MBA - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?

Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Reinhardt led a discussion of the case recently in the MBA field study seminar Innovation in Business, Energy, and Environment, held in Harvard's Innovation Lab. The case was prepared by... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Agriculture & Agribusiness

10 Jan 2007
HBS Case

The Challenge of Managing National Security

Associate Professor Jan Rivkin joined the HBS faculty in 1997 as a member of the Strategy Unit. His special area of interest is examining the interactions that occur between and across the various functional and product boundaries of the firm, which is the subject of... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Service

11 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses

instance, Paulson says she recently had a conversation with an executive MBA student who is designing a platform for matching patients with mental health care providers and wanted to learn from the Immigration Policy Lab’s experience. “I... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology

19 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

pushing,” he says. “You push where you can, but the outcome isn’t determined by anyone in particular.” Moss had his own experience with that scrum. Several years before the 2008 financial crash, he had been working on a new MBA financial... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

26 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

powerful as regulations? These questions remain. But for now, financiers and investors can join Kermit the Frog in having fun being green. Joseph B. Lassiter, MBA Class Of 1954 Professor Of Management Practice In 1993, Bill Murray starred... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities

08 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 8

Cases & Course MaterialsGLOBIS Mukti Khaire, Akiko Kanno, and Nobuo SatoHarvard Business School Case 811-061 Yoshito Hori, dean of the Graduate School of Management, GLOBIS University, was planning to launch a full-time English MBA... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?

recently as "technology has made it easier to build marketplaces for services and fine-tune the degree of control exerted over service provider-customer interactions." HourlyNerd allows consultants (typically MBA students) to hire... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Service; Technology

07 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

Video: Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela

to an HBS student? A: I study this event through the lens of my second-year MBA elective, Sustainable Cities: Urbanization, Infrastructure, and Finance. The relevant questions are always: What infrastructure is being built, and which... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Construction; Real Estate

18 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups

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. "A lot of discrimination happens because of implicit biases where... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

11 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

Women Entrepreneurs Usher in the Next Generation

Swan (HBS MBA '91), former executive vice president of Nickelodeon and now on the advisory board of Ascend Venture, and Donna Lopiano, executive director of the Women's Sports Foundation. HBS professor Myra M. Hart was a co-organizer of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 Dec 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

government wasn’t the sole province for public problem-solving. MBAs could join or launch companies that sell to government (or directly to citizens), lead venture funds, operate as ecosystem partners, and more. What felt like a new array... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

Participation, Pluralism, and Public Ethics. Ebrahim teaches the required MBA course Leadership and Organizational Behavior, and chairs the Executive Education program Governing for Nonprofit Excellence. Q: Mario, tell us about Venture... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

19 May 2016
Research Event

Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

Cell Biology at Harvard. Sato oversees the Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Sciences Entrepreneurship, which provides a select group of HBS MBA alumni the opportunity to work with top Harvard inventors. The goal: To promote the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel

21 Nov 2016
Research & Ideas

It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales

strategic objectives,” he says. “Selling divorced from the firm’s goals may be good for individual salespeople and their compensation, but it’s not good for the enterprise and its investors.” The value of selling MBA finance courses often... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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

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