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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
broad view of business as business.” As a result, Donham in the early 1930s renewed and elaborated his previous calls for business schools to aid in transforming management into a profession — not a mere technical specialization or guild,... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
are in a good position to sound the alert about "policies or practices that may have the unintended consequence of marginalizing international students," Walker says. One example is the common tendency of some professors to call on the... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
practices are broadly familiar, their application within cross-industry teams calls for unique leadership approaches that combine flexibility, open-mindedness, humility, and fierce resolve. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
development of theory with the teaching of it in a single enterprise we'll call course research. Conclusions such as those that Shugan and others have reached stem from misconceptions about the relationship of research, theory, case... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
perceptions, emotions, and motivations," Amabile says. "We call this 'inner work life,' and we found that it directly influences creativity and other aspects of performance." Previous laboratory studies have demonstrated... View Details
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
well established, and board members are trying to do the right thing. How do we make boards even stronger? Some good ideas I've heard recently call for getting the independent directors to meet alone without management and having somebody... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 09 Jun 2017
- News
Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
town in the center of the book-- and I gave it a little bit of history of how the place seemed very familiar to me, yet it seemed very different to outsiders. And Dali town has become sort of like the mecca for backpackers and for a new... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
pay for poor performance wasn’t just an AIG phenomenon. On Wall Street, it was endemic. Bankers gave themselves nearly $20 billion in 2008 bonuses, even as the economy was spiraling downward and the government was spending billions on bailouts. Politicians pounced.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
champion of Asian studies since that first visit to China, noted in his welcoming remarks that HBS opened its Asia-Pacific Research Center in Hong Kong in 1999, creating a launching pad for case writing and research from Indonesia to... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
fellow at the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and a former senior lecturer. Michael Beer: Have honest conversations with employees Every responsible senior executive wants to know what changes employees want in the post-COVID era. The... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
production of low-income rental housing. While it has grown into the largest source of new affordable housing in the U.S. and its structure is now being replicated in other programs, the LIHTC has also drawn skepticism and calls for its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
affiliate, the Civic Capital Corporation, founded and became the overseer of an operation called ReSTART Central. ReSTART assigns business-savvy volunteers to work with donors and to act as troubleshooting case workers to help small... View Details
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
important predictor of product performance, product variety, process flexibility and industry evolution. We explore this relationship in the software industry by use of a technique called Design Structure Matrices (DSMs), which allows us... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act slated to be signed this week by U.S. President Barack Obama has been called the most sweeping set of rules for banks and Wall Street since the Great Depression. But what do... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
Thank you for inviting me to testify before you. My name is Alnoor Ebrahim, and I am an Associate Professor at Harvard Business School and a Principal of the Hauser Center For Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University. I have worked... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
waiting in queues or of exposing their private information. Second, and more importantly, South Korea took proactive measures to test its people, even those without symptoms, through contact tracing. In addition to having every confirmed patient quarantined... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
global reservation systems, including Internet traffic, and overseeing the operations of a newly established pan-European call center that he designed and implemented. These high-tech business operations are... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 20 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment
life, and low cost Prussian Blue Sodium Ion battery solutions for critical power and industrial applications, including data center UPS systems and electrically-powered materials handling equipment. Aditya's role prior to HBS was a... View Details
- 16 May 2018
- News
ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup
Alumni Runner-up prize with Magma Trading, a stock market for block-size trades that he calls “the Costco of trading.” Benoit Dupont (PLDA 20, 2016) (Europe region) took the $5,000 Crowd Favorite prize with his pitch for WeMaintain, a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
the company's growth. It centers on the factors leading to Uber board members and investors to call for Kalanick's resignation, focusing on how board oversight can help shape company culture, and how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne