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- 11 Aug 2020
- News
Find Your Allies
Carla Harris (MBA 1987) Carla Harris (MBA 1987) When she went off to Harvard College, Carla Ann Harris (MBA 1987) was pretty sure she wanted to be a lawyer. “I loved Perry Mason at the time and I loved to argue my point,” she told Bloomberg Markets. But her experience... View Details
- 21 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Malcolm McClain (MBA/MPP 2023) Named First RISE Career Fellow
understanding of the challenges businesses face operating in marginalized communities, especially companies addressing the racial wealth gap. Working alongside BrightUp will enable me to gain first-hand experience with a Black founding... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
At Your Service
aspects are mutually reinforcing. You write a lot about corporate culture in companies such as Zappos. Why is culture so important? Morriss: A culture exists to influence how people think, so their discretionary behavior will be... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Action Plan: Fired Up
“We’re not a brand; we’re a community,” says Traeger Grills President and CEO Jeremy Andrus (MBA 2002). At his Salt Lake City–based barbecue equipment company, and throughout his career, Andrus has made developing company culture an entrepreneurial priority.... View Details
- 28 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance
MBA programs in America and the top five in Europe. While some offer banking courses, and others offer behavioral courses, none had a course that was specifically about consumer finance. Here at HBS, we have a rich set of finance... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Better than Cash
area, having served more than 250 nonprofits and providing consulting services worth approximately $1.5 million annually, says HBSA/NC president Sean Jacobsohn (MBA ’98). Nonprofits across the country are under increasing pressure to professionalize their View Details
- 30 Sep 2022
- News
How to Intervene When You Witness a Microaggression
- 24 Mar 2022
- News
Well Said
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Anada Lakra (MBA 2021) left her native Albania to attend Yale, she had studied English for a decade and felt pretty confident in her ability to communicate... View Details
- 15 Aug 2021
- News
You’ve Never Heard of the Biggest Digital Media Company in America
The New York Times recently profiled Red Ventures, led by CEO and cofounder Ric Elias (MBA 1994), calling the company “perhaps the biggest digital publisher in America, a 4,500-employee juggernaut that says it has roughly $2 billion in annual revenues, a conservative... View Details
- 31 Mar 2021
- News
Just Digital Future Summit
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Siebel Addresses HBS Northern California Club
In December, some 450 alumni representing HBS and other top business schools gathered for a talk by Thomas M. Siebel, chairman and CEO of Siebel Systems, Inc., which produces e-business application software. The event, sponsored by the HBS Association of Northern... View Details
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
innovations might impact—and be impacted by—workers, consumers, organizations, and society. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55845 March 2019 Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Choice... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
firms’ institution-seeking behavior by documenting how they make strategic use of weaker institutions. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51721 Surfacing the Submerged State: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
that’s essential for creativity and efficiency. Chopped-up schedules interrupt deep thinking, so people come to work early, stay late, or use weekends for quiet time to concentrate. And dysfunctional meeting behaviors are associated with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
Executives must adjust the span of control for each key position and unit on the basis of how the company delivers value to customers. Consider Wal-Mart, which has configured its entire organization to deliver low prices. Wal-Mart's strategy depends on standardization... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 18 Apr 2007
- HBS Case
How Magazine Luiza Courts the Poor
the United States. We've been unable to crack that code of 'courting the poor' in any systematic way, so I wanted to investigate further." Frei, a member of the HBS Technology and Operations Management Unit, uses the case in the... View Details
- 08 Sep 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Capitalism Works Better When I Can See What You're Doing
your messages after they are read. The problem: The memory of your uninhibited behavior lingers. Research Papers Surfacing the Submerged State with Operational Transparency in Government ServicesCitizens who... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Harvard Business School
Andrew E. Honeycutt (DBA) 1975 An Ethnographic Study of Low-Income Consumer Behavior Hassell H. McClellan (DBA) 1978 One-Bank Holding Companies: a Study of Management Clifford E. Darden (DBA) 1982 Organizational Survival as a Function of... View Details
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
of hospitals, and to contrast these concerns with national patient safety initiatives. Data Sources. Primary data include semi-structured interviews with frontline staff and 1732 staff identified operational failures at 20 U.S. hospitals... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace