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- Faculty Publications (159)
- December 2022
- Article
Social Skills Improve Business Performance: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial with Entrepreneurs in Togo
By: Stefan Dimitriadis and Rembrand Koning
Recent field experiments demonstrate that advice, mentorship, and feedback from randomly assigned peers improve entrepreneurial performance. These results raise a natural question: what is preventing entrepreneurs and managers from forming these peer connections... View Details
Keywords: Social Skills; Business Performance; Entrepreneurs; Peer Relationships; Field Experiment; Entrepreneurship; Performance; Relationships; Interpersonal Communication; Togo
Dimitriadis, Stefan, and Rembrand Koning. "Social Skills Improve Business Performance: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial with Entrepreneurs in Togo." Management Science 68, no. 12 (December 2022): 8635–8657.
- 14 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Future Leaders Dive into the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program
around the world who comprise the first cohort, which started in the fall of 2018. The two-year program confers both an MBA and a Master of Science in Engineering Sciences. It is designed to train future leaders of technology ventures by... View Details
- 27 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
My Week at Harvard Business School's Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP)
I am incredibly grateful to have spent this past week at Harvard Business School's Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP) aimed at introducing rising seniors to Harvard's MBA and, in all, exposing us to the impact of strong... View Details
- Fast Answer
Student Proposed Fellowship Program - Resources for selecting your organization
to filter for organizations using criteria such as subject, location, and classification. Capital IQ - Profiles of public and private companies and nonprofit organizations. Screen for companies and use the 'company type' View Details
- 07 Nov 2017
- Blog Post
Women and the MBA: 6 Important Aspects of the HBS Program
that I had two female professors. Kristen Mugford is an incredible advocate for women in business - especially for women in investing (where women remain significantly underrepresented). Caroline Elkins, my FIELD Foundations professor, is... View Details
- 06 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Bringing Music to the HBS Classroom: My Journey as a Nontraditional Student in the Summer Venture in Management Program
It was January of 2022 when I stumbled upon the homepage of Harvard Business School’s Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP) while browsing a music industry leader’s LinkedIn page. At the time, with my background in music, non-profit... View Details
- Web
The Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration: 1956 - 1962 | Baker Library
The Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration: 1956 - 1962 "From College to Career." Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration brochure, ca. 1956. Harvard-Radcliffe View Details
- February 2018
- Article
Retention Futility: Targeting High-Risk Customers Might Be Ineffective.
By: Eva Ascarza
Companies in a variety of sectors are increasingly managing customer churn proactively, generally by detecting customers at the highest risk of churning and targeting retention efforts towards them. While there is a vast literature on developing churn prediction models... View Details
Keywords: Retention/churn; Proactive Churn Management; Field Experiments; Heterogeneous Treatment Effect; Machine Learning; Customer Relationship Management; Risk Management
Ascarza, Eva. "Retention Futility: Targeting High-Risk Customers Might Be Ineffective." Journal of Marketing Research (JMR) 55, no. 1 (February 2018): 80–98.
- 25 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
Learning the Language of Business and Science – The MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Program
understanding of both the scientific and business implications. Ultimately, this program will enable students to make a great impact on this important field going forward. View Details
- February 2014
- Case
BGI: Data-driven Research
By: Willy Shih and Sen Chai
BGI has the largest installed gene-sequencing capacity in the world, and to Zhang Gengyun, general manager of the Life Sciences Division, this represented an opportunity to apply his training as a plant breeder and his early career work as a biochemist to improving... View Details
Keywords: Genomics; Gene Sequencing; Life Sciences; Plant Breeding; Human Genome Program; Beijing Genomics Institute; BGI; Rice Genome; Technological Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Research; Research and Development; Science; Genetics; Science-Based Business; Strategy; Commercialization; Corporate Strategy; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; China; United States
Shih, Willy, and Sen Chai. "BGI: Data-driven Research." Harvard Business School Case 614-056, February 2014.
- 15 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
How I Spent My 2+2 Deferral: Carol Wright
The HBS 2+2 program is a deferred admission process for current students in their final year of study, either in college or a full-time master’s degree program. If you are admitted through 2+2, you work for two to four years in a View Details
- Career Coach
Kendall Borges
Kendall Borges (HGSE ’16) is the Director of Alumni and Student Programming in Career & Professional Development at Harvard Business School. In her role, she leads high-impact programming to support both... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- 2016
- Chapter
Innovation Experiments: Researching Technical Advance, Knowledge Production and the Design of Supporting Institutions
By: Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani
This paper discusses several challenges in designing field experiments to better understand how organizational and institutional design shapes innovation outcomes and the production of knowledge. We proceed to describe the field experimental research program carried... View Details
Boudreau, Kevin J., and Karim R. Lakhani. "Innovation Experiments: Researching Technical Advance, Knowledge Production and the Design of Supporting Institutions." In Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 16, edited by William R. Kerr, Josh Lerner, and Scott Stern, 135–167. National Bureau of Economic Research, and University of Chicago Press, 2016.
- 27 Jan 2014
- Blog Post
Opportunity Abounds
By the time you read this, the 940 first-year students of the Class of 2015 will have just returned from HBS FIELD 2. FIELD 2 is a program where 6 person teams of first-year... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 2011
- Article
Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads
By: Srikant M. Datar, David A. Garvin and Patrick Cullen
The paper seeks to examine major challenges facing MBA programs and to argue that they will have to reconsider their value proposition. It aims to explore effective curricular and programmatic responses as opportunities for MBA programs to innovate. The paper also aims... View Details
Keywords: Business Education; Curriculum and Courses; Innovation and Invention; Problems and Challenges; Value Creation
Datar, Srikant M., David A. Garvin, and Patrick Cullen. "Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads." Journal of Management Development 30, no. 5 (2011): 451–462.
- Awards
Marketing Science Institute Young Scholar
Selected for the Marketing Science Institute's 2009 Young Scholar Program. The biennial MSI Young Scholar Program brings together some of the most promising scholars in marketing and closely related fields to explore research opportunities and encourage future research... View Details
- 28 Nov 2023
- Video
Foundational Research
- March 1990
- Supplement
OTISLINE (B)
Provides a brief update about the OTISLINE application and service center concept. Includes discussions of the chairman's perception of the impact of OTISLINE on customer service and the field organization's response to the OTISLINE service. Includes a description of a... View Details
Balaguer, Nancy S. "OTISLINE (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 190-149, March 1990.
- 22 Sep 2016
- HBS Seminar