Publications

March 2018 (Revised March 2018)
Supplement

Sandlands Vineyards

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Greg Saldutte

Approximately 80% of the wineries in the US breakeven or lose money. An even greater percentage lose money on an economic basis (i.e., after a charge for the cost of equity). Tegan Passalacqua is a successful, young, Californian winemaker who specializes in making... View Details

28 Sep 2023
Blog Post

HBS Latino Student Association Spotlight: Jeffrey Arango (MBA 2025)

related to MBA Admissions, alumni engagement, career development, and more to advocate for and empower the Latino community on campus and beyond. In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, we asked LASO members to tell us about what being part of LASO means to them. View Details

Article

Learning by Thinking: The Role of Reflection in Individual Learning

By: Giada Di Stefano, Francesca Gino, Gary P. Pisano and Bradley R. Staats

It is common wisdom that practice makes perfect. And, in fact, we find evidence that when given a choice between practicing a task and reflecting on their previously accumulated practice, most people opt for the former. We argue in this paper that this preference is... View Details

Keywords: Learning; Cognition and Thinking; Practice; Experience and Expertise

23 Feb 2015
News

Five HBS Faculty Members Win Awards in Global Case Writing Competition

27 Oct 2014
News

How Boston is rethinking its relationship with the sea

28 Jul 2015
Blog Post

Recruiting in the U.S. for International Students: 101

weeks before I got my offer I was spending as much time in recruiting activities as in class. What’s interesting, now that I know the ending, is how much I resisted actually... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

Research Summary

An Unlimited Moments GMM Estimator

A short time series relative to the number of moment conditions in a GMM framework yields an inconsistent estimator. To circumvent this problem, researchers generally restrict the number of moment conditions to some fraction of the length of the time... View Details

November 1995 (Revised April 1998)
Case

National Insurance Corporation

The case visits the catastrophe insurance business at an interesting time in the history of the insurance markets. A major reinsurer, National Insurance, is taking a look at the new insurance derivatives being traded on the Chicago Board of Trade with a view to using... View Details

Keywords: Risk Management; Insurance; Capital Markets; Insurance Industry; United States

01 Mar 2016
News

Six HBS Faculty Members Win Awards in Global Case Centre Competitions

13 Dec 2018
Video

Learn more about Research Associates at HBS

13 Dec 2018
Video

Learn more about Research Associates at HBS

August 2006 (Revised September 2008)
Case

Leadership in Law: Amy Schulman at DLA Piper

By: Boris Groysberg, Victoria Winston and Shirley Spence

What does it take to build a successful career over time? Describes Amy Schulman's career progression and role as a star senior litigator and top executive at one of the world's largest law firms. It focuses on different stages in her career and what she did to be... View Details

Keywords: Work-Life Balance; Employee Relationship Management; Groups and Teams; Time Management; Personal Development and Career; Gender

30 Nov 2011
News

Yelp's IPO Will Test the Flaws in Its Business Model

18 Mar 2022
Blog Post

The Health Care Conference and the Convening Power of HBS

returning after graduating. She is also a Flare Capital Scholar. The very first time I visited HBS was for the Health Care Conference in 2018. A friend of mine from undergrad (Marissa Pettit Jones, MBA 2019) was planning the Start-up Fair... View Details

Research Summary

Competitive Arousal

By: Deepak Malhotra

A fourth stream of research examines a phenomenon that my co-authors and I have termed Competitive Arousal. We find that some features of competitive contexts (e.g., time pressure, perceptions of rivalry, and the presence of an audience) can heighten... View Details

20 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

The Seven Things That Surprise New CEOs

new CEOs. See a video interview with Porter.Most new chief executives are taken aback by the unexpected and unfamiliar new roles, the time and information limitations, and the altered professional relationships they run up against. Here... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Jay W. Lorsch & Nitin Nohria

Career Coach

Mo Fong

understand their truly motivations and their values as guiding principles on how to chart their career and life ambitions. She is passionate about helping students chart their career paths and providing executive coaching for mid-career... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Education; Government; Social Enterprise; Consumer Finance; Financial Services (All); Commercial Banking; Financial Services (All)

Henry W. McGee

Henry McGee joined the HBS faculty in 2013 after retiring as President of HBO Home Entertainment, the digital and DVD program distribution division of Home Box Office, the pioneering premium television company. A member of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit,... View Details

Keywords: television; motion pictures; media; e-commerce industry; entertainment; broadcasting; distribution; health care; journalism; wholesale; arts; nonprofit industry

August 2018
Case

BlackBuck (A)

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai

The case presents the challenges of scaling an asset-heavy company (that relies on its operations). It highlights how decisions on the early team impact a company’s ability to scale, linkage between growth and cash flows, as well the organizational impact of high... View Details

Keywords: Founders; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Delivery; Cash Flow; Growth Management; Truck Transportation; Online Technology; India