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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Bringing Out the Best
Cynthia Foster Curry (MBA 1990) Cynthia Foster Curry (MBA 1990) ruefully admits that she didn’t appreciate her first-year Organizational Behavior course at HBS. “I remember the professor saying, ‘People take this View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
pleasant memories of his class back in the early 1960s. What I remember of Mr. Levitt (he was always “Mister” to me) is his furtive pacing back and forth in front of the... View Details
- 17 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
The Art of Perseverance and Resilience: Reapplying to HBS
realized that the MBA experience I had worked so hard to obtain would look quite different, with remote or hybrid classes and some missed opportunities, like international courses. However, I knew that... View Details
- 03 Dec 2014
- What Do You Think?
Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?
Summing Up Can the Brilliance of the "Jerk" Be Tapped? The best business problem cases are those that divide a class into groups making... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 May 2018
- News
Spreading the Safety Net
a critically ill loved one without this same level of benefits. I had inadvertently created classes of employees — and by doing so, had done my part to contribute to America’s inequality problem. The new... View Details
- 02 May 2022
- What Do You Think?
Can the Case Method Survive Another Hundred Years?
cases everywhere. There is an old saying at the School that so-and-so is so good at teaching that he or she could teach the newspaper. In fact, the late professor Theodore... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
Professor of Business Administration, gave the second case presentation on First Direct, a "virtual" bank in England that has built tremendous market share by providing services via telephone. MBA Class of... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
Marshall-ing the Facts with Marty While reading the remembrance of Professor Martin Marshall in the June Bulletin, I recalled a humorous but “typically Marty” happening that I... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
the middle of the picture. Nicholas S. Hill (MBA ’49) Old Saybrook, CT Married Student Housing Your “Last Look” photo shows post–World War II veterans’ housing at Harvard. I... View Details
- 2011
- Working Paper
How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools
By: Rakesh Khurana, Kenneth Kimura and Marion Fourcade
The question of institutional change has become central to organizational research (Powell, 2008). Recent scholarship has demonstrated, often through carefully researched cases, that institutions can and sometimes do change. According to this research, there are two... View Details
Keywords: Change; Business Education; Business History; Organizations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Relationships; Behavior
Khurana, Rakesh, Kenneth Kimura, and Marion Fourcade. "How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-070, January 2011.
- 2017
- Working Paper
The Use and Misuse of Patent Data: Issues for Corporate Finance and Beyond
By: Josh Lerner
Patents and citations are powerful tools for understanding innovative activity inside the firm and are increasingly used in corporate finance research. But due to the complexities of patent data collection and the changing spatial and industry composition of innovative... View Details
Lerner, Josh, and Amit Seru. "The Use and Misuse of Patent Data: Issues for Corporate Finance and Beyond." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-042, November 2017.
- 19 Jan 2024
- News
The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Speed has gotten a pretty bad rap, says Anne Morriss (MBA 2004). The Silicon Valley mantra of moving fast and breaking things has led to waves of high-profile... View Details
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
didn’t do delivery beforehand, so I didn’t think we were going to do a good job of it in the middle of a pandemic,” she said. “We weren’t prepared for it, we don’t have the... View Details
- 2010
- Working Paper
Just Say No to Wall Street: Putting A Stop to the Earnings Game
By: Joseph Fuller and Michael C. Jensen
Putting an end to the "earnings game" requires that CEOs reclaim the initiative by avoiding earnings guidance and managing expectations in such a way that their stocks trade reasonably close to their intrinsic value. In place of earnings forecasts, management should... View Details
Keywords: Stocks; Performance Expectations; Goals and Objectives; Risk and Uncertainty; Growth and Development Strategy; Decisions; Risk Management; Budgets and Budgeting; Earnings Management; Value; Projects
Fuller, Joseph, and Michael C. Jensen. "Just Say No to Wall Street: Putting A Stop to the Earnings Game." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-090, April 2010.
- November 2009 (Revised June 2012)
- Supplement
Jody Leleck at Broad Acres (B)
By: Paul W. Marshall and Andrew Goldin
Explores the results of Jody Leleck's efforts to turn around underperforming Broad Acres Middle School. View Details
Marshall, Paul W., and Andrew Goldin. "Jody Leleck at Broad Acres (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 810-043, November 2009. (Revised June 2012.)
- 15 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
The Social Enterprise Initiative at HBS
capacity to work across the public, private and nonprofit sector. They can set a big vision, rally people around it, and get things done. And they have a deep and abiding interest in helping people find their own true path.” Chelsea Banks... View Details
- 26 Jun 2023
- Research & Ideas
Want to Leave a Lasting Impression on Customers? Don't Forget the (Proverbial) Fireworks
the middle of an experience as well, such as when a spa adds a personal scented treatment in the middle of a massage. “This is where marketers... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Closing the 'Network Gap'
first semester, 10 percent of the Class of 2022—70 people from a wide array of backgrounds—volunteered their own networks and knowledge to help. This outpouring of support, however, was still not enough to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Learning from the Past
course on ancient Greek culture at Simon's Rock College, where he served as a trustee for many years. "I noticed that students who had enjoyed Homer and Herodotus in my class became hopelessly lost in Thucydides," says Strassler, who does... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
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Business, Government & the International Economy Faculty - Faculty & Research
Business, Government & the International Economy Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students Unit Head David A. Moss Paul Whiton Cherington Professor of Business Administration Unit Head, Business,... View Details