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  • February 2009 (Revised April 2011)
  • Case

Mistry Architects (A)

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Robert G. Eccles and Mona Sinha
Describes an architecture firm founded and run by a husband and wife team, Sharukh and Renu Mistry, that emphasizes "green" building. The firm presents an unusual mix of projects-spanning the spectrum from larger corporate projects to small private homes. The mix also... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Customer Focus and Relationships; Design; Housing; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Community Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Nonprofit Organizations; Conflict and Resolution
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    The Treasure You Seek: A Guide to Developing and Leveraging Your Leadership Capital

    Most leadership books are written for people who are already labeled as “leaders”—corporate execs, high-ranking managers, entrepreneurs. They may not speak to the underrepresented young person or uncommon experienced person with a dream to create change in the... View Details

    • May 2020
    • Article

    Value-Based Health Care in Undergraduate Medical Education

    By: Jessica N. Holtzman, Bhushan R. Deshpande, Jessica C. Stuart, Thomas W. Feeley, Mary Witkowski, Edward M. Hundert and Jennifer Kasper
    Problem: Value-based health care (VBHC) is an innovative framework for redesigning care delivery to achieve better outcomes for patients and reduce cost; however, providing students with the skills to understand and engage with these topics is a challenge to... View Details
    Keywords: Value-based Health Care; Health Care and Treatment; Higher Education; Curriculum and Courses
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    • 07 Jan 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    The Quest for Better Layoffs

    pursue market changes. And leaders need ways to respond to business cycle changes. We want people to learn about the forces they unleash in the firm when they institute layoffs. We want to change the way layoffs are done." The Case... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing
    • Research Summary

    Personal Development and Interpersonal Feedback

    Enabling individual development and learning are key to enabling organizational success as well as employee satisfaction and engagement.  Many organizational approaches to employee development visualize feedback processes as mechanisms for illuminating individual... View Details
    Keywords: Feedback; Personal Development
    • 24 Nov 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA

    teaching and a corresponding faculty commitment to remaining close to actual business practice. Moreover, the School continuously evaluated and updated its curriculum. "The general criticism of MBA programs you read today—that MBA education at most schools has... View Details
    Keywords: by Roger Thompson & HBS Bulletin; Education
    • 23 Apr 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019

    managers have to learn how to lead others rather than do the work themselves, to win trust and respect, to motivate, and to strike the right balance between delegation and control. Many fail to make the transition successfully. In this... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 04 Mar 2013
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar

    tenure as head of OnStar, one of his former employees, now a second-year student at HBS, enrolled in a relatively new course called Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise, taught by Christensen. The final paper required that students apply the business View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto
    • 28 Jun 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: June 28

    and George Serafeim Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract In tests of the equity market timing theory of external finance, the prior literature has used overvaluation identifiers such as high market-to-book and high prior... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2010
    • Working Paper

    Regulating for Legitimacy: Consumer Credit Access in France and America

    By: J. Gunnar Trumbull
    Theories of legitimate regulation have emphasized the role of governments either in fixing market failures to promote greater efficiency or in restricting the efficient functioning of markets in order to pursue public welfare goals. In either case, features of markets... View Details
    Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Financial Markets; Personal Finance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business History; Business and Government Relations; Welfare; France; United States
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    • 04 Oct 2017
    • Blog Post

    What Should German Applicants Know about HBS?

    Before attending HBS, German native Charlotte Pallua spent three years at The Boston Consulting Group in Munich where she worked on a variety of health care related projects in Tokyo, London, Miami, and Latin America. We checked in with Charlotte to View Details

      Peter Tufano

      Peter Tufano is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and Senior Advisor to the Harvard Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability. From 2011 to 2021, he served as the Peter Moores Dean at View Details

      Keywords: asset management; banking; brokerage; credit card; education industry; energy; federal government; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; microfinance; mining; nonprofit industry; oil ＆ gas; petroleum; real estate; retail financial services; state government; utilities; video games

        NGOs and Organizational Change

        The organizational dynamics of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have become increasingly complex as they have evolved from small local groups into sophisticated multinational organizations with global networks. Alnoor... View Details

        • Article

        Characterization of Satisfactory Mechanisms for the Revelation of Preferences for Public Goods

        By: Jerry R. Green and Jean-Jacques Laffont
        Social decision mechanisms that admit dominant strategies and result in Pareto optima are characterized by the class of mechanisms proposed by Groves. The concept of decision mechanisms is generalized and the characterization is shown to extend to these cases. View Details
        Keywords: Decision Mechanisms; Game Theory; Economics
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          Nitin Nohria

          Nitin Nohria served as the tenth dean of Harvard Business School from 2010-2020. He previously served as co-chair of the Leadership Initiative, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development, and Head of the Organizational Behavior unit.

          As Dean, building on... View Details

          Keywords: accounting industry; arts; biotechnology; emerging market private equity; energy; executive search; financial services; green technology; health care; high technology; industrial goods; information technology industry; infrastructure industry; investment banking industry; legal services; management consulting; manufacturing; oil ＆ gas; petroleum; pharmaceuticals; professional services

            Lynda M. Applegate

            Lynda M. Applegate is a Baker Foundation Professor at HBS and is Chair of the Advisory Committee for Harvard University’s Masters Degree of Liberal Arts in Finance and Management at the Harvard University Extension School.  She has also played a... View Details

            • 2010
            • Article

            Geography, Poverty and Conflict in Nepal

            By: Quy-Toan Do and Lakshmi Iyer
            This paper conducts an empirical analysis of the geographic, economic and social factors that contributed to the spread of civil war in Nepal over the period 1996-2006. This within-country analysis complements existing cross-country studies on the same subject. Using a... View Details
            Keywords: Ethnicity; War; Poverty; Geography; Conflict and Resolution; Government and Politics; Economics; Nepal
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            • Web

            HBS Working Knowledge – Harvard Business School Faculty Research

            three working Americans with criminal records from the economy? In a case study, Paul Gompers explores the challenges a social justice startup encounters in helping the formerly incarcerated, as well as lessons for other entrepreneurs. 12... View Details
            • 2013
            • Book

            Judgment in Managerial Decision Making

            By: Max Bazerman and Don A. Moore
            Is your judgment influenced by personal biases? In situations requiring careful judgment, we're all influenced by our own biases to some extent. But, with Judgment in Managerial Decision Making, you can learn how to overcome those biases to make better... View Details
            Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Judgments; Management Practices and Processes; Management Skills; Managerial Roles; Performance Improvement; Prejudice and Bias
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            • 11 Nov 2020
            • Research & Ideas

            How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers

            colleagues highlights the pivotal role played by such gatherings in creating winners and losers in the platform world. “Platform Diffusion at Temporary Gatherings: Social Coordination and Ecosystem Emergence,” published in Strategic... View Details
            Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology