Disciplines - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 1996
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Starting Up and Starting Over

entrepreneurial and family-held businesses. For his part, Liles became an expert on venture capital and the entrepreneur. In the 1970s and 1980s, as HBS intensified its research and curriculum development in the area of entrepreneurship, the View Details

01 Dec 2022
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December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

investors), creating philanthropic endeavors and single-mindedly pursuing her dream of building an empire, taking it public, and cashing out all the investors. Corporate and Family Governance: The Two Disciplines That Carry Family... View Details

14 Apr 2021
News

The First Five Years: Mike Gandy Auzenne (MBA 2016)

about unlocking the lessons we learned through Big Brothers Big Sisters to instill structure and discipline to underserved children at scale. I know how my relationship with Austin impacted my life, and Austin observed, with his own son,... View Details

21 May 2018
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How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?

Underprice an innovation, and you leave profit on the table. Overprice an innovation, and you may not be able to sell it. Price discipline is another critical issue. “It’s very difficult to start with a high price and then go down because... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Fashion

28 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

The Importance of ‘Don’t’ in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior

prevention of being unethical. (The paper will be published in the academic journal, "Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.") "Since the Enron scandal, there has been a lot of research across disciplines on... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Gender and Work Symposium: The Master's Tools: Exposing, Rejecting, & Appropriating Initiatives focus on societal challenges that are too complex for any one discipline or industry to solve alone. View Details

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Bringing the Next Pandemic Vaccine to Your Doorstep with MIMIX - Blog: Health Supplement

HBS: Reigniting My Passion for Healthcare Innovation Kasite Ugo-beke 24 May 2023 Student Spotlight: 2023 HCC Co-Presidents Reflect on Their Time at HBS and the Current Health Care Systems Morgan Moncada & Hannah Truong Initiatives focus on societal challenges that are... View Details

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Power and Influence for Positive Impact - Course Catalog

contributions to class discussions. High-quality interactive class discussions are critical to this course, because learning about power and influence is an exercise in rigorous logical reasoning, which we achieve collectively by wrestling with incomplete information... View Details

27 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement

This focus, I argue, limits the practical utility of the discipline because universal propositions form only a part of new policy recipes.” Remote Patient Monitoring—Overdue or Overused? New England Journal of Medicine Keizra Mecklai,... View Details

21 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

What Happens in Vegas Could Shape the Metaverse

competing incentives in building the metaverse, our view is that the metaverse can still succeed,” they write, “but it might call for a shift in mindset and an openness to learning from seemingly distant domains of knowledge.” Along those lines, they invoked the View Details

Keywords: by Scott Nover; Computer; Information Technology

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Outrage at the Death of a Tree - Blog - Business & Environment

gorgeous display of bonsai trees that I recall as I write this. What could more embody long-lasting natural capital than these miniature specimens, 100-400 year old paeans to artistry! As with all trees, it is their permanence that inspires and reassures, amidst other... View Details

01 Jun 2000
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Long-Term Investor: Dick Jenrette

were all just impulse purchases," he says. "I like to begin things; that's my great weakness, I guess. It's always fun to start a project, but then you have to discipline yourself to finish." If the stunning photographs in Adventures with... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Dec 2018
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018

step-by-step, room-by-room guidance on how to create a welcoming and functioning space that expresses your unique individuality. Breaking Through: Leadership Disciplines from Top Performing Staffing Firms by Mike Cleland and Barry Asin... View Details

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Impact Stories - Business & Environment

biggest, challenges facing my generation. Shared, electric, autonomous vehicles will enable urban areas to become more sustainable and more livable by providing a better alternative for first and last mile transportation.” Initiatives focus on societal challenges that... View Details

16 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 16

that may be to do. In this article, the authors look at research from behavioral economics, social psychology, and other disciplines and offer practical tactics for leaders hoping to project a healthy amount of both qualities. Publisher's... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

01 Mar 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015

CEOs can meet their challenges once that top position is achieved. The book covers the importance of family, effective time management, discipline in all its meanings, and the relationships between the CEO, the board of directors,... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Sep 2011
News

Extraordinary People

taught me great discipline in how to study, how to prepare, how to think,” he says. Upon graduation he joined the paper and packaging company Rand-Whitney. From there, he and his sons created The Kraft Group, which controls holdings in... View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Mar 2019
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Building a Movement

in redesigning the RC course Leadership and Corporate Accountability—that’s a really important change. But my guess is that we’re going to have to look deeper, because we’re going to have to be able to talk across disciplines and across... View Details

31 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

The New CEO’s Wrong Message

reduces his real power. When CEOs wield direct power, they must do so very selectively and deliberately—and never without a broader plan of action in mind. Usually, power is best used indirectly, through the disciplined processes... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Jay W. Lorsch & Nitin Nohria

11 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Four Ways to Create Lasting Change

was a firm undergoing a very interesting transformation. The company had been run by its founders for many years and had a very distinct entrepreneurial culture. Then, the founders retired, and the firm hired an outsider as its CEO. He introduced much more View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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