Wisdom Of Crowds - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

that does not come as easily to public company leaders, with the exception of the higher-ambition-type leaders we studied. Public company leaders have the constraints of capital market expectations for... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

25 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]

Kristin S. Rhyne, MBA '99, would have loved to have the problems of reconciling employee priorities and juggling financial plans. Late last May, a year after incorporating Polished, she was still struggling to open its first unit. The... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

01 Jun 1999
News

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

years, the mutual fund would shake up established norms of wealth creation and distribution in the United States. Indeed, it would help reshape America by uniting Wall Street and Main Street, two disparate worlds that previously had... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

04 Oct 2016
First Look

October 4, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51680 forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics What Do Measures of Real-Time Corporate Sales Tell Us About Earnings Surprises and Post-announcement Returns?... View Details

26 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn

As economic turmoil continues, many companies are reconsidering their strategies with an eye toward going lean and slashing prices. And that might work for a few companies—but very few. Instead, companies should compete "on the basis View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Consumer Products

20 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

Editor's note: When did America's declining global competitiveness begin? One starting spot might be 2008, the last year the country topped the World Economic Forum's list of most globally competitive nations. Four years later, the US has... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin

30 Nov 2017
News

Happy Meals (Are Here Again)

Above: Chris Kempczinski is one of the alumni working to modernize McDonald’s. Nick Karavites owns 24 McDonald’s restaurants in the Chicago area and the surrounding suburbs, and when he visits them, he always keeps his eye out for a... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Saverio Truglia

13 Feb 2020
News

Not Throwing Away My Shot

wheels together and they would try to blow each other down. Right? And the winner would obviously have the larger crowd that that night. So you have to put it in the context of Bolden constantly feeling like... View Details

15 Jun 2021
News

June 2021 Books and Podcasts

move forward. The Dad Advice Project: Words of Wisdom from Guys Who Love Being Dads By Craig Kessler (MBA 2014) Savio Republic In early 2019, while in search of parenting... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2007
News

The Wise Men

In April 2008, the School will mark its Centennial birthday — 100 years of history and achievement. To be sure, that’s an impressive figure, but consider also the combined years at HBS — nearly 160 — of... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna

01 Dec 1996
News

An Entrepreneurial Journey

It has been said that because of the case method, entrepreneurship has always been at the core of a Harvard Business School education. The case method, after all, teaches students to analyze problems, think... View Details

01 Feb 1998
News

Running Up the Score

this seemed timeless and unchanging - until recently. A Whole New Ball Game At first glance, the scene suggests classic Americana, straight out of a Norman Rockwell painting: a football star, larger than life, visiting a classroom View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

08 Jun 2018
News

My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses

last minute was the junior cost accounting trainee at an automotives machining plant, wherein I learned the wisdom of going on for further education, the discipline of making... View Details

01 Jun 2006
News

India Arrives

Photographs by Christopher Brown/Redux Pro Not even a nighttime arrival in Mumbai, India’s bustling commercial capital of nearly 13 million people, can mask the collision of old and new that now grips the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

07 Sep 2021
News

Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2

Illustration by Ket-le / iStock; photo courtesy of Jeff Immelt Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) Dan Morrell: In 2009, in the wake View Details

01 Sep 2018
News

September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

this book shows how it’s done. Creative Construction: The DNA of Sustained Innovation by Gary P. Pisano PublicAffairs Every company wants to grow, and the most proven way is through innovation. The conventional View Details

01 Jun 1996
News

Class Acts

Elvis. The lead singer, dressed in a white, sequined jump suit with flaring bell-bottoms, leaps about the stage one moment and hurls himself onto the outstretched arms of the frenetic crowd the next as he... View Details

01 Oct 1996
News

Lasting Impressions

wanted to put that behind me and move forward." In contrast, Steve Belkin, who entered HBS right after graduation from Cornell and was one of the youngest members of the class, was in Harvard Square when the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

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empowered by digital technologies that easily connect them to others who share their tastes. They co-create the meaning of the brands that shape their lives and play a participatory role in brand management that can make them allies or... View Details

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