Publications

1999
Tool

Managing Your Career: A Module in the Harvard Business School Press ManageMentor Program

By: James Waldroop and Timothy Butler

01 Mar 2011
Working Paper Summaries

How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Kenneth Kimura & Marion Fourcad; Education

24 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Business Summit: Business Education in the 21st Century

Editor's Note: This is a summary of an HBS Business Summit presentation. View a full summary and video of the event on the HBS Centennial Web site linked below. Date of Event: October 14, 2008 Speakers: David A. Garvin, HBS facultySrikant... View Details

Keywords: Re: Srikant M. Datar; Education

April 1997
Case

Private Management and Public Schools (B)

Examines the prospects for private management in U.S. public schools. Focuses on the education and business strategies of firms seeking to expand as a result of charter school legislation that allowed for-profit entities to enter and compete for students with access to... View Details

Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Public Sector; Value; Education; Business Strategy; Government and Politics; Education Industry; United States

Educators

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

often a disconnect between practitioners and academics,” he says. Source: CMO Council Neale-May illustrates a pervasive paradox in academia: Research conducted at business schools often offers no obvious... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

19 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Connecting School Ties and Stock Recommendations

Social networks matter for more than just efficient Internet communication. They're also crucial for the strong performance of stock recommendations by analysts, according to researchers at Harvard Business View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

2008
Other Teaching and Training Material

Globalization Meets National Institutions: International Capital Flows, Harvard Business School Module Note Instructor Only, 708-041

By: Laura Alfaro

Keywords: Globalization; Capital; Financial Institutions; International Finance

1987
Book

Changing Alliances: The Harvard Business School Project on the Auto Industry and the American Economy

By: Davis Dyer, Malcolm S. Salter and Alan M. Weber

Keywords: Change; Alliances; Higher Education; Projects; Economy; Auto Industry; United States

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

The New Global Business Manager

In a 1992 article for Harvard Business Review, HBS professor Christopher A. Bartlett and co-author Sumantra Ghoshal tackled the question, "What is a Global Manager?" Their answer then was that "there is no such thing as a... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

2007
Book

From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession

By: Rakesh Khurana

Is management a profession? Should it be? Can it be? This major work of social and intellectual history reveals how such questions have driven business education and shaped American management and society for more than a century. The book is also a call for reform.... View Details

Keywords: Social History; Business Education; Moral Sensibility; Profit; Leadership; Managerial Roles; United States

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28 Aug 2020
Interview

Prof. Regina Herzlinger, Professor at Harvard Business School on Retail Medical Centers and Public Policy

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Gill Eapen

May 1982 (Revised December 1986)
Background Note

Background Information on a Graduate School of Business Administration: Note on the Educational Setting and Environment

June 2009
Supplement

Economic Value of the Advertising Supported Internet Ecosystem, presented by Professor John Quelch, Harvard Business School

By: John A. Quelch

Teaching Interest

Scaling Minority Businesses

By: Archie L. Jones

Scaling Minority Businesses (SMB) is a field course designed to leverage the intellectual power and community of Harvard Business School to address the vital needs of Black-owned enterprises as they face the twin tasks of surviving and growing. The course... View Details

04 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

How To Do Business in Islamic Countries

the Challenge." He was joined by a specialist in Islamic law, Harvard Law School professor Frank E. Vogel, for the series' discussion on doing business in the Islamic world. Vogel and Hayes are also... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

January 2003 (Revised April 2003)
Case

KIPP National, 1999 (A): Designing a School Network

Covers the origin, evolution, and nature of the KIPP Academies, two high-performing public middle schools founded in 1995 by Michael Feinberg and David Levin in Houston and New York. In January 2000, Feinberg and Levin meet with Scott Hamilton, managing director of the... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Middle School Education; Expansion; Education Industry; Houston

Educators

11 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Neuroeconomics: Eyes, Brain, Business

how we distinguish the cognizant from the mindless. "What I'm interested in is how and why the brain evolved to pay attention to other people," says Looser, a fellow at Harvard Business School who sports a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

14 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina

school system—and to take action to improve it. There has been much work to do, as Harvard Business School's Stacey Childress details in two case studies. According to Childress, "The New Orleans public... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education

2006
Other Unpublished Work

The Effect of Takeover Defenses: Discussion Paper, Harvard Law School Olin Center for Law, Economics & Business

By: Lucian Arye Bebchuk, John C. Coates IV and Guhan Subramanian

Keywords: Acquisition; Integration