Happy End Problem - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Jan 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

and act in a way that supports the longer-term needs of their businesses—and it’s hard to fault them. The biggest problem with a short-term approach is that managers develop blind spots around crucial processes such as recruiting, hiring,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Jun 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing

any other course, it teaches humility," says MacCormack. "The best lessons come when students say, 'I was convinced that the problem was this, and it wasn't.' If they end up presenting to a global... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

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Elizabeth "Betsy" Latimer Jaffe Oral History - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

wasn't thinking that way. I was just happy to be there and to be studying business topics because I'd been an art major in college. So I'd gone into business without any real training except some job experience. So the courses were... View Details

01 Jun 1999
News

Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town

If there were ever any doubts that HBS graduates would travel to the ends of the earth to reestablish their ties to the School, those doubts can now be put to rest. Although the venue required at least a ten-hour flight for most... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

20 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

Crisis By: Becker, Bo, and Victoria Ivashina Abstract—By the end of 2013, the share of government debt held by the domestic banking sectors of Eurozone countries was more than twice its 2007 level. We show that this type of increasing... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2014
News

The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria

Nancy Barry (MBA 1975), founder and president of Enterprise Solutions to Poverty, which mobilizes and supports leading companies and entrepreneurs in building profitable and inclusive businesses that incorporate millions of low-income people. "The biggest View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; John H. Davis; Michael Halse; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

03 Jul 2024
News

Surviving the Iditarod

field full-time since the end of 2015, competing in outdoor events and running a backcountry guiding service in Southern Utah. In this episode of Skydeck, Stroeer tells contributor April White about what drives her to compete, walks us... View Details

05 May 2010
What Do You Think?

Is Denial Endemic to Management?

that "it is a natural human tendency to devolve into denial." As Elaine Sihera put it, "Denial comes out of fear of being wrong." Dan Wallace pointed out that neuroscientists tell us that "once you've solved a particular type of View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Jan 2006
News

Ann S. Moore, MBA 1978

important to surround yourself with the best people who are different from you; diversity matters not just in terms of gender or ethnicity, but also in how people think about problems and their solutions. HBS taught me to nurture healthy... View Details

02 Feb 2016
Blog Post

A Summer Internship in General Management

summer at a consumer packaged goods company that makes some of the country’s most well-known brands, I learned how to approach a problem from a marketing perspective. I feel that the additional granularity this gave me is a great... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

10 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Look at Globalization Now

Hutchison Whampoa group as an English-language broadcaster of mainly Western fare that targeted the top five percent of Asia's socioeconomic pyramid. But by the end of its first decade of operation, STAR had metamorphosed into a series of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

17 Dec 2017
News

How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression

other oftentimes gets lost. So I want it to be a two way street. And they were so happy with that. They said, you know what, if we get this going, we could probably live together, and there's so many things that we could do. And they and... View Details

12 May 2022
News

Turning a Moment into a Movement

there have been so few Black professionals in these positions. “How do you fix that problem of discovery when the board process is such an old boys’ network? It’s not the pipeline that’s the issue; it’s the opportunity.” Aisha Dozie (MBA... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

05 May 2020
News

“Walking a Tightrope”

just heart-wrenching. These people just have so much going against them that it really is hard to tread above water, which is why we called the book Tightrope. These people are walking on the tightrope of life. April: That quote from Drew Goff near the View Details

11 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History

the Mekong Delta, where you have the same. The US producers felt that they were being threatened by cheap fish from Vietnam, and local politicians went all the way up to Washington, which imposed a series of trade barriers. The costs are borne by diffuse interests,... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto; Aerospace; Chemical; Consumer Products; Electronics; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation

01 Oct 1997
News

Antitrust in Historical Perspective

Before he became a federal judge, the controversial Robert Bork once labeled antitrust "a policy at war with itself." In this case, he was right. Antitrust laws are problematic. That is not, however, to say that they are without value. The View Details

Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow

04 Nov 2020
News

The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises

Fienning, MBA Class of 1970, Section C. Five years after graduation, I was a partner in a mobile-home retailing company in Greensboro, North Carolina. I was a bachelor, living in a mobile home, and trying to create a manufactured housing empire. It was not working. The... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

Global Perspectives

Lecturer John Macomber. Macomber, who spent three decades in the real estate and construction business prior to joining HBS in 2007, is committed to making real progress on some of the problems that face African nations. He designed an... View Details

01 Sep 2015
News

The Protagonist Goes Prime Time

classmate working at IDEO connected him with the company. Unlike traditional case writing where a scenario can often be re-created, however, a multimedia case is most compelling when a company is in the midst of a project or challenge—and while the View Details

Keywords: April White

19 Aug 2021
News

A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues

know is this has hurt the Black community in so many ways. Specifically, it hurt Black banks, because Black banks were not able to prosper from these securities that are extraordinarily profitable in terms of them being mortgages, and we also know that the Black... View Details

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