class of 49 - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS

opportunity to attend Professor Richard Tedlow's elective class, "The Coming of Managerial Capitalism." Anyone who has attended this class would, I think, agree that it is the kind View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard; Banking; Financial Services

11 Jan 2011
First Look

First Look: Jan. 11

the most daunting challenges of leadership. Publisher Link: http://hbr.org/product/being-the-boss-the-3-imperatives-for-becoming-a-gr/an/12285-HBK-ENG Building World Class Universities in Asia Author:D.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Dec 2017
Research & Ideas

What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets

Harvard Business School’s exploration of the evolution of business leadership in Africa, Asia, and Latin America has reached an important milestone. This month the Creating Emerging Markets project will... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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.... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Real Estate

27 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: September 27

effects are often applied in settings where clustering may be important. We provide a general methodology for consistently estimating the variance of a large class of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Jun 2010
Research & Ideas

Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets

vehicle at the $2,500 price level to address the needs of the emerging middle class in India. At the same time, Ratan Tata has challenged his companies to think globally. They have done a large number View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

The New Real Estate

2001, real estate has become a legitimate asset class and a good diversifier from stocks and bonds. Second, with graying populations in the West and Japan, real estate is particularly appreciated because it is a strong generator View Details

Keywords: by Arthur I. Segel; Construction; Real Estate

25 May 2010
First Look

First Look: May 25

advance class discussion of the (A) and (B) cases to encompass events as they unfolded. Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/210066-PDF-ENG CityCenter (D): Financial Crisis, Grand... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

When Business Competition Harms Society

Last winter, a senior admissions officer at Claremont McKenna College resigned, after admitting to inflating reported SAT scores of the incoming class for six years and sending the falsified reports to U.S.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto

31 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Marketing’s Conventional Wisdom

your subject. A: The reason I love consumer marketing so much is that it's really the study of human behavior. Why do people buy and consume? Why do they have preferences? Of all the business disciplines,... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Service

02 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

Government and Financial Tech Can Fix Cash Woes for Small Businesses

months some compelling data have been released that give us more insight into cash flow dynamics of America’s small businesses. This month’s JPMorgan Chase Institute’s Cash is King: Flows, Balances and Buffer Days report showed that on... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills

04 Mar 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar

before it turned profitable." The HBS Class of 1979 produced a raft of high-profile executives, including Meg Whitman, president and CEO of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto

04 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Max Bazerman

resolution and negotiation classes concerning how to enlarge the pie. I believe that the mindset of exploring wise tradeoffs is more common in business schools than in law or policy schools, where... View Details

Keywords: Re: Max H. Bazerman

07 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

The Quest for Better Layoffs

company ravaged by a massive fire. "They were very upset," says Sucher, the MBA Class of 1966 Professor of Management Practice and Joseph L. Rice, III Faculty Fellow... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

23 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Status: When and Why It Matters

today. Looking at grand cru-classified wines of the vintages from 1991 to 2008, Malter found that the wines from the first class earned three times as much as wines from the second class, holding constant... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

30 Jun 2020
What Do You Think?

Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?

“class,” I recognize some who later came to HBS. More probably ended up in other MBA programs. And others probably concluded that business wasn’t for them. To this day the program still thrives. So here we are, 37 years later, with an HBS View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

Editor’s note: Last Friday, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order indefinitely preventing Syrian refugees from entering the United States, suspending all refugee admission for 120 days, and blocking all citizens of seven... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

08 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid?

has encountered several hiccups in recent years that have put the timing of its implementation in question, leading Rebecca M. Henderson, the John and Natty McArthur University Professor, to get students thinking during a View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Energy; Utilities

03 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?

constitute an impressive 49 percent of the world's capital markets. But the job picture is bleak, with over four million people unemployed for more than 26 weeks. Productivity growth has been negative for... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Banking; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate

14 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Andy Grove on the Confident Leader

knowledge of the business is not what got you where you are. So you're less likely to have confidence in your own intuition. This is an intuitive process, because the numbers aren't in and the evidence isn't in. CC: The problem with the... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kiechel; Technology

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