class notes - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Dec 2007
First Look

First Look: December 11, 2007

stock prices had been reached. Despite Fisher's poor prediction on that occasion, he played a neglected, but significant role in the growth of the forecasting industry and in the rise of a class of early business analysts. An... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 Jun 2020
Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

Paine: The book had its origins in the preparations for celebrating the Centennial of HBS in 2008. The School was founded because important Harvard alumni discussed with President Eliot their observation that a new class of executives who... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 5

appropriate data. The U.S. film industry deploys two distinct allocations of property rights, which differentially affect marginal returns on a particular class of investments. In many cases, films are both produced and distributed by... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2008
News

The Prophet of Start-Ups

impeccably turned out in a suit and tie, he required all of his students in his class at HBS to dress accordingly. “Sport coats are for newspaper boys and college boys,” he would chide his pupils. The more I researched Doriot’s life, my... View Details

Keywords: Spencer E. Ante; George Doriot; Charles F. Kettering; Lawrence Lowell; F. Warren Hellman; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

01 Jun 2018
News

The Long Run

that touched him personally. To understand that connection, you have to go back to Langford’s hometown of Calhoun, about 70 miles northwest of Atlanta, where he played on the high school football team. He was second string, he points out, so he could take View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Melissa Golden

01 Oct 1996
News

Leading In a New Era

equation" seems to be at the forefront of each of their leaders' minds. "I really believe that the most important competitive element a company has are the people who work in it," notes Boise Cascade's Harad. Harad prefers to lead by... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Jun 2010
News

MBAs on a Mission

first-year TOM class at HBS, Kim has added a world of hands-on knowledge about operations management — not the least of which is his newfound expertise in milk procurement and distribution. — SA Naidoo: Creating public-private... View Details

Keywords: Sarah Auerbach;Deborah Blagg;Julia Hanna; Corporate Services; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

09 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale

Tedlow, a noted business historian on the HBS faculty and the MBA class of 1949 Professor of Business Administration. His latest book (Andy Grove: The Life and Times of an American) is a biography of Andy... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

26 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 26, 2008

overreaching. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=408073 Tools and Tactics for Transformation: Three 'Whats' and Three 'Hows' Harvard Business School Note 908-028 Important transformation at... View Details