by David A. Garvin - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2000
News

Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management

advertising savvy are but two of the myriad skills that are required of today's museum manager. Traditionally, museums have been run by academics who worked their way through the curatorial ranks, but more and more museum trustees are... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; museums; marketing; management; nonprofits; education; facilities; Internet; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

01 Mar 2014
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The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria

Photography by Jason Andrew Ibrahim Mustapha grows maize in Katsina Fulani, a village of mud-brick houses topped by rusted corrugated roofs in northern Nigeria. Like millions of farmers in his country,... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; John H. Davis; Michael Halse; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

19 May 2021
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Alumni Convene to Support Nonprofit Boards; Seven Clubs Mix It Up Online

local communities. “Our collective reach is much greater than our individual club reach,” says David Harris (MBA 1984), President-elect of the HBS Association of Boston, and co-lead in organizing the conference. He also served as a... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

11 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 11, 2008

hypotheses underlying the firm's balanced scorecard and strategy map reveal problems with the strategy on a timelier basis. We also test alternative hypotheses to those underlying the firm's formal strategy map and scorecard that are consistent with concerns expressed... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 1999
News

From the Editors

presided over the magazine while the School's first buildings took shape under Dean Wallace B. Donham's ambitious leadership. Bates captured the pageantry of the June 4, 1927, campus dedication in the July issue, complete with photographs and speeches View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Dec 1997
News

Growing Together

in several major cities. Ira A. Jackson (100th AMP), the executive vice president of BankBoston, is also finding a way to turn social ideals into good business practice. Locally, Jackson is guiding the bank in its efforts to provide jobs... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry

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Oral Histories | Baker Library

Oral Histories Transcripts Betty J. Diener (HRPBA 1963, MBA 1964, DBA 1974) Interview by Livingston Grant, March 27, 2000. Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration Oral History Project , Schlesinger Library , Radcliffe... View Details

01 Dec 2016
News

Alumni Books of 2016

threatening to organizations—or entire industries—that they are best described as “wicked.” Wicked Strategies offers a comprehensive framework for identifying, responding to and profiting from wicked problems. Aston Martin DB4GT by... View Details

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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Association and the American Psychological Society. David Thomas David A. Thomas, Ph.D., president of Morehouse College, is internationally recognized for his expertise in... View Details

08 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 8

abstract is unavailable at this time. Book: http://hbr.org/2012/05/six-myths-of-product-development/ar/1 Working PapersLearning by Supplying Authors:Juan Alcácer and Joanne Oxley Abstract Learning processes lie at the heart of our... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Apr 1999
News

An Eye to the East

as a base of operations for work in the twelve countries in the region. Yeh and her small staff are set up to provide a significant part of the intellectual and logistical support needed by visiting HBS scholars. Yet logistical help is... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

01 Sep 2006
News

Down the Memory Chute

Illustrations by Greg Clarke Recent alumni may not believe it, but there was a time when it was the Written Word — more so than cold calls or attacks of classroom amnesia — that struck fear in the hearts of HBS students. Every two weeks,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

30 Jun 2015
First Look

First Look: June 30, 2015

Publications Forthcoming Berrett-Koehler Publishers What Great Service Leaders Know and Do: Creating Breakthroughs in Service Firms By: Heskett, James L., W. Earl Sasser, and Leonard A. Schlesinger Abstract—Based on decades of... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

08 Dec 2015
First Look

December 8, 2015

P&G veteran David Taylor would become CEO on November 1, 2015. Lafley would remain Chairman. At the time, Taylor respectfully declined to be interviewed by the press. He had a lot to think about.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Mar 2021
Blog Post

COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace

again? Should companies do away with Zoom and return the workplace to its pre-COVID ways? The answer, in a word: No. At least that’s not the future of work envisioned by several members of the Harvard Business School faculty—all of whom... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Sep 2018
News

September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

authentic self. Bladder Cancer: A Patient-Friendly Guide to Understanding Your Diagnosis and Treatment Options by David Pulver (MBA 1965), Mark Schoenberg, and Fran Pulver Patient-Friendly Publishing After... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

Hard Choices

aware of the distortions and outright mistakes that can arise from too much focus on the near term. But simply extending your focus to the temporal horizon is insufficient. Have you really inoculated your decision-making just by shifting... View Details

Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)

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Print View - Course Catalog

a growing demand within both HBS and the consulting firms many HBS students join after graduation. It was created by Senior Lecturer David Fubini, who spent 34 years at McKinsey & Company, during which time... View Details

15 Jan 2013
First Look

First Look: January 15

http://ssrn.com/abstract=2192460 Dollar Funding and the Lending Behavior of Global Banks Authors:Ivashina, Victoria, David S. Scharfstein, and Jeremy C. Stein Abstract A large share of dollar-denominated lending is done View Details