MBAs - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Race Does Matter in Mentoring

reputation for being an excellent performer, and he gained the cooperation, respect, and sometimes the friendship of whites who were initially either resistant or hesitant to work with him. After seven years as an engineer, Williams decided to pursue his View Details

Keywords: by David A. Thomas

08 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 8

CEIBS MBA program had been ranked 8th in the world and 1st in Asia in the 2009 Financial Times Global MBA Rankings. This was the first time the program had been ranked in the world's top 10, a remarkable... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Global Change in the Built Environment

leadership of the real estate industry around the world. I also was able to share what we are trying to teach in our real estate MBA curriculum and get feedback on what we now teach or might teach in the future. Several alumni proposed... View Details

Keywords: by Arthur Segel; Construction; Real Estate

01 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls

bear. Written by Harvard Business School Visiting Professor Thomas H. Davenport and independent consultant Brook Manville, the book shares the tales of organizations that made successful choices through team-led decisions. This excerpt explores the entrepreneurial... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas H. Davenport & Brook Manville; Consumer Products

02 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Health Care Research and Prospects

health care occurring. If you look over time at the number of new cases created alone in health care that are used throughout our MBA program, it's a huge number. For the doctoral prong, we created and offered a management track for... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild Swearingen; Health

08 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’

Fifty years ago, when America was unquestionably a man's world, one small but influential part of it officially opened its doors to women: the MBA program at Harvard Business School. On Thursday, about 800 of the School's roughly 11,000... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette

05 Apr 2021
What Do You Think?

Why Can’t More Leaders Teach?

regularly invites CEOs and other practitioners to complement our full-time, tenure-track faculty in teaching MBA classes. The executives are typically well-recognized for their successful careers. As faculty head of the View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Explaining China's Crash

MBA 1988) is a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School. For two decades, he ran equity capital markets for Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley. His casework focuses on international investment, sovereign... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese; Financial Services

08 May 2013
Research & Ideas

A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity

This article is part of a continuing series on faculty research and teaching commemorating the 50th anniversary of the first women to enter Harvard Business School's two-year MBA program. As the first longitudinal examination of the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

15 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise

the nonprofit sector. To expect 20 to 30 percent is asking too much. Maybe we could pump the percentage up to 7 to 10 percent. But at the end of the day, even counting graduates from other business schools, if you produce 2,000 to 3,000 View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson

08 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

Who Rises to Power in American Business?

was often a key lever in compensating for an outsider status. As part of the professional credential process discussed previously, many of the outsiders in our research were far more educated than insiders. The MBA as a prerequisite for... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

22 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

The Mind of the Market: Extending the Frontiers of Marketing Thought

ZMET in addition to digital imaging, for corporate clients as well as MBA and Executive Education students. He's also involved in Harvard's interdisciplinary initiative Mind/Brain/Behavior, and studies neuroimaging techniques as applied... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

25 Jul 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

social impact. This registered benefit corporation was formed by Davis Smith who coalesced his experiences as a Wharton MBA student along with professional knowledge from an unpaid internship in Peru and his previous e-commerce startups... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

19 Mar 2013
First Look

First Look: March 19

EverTrue and is struggling with issues like a conflict in his B2B2C business models and what his next steps should be as well as personal concerns. At the moment, he is trying to decide among three candidates for CTO, and he must weigh the importance of having an View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Breaking Through a Growth Stall

identify your core customers and build a scalable platform for growth around them. That's the message from Frank V. Cespedes, the MBA Class of 1973 Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at Harvard Business School; James P. Dougherty,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

How to Choose the Best Deal

proposals. It's important to know when to declare a winner, especially when relationships are involved. New MBAs sometimes learn this lesson to their regret when recruiters rescind job offers in the face of demands for special perks. In... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler

25 Jun 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing

The mission: To sell more laptops. The market: Rural China. The challenge: The business partner wants to know what laptop features would be appealing to customers in rural China. Landing in Shanghai with eight days to find out, a team of six Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

14 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets

the Bajaj Group in India; Güler Sabancı, head of the $14 billion Sabancı conglomerate in Turkey; and Manu Chandaria, chairman of the multimillion-dollar Comcraft Group in Kenya. Growing In A Slow-moving Economy Rahul Bajaj In his interview Rahul Bajaj (HBS View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Manufacturing; Auto

12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Operations and the Competitive Edge

serving as the School's Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Planning and Development, and Steve was Director of the MBA program. By the time we had a chance to think seriously about this project again, in the late '90s, we came to the... View Details