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  • 21 Aug 2018
  • News

The Business Shelf: Driving Digital Strategy

    Dorothy A. Leonard

    Dorothy Leonard*, the William J. Abernathy Professor of Business Administration Emerita, joined the Harvard faculty in 1983 after teaching for three years at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has taught MBA courses in... View Details

    Keywords: computer; consulting; education industry; electronics; federal government; high technology; information technology industry; software; venture capital industry
    • 2016
    • Chapter

    Trade Associations, State Building, and the Sherman Act: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 1912–25

    By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
    From its founding in 1912 through the interwar years, the Chamber’s history shows a persistent preoccupation with progressive economics and policy making. Rather than flouting the new ideas of institutional economics, which favored federal regulators overseeing data... View Details
    Keywords: Competition; Fairness; Supply and Industry; Policy; Business and Government Relations; United States
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    • April 2002 (Revised September 2002)
    • Case

    Transformation of Seattle Public Schools, 1995-2002

    Investigates the reform of the Seattle Public Schools from 1995 to 2002. To initiate reform in 1995, the district hired John Stanford, an Army general, and Joseph Olchefske, an investment banker, as the district's superintendent and chief financial officer,... View Details
    Keywords: Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leading Change; Organizational Structure; Education; Business Strategy; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry; Seattle
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      Stephen P. Bradley

      Professor Bradley is the William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. In addition to teaching Management and Strategy in the Owner President Management Program and leading an... View Details

      Keywords: e-commerce industry; financial services; health care; high technology; internet; pharmaceuticals; telecommunications
      • 01 Sep 2016
      • Blog Post

      Reflecting on the HKS/HBS Joint Degree Program

      I am currently a joint degree student at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Harvard Business School (HBS), and attending Harvard has been a fantastic experience so far. I spent my first year here studying the Master in Public Administration... View Details

        Howard H. Stevenson

        Howard H. Stevenson is Sarofim-Rock Baker Foundation Professor emeritus, former Senior Associate Dean, Director of Publishing, and Chair of the Harvard Business Publishing Company board. The Sarofim-Rock Chair was established in 1982 to provide a continuing base for... View Details

        Keywords: broadcasting; communications; computer; construction; financial services; forest products; health care; high technology; industrial goods; insurance industry; investment banking industry; manufacturing; paper; professional services; real estate; service industry; software; venture capital industry
        • 16 Jul 2021
        • Blog Post

        Staying Under the 1.5°C Threshold: The Role of Government, Business, and Society

        Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, about how governments, businesses, and society must act together—now—to cut global emissions in half by 2030 to keep temperature rises under 1.5°C and avoid the disastrous effects of... View Details
        • Web

        PhD Programs - Doctoral

        research topics. Explore more here about each program’s requirements & curriculum, read student profiles for each discipline as well as student research , and placement information. The PhD in Business Administration grounds students in... View Details
        • 2010
        • Working Paper

        CREATING LEADERS WORKSHOP: Mastering the Principles and Effective Delivery of 'The Ontological Leadership Course' (PDF File of PowerPoint Slides)

        By: Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Kari L. Granger and Joseph J. DiMaggio M.D.
        This workshop is designed to support participants in gaining mastery in the delivery of our new course: "Being A Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological Model." The Workshop was delivered at the United States Air Force Academy (July 13 - 16,... View Details
        Keywords: Curriculum and Courses; Values and Beliefs; Globalization; Policy; Leadership Development; Goals and Objectives; Performance Capacity; Social and Collaborative Networks
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          Stephen A. Greyser

          Stephen A. Greyser is Richard P. Chapman Professor (Marketing/Communications) Emeritus, of the Harvard Business School, specializes in brand marketing, advertising, corporate communications, the business of sports, and nonprofit management.  A... View Details

          Keywords: sports
          • 2020
          • Working Paper

          Inventing the Endless Frontier: The Effects of the World War II Research Effort on Post-War Innovation

          By: Daniel P. Gross and Bhaven N. Sampat
          During World War II, the U.S. government launched an unprecedented effort to mobilize science for war: a newly-established Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) entered thousands of R&D contracts with industrial and academic contractors, spending one to... View Details
          Keywords: World War II; Vannevar Bush; OSRD; Mission-oriented R＆D; Direction Of Innovation; Geography Of Innovation; Technology Clusters; U.S. Innovation System; Innovation and Invention; Research and Development; Problems and Challenges; War; History; Government Administration; United States
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          • 05 Nov 2014
          • HBS Seminar

          CV Harquail, Authentic Organizations and Stevens Institute of Technology

          • 12 Mar 2024
          • Research & Ideas

          Publish or Perish: What the Research Says About Productivity in Academia

          report by the American Association of University Professors showing that during the past three decades, academic employment in the US has shifted away from tenured positions—which tend to bring higher salaries and job security—toward... View Details
          Keywords: by Ben Rand; Education
          • 25 Jan 2024
          • Research & Ideas

          Being a Team Player: Why College Athletes Succeed in Business

          C-suite roles than their classmates, says Paul Gompers, the Eugene Holman Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, who is one of the study’s co-authors. “It certainly makes sense that that kind of intense... View Details
          Keywords: by Rachel Layne
          • Web

          Accounting & Management - Doctoral

          apply to the PhD in Business Administration and select Accounting as their area of study. Students work closely with faculty in the Accounting and Management Unit . Research here encompasses Financial Reporting and Analysis and Management... View Details
          • 06 Oct 2023
          • Book

          Yes, You Can Radically Change Your Organization in One Week

          classic thing we see happen is, if it's an academic institution, senior faculty have gathered to talk about junior faculty and solutions to some of the junior faculty's concerns. There are no junior faculty in the room. Or men have gotten... View Details
          Keywords: by Kristen Senz
          • 03 Oct 2023
          • What Do You Think?

          Do Leaders Learn More From Success or Failure?

          at business schools across the world, my own experience tells me to expect a bias toward success. After all, leaders are proud of what their organizations accomplish and have a bias to talk to academics about successes vs. failures. My... View Details
          Keywords: by James Heskett
          • 01 Aug 2023
          • What Do You Think?

          As Leaders, Why Do We Continue to Reward A, While Hoping for B?

          educational system.” For example, in politics, citizens support ideas associated with what academics call “high-acceptance, low-quality goals,” as in: “All citizens are entitled to health care.” Acceptance begins dropping, however, as the... View Details
          Keywords: by James Heskett
          • 22 Nov 2023
          • Research & Ideas

          Humans vs. Machines: Untangling the Tasks AI Can (and Can't) Handle

          Lakhani, the Dorothy and Michael Hintze Professor of Business Administration at HBS, and Fabrizio Dell'Acqua, a postdoctoral research fellow at HBS. They are joined by Boston Consulting Group’s François Candelon, Lisa Krayer, and Saran... View Details
          Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology; Technology