Modernization - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2009
News

Faculty Responds to Financial Crisis

Rose, who worked at Morgan for twenty years. “In Leader-ship and Corporate Accountability, the focus will be on the government’s decision to ask JPMorgan to purchase Bear, and the potentially conflicting responsibilities of management.” New electives offered this... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

13 Aug 2019
Blog Post

What is the MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Program?

biotechnology and pharmaceutical experience, and will provide a distilled and focused exposure to a wide range of modern science and how it can be deployed for discovery of novel therapeutics. The Master of Business Administration (MBA)... View Details

01 Jun 2023
News

Spray Canon

Taylor Callery Taylor Callery When street artist Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Untitled sold for $110.5 million in 2017, famed art dealer and curator Jeffrey Deitch (MBA 1978) told the New York Times that the artist was “now in the same league as Francis Bacon and Pablo... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Oct 2001
What Do You Think?

Will Information Technology Really Turn Organizations Upside Down This Time?

fact, the implementation of information technology generally has been quite disappointing to the "fighting bottom line" in the modern Army to date. But let's suppose that all three of these barriers eventually are overcome. What... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

29 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Helping Women in Mexico to Live Fulfilled and Healthy Lives

three C’s: Content, Community, and Care. For Content, Plenna is a modern source of information for women’s health; you can find tips on birth control, managing vaginal infections, and general gynecology. We’re also building a strong... View Details

27 Aug 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Guts, Gall, and Good Luck: What It Takes To Be An Entrepreneur

become staples of our modern country and economy: beauty products, national sales forces, and corporate social responsibility. Who Owns Space? Entrepreneurs like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are tapping into their vast personal wealth to make... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2015
News

Is the Auction House of the Future Online?

“Balloon Dog (Blue), 2005” by Jeff Koons sold for an undisclosed amount as part of a May Paddle8 auction. (Photo courtesy of Paddle8) When the hip-hop collective Wu-Tang Clan decided to produce just one copy of their album Once Upon A Time in Shaolin as a work of View Details

Keywords: April White; Wu-Tang Clan

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Research Links: Records of Railroad Companies & Personal Papers - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

railroads with which the Nashua and Lowell had dealings. Alfred D. Chandler Papers The collection provides a comprehensive view of historian Alfred D. Chandler’s sixty year academic career. Chandler’s study of railroads as the first View Details

Portrait Project

Austin Johnsen

couldn't shake, however. If not for modern medicine, my life would be nearing its end, and what did I have to show for it? Horace Mann once wrote, "Until you have done something for humanity, you should be ashamed to die." I... View Details

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Courses by Title - Course Catalog

Through Corporate Restructuring Finance Stuart C. Gilson Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Creating Value in Business and Government (HKS-HBS Joint Degree Seminar) General Management Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Creating the Modern... View Details

22 Sep 2017
News

The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice

Why do you think that is? White: It's so bizarre to have a modern day gold rush kind of you know wild west thing happen in modern history. After all, we're talking about something that happened, in this... View Details

01 Dec 2016
News

Cast of Characters

new Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death, Chu brings a modern sensibility to the DC Comics seductress: “I thought it was time to update her as a smart scientist with more powers, character complexity, and antihero aspirations.” THE NAVY... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 2000
News

Capturing Human Capital

expansion of the service-based economy, rapid technological innovation, deregulation and privatization, and today's knowledge revolution as forces that are "driving companies to fundamentally rethink their business models and radically transform their organizational... View Details

12 Apr 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs

side) competing with a lack of an industrial policy (on the US side). Going all the way back to the mid-1980s, the Chinese government has been mapping a pathway for the country to become a modern economy possessing core technological... View Details

Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing; Auto; Steel; Air Transportation; Technology; Telecommunications

01 Mar 2011
News

Alumni Books

roaring into the modern world. World 3.0: Global Prosperity and How to Achieve It by Pankaj Ghemawat (PhDBE '82) (Harvard Business Review Press) Reacting to the global financial crisis, governments are pushing for increased protectionism.... View Details

27 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism

they understood as revolving around mutual respect and the company as a family. Focusing on a different element of the HP Way, Fiorina saw her actions as consistent with the HP value of seizing opportunities. Hypocrisy may be unavoidable for leaders in the View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

26 Feb 2019
Blog Post

Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees

Whillans co-wrote a recent article in Compensation & Benefits Review, “Winning the War for Talent: Modern Motivational Methods for Attracting and Retaining Employees,” with Anais Thibault-Landry of the Université du Québec à Montréal... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

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Why Home Construction Has Slumped for Decades | Working Knowledge

way, you can challenge people to see how construction could be different. The sector performed differently in the past, in ways that were more productivity enhancing. The modern home that we build today is more advanced, larger and has... View Details

05 Jul 2016
First Look

July 5, 2016

quantitative and evidence-based evaluation of enterprise performance and to financial valuation. The approach is generalizable to any modern industry and integrates existing well-known frameworks. The materials are consistent with what is... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Venture Capital and Private Equity - Course Catalog

allocation underpinnings: mean-variance analysis, Modern Portfolio Theory, the Efficient Frontier, and Monte Carlo simulations The “Yale Model” Key fund terms: fees, expenses, carried interest, hurdle rates, and GP co-investment How fund... View Details

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