Center For Constitutional Rights - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Crafting a Nontraditional Path to Venture Capital and Private Equity with Morgan Sheil (MBA 2021)

a year and a half working in supply chain optimization at Pinnacle Foods in New Jersey, Sheil faced a choice – begin her MBA now or pull one more lever of change. “I had the option to either go to HBS or I could do something else for a... View Details

22 Aug 2019
News

Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector

talent, you find great investments. Through that talent is where investment comes in and you can begin to see examples. Microsoft just opened up a development center in Nigeria and Kenya, five years ago that may not have happened. And... View Details

21 May 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

CORe: HBS Powers Up Online Program on Business Fundamentals

As a Harvard Business School professor for 20 years, V.G. Narayanan has significant experience using the School's pioneering case method to teach business concepts—introducing a real-world management problem, and then using the Socratic... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

Profile

Frank Mycroft

For Frank Mycroft, business management really is rocket science. A self-confessed Star Trek fan, Frank fell in love with "the final frontier" early in life and fulfilled his obsession with not one, but two advanced degrees from... View Details

31 Oct 2019
Blog Post

5 Things on My Mind in the Second Year of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

remember that it took me a while to become comfortable with the case method. As an engineer, I was trained to look for the right answer and to prove it with formulas and theorems. However, in an HBS... View Details

01 Mar 2003
News

Inside the Revolution

right choices for themselves and for society.” That can be a tall order. The magnitude and scope of the life sciences revolution (and its potential risks) challenge the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Eileen McCluskey; Jonathan West; Life Sciences Project; LSP; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2018
News

‘We were just doing what needed to be done’

disappointed. I said, “Oh my gosh, another segregated situation.” I thought that Harvard had run an unfair game of projecting itself as being so liberal. I associated the School with the Kennedy brothers and what they were trying to do—fighting View Details

10 Mar 2015
News

Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling

discrimination and harassment lawsuit a woman cofounder lodged against the Tinder dating app to the comments of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who advised women against asking for a raise, but instead “knowing and having faith that the... View Details

Keywords: April White

15 Nov 2004
Research & Ideas

Solving the Health Care Conundrum

commodity, the major actors have focused primarily on lowering and shifting costs, increasing their bargaining power, and restricting services. Providers have offered broad and undifferentiated services, competing based on convenience and historical reputation in their... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

Web

Commencement 2016 Address | About

teaching, is called Authentic Leadership Development. A central idea in that course is that each of us is deeply shaped by the crucible experiences in our lives—those moments of adversity that mark us for ever. I think the same thing is... View Details

05 Sep 2017
News

Living the Quantitative Life

my fitness score for the day. Morrell: So things like that were really—it's more about encouraging myself to be centered and happy when I go to the beach as opposed to grumbly that what heck am I going to do... View Details

15 Feb 2017
Op-Ed

What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects

bridges, water, power and more? It’s not because they don’t aspire to. It’s because they lack the money and the expertise (in African cities) or because they can’t get to political consensus (in the United States)—or because there are other priorities View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction

16 Jul 2019
News

The Making of a Movement

clinical trials. The couple adopted the cause as their calling and organized a fundraiser to support the work of Jen’s doctors at Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Cancer Center. “Our idea, which came to be known as Cycle for Survival, View Details

Keywords: Greg Forbes Siegman; cancer

01 Feb 1997
News

Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making

Jerry R. Green, using game-theory insights, studies the negotiation process within agencies as he looks for ways that business or government can make the right decision for an... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 1, 2007

obtain bandwidth larger (smaller) than s/(s+f). The paper constitutes a first step towards a general analytical foundation for scarce resource allocation in peer-to-peer file sharing networks. PDF not... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2025
News

Patch Work

The week before the November 2024 US elections was like so many that came before at Winning Connections, with John Jameson (MBA 1991) padding around his firm’s Capitol Hill town house in athletic shorts, trying to demonstrate that the telephone still has a role to play... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg; Illustrations by Dan Bejar

01 Dec 2018
News

Hard Choices

to make long-term-oriented decisions, to put aside the short-term performance pressures and personal career or compensation considerations to do the right thing for the business. With excessive short-term... View Details

Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)

14 Feb 2019
News

Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change

Administrator Gina McCarthy, who now serves as the director of C-CHANGE (Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, sees some moves in the right... View Details

09 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 9, 2008

workplace that has traditionally rewarded men for masculine displays of prowess and interactions centered on proving masculinity—in which such displays and interactions were absent. In this case,... View Details