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- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Navigating Uncertainty: Dean Datar on HBS’s Path Forward
With Harvard navigating an array of pressures, Jana Kierstead, Executive Director of the MBA and Doctoral Programs and External Relations, spoke with Dean Srikant Datar about how HBS is responding to new challenges while maintaining its focus on strategic priorities.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Faculty Books
trial and error, endless effort, and slowly acquired personal insight. Many managers never complete the journey. At best, they just learn to get by; at worst, they become mediocre bosses. Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
“It’s not something we can put off because we are in an emergency,” Obama said in December. “This is part of the emergency.” The seed for the Massachusetts reforms was planted in early 2003, in the first weeks of the administration of... View Details
- January 2023 (Revised April 2024)
- Case
First to Fight? Culture, Tradition, and the United States Marine Corps (USMC)
By: Ranjay Gulati, Akhil Iyer and Joel Malkin
Over a history of more than 240 years, the United States Marine Corps has forged a distinct culture and institutional identity centered on its “warrior ethos.” In the wars of American history, Marines fought with uncommon valor, rising to international prominence for... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Talent and Talent Management; Government Administration; Management Practices and Processes; Management Systems; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Performance Effectiveness; United States
Gulati, Ranjay, Akhil Iyer, and Joel Malkin. "First to Fight? Culture, Tradition, and the United States Marine Corps (USMC)." Harvard Business School Case 423-051, January 2023. (Revised April 2024.)
- 16 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?
Editor's note: Even with recent disclosures about out-of-control spending on corporate perks and government agency parties, the US military is frequently held up as the exemplar of organizational largesse run wild. In the new book Defense... View Details
- 24 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?
For years, the United Kingdom sent out letters to delinquent taxpayers urging them to pay their overdue tax bills. The letters cost the government tens of millions of pounds per year, but, unfortunately, most citizens ignored these pleas... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Sep 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics
are often shaped more by the political climate than by the actual climate. "The issue has become totally intertwined with political ideology," says Richard H.K. Vietor, the Paul Whiton Chertington Professor of Business Administration at... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Building a Social Network
regarding how to improve ratings for the other half. The organization’s strategy to date has focused on a “broad” approach where member interest drives group formation; to generate the revenues needed to provide online and administrative... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- September 2011 (Revised October 2011)
- Case
Scotty Smiley
By: Scott A. Snook and Doug Crandall
U.S. Army Lieutenant Scotty Smiley faces the biggest challenge of his young life. What will he do after learning that the wounds he received from a car bomb in Iraq have left him permanently blinded? On April 6, 2005, Lieutenant Scotty Smiley was grievously wounded by... View Details
Keywords: Government Administration; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Personal Characteristics; Customization and Personalization; Personal Development and Career; Work-Life Balance; Performance Capacity; Planning; Employment Industry; United States; Iraq
Snook, Scott A., and Doug Crandall. "Scotty Smiley." Harvard Business School Case 412-058, September 2011. (Revised October 2011.)
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Managing the Map
precisely target individual diseases. Isolating the genome's three billion chemical units is a task of such immense scope that the NIH formed a consortium of academic and government research laboratories to undertake the work... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 02 May 2008
- What Do You Think?
What is the Future of State Capitalism?
forms of capitalism." Citing examples of Dutch and British investments abroad, Cole Woodson comments, "I find the question to be somewhat delinquent ... to the tune of several centuries." He adds that to the extent that returns from investments of View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
was trying to fix prices. This is antithetical to how most Americans think of the US market operating,” says Sawyer, an assistant professor in the Business, Government and the International Economy unit who previously held the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
MBA Class of 2004 Celebrates Class Day and Commencement
audience. Imagine, he asked, that you could carry in your pocket a miniature governing board composed of several individual voices and characters whose collective judgment could be called on in times of need. For his own “pocket board,”... View Details
- November 2013 (Revised January 2015)
- Case
Obamacare
By: Matthew Weinzierl and Katrina Flanagan
One vote in June, 2012, decided the fate of President Barack Obama's crowning first-term achievement: universal health insurance. Chief Justice John Roberts of the U.S. Supreme Court cast the deciding vote to uphold the keystone of the reform: the mandate to purchase... View Details
Keywords: Universal Health Insurance; Adverse Selection; Leviathan; Courts and Trials; Judgments; Insurance; Health Care and Treatment; Government and Politics; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry; United States
Weinzierl, Matthew, and Katrina Flanagan. "Obamacare." Harvard Business School Case 714-029, November 2013. (Revised January 2015.)
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Research Resources | Baker Library
other archival collections related to the company. Administrative Records, circa 1930–2005 (Series I) Corporate governance and leadership records, 1953–1995; Polaroid Corporation Annual Reports 1937–1996;... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Sister Soldier
actor managed to put in place. They aimed for a participatory democracy where women and men govern together. Women are co-heads of every town they govern. A women’s council was created in every town these fighters took back. It is the... View Details
- 07 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence
corporate America ever win back people's confidence? Harvard Management Update recently discussed this issue with Thomas R. Piper, Lawrence E. Fouraker Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and coauthor of Can... View Details
Keywords: by Harvard Management Update
- 20 Nov 2019
- News
Lifting Fallen Families
public assumes that the government assists them. And it does, to an extent. “There are two government programs that are designed to aid them,” says Kim, “but that aid doesn’t cover the full cost of college.... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
America the Unequal
Percent of Wealth Owned: Actual U.S. wealth distribution compared with Estimated and Ideal distributions reported by respondents in a national survey. The “4th” and “Bottom” groups are so small that they are not visible in the Actual distribution. Related Links More... View Details