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- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
improved diversity. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52703 Homophily in Entrepreneurial Team Formation By: Gompers, Paul A., Kevin Huang, and Sophie Q. Wang Abstract—We study the role of homophily in group formation. Using a unique... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
answer two key questions. Can anyone, including MBAs and executives with superb analytical skills, learn to think more innovatively? If so, how might we go about developing these skills? Through close collaboration with individuals from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?
Benioff completed a BS in Business Administration from the University of Southern California, paying his way through college with royalties he earned as a teen-age game developer. Nadella studied engineering in India and was awarded an View Details
- 10 Feb 2014
- HBS Case
Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines
One morning last fall, Gautam Mukunda told the MBA students in his first-year Leadership and Organizational Behavior class to crawl under their desks and stay there. He wanted them to experience a sense of how it feels to work in a... View Details
- 10 Nov 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again
performances—while reaching out to the younger demographic and speaking to them in their own language. "Lincoln Center hadn't been cool for a very long time, but it's cool now," says Grossman, the MBA Class of 1957 Professor of... View Details
- 28 Jun 2010
- HBS Case
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
vision for the hospital as, "We will be the best at getting better." How CCHMC accomplishes just that is an object lesson for MBA students who hope to help lead substantive change in any sort of organization. The improvement... View Details
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
Founding of Nike Noam Wasserman and Kyle AndersonHarvard Business School Case 810-077 It had taken Phil Knight 16 long years to build Nike into the number one athletic-shoe company in the country. When Knight had first conceived of the company for an View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Basics of Consumer Marketing in Asia
Internet," when he and his partner launched Rakuten in 1997, Mikitani (HBS MBA '93) said. The 9,331 merchants who do a brisk business over the Rakuten site, which Mikitani describes as a cross between eBay and Amazon, are now proving... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708499 Name Your Price: Compensation Negotiation at Whole Health Management (A) Harvard Business School Case 908-064 MBA student Monroe Davies is asked by a potential employer to determine his own... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
introduces powerful tools for interpreting the big-picture economic developments that shape events in the contemporary business arena. Detailed examples are also drawn from history to illuminate important concepts. This book is destined to become a staple in View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2000
- What Do You Think?
Whither the Information Economy?
labor, or physical materials; is shared among people, with an expansion of the total as it is shared; and doesn't drain our resources. Although we are witnessing an explosion in the amount of and access to both data and information, real knowledge appears to grow very... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
structure and function of the asset management industry, with a primary focus on the U.S. It was designed to support the HBS MBA course "Managing the Financial Firm." Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
Harvard MBA students visit the Bo-Kaap area of Cape Town, May 1, 2017 (Photo credit: Caroline Elkins) Recently, a first-year MBA student at Harvard Business School was overheard gushing to a friend about a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 7, 2006
fear of speaking up, even with pro-organizational suggestions, is pervasive and, for many, a source of intense negative affect. A second study used scenarios about speaking up to deepen and extend these findings. Quantitative and qualitative survey data were collected... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19
fingertips: Harvard MBA students. Over the course of three months, they created the Global Policy Tracker, an interactive site that compares government policies and financial maneuvers for dozens of countries and regions around the world.... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 28 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
HBS Celebrates Social Enterprise Initiative
educational activities within the HBS community. Our vigorous research program pushed outward the knowledge frontiers and created a rich portfolio of courses and learning opportunities for MBA students and Executive Education... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
What was it like teaching the case to MBA students? A: We had a new course in the spring, with about 60 MBA students, called Managing in the Creative Economy. This case was explored over 2 sessions. In the... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders
terms of not only financial performance but management practices and reputation in the community. The result of her efforts is the MBA elective course Globalization, Culture, and Management. According to Paine, as students examine the... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 03 May 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Much Is Enough?
the executive suite has brought them unfavorable headlines, lawsuits and, at the extreme, jail time? Is it the kind of thinking that could, if translated into practical examples and exercises, benefit prospective MBAs in search of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
When Protestors Knock at Your Door
LaMure (HBS MBA '02), is that targeted corporate executives who decide to ignore NGO protests do so at their own peril. Spar and LaMure recently detailed the rising power of NGOs and corporate responses in "The Power of Activism:... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell