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- 12 Jan 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.
what he did. Kenny: That's great to hear. It gives me more confidence, I guess, going forward. So, you've discussed this in class, I'm guessing, with both MBA students and probably executive education participants. How do people react to... View Details
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
Harvard Business School, where he teaches courses in supply chain management, service operations, and the investor's perspective on operations to MBA students and executive education participants. Fisher, the UPS Professor of Operations... View Details
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
School's MBA and doctoral programs. He discusses the findings and implications of his research with HBS Working Knowledge. Ann Cullen: You point out that historically some assets might look riskier than they actually are and some might... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 01 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls
bear. Written by Harvard Business School Visiting Professor Thomas H. Davenport and independent consultant Brook Manville, the book shares the tales of organizations that made successful choices through team-led decisions. This excerpt explores the entrepreneurial... View Details
- 02 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Research and Prospects
health care occurring. If you look over time at the number of new cases created alone in health care that are used throughout our MBA program, it's a huge number. For the doctoral prong, we created and offered a management track for... View Details
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders
Below, excerpts from an interview. Lagace: What is an example of an experiment you've conducted that looks at differences in how women and men negotiate? McGinn: One of the interesting first pieces of data we looked at was job offers to View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
MBA 1988) is a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School. For two decades, he ran equity capital markets for Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley. His casework focuses on international investment, sovereign... View Details
- 08 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity
This article is part of a continuing series on faculty research and teaching commemorating the 50th anniversary of the first women to enter Harvard Business School's two-year MBA program. As the first longitudinal examination of the... View Details
- 15 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise
the nonprofit sector. To expect 20 to 30 percent is asking too much. Maybe we could pump the percentage up to 7 to 10 percent. But at the end of the day, even counting graduates from other business schools, if you produce 2,000 to 3,000 View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
with Data Science.” The course provides MBA students with no programming experience an introduction to the field of data science and its applications in business. Students learn to (1) carefully articulate the business ask, (2) reason... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
and 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45613 Management: Theory and Practice, and Cases By: Nolan, Richard L. Abstract—This working paper reports on a major Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
social impact. This registered benefit corporation was formed by Davis Smith who coalesced his experiences as a Wharton MBA student along with professional knowledge from an unpaid internship in Peru and his previous e-commerce startups... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
EverTrue and is struggling with issues like a conflict in his B2B2C business models and what his next steps should be as well as personal concerns. At the moment, he is trying to decide among three candidates for CTO, and he must weigh the importance of having an View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
identify your core customers and build a scalable platform for growth around them. That's the message from Frank V. Cespedes, the MBA Class of 1973 Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at Harvard Business School; James P. Dougherty,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Choose the Best Deal
proposals. It's important to know when to declare a winner, especially when relationships are involved. New MBAs sometimes learn this lesson to their regret when recruiters rescind job offers in the face of demands for special perks. In... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
student-to-student interactions in face-to-face class sessions. The article outlines a technique used in an MBA marketing course for crowdsourced peer-to-peer assessment of class participation during case discussions and empirically... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets
the Bajaj Group in India; Güler Sabancı, head of the $14 billion Sabancı conglomerate in Turkey; and Manu Chandaria, chairman of the multimillion-dollar Comcraft Group in Kenya. Growing In A Slow-moving Economy Rahul Bajaj In his interview Rahul Bajaj (HBS View Details
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
serving as the School's Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Planning and Development, and Steve was Director of the MBA program. By the time we had a chance to think seriously about this project again, in the late '90s, we came to the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
your biggest buckets of cost and rethinking those strategically in ways that give your customers something they value," notes Frei, the UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management at Harvard Business School. Morriss (HBS MBA '04),... View Details
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
Case 810-073 Iris Running Crane, an MBA candidate, must choose among three different job offers in private equity. One is with a top-tier megafund buyout operation; the second with a geographically focused mid-market fund; and the third... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne