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    How the Internet Became Commercial

    In less than a decade, the Internet went from being a series of loosely connected networks used by universities and the military to the powerful commercial engine it is today. This book describes how many of the key innovations that made this possible came from... View Details

    • 08 Nov 2023
    • Blog Post

    Zone Defense: These self-driving, AI-powered drones do recon so soldiers don’t have to

    This blog was originally published in 2021. Brandon Tseng (MBA 2017) remembers his aha moment. It was April 2015, and Tseng was a US Navy SEAL approaching the end of seven years’ service; his next step would be Harvard Business School. Tseng was reading about a View Details
    Keywords: Technology; Entrepreneurship
    • 11 Nov 2021
    • Blog Post

    ZONE DEFENSE: These self-driving, AI-powered drones do recon so soldiers don’t have to

    Brandon Tseng (MBA 2017) remembers his aha moment. It was April 2015, and Tseng was a US Navy SEAL approaching the end of seven years’ service; his next step would be Harvard Business School. Tseng was reading about a military effort to... View Details
    • 2016
    • Case

    Advanced Leadership Pathways: Alberto Mora and the Costs and Consequences of Torture

    By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Benjamin Summers
    Alberto Mora's time as General Counsel of the Navy from 2001–2006 greatly influenced his mission to illuminate the policy consequences of torture. Mora's drive to restore the nation's awareness and conscience against torture was gaining traction. Prominent... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership Skills; Torture; Costs And Consequences; Humane; Restraint; Human Dignity; Treatment Of Prisoners; Prison; Repression; Opposition; Revolution; Democracy; Communism; International Affairs; Public Service; September 11; War On Terror; Operation Enduring Freedom; Guantanamo; Cuba; Coalition; Working Group; Cruelty; Interrogation; Memorandum; American Law; Authority; Authoritative; Quadrennial Defense Review; National Defense Authorization Act; Public Engagement; Advocacy; Law; Accountability; Center For The Victims Of Torture; Human Rights; Public Policy; Legality; Morality; Legal System; Tactical Military Operations; West Point; NGO; Human Rights First; American Civil Liberties Union; Human Rights Watch; Amnesty International; Constitution Project; Center For Constitutional Rights; Strategic Military Effect; National Security; Weapon; Terrorism; Prisoners Of War; Abu Ghraib; Pentagon; Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Leadership; Rights; Policy; Public Opinion; United States
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      Louis E. Caldera

      Louis Caldera is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He teaches Leadership and Corporate Accountability, a required first-year course in the MBA program. He has previously taught law school courses on corporate... View Details

      • September 2013
      • Article

      Cultures as Learning Laboratories: What Makes Some More Effective than Others?

      By: Elaine Mosakowski, Goran Calic and P C Early
      With a mandate to globalize, business school educators have increasingly embraced global service learning as an important technique for creating global mind-sets and enhancing cultural understanding in students. While we applaud this movement from the domestic to the... View Details
      Keywords: Business Education; Learning; Cognition and Thinking; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues
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      • 22 Nov 2011
      • First Look

      First Look: November 22

      Authors:Ejaz Ghani, William R. Kerr, and Stephen O'Connell Abstract We analyze the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. We focus on the presence of incumbent female-owned... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • June 2014
      • Case

      The Kursk Submarine Rescue Mission (Multimedia)

      By: Anette Mikes and Tom Ryder
      During a military exercise in August 2000, a state-of-the-art Russian nuclear submarine, the Kursk, sank in the Barents Sea, triggering global media attention and an international rescue effort.
      In addition to Russia's Northern Fleet, two other organizations got... View Details
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      • June 2014
      • Case

      The Kursk Submarine Rescue Mission — Short Film

      By: Anette Mikes and Tom Ryder
      During a military exercise in August 2000, a state-of-the-art Russian nuclear submarine, the Kursk, sank in the Barents Sea, triggering global media attention and an international rescue effort.
      In addition to Russia's Northern Fleet, two other organizations got... View Details
      Keywords: Risk Management; Groups and Teams; Crisis Management
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      • 28 May 2021
      • Blog Post

      Taking Measure on Memorial Day

      On Memorial Day 2010, LTC Jamie Leonard, the most senior female U.S. military officer to be killed in combat, penned a compelling piece for her local paper titled “A soldier’s view on Memorial Day.” Specifically, Jamie wrote, “Take... View Details
      • 2015
      • Working Paper

      Are CEOs Born Leaders? Lessons from Traits of a Million Individuals

      By: Renée Adams, Matti Keloharju and Samuli Knüpfer
      What makes a CEO? We merge data on the traits of more than one million Swedish males, measured at age 18 in a mandatory military enlistment test, with data on their service as a CEO of any Swedish company decades later. CEOs have higher cognitive and non-cognitive... View Details
      Keywords: Personal Characteristics; Management Teams
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      • March 2006 (Revised February 2007)
      • Case

      UBS: Towards the Integrated Firm

      By: Rajiv Lal, Nitin Nohria and Carin-Isabel Knoop
      In late June 2005, UBS Group CEO Peter Wuffli--anointed "Master of Zurich" by the financial press--was returning to Zurich from the firm's latest three-day Senior Leadership Conference (SLC). Tapping 600 top managers, this SLC featured an outdoor event at a former... View Details
      Keywords: Integration; Programs; Leadership; Talent and Talent Management; Trust
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      • 29 Jul 2014
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Learning from the Kursk Submarine Rescue Failure: The Case for Pluralistic Risk Management

      Keywords: by Anette Mikes & Amram Migdal
      • 29 Sep 2015
      • First Look

      September 29, 2015

      2015 Princeton University Press How the Internet Became Commercial: Innovation, Privatization, and the Birth of a New Network By: Greenstein, Shane Abstract—In less than a decade, the Internet went from being a series of loosely connected networks used by universities... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 22 May 2020
      • Blog Post

      Remembering Well and Making Meaning of Memorial Day

      me that the military does not have a monopoly on selfless service – countless businesses and non-profits, both domestic and around the world, are doing incredible things to alleviate human suffering, drive... View Details
      • 03 Feb 2012
      • HBS Seminar

      Dr. Regina Dugan, Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

      • Research Summary

      Strategic Human Capital

      My research focuses on the links between managerial background, job attributes, organizational/firm characteristics, and firm performance. Broadly speaking, I am interested in how a manager's skills, knowledge, connections, experiences, and other attributes... View Details

      • 24 May 2022
      • Blog Post

      Get to Know 2022 Class Day Student Speaker Peter James Kiernan

      service part of his DNA, he heeded the call to serve. From that lonely hotel room, Kiernan helped configure the state’s first mass vaccination sites for COVID-19. Kiernan was, as he laughingly puts it, in the wrong place at the wrong time... View Details
      • 04 Dec 2012
      • First Look

      First Look: December 4

      initiatives will fail. Opening space for a mutually acceptable nuclear deal-that avoids both military conflict and a nuclear-armed or nuclear-capable Iran-requires relentlessly and creatively worsening Iran's no-deal options while... View Details
      Keywords: Carmen Nobel
      • Web

      Placement - Doctoral

      Samuel G. Hanson Xiang Ding Business Economics, 2020 Placement: Georgetown University, Walsh School of Foreign Service Dissertation: Essays on Firms, Production, and Trade Advisors: Pol Antràs , Elhanan Helpman , Marc Melitz , and... View Details