MBA - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?

idea with the San Francisco SPCA, she learned that somebody else had approached the organization with a similar thought. This was Elena Battles, a Stanford MBA graduate and the former COO of the Humane Society Silicon Valley. Exley and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

27 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Building Businesses in Turbulent Times

can think strategically about where the business will be and how they might build for the future. A great example is Lou Gerstner (HBS MBA '65). When he took the helm at IBM, he had to take $7 billion out of the company's cost structure... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

15 May 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Women Find New Path to Work

kind of like "I've been out of this game and I don't know the right way to present myself physically for this." Maybe not everybody feels the need for that, but some do, and we might make that the last session—kind of a fun session. We are considering opening... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

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 Nov 2024
Op-Ed

How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis

Harvard Business School’s Africa Research Center (ARC) and a member of the Finance Unit at HBS. My MBA elective course is called Cities, Structures, and Climate Shocks. This winter, my fellow HBS researchers and I canvassed investors,... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Green Technology; Energy

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

07 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

had a "system" of hiring MBAs in cohorts of ten to fifteen. These young MBAs were generally placed into "assistant to" positions (assisting the head of a division, for example) for a... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

26 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?

much more than just an income,” says Hussam, who teaches the course Business, Government and the International Economy to MBA students. “It gives you a sense of identity, of purpose, of a larger goal. It gives you an opportunity to build... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

02 Nov 2016
What Do You Think?

Are Employees Becoming Job 'Renters' Instead of 'Owners'?

Rosen added, “If you really want people to act like owners, combine real employee ownership and an ownership culture.” Employees may approach their work with a renter’s mentality. Casual MBA observed that, “From running a retail... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: The Business of Crowdsourcing

day." Greg Lipstein, an MBA student at HBS who is also co-founder of DrivenData, agreed during a summit session called "Innovating With the Crowd" that it's important to maintain a healthy dialogue with the community to build credibility... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

27 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

Report From Egypt: Studying Global Influences

ways to manage a business. One of the companies gave employees two hours a week to tutor at a school and was influential in raising standards for healthcare. The university students wanted career advice and wanted to know when and how to work for a cause they cared... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

19 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them

her course for Harvard MBA students, Managing Service Operations, which explores interactions between firms and customers. Defy Conventional Wisdom Commerce Bank entered a mature industry where the overall level of customer satisfaction... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

11 Jul 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11

Business School Case 817-103 Catalant: The Future of Work? Catalant, founded in 2013 as an online marketplace where MBAs could bid on consulting projects posted by small- to medium-sized businesses, had expanded by 2016 to provide Fortune... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds

Group, Inc. in 2015: Celebrating 40. Co-written with HBS finance professor Adi Sunderam along with Allison M. Ciechanover (HBS MBA 2002), director of the HBS California Research Center, the case looks at the current state of Vanguard,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

20 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation

be a CEO-level decision. Embracing external innovators does not come naturally to most firms—we don't have a course (yet) on this topic at HBS! But the CEO has to mandate this approach. Procter & Gamble's CEO A.G. Lafley (HBS MBA '77)... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

27 Jun 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Learning to Make the Move to CEO

Initially, the discussion tends to focus on the ideas that have been taught, says Simons. From about the midway point of the program onward, however, participants begin to share what they will do differently at their companies as a result of what they've learned.... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

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

11 Aug 2016
Cold Call Podcast

Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night

for anybody, but you need to apply to all of these places because all of them are getting in many more applications than quite frankly they need or deserve. Brian: Right, so you've taught this case in class before? Bill: I've taught it this term to my View Details

Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Education

19 Jul 2011
First Look

First Look: July 19

J. DeLong, and Jevan SooHarvard Business School Case 411-031 Describes the problems facing a recent MBA graduate in his job as general manager of a medical device company owned by a parent corporation. Raises issues of corporate... View Details