MBA applicable - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 15, 2008

Course MaterialsPerforming Industry Research to Inform Investment Decisions Harvard Business School Note 207-069 Conducting thorough research about an industry is often an important component of investment analysis. Written specifically for HBS View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Negotiation and All That Jazz

negotiators” "You can't script the process," says Wheeler, the MBA Class of 1952 Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School. "Whoever who sits across the table from you is likely to be as determined, as smart, and as... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

24 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

today, while boldly gesturing to where it might head in the future. This handbook transcends the received dichotomy between political economy as an application of rational choice theory or as the study of the causes of societies’ material... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

18 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light

convinced him that he needed more management skills. By his own recollection, he was virtually "clueless" about the very special place to which he was heading. His application to the MBA Program... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education

13 Feb 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

and industrial designs used by firms to protect their IP globally. We then show that IP protection remains fragmented, the quality of IP applications might be questionable, and the development of a comprehensive IP footprint worldwide is... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

computing, deep sensing, simulation, analytics and application services with the fabric of buildings and infrastructure. The hope is that a smarter building process results in smarter buildings, and smarter buildings result in smarter... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities

06 Sep 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Mixing Students and Scientists in the Classroom

Lee Fleming: The classroom discussions remind me of early classes in the first-year required curriculum. The MBAs make up about 40 percent of the class and are in their last term at HBS—obviously, they can run a case discussion. In... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education

16 Aug 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Introduces Marketing Analysis Tools for Managers

that managers deliver ROI from their marketing investments; therefore, quantifying the effects of marketing decisions is imperative. At the same time, customer relationship management (CRM) software and emerging Web 2.0 applications are... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Women Leading Business: A New Kind of Conversation

enable themselves to have the time, energy, and devotion necessary to sustain their success. We invite our MBA students to come to this presentation, because they really want to know how to model their lives. EE: What opportunities for... View Details

Keywords: Re: Myra M. Hart & Cynthia A. Montgomery

07 Nov 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

Harvard Business School Case 118-014 Predicting Purchasing Behavior at PriceMart This case was written for the EC course “Managing with Data Science.” The course provides MBA students with no programming experience an introduction to the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

24 Jun 2015
HBS Case

Upgrading School with a Startup Mentality

funding, which it will use to open four more schools in the fall of 2015—in Brooklyn and Palo Alto, along with two more in San Francisco. Harvard Business School Senior Lecturer John Kim (HBS MBA '93) became interested in AltSchool after... View Details

Keywords: Re: John Jong-Hyun Kim; Education

25 Jul 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

forthcoming Journal of Political Economy Reserve Design: Unintended Consequences and the Demise of Boston's Walk Zones By: Dur, Umut, Scott Duke Kominers, Parag A. Pathak, and Tayfun Sönmez Abstract—Admissions policies often use reserves to grant certain View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

03 Feb 2016
What Do You Think?

How Do You Hire an 'Impostor'?

prestigious school, an award, or even a particular job that you’ve always prized? Students in my Harvard Business School MBA classes often expressed the notion that they were “admissions mistakes.” In my case, I had doubts about whether I... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

18 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]

What applications might they suggest, William A. Sahlman asked his students, for "electronic ink"—particles and dyes, embedded in a surface, that could be charged to form changing texts without the bother of paper and printing?... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

31 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants

immigrants are responsible for a lot of great companies,” says William Kerr, the Dmitri V. D’Arbeloff — MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “After all, they argue, [Google founder] Sergey... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

06 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower

elective course, Managing Global Health: Applying Behavioral Economics to Create Impact, which she teaches to second-year MBA students at HBS and select students from Harvard Medical School and the Kennedy School of Government. The User's... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education; Health

09 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018

after our intervention. Entrepreneurs with MBAs or accelerator experience did not respond to this intervention, suggesting that formal training can limit the spread of peer advice. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding

fared financially as a result of the event, stats from the year 2000 are encouraging. Forty percent of the women entrepreneurs in last year's New England forum collectively raised $100 million in equity capital. According to Andrea Silbert (HBS View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

19 Jan 2022
In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

to a variety of services, establish online reputation, and—eventually—find broader application in the physical world, such as for event ticketing. And major media and collectibles franchises will start moving into the NFT space—Pokémon... View Details

Keywords: by HBS News

10 Nov 2008
Research Event

Social Media Leads the Future of Technology

the Internet, to what extent they can capitalize on these transformations remains an open question. HBS professor David Yoffie moderated the session on "The Technology Revolution and its Implications for the Future," with panelists James Breyer (HBS View Details