MBA - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing

professor Robert S. Kaplan and Acorn Systems founder and chairman Steven R. Anderson (HBS MBA '95) introduce a system that calculates product, customer, and regional or branch P&Ls quickly and inexpensively. The work marries the... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

13 Dec 2006
Research & Ideas

Improving Public Health for the Poor

model of microfinance to impact the health of the poor, the two shared with him their extensive knowledge on health in developing countries. Out of that came a framework for the project. Roslyn Payne, an HBS alumna (HBS MBA '70) with deep... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

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

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Retail; Auto

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

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

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

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