Representative Experiment - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Nov 2008
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA

levity given the seriousness of the topic at hand. Some of the schools represented had already implemented major MBA program reforms. Others were considering them. But everyone had one thing in common: Each had assisted HBS professors... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson & HBS Bulletin; Education

17 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5

Classmates in an effort to elevate this message: “On behalf of your Black classmates: we’re not okay, and you shouldn’t be either”. The letters are meant to remove the onus too often placed on Black students to discuss and teach fellow classmates about the lived View Details

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Lara Hodgson

your HBS experience impact your career? The two things I gained the most from HBS were 1) an ability to assess risk and creatively think about ways to manage it. Risk doesn’t scare me. Risk represents... View Details

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Evgeny Koudryavtsev

successful entrepreneurs came to talk to us about bringing their businesses to the next level. I was struck by how much room for development most of the businesses had in terms of top-line growth and operational improvements." His View Details

01 Sep 2005
News

New Art

other depicts three old men in party hats dangling their feet into an open grave. “Mixing provocative, thoughtful art in amongst the students enriches the learning experience and sparks creative thinking,” says Schwartz, president and CEO... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

30 Sep 2024
News

The Making of a Streaming Sensation

Harriet Manners. And I think the thing for me is Harriet is a very specific character, but she kind of represents everybody in a way because she comes across as an outsider. And that idea of feeling like an outsider, I think is incredibly... View Details

01 Sep 2012
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High Honors

rapidly going global. Recent partnerships include acquisitions or joint ventures in Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Indonesia, and the United States. Mikitani, the father of two young children, is often seen as View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Finance; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management; Mining; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

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1.17 Field Based Learning / Independent Projects | MBA

1.17 Field Based Learning / Independent Projects 1.0 Academic Information & Policies HBS students may have the opportunity to experience faculty-supervised, field-based learning during their MBA Program. The following policies apply to... View Details

25 Apr 2023
News

Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition

Center for Entrepreneurship. “We started Hue in our RC year at HBS, and we actually met in the Startup Bootcamp and started working together,” says Shah. The cofounders combined their previous tech and retail expertise to create Hue, with a goal of helping people feel... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Mar 2007
News

The Plight of the Global Poor

while BOP individuals may only have tens of dollars a year to spend, that disposable income, multiplied several billion times over, represents significant purchasing power. With this realization have come some dramatic shifts in business... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; bottom of the pyramid (BOP); Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

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Guiding Principles for Conscious and Inclusive Description | Baker Library

individuals and organizations that are remembered and how they are represented in collection materials. We often describe people, organizations, and communities we are not part of, many of which historically have been, and continue to be,... View Details

11 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

calculations—are powerful. Even though algorithms often outperform human judgment, people resist allowing a numerical formula to make decisions for them (Dawes, 1979). Nevertheless, people increasingly depend on algorithms to inform their decisions. Eight View Details

18 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

GM’s IPO: Back to the Future

bankruptcy reorganization on June 1, 2009. What are some of the key issues the company faces? Three Harvard Business School faculty members--Joseph Bower, an authority on general management; Vineet Kumar, a marketing expert; and Dante Roscini, who brings to the School... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

19 Aug 2021
News

A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues

them, you may be missing an opportunity to do something that is extraordinarily impactful. So I refer to that experience in the book and say that that actually impacted the way that I felt about how Black people should respond to their... View Details

19 Jan 2016
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January 19, 2016

Black’s original conjectures, and the author highlights refinements and additions to the original list. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50338 November 2015 Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Influence of View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?

latter stands out in particular, both because it represents a departure from Cincinnati’s conservative approach (having moved on from longtime coach Marvin Lewis after 16 seasons), and because of Taylor’s connection to McVay, having... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

15 May 2012
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First Look: May 15

demonstrate, a coordination perspective helps resolve some empirical puzzles, but it also represents a challenge to received wisdom grounded in the salience of cooperation. To stimulate future research, we discuss alternative... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

11 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 11, 2008

when it was followed by a negative consequence. In addition, they judged the behavior as more blameworthy and to be punished more harshly. Participants' ethical judgments mediated their judgments of both blame and punishment. The results of the second View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Sep 2006
First Look

First Look: September 19, 2006

case study of a project in a Scandinavian life insurance company where the value network, an alternate value configuration analysis tool to the established value chain, was used to represent the company's activities and identify and... View Details