writing - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Budgeting Kills Your Company

keep a tight rein on costs—but the dynamics of the budgeting process often undermine this effort. "In tough times like these, any significant real cost growth feels imprudent and is hard to justify for most businesses," writes... View Details

Keywords: by Loren Gary

24 Jul 2017
Research & Ideas

People Have an Irrational Need to Complete 'Sets' of Things

and your fiancé struggling to write thank-you cards for all those wedding shower gifts? Try batching the unwritten cards into sets of eight. Rather than feeling overwhelmed by the prospect of writing one... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 1997
News

Multimedia Martha: Sharon Patrick Cooks Up A Winner

on television, listen to it on the radio, read it in the magazine, look at it on the Web. And with all of our elements combined into a single company, we can take advantage of economies of scale. Our writers write across the board; our... View Details

02 Mar 2016
News

David Moss is Rewriting History

Xs, and arrows in every direction. “What you are doing is writing the Constitution—specifically Article 1, Section 8,” Moss tells the class. It’s no idle practice; Harvard University claims eight United States presidents among its alumni.... View Details

Keywords: April White

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Commodities, Currencies, and Balancing of the Trade Deficit - A Chronicle of the China Trade

government officials also tried to use the moral argument in their negotiations with the British,” Geoffrey Jones, Elisabeth Köll, and Alexis Gendron write in Opium and Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth Century . 17 After losing the... View Details

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Running a Program/Submitting a Job - Research Computing Services

HBSGrid. The easiest is using wrapper (default submission) scripts via NoMachine and pre-defined commands. The other method is custom submission scripts , which offers maximum flexibility but involves writing one-line unix commands or... View Details

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McArthur Hall | About

writing cases, and increasingly taking on administrative roles, particularly during the tenure of his predecessor, Dean Lawrence E. Fouraker. McArthur was 46 when he was appointed Dean in 1980. As the School’s seventh Dean, McArthur... View Details

26 Mar 2021
Blog Post

How to Build a Resume That Stands Above the Competition

a webinar on resumes. We asked Jill to answer a few questions related to her presentation, to assist you all as you navigate the job search process. What is your #1 tip for writing a strong resume that will stand out amongst the... View Details

Blog

Is AI Coming for Your Job?

technological innovations, certain sets of skills become more important, while others become less important. I believe the same will be true with generative AI. Programmers, for example, will not need to write as much code from scratch.... View Details

07 Jul 2011
What Do You Think?

So We Adapt. What’s the Downside?

following only those willing to adapt? Should someone write yet another book, perhaps with a title like Commit: Why Success Always Requires Continued Commitment to Good Ideas? What's the downside of "adapt"? What do you think?... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Jul 2020
Blog Post

How SVMP Helped Me Take My Next Steps (2+2) and Find Myself

I am becoming. The power of that memoir title never really hit me until I sat to write this blog post. I don’t mean to quote Michelle Obama in making that statement (I mean there are definitely worse people to quote), but it’s a powerful... View Details

12 Mar 2021
News

My Favorite Case

students, case development is central to developing a strong HBS faculty and their understanding of the trends and strategic issues facing organizations, says emeritus professor Joseph Bower. A gift from the Joseph Bower Family Fund to support ambitious case View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

17 Jan 2023
Book

Good Companies Commit Crimes, But Great Leaders Can Prevent Them

good companies commit criminal violations. The interview has been edited for length and clarity. “Executives at large companies often have limited knowledge of the risk that their companies can face for potential wrongdoing. ” Lane Lambert: What inspired you to View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

01 Sep 2023
News

Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

1,300 MBA students traveled abroad to 20 countries this year for hands-on, immersive learning experiences. The centers’ primary focus has been on case writing and facilitating faculty research, explains Executive Director Victoria... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

15 Jul 2020
Blog Post

From Teacher to Student: The Important Ways HBS Professors Showed Me How to Lead

fields, with careers and lives of their own, running to book talks and writing cases that generations of MBA students read. But despite all of that, they always manage to make time for students like me. It's with their help – both inside... View Details

02 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top

the many developers worldwide who write for Microsoft platforms. When these developers find attractive alternatives to Microsoft technologies—as they did when the Internet first emerged—it's not long before the tools division starts to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

22 Mar 2017
HBS Seminar

Gerald C. Kane, Boston College

16 May 2000
Research & Ideas

The Simple Economics of Open Source

Why in the world would anyone take the time to write complicated software programs for free? It's a good question, one that has piqued the curiosity of a number of economists, who wonder what benefits, if any, lie behind the burgeoning... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology

20 Oct 2015
Blog Post

What to Expect Your First Year at HBS

either my character or perspective. I am writing this blogpost from the office of a venture capital firm in Palo Alto. I have never been an investor and I have never lived in California. I would have never had the privilege to work in... View Details

19 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

A Brand Manager’s Guide to Losing Control

Criticism. The immediacy of today's consumer complaints represents a power shift between companies and consumers. The former are more pressured than ever to address the concerns of the latter. In the past, customers with an individual beef could View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

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