Big Four - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2010
News

Dean Nohria Looks Ahead

which now consumes more and more of society’s resources, particularly as people live longer? Global poverty is a huge issue as the demand for a more prosperous life increases everywhere. And then there is global security. So there are some View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson

18 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Breaking Through a Growth Stall

incorporating that knowledge into decision-making, and clarifying the possible responses. It has four generic steps that I'll outline here but direct the reader to the article for the methodology and a detailed example: Assemble and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs

"we built a new team to develop and grow the midmarket because I knew the existing team would want to continue to pursue the big deals" even if they were charged with going after smaller ones as well. He's taking a similar... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Michelman

03 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The State of Customer Service Leadership

services, Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts, J. W. Marriott, Nordstrom, Publix supermarkets, Quicken Loans, Southwest Airlines, Starbucks, USAA insurance, Wegmans, Whole Foods Markets, among others. These organizations have a greater than... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Retail

26 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way to Go to Market

Cisco Systems and Dell would jump out as excellent on certain dimensions; but not so big and visible companies like Haworth Office Furniture, too, have an excellent record on some stewardship components. A channel steward need not be a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

24 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers

patent protection. Improvement in the enforcement of patent rights. Improvement in the administration of the patent system. On paper, fifteen of the sixteen countries we studied improved IPR along at least four of the five dimensions. In... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

23 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care

apply their skills and knowledge to improve health-care systems. (A book excerpt from Designing Care follows.) Martha Lagace: How does health-care delivery fit into the greater context of health-care reform? Dr. Richard Bohmer: Broadly speaking, health-care reform... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

12 Jul 2020
Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

Bohlen, and Kennan. They had similar educational backgrounds (Groton, Harvard, Yale, Princeton). Four had successful private sector careers as well as extensive public service. They shaped the post-WWII international scene while serving... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

17 Jan 2019
News

The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition

In this special First Five Years post, four alumni recently named to the Forbes 2019 “30 Under 30” list—Akash Pradhan (MBA 2017), Kiran Gandhi (MBA 2015), Anthony Tucker (MBA 2017), and Anish Pathipati (MBA 2016)—talk careers, HBS, and... View Details

22 Feb 2018
News

My First Job

the fact that they were in charge and I was working for them, my meals came out so fast. And I would share compliments, sometimes my diners would give the extra tips for them. And so I took this lesson through the rest of my three or four... View Details

06 Dec 2021
News

New Wave

homes, while wave energy could power more than 200 million. And global capacity for ocean energy is even greater, with experts saying that marine sources could provide enough electricity to satisfy worldwide demand four times over. Yet... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen

25 Aug 2010
News

Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations

her name on the card, and if you got five in a row, you had “bingo.” Variations ensued (“X”, four corners, whole card, etc.). At first, the “free” spot was free. As it evolved (degenerated?), I believe someone used the computer lab’s... View Details

Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

30 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 30

(July-August 2009) Abstract What if the current recession turns out to be like the Great Depression of 1929-1933? Four years from now, the United States might find itself with a still-shrinking economy, half as many banks as in 2009, a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Sep 2016
News

MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding

allow seamless liquidity of assets. So it's quite a big wave. Going back to what I said about the Homebrew Computer Club, it struck me that I knew all these people all around the world working on crazy interesting technology, but it... View Details

16 Dec 2020
News

A Creator in the Era of Disruption

competition so that I could then win some money that I could use to fund the company. Morrell: Aldi and his team won that competition and $25,000 dollars for the company. It was also their introduction to the Omidyar Network, their first View Details

Web

Year in Review | Annual Report 2024

fields of business administration, business economics, and organizational behavior. During the Class Day ceremony the day prior, graduates and their guests, families, and friends honored four Student Association Faculty Teaching Award... View Details

16 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

our community, but we need to share information.” Adams, an Emmy Award–winning CBS News correspondent and former White House correspondent, and Stewart, VP of Global Partnerships at Google, surveyed 4,000 cross-generational women across View Details

02 Sep 2018
News

Havana Rising

shipping routes to avoid sanctions—traveling from the United States to Panama to Jamaica before arriving in Havana four to six weeks later. The history of Cuba’s private sector is relatively new, short, and complicated. After the fall of... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North

19 Jun 2012
First Look

First Look: June 19

economic performance. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-108.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsRospil.info Paul M. Healy, Karthik Ramanna, and Matthew ShafferHarvard Business School Case 112-033 What should business leaders do about corruption? In... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 1998
News

Diversity and Community

improvement, and, ultimately, competitive advantage," he says. IBM's Global Workforce Diversity programs suggest how that process can work. In receiving the Ron Brown Award in the area of "Employee Initiatives," Big Blue, which is also... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

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