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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
scale, risk and opportunities, and how to achieve success through the relentless pursuit of excellence. He not only offers readers a thoughtful reflection on all his own experiences, but also in doing so provides a practical blueprint for success. What It View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
fields. A sponsor is someone who advocates for a protégé, and in doing so, takes a stake in her success. We use a laboratory experiment to explore two channels through which sponsorship has been posited to increase advancement in a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
educators across academic disciplines, as are the hundreds of cases he produced on what he called the "artistry" of teaching. Inspired by Christensen's example, successive generations of teachers—in business, law, medicine, and other disciplines—continue to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
he produced on what he called the “artistry” of teaching. Inspired by Christensen’s example, successive generations of teachers — in business, law, medicine, and other disciplines — continue to take up that challenge today. “For many of... View Details
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
investors and fiduciaries. A wide range of contributors offer new perspectives on dynamics that drive the current emphasis on short-term investment returns. Moreover, they analyze the forces at work in markets around the world, which are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
It may have been a year—or 50—since the six dozen Harvard Business School alumni gathered in an Aldrich Hall classroom Monday morning had dug into a case study. However, once they got over the initial fear of being cold called by Professor Mihir Desai, it didn’t View Details
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
and within limits, a legal, fairly unregulated U.S. commerce in cadavers is taking shape. The growth of entrepreneurial ventures suggests that the question of whether such commerce can exist has de facto been answered. Cadavers are being... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
was a concern by people in business when they first got engaged in social enterprises—when they participated on boards, for instance, or gave money, or mentored people running these organizations. They looked at the capacity within these social enterprises and said,... View Details
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
demonstrate, a coordination perspective helps resolve some empirical puzzles, but it also represents a challenge to received wisdom grounded in the salience of cooperation. To stimulate future research, we discuss alternative... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
ANDRUS: Unemployed at graduation, an unlikely and inspiring odyssey takes him from his parents’ basement to the corner office of a company on the cutting edge. Photos by August Miller HBS Alumni of a certain vintage might recall a... View Details
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
For-profit businesses have a common goal: create value for owners or shareholders by creating value for customers. It's a focus that must seem enviably straightforward from the perspective of nonprofit organizations and social enterprises... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
Working PapersLocal R&D Strategies and Multi-location Firms: The Role of Internal Linkages Authors:Juan Alcácer and Minyuan Zhao Abstract This study looks at the role of firms' internal linkages in highly competitive technology clusters, where much of the world's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
companies, taking as our point of departure a particularly energetic debate during a symposium at the 2007 Academy of Management meetings. We surface the assumptions that underlie such debates, compare them with findings from our research... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
the people side as well. And I think that's what we're realizing now, and entrepreneurs as well as VCs and others in this space are starting to take the longer-term view of it. Morrell: Silicon Valley could use some of that long-term... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
Walgreens has made a concerted effort to locate more stores in urban areas where residents do not have access to large drugstores, recognizing a considerable, underserved market that has been documented in ICIC research. City dwellers are now View Details
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
learned, take action based upon these lessons, then adapt and iterate and react to what they observed." Enter FIELD. First proposed at the end of 2010, the idea was so enthusiastically embraced by incoming Dean Nitin Nohria that he... View Details
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
directions and the implications of this work for rethinking traditional categories of organizations, namely business and charity. September 2014 Perspectives on Psychological Science How Much (More) Should CEOs Make? A Universal Desire... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 3
new organizations? We describe the kinds of answers that an institutional perspective provides to these questions; illustrate some of our arguments by drawing on a recent field of entrepreneurial endeavor; hedge funds; and discuss the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
woman's perspective for their study group; I was asked to join several of them." Case in Point Anniversaries offer opportunities for reflection. March 8, International Women's Day, will see a School-wide discussion of a new case on 50... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates
taking any given moral standpoint. The notes do emphasize, however, that case protagonists can end up being losers or winners in a challenging mêlée. In fact, many notes point out that the situation in question can result in either... View Details