas Watson. Female portraits include Dorothy H. Hobson,... View Details

05 Nov 2014
What Do You Think?

Are We Entering an Era of Neuromanagement?

our choice(s) in life." Henry Kwok commented, "The field of neuroscience and brain scanning will only get more advanced, and thus we can expect better reading However, the job of managing and leading will be evolving in a fast... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

29 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?

increase his financial gains, if that choice imperiled his control of the decision making within Ockham, he was inclined to maintain control at the expense of financial gains. Likewise for executive hires. In the "Wily" case I coauthored with View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services

13 Oct 2016
News

Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease

has more than paid off, in terms of their pioneering work in muscle biology and professional development.” Family and Lifelong HBS Friends The winner of the 2014 Lou Gehrig Iron Horse Award from the ALS Therapy Development Institute, a View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 May 2006
What Do You Think?

Who Will Cast a Longer Shadow on the 21st Century: Friedman or Galbraith?

century." But I was struck by the number of respondents who suggested that the ideas of both Friedman and Galbraith had relevance, perhaps at different times and in different places. Henry Kwok wrote, "They brought to us two... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

2013
Report

The Brink of Renewal: A Business Leader's Guide to Progress in America's Schools

By: Jan Rivkin, Meg Sommerfeld, Linda Jacobson, Lisa Rosenthal, David Ruenzel, Sara Allan, Tyce Henry and Allen Grossman

This report focuses on the current state of U.S. PK-12 education. It highlights the converging trends that make this a special, promising moment in education reform. View Details

Keywords: U.S. Competitiveness; PK - 12 Education; Competition; Education; United States

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08 Jul 2020
News

FACULTY SUMMER READING RECOMMENDATIONS

16 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology

inventory without the use of technology," says John Jong-Hyun Kim, a senior lecturer and William Henry Bloomberg fellow at Harvard Business School. "And yet, schools have been slow to adopt and integrate technology in the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

13 Feb 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53941 forthcoming Harvard International Review Henry Kissinger and Robert Mugabe: The Forgotten Connection via a Remarkably Creative Negotiation By: Sebenius, James K. Abstract—When Robert... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Oct 2017
Research Event

In an Era of 'Fake News,' What is the Future of Advertising and Publishing?

ad on Facebook for a product you searched for on Google just moments before. The second panel, “Revenue Models & Adjacent Media Spaces,” discussed the benefits and drawbacks of this new hyper-connectivity. It was moderated by Bharat Anand, the View Details

Keywords: by Jen Deaderick; Media & Broadcasting; Journalism & News

28 May 2013
Research & Ideas

Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?

sharpen its "Stepping Up in Asia" strategy, LEGO executives employed scenario planning as a key tool to weigh potential outcomes. The technique, which has been around since the 1960s, fell out of favor in recent decades. In his 1994 book, Rise and Fall of... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation

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Wartime Innovation - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

former teaching assistant, served as Doriot's chief assistant throughout the war. Henry W. Hoagland (HBS MBA '39), another student of Doriot's, also worked as an aide to Doriot in the Military Planning Division. In an early assignment for... View Details

03 Jun 2016
News

Again in a Great City

other real estate investments in the area. That’s an important quirk of the city’s tumultuous economic history. Detroit was long a company town, and then, when there was no one else—not even the city—investing in Detroit, those who did became the new kings and queens... View Details

Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly

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