MBA - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting

underscored the risk and uncertainty inherent to capitalism itself. Sean Silverthorne: Why did you decide to write this book? Walter Friedman: The idea came to me years ago when teaching "Creating Modern Capitalism," a short course that was once required for incoming... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

28 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Why Manufacturing Matters

operate. Pisano: One of our key messages is to get students to appreciate that manufacturing involves a lot of knowledge work. There has almost been a whole generation of MBA students and managers who have been brought up on a false idea... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Manufacturing

15 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Founding CEO’s Dilemma: Stay or Go?

Noam Wasserman is an assistant professor and MBA Class of 1961 Fellow in the entrepreneurial management unit at Harvard Business School. His paper "Founder-CEO Succession and the Paradox of Entrepreneurial Success," published in... View Details

28 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor

I thought that change came out of the barrel of a gun. … But life has many surprises for twenty-year-olds." He pursued an MBA degree from HBS, graduated in 1976, and joined the Boston Consulting Group, eventually gravitating to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Studying Japan from the Inside

Masako Egawa (HBS MBA '86) discusses the evolution of the JRO and of Japan itself in this e-mail interview. Churchwell: What has been the most interesting company to write about in your case development? Egawa: All the companies on which... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

20 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business

recent study estimates that between 1990 and 1997, two hundred thousand more people moved out of the state than into it, in large part due to housing prices. Poorvu: Analyzing a mix of socioeconomic factors. (photo: Richard Chase) At HBS, William J. Poorvu, the View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Real Estate

08 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 8

http://www.people.hbs.edu/jsiegel/SiegelLichtSchwartz_EFDI_20120310.pdf Daily Horizons: Evidence of Narrow Bracketing in Judgments from 9,000 MBA Admission Interviews Authors:U. Simonsohn and F. Gino Publication:Psychological Science... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

12 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 12, 2006

806-148 Describes the sixth and final module of the Harvard Business School MBA second-year elective course Legal Aspects of Management. This module deals with the way firms should approach business risks in order to avoid legal liability... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Hard Numbers on Social Investments

In what is believed to be the largest study of its kind, MBA students at Harvard Business School recently analyzed the financial returns generated by 110 early-stage companies backed by Investors' Circle, a national network dedicated to... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

04 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From

Sucher is the MBA Class of 1966 Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School and Shalene Gupta is a research associate. They co-authored the new book The Power of Trust: How Companies Earn It, Lose It, Regain It. [Image:... View Details

Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta

16 Jul 2014
HBS Case

Marketing Obamacare

Harvard MBA Philip Stevens as a member of the project team. Together, they realized early on that the state pool of 345,000 uninsured Connecticut residents was hardly a homogenous group—within it were young people who didn't want... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

30 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers

and incentives—whether organizations promoted and rewarded employees based on performance and tried to keep the best performers from quitting. To collect the data, the researchers hired teams of MBA students who could interview managers... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

30 Nov 2011
Research & Ideas

Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism

learning how to operate in the public arena without getting into trouble. It's hard." Addressing The Problems HBS has made significant strides in preparing students to be the kind of leaders that the book calls for, says Leonard, noting as one example the required... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

12 May 2003
Research & Ideas

How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?

where most players are losing money but capturing the imagination of the industry. But it's unclear how you make money on Wi-Fi. For example, the service-provider model would be difficult, he said, because it would be hard to create barriers to entry. Jim Balsillie... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne & Martha Lagace; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

25 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Lean Strategy Not Just for Start-Ups

Lean start-up strategies aren't just for start-ups anymore. That was the key message that Intuit cofounder Scott Cook (HBS MBA '76) shared in a small seminar with Harvard Business School faculty recently. Since its launch in 1983, the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

30 Jan 2006
HBS Case

The Case of the Mystery Writer’s Brand

from the James Patterson brand. Patterson brings an ad man's sophistication to marketing his work. "I see his success as a sublime integration of operations and marketing," says Deighton, who taught the case to MBAs for the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing

03 Apr 2006
What Do You Think?

Has Globalization Reached Its Peak?

manufacturers in particular face a decline in capability as a result of vigorous outsourcing initiatives. This seems to come at a time when outsourcing is still on the rise. I was reminded of this again in late March: Several MBA student... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet

What was it like teaching the case to MBA students? A: We had a new course in the spring, with about 60 MBA students, called Managing in the Creative Economy. This case was explored over 2 sessions. In the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music

16 Aug 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Introduces Marketing Analysis Tools for Managers

outside the classroom? A: The marketing analysis toolkits were designed to provide a quantitative foundation for analyzing marketing decisions and an analytical structure and process for completing a marketing plan project. They can be used in undergraduate and View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders

terms of not only financial performance but management practices and reputation in the community. The result of her efforts is the MBA elective course Globalization, Culture, and Management. According to Paine, as students examine the... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

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