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  • 28 Mar 2025
  • News

New MBA Course Uses AI Tools to Help Students Stay on the Pulse of AI

  • July 2015
  • Article

Prosocial Norms in the Classroom: The Role of Self-regulation in Following Norms of Giving

By: P. R. Blake, M. Piovesan, N. Montinari, F. Werneken and F. Gino
Children who are prosocial in elementary school tend to have higher academic achievement and experience greater acceptance by their peers in adolescence. Despite this positive influence on educational outcomes, it is still unclear why some children are more prosocial... View Details
Keywords: Behavior; Attitudes; Learning; Standards; Education Industry
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    Kristin W. Mugford

    Kristin Mugford is the Melvin Tukman Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Finance Unit at the Harvard Business School and the Senior Associate Dean for Culture and Community. She previously served as Faculty Chair for field-based learning and... View Details

    • 10 Nov 2015
    • Blog Post

    Using an MBA for a Career Change

    back into professional services.  OmniCom Group in New YorkPost-MBA position After graduation I signed up for a year-long rotational program with Omnicom Group, which is a holding company for hundreds of... View Details

      Jill J. Avery

      Dr. Jill Avery is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration and C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator in the marketing unit at Harvard Business School. She is a respected authority on branding and brand management, customer relationship... View Details

      Keywords: consumer products; arts; advertising; automobiles; retailing; fashion; hotels ＆ motels; food; beverage

        Sunil Gupta

        Co-Chair, Driving Digital Strategy

        Sunil Gupta is the Edward W. Carter Professor of Business Administration and  co-chair of the executive program on Driving... View Details

        Keywords: advertising; communications; consumer products; credit card; education industry; financial services; high technology; marketing industry; telecommunications
        • 16 Jun 2014
        • Research & Ideas

        The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology

        rather than helping individual students explore what they want to learn and how they can best learn it." “Technology holds a lot of promise, but we haven't seen the proof yet” That isn't to say that schools don't need objective... View Details
        Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

          Michael L. Tushman

          Michael Tushman holds degrees from Northeastern University (B.S.E.E.), Cornell University (M.S.), and the Sloan School of Management at M.I.T. (Ph.D.). Tushman was on the faculty of the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, from 1976 to 1998 where he was... View Details

          • Article

          Ignore June 30: Time is on the Side of a Better Iran Deal

          By: James K. Sebenius
          Prior to the "interim deal" reached in November 2013, Iranian nuclear negotiators could—and did—play for time while the regime rapidly added more centrifuges and increased production of enriched uranium. That is no longer the case. For the first time in years, the... View Details
          Keywords: International Relations; Negotiation Tactics; Negotiation Deal; Iran; United States; Iran; United States
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          • April 2006 (Revised February 2007)
          • Case

          Rebuilding the New Orleans Public Schools: Turning the Tide?

          After Hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans Public School System is faced with rebuilding from the ground up. The challenge is enormous, as is the opportunity to remake the lowest performing public school system in Louisiana and one of the lowest performing in the nation.... View Details
          Keywords: Programs; Natural Disasters; Urban Development; Education; Infrastructure; Public Administration Industry; Education Industry; New Orleans
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            Matthew C. Weinzierl

            Matt Weinzierl is Senior Associate Dean and Chair of the MBA Program at Harvard Business School, where he is the Joseph and Jacqueline Elbling Professor of Business Administration in the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit, and a Research... View Details

            Keywords: aerospace
            • December 1986 (Revised August 1988)
            • Case

            LifeSpan Inc.: Abbott Northwestern Hospital

            Raises the powerful issues of measuring marketing performance in a not-for-profit services setting. Also raises several interesting ethical issues. LifeSpan Inc., a Minneapolis based not-for-profit organization is the parent holding company of three hospitals and... View Details
            Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Ethics; Marketing Communications; Health Care and Treatment; Service Industry; Health Industry; Minneapolis
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            • 2010
            • Working Paper

            A 'Value-Free' Approach to Values (PDF File of PowerPoint Slides)

            By: Michael C. Jensen and Werner Erhard
            We argue here that the three factors we identify as constituting the foundation for being a leader and the effective exercise of leadership can also be seen as "A 'Value-Free' Approach to Values" that proves to be very effective in allowing students to acquire the... View Details
            Keywords: Leadership Development; Attitudes; Values and Beliefs
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            • 17 Jun 2011
            • HBS Case

            KFC’s Explosive Growth in China

            different, not by being the same. In the Harvard Business School case "Yum! China," professor David E. Bell and Agribusiness Program director and senior researcher Mary Shelman examine how Yum! Brands, the parent company of KFC... View Details
            Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Food & Beverage

              Jeffrey J. Bussgang

              General Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners

              Former entrepreneur turned VC, HBS Senior Lecturer, author of three, dad of three, husband of one, civic leader, and fan of all Boston sports.

              Jeffrey J. Bussgang is a Senior... View Details

              • Article

              Passion Penalizes Women and Advantages (Unexceptional) Men in High-Potential Designations

              By: Joyce He, Jon M. Jachimowicz and Celia Moore
              High potential programs offer a swift path up the corporate ladder for those who secure a place on them. However, the evaluation of “potential” occurs under considerable uncertainty, creating fertile ground for gender bias. We document that men are more likely than... View Details
              Keywords: Passion; Potential; Gender; Motivation and Incentives; Performance; Talent and Talent Management
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                Passion Penalizes Women and Advantages (Unexceptional) Men in High-Potential Designations

                High potential programs offer a swift path up the corporate ladder for those who secure a place on them. However, the evaluation of “potential” occurs under considerable uncertainty, creating fertile ground for gender bias. We document that men are more likely than... View Details
                • April 2021 (Revised June 2021)
                • Case

                Balancing Act: Deborah Lovich (A)

                By: David G. Fubini and Patrick Sanguineti
                Deborah Lovich, Partner at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), has been given the opportunity of a lifetime: to join the firm's Executive Committee as its youngest member and only current woman, as well as just the second woman in its history. Encouraged by her mentors,... View Details
                Keywords: Work/life Balance; Work/family Balance; Work-Life Balance; Family and Family Relationships; Personal Development and Career
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                • 02 Jan 2020
                • Op-Ed

                Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?

                pay-as-you-go actuarial basis. The public discourse about Medicare for All is deceptively appealing. The health care program for the nation’s seniors is highly prized by Medicare beneficiaries—85 percent say they’re satisfied. Who can... View Details
                Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger and James Wallace; Health; Public Administration

                  Mitchell B. Weiss

                  Mitch Weiss is the Richard L. Menschel Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School. He created and teaches the school's course on Public Entrepreneurship—on public leaders and private entrepreneurs who invent a difference in the... View Details