Generalized Additive Model - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Five Imperatives for Improving Health Care

when the information is so complex? The key is not just to get the information to the consumers but to help them process it." Decentralizing approaches to problem solving: Conference attendees and survey respondents generally... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

12 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager

salary for the company's division managers. Each additional product-focused functional manager reporting to the CEO was associated with a 2.4 percent lower salary and a 5.4 percent lower total compensation for View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

23 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 23

percent. Consistent with theory, we show that entry led to a redistribution of surgeries from lower- to higher-quality surgeons. The value of the improved outcomes due to this redistribution was roughly equal to the additional fixed costs... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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About - Race, Gender & Equity

About The Race, Gender & Equity Initiative brings together a global, multidisciplinary community of Harvard Business School faculty, alumni, and students to champion projects and programs that advance understanding, generate tools and... View Details

06 Sep 2016
Blog Post

What Makes the HBS MBA unique?

experience. It helps prepare you to be a general manager, where you have to make tough decisions. 2. The Section Experience The first year section experience is a unique part of life at HBS. At the start of your first year, you’re... View Details

01 Dec 2023
News

A More Accommodating Approach

Shelly Nooner (GMP 33, 2022) had already proven herself to be visionary and execution-focused during her two decades at Trimble, an industrial technology company that provides hardware, software, and services across agriculture, construction, geospatial, and... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Bankruptcy | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s... View Details

24 Apr 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: What Mark Zuckerberg Can Learn About Crisis Leadership from Starbucks

after four days, sending the message that he thought this was a legal problem rather than an issue of consumer trust. “Johnson’s actions will become the new model for how a crisis should be handled” #3: Dig deep for the root cause.... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Technology; Food & Beverage

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1.13 Satisfactory Academic Progress - MBA

Obligations 4. General Policies 5. Technology, Copyright, & Publishing Policies 6. Important Contact Information Each student's progress toward meeting the standards for the award of the MBA degree is evaluated at intervals throughout the... View Details

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Benefits | Predoctoral Researchers

Benefits As a predoctoral researcher you will enjoy a substantial benefits package that includes competitive salaries, tuition assistance, generous healthcare options and paid time off. Salary Predoctoral researchers earn a competitive... View Details

07 Dec 2021
Op-Ed

Want to Build Better Leaders? Focus on Mindset, Skills, Knowledge

can do and build additional capacity, the organization must create the space for the leader to gain clarity about conscious and unconscious beliefs they hold. An understanding of those beliefs and how they inform actions is critical to... View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Shawnette Rochelle

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Resources - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

skills including clarifying objectives, questioning and listening, and board work 1976 Use of Cases in Management Education by E. Raymond Corey Directed toward students; valuable for professors as well. Briefly describes the process of case writing, the View Details

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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

home city of Los Angeles. Tirtanadi worried that scaling would absorb too much of ODL’s finite energy, time, and resources, and divert attention away from San Francisco. Was now the right time to scale? Was Haah the right partner? Would ODL’s View Details

01 Mar 2019
News

The Burden Legacy

graduated from Harvard College. Her grandson Ordway P. Burden (AB 1966, MBA 1968, HLS 1971) represented the fourth generation of her family to be educated at Harvard and was attending HBS when the cornerstone of Burden Hall was laid in... View Details

Keywords: Linda Kush

28 Nov 2023
Book

Economic Growth Draws Companies to Asia. Can They Handle Its Authoritarian Regimes?

what kinds fail, either by stymieing economic growth or by generating political or economic instability? I explore these questions by comparing state–business relations in Suharto’s Indonesia, Malaysia under the Barisan Nasional, and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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1.4 Academic Program Specifics - MBA

Access 1.23 Pregnancy, Childbirth & Adoption during Business School 1.24 Commencement 2. Integrity & Standards of Conduct 3. Financial Obligations 4. General Policies 5. Technology, Copyright, & Publishing Policies 6. Important Contact... View Details

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Faculty & Advisors - MBA

that engineers stable metal alloys at the Nano-scale. Tom was also CEO of Z Corporation, a leading pioneer in 3D printing, where he grew the company from early commercialization to market leadership. He is a former US Army Ranger. In View Details

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Aaron Sabin (MS/MBA 2023): Engineering a Climate Change Solution by Cutting the Cost of Carbon Capture - MBA

Heatwaves, storms, and droughts have all become more extreme. “Even if we stopped emitting CO2 today, there’s so much already in the air,” Sabin says. “It will take generations for it to be absorbed by the oceans and biosphere. So, we... View Details

21 Jan 2014
First Look

First Look: January 21

duration function as large-scale shocks to the quantity of interest rate risk that must be borne by professional bond investors. I develop a simple model in which the risk tolerance of bond investors is limited in the short run, so these... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Hiring International Students

Hire Talent Hiring International Students Hire Talent Hiring International Students International students are an extraordinary addition to any company. At HBS they represent over a third of the MBA population and come from more than 70... View Details

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