Publications

September 2014
Case

Landmark Facility Solutions

By: William Fruhan and Wei Wang

Landmark Facility Solutions presents a situation in which a medium-sized facility management company assesses whether to acquire a larger facility management company that is known for its high-quality services and technical expertise. The acquirer believes the... View Details

Keywords: Capital Structure; Valuation; Acquisition; Financial Strategy; Corporate Finance

Teaching Interest

Overview

In the MBA program, Professor Fearing teaches Technology and Operations Management (TOM), a required first-year MBA course.

In January 2013 he will travel with a cohort of students to... View Details

Teaching Interest

Overview

In the MBA program, Professor Fearing teaches Technology and Operations Management (TOM), a required first-year MBA course. In January 2013 he will travel with a cohort of students to Sao Paolo, Brazil as part of the FIELD 2 Global Immersion program, also a... View Details

February 1999 (Revised July 2004)
Case

Life as a Minor League CEO Frank Burke and The Chattanooga Lookouts

By: Stephen A. Greyser and Kirk A. Goldman

A "slice of life" depiction of the range of issues and activities experienced by Frank Burke (HBS MBA 1987), the president of a minor league baseball team (the Chattanooga Lookouts). Raises questions of the applicability of MBA skills in this role and the "quotient of... View Details

Keywords: Happiness; Managerial Roles; Entrepreneurship; Business or Company Management; Marketing; Cost Management; Cost vs Benefits; Operations; Sports; Business Education; Sports Industry; Tennessee

November 2005
Background Note

Comparing HBSMBAs with Top Hunter and Farmer Sales Reps

By: Das Narayandas and Harold Weinstein

Supports the sales module in the first-year MBA Marketing course. View Details

Keywords: Sales

Teaching Interest

Accounting for Managers

By: V.G. Narayanan

I teach financial and managerial accounting to executives and MBA students. View Details

Keywords: Accounting; Managerial Accounting; Financial Accounting

Teaching Interest

Overview

Anil has taught in front of MBA and doctoral students. He was a teaching fellow in "Managing Innovation" (taught by Professor Karim Lakhani) and "Strategies Beyond the Market" (taught by Professor Dennis Yao) as well as in the MBA Analytics program. Anil also... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Innovation; Technology Strategy; Innovation Management; Entrepreneurship

Teaching Interest

Overview

In the MBA program, Professor Fearing teaches Technology and Operations Management (TOM), a required first-year MBA course.

In January 2013 he traveled with a cohort of... View Details

Teaching Interest

Overview

Professor Pérez Cavazos teaches the required first-year MBA course Financial Reporting and Control. View Details

Keywords: Financial Accounting; Financial Reporting; Control

2011
Article

Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads

By: Srikant M. Datar, David A. Garvin and Patrick Cullen

The paper seeks to examine major challenges facing MBA programs and to argue that they will have to reconsider their value proposition. It aims to explore effective curricular and programmatic responses as opportunities for MBA programs to innovate. The paper also aims... View Details

Keywords: Business Education; Curriculum and Courses; Innovation and Invention; Problems and Challenges; Value Creation

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May 2002 (Revised September 2002)
Teaching Note

Creating New Services, Module Overview Note TN

By: Frances X. Frei

Taught in Managing Service Operations, an elective course in the Harvard Business School MBA program. Appropriate for any service course or service module within an operations or new product development course that targets MBA or executive education students.... View Details

Keywords: Service Operations; Product Development; Business Education; Product Positioning

June 1999
Course Overview Note

Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD), Course Overview (Abridged)

By: Linda A. Hill

Course overview for the first-year required MBA course Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD). View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Organizations; Behavior

January 1992
Supplement

Fusion Systems Corp. in Japan: Don Spero, President and Chief Executive Officer, Video

Provides CEO's personal perspective and answers to questions by MBA students. View Details

Research Summary

Understanding Customers

(To learn about Luc Wathieu's MBA course, please scroll down to the last abstract below.) View Details

November 2002 (Revised August 2004)
Case

Globalization of HBS, The

By: Tarun Khanna, Rakesh Khurana and David Lane

Sets the stage for a discussion on the globalization of the MBA degree and variations on the idea that Harvard Business School (HBS) can play a role in shaping business education around the world. Describes the forces leading to greater convergence around the MBA... View Details

Keywords: Business Education; Globalization; Education Industry; Boston

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Teaching Interest

Overview

By: Kevin P. Mohan

Kevin teaches Negotiations and Deals in the MBA curriculum and in several Executive Education offerings. View Details

Keywords: Negotiation

Teaching Interest

Overview

By: Christina M. Wallace

Christina Wallace teaches Launching Tech Ventures in the second-year MBA program and is co-course head for The Entrepreneurial Manager in the first-year MBA program. She created an Entrepreneurial Marketing course for HBS Online and regularly teaches entrepreneurship,... View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Management; Entrepreneurship; Marketing; Marketing Communications; Creativity; Communication Strategy

Article

Some Reflections on the Antitrust Treatment of Intellectual Property

By: Tracy R. Lewis and Dennis A. Yao

Abridged version in The Financial Times, The Complete MBA Companion, 1997, pp. 577-582. View Details

Keywords: Intellectual Property; Law Enforcement

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January 2007 (Revised November 2007)
Course Overview Note

International Entrepreneurship: Winter Term 2008: Course Overview and Syllabus

Explains the mission, philosophy, structure, and classroom and grading policies for the second-year MBA elective International Entrepreneurship. View Details

Keywords: Curriculum and Courses; Entrepreneurship; Globalization