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Chris Argyris (1923–2013)

By: Amy C. Edmondson
Chris Argyris, a pioneer in the fields of organization development, organizational learning, and action science, passed away on November 16, 2013. Argyris was born in Newark, New Jersey, on July 16, 1923, to Greek immigrant parents, and grew up in Irvington, New... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Personal Development and Career
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  • June 2016 (Revised April 2018)
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Boys & Girls Clubs of America: Driving Impact

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Lisa C. Cox
With $1.8 billion in 2015 revenues, Boys & Girls Club of America had evolved over its 155-year-old history to occupy the lead position in the Youth Development space in the United States. Its new CEO Jim Clark had initiated yet another change process in 2015 to ensure... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit Strategy; Planning Process; Transformative Impact; Nonprofit Organizations; Strategic Planning; Change Management; Growth Management
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  • 10 Apr 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing

think," says Robert S. Huckman, the Albert J. Weatherhead III Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. "In particular, when this type of work is outsourced it should not be viewed as a mere commodity." Instead, he... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health

    F. Warren McFarlan

    Professor McFarlan earned his AB from Harvard University in 1959, and his MBA and DBA from the Harvard Business School in 1961 and 1965 respectively. He has had a significant role in introducing materials on Management Information Systems to all major programs at... View Details

    Keywords: communications; computer; e-commerce industry; health care; information; information technology industry; nonprofit industry
    • 25 Oct 2012
    • News

    Harvard's Pozen on Book 'Extreme Productivity'

      Ashish Nanda

      Ashish Nanda is Senior Lecturer and C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator at Harvard Business School. From 2018 to 2021, he was course head for the MBA Required Curriculum course in Strategy. Beginning in 2022, he is teaching an MBA Elective... View Details

      Keywords: accounting industry; advertising; asset management; banking; brokerage; consulting; e-commerce industry; education industry; executive search; financial services; information technology industry; internet; investment banking industry; legal services; management consulting; professional services; real estate; service industry; sports; tourism
      • 29 Sep 2009
      • First Look

      First Look: September 29

      http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1471435 Systemic Risk and the Refinancing Ratchet Effect Authors:Amir E. Khandani, Andrew W. Lo, and Robert C. Merton Abstract The confluence of three... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 19 Jan 2012
      • News

      Pozen on U.S. Pension System

      • 06 Feb 2007
      • First Look

      First Look: February 6, 2007

      and economist Warren Persons, gained international renown for its three-curve A-B-C chart, which rendered business fluctuations as the ebb and flow of speculation (A), business (B), and banking (C). The service was directed by C. J.... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 27 Jul 2010
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      First Look: July 27

      supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/911406-PDF-ENG Social Strategy Exercise Mikołaj Jan PiskorskiHarvard Business School Exercise 710-472 This note outlines the process of designing a social strategy. Purchase this... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 12 Sep 2005
      • Research & Ideas

      The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World

      The world as we know it is about to change in many ways thanks to a "broadband explosion"—the coming together of real-time communication and rich media. Professors Robert Austin and Stephen Bradley discuss their new book by that... View Details
      Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications
      • July–August 2014
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      The Crisis in Retirement Planning

      By: Robert C. Merton
      Corporate America began to really take notice of the looming retirement crisis in the wake of the dot-com crash, when companies in major industries went bankrupt in large part because of their inability to meet their pension obligations. The result was an acceleration... View Details
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      • 11 Aug 2008
      • Research & Ideas

      Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

      Companies often manage strategy in fits and starts. Though executives may formulate an excellent strategy, it easily fades from memory as the organization tackles day-to-day operations issues, doing what HBS professor Robert S. Kaplan... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace
      • 12 Mar 2011
      • News

      Mortgage deduction under renewed scrutiny

      • 30 Jun 2010
      • News

      The financial reform bill's hidden blunder

      • 12 Feb 2013
      • First Look

      First Look: Feb. 12

      views on the ethicality of a favored company, and were less influenced by motivated factors than when under separate evaluations. Book: The Business of Business Schools: Restoring a Focus on Competing to Win Authors:Simons, Robert... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 24 Apr 2012
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      First Look: April 24

        PublicationsBarriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence from India Authors:Shawn A. Cole, Xavier Giné, Jeremy Tobacman, Petia Topalova, Robert M. Townsend, and James Vickery Publication:American Economic Journal: Applied Economics... View Details
      Keywords: Carmen Nobel
      • September–October 2012
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      Toward a New Culture for Corporate Boards

      By: Robert C. Pozen
      A decade of business scandals and regulatory reforms find corporate America... facing fresh scandals and calls for more reforms. Robert Pozen, former chair of MFS Investment, noted director, and Harvard Business School faculty member, wonders if we have been fixing the... View Details
      Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Ethics; Change; United States
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      • 13 Oct 2010
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      First Look: October 13, 2010

      Management (June 2010) An abstract is unavailable at this time.   Working PapersProsocial Spending and Well-Being: Cross-Cultural Evidence for a Psychological Universal Authors:Lara B. Aknin, Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh, Elizabeth W. Dunn, John F. Helliwell, View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 09 Nov 2011
      • News

      Despite Critics, Mortgage Deduction Resists Change