by Malcolm Baker - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2006
News

Down the Memory Chute

Illustrations by Greg Clarke Recent alumni may not believe it, but there was a time when it was the Written Word — more so than cold calls or attacks of classroom amnesia — that struck fear in the hearts of HBS students. Every two weeks,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

13 Nov 2020
News

Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues

Healthy Buildings John Macomber and the Harvard Chan School’s Joe Allen published a new book, Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Productivity, and gave a virtual talk sponsored by View Details

15 Oct 2019
News

Understanding Challenges Across the Supply Chain

Senior Lecturer José Alvarez visited wheat fields at a farm owned and run by the Duhau Group in Argentina’s Pampa region. The company was the subject of a case Alvarez wrote, which he taught in the Agribusiness Seminar in 2019. (photo... View Details

01 Sep 2017
News

Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?

Silicon Valley startup: “We want to bring a scaled-up version of the blockchain application to market by the end of the year.” From Baker Library: Blockchain is an innovative and complex technological... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

13 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 13, 2007

retailer which opened four new stores; two openings occur in retail trading areas which had been previously served by direct channels alone and two openings occur in retail trading areas which had been served View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 1999
News

Jeff Cruikshank

Baker and the founding of the School was so well received by alumni that it led to a book-length history of the School that I had the privilege of writing. Special issues on entrepreneurship, alumni in... View Details

Keywords: Jeff Cruikshank

01 Dec 1999
News

From the Editors

range of ideas and voices assembled by a succession of talented editors. From ardent speeches on leadership by the School's founders, to impassioned editorials about the causes of the Great Depression, to... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Dec 2007
News

The Wise Men

managerial demands of the war had prompted new courses in, and research emphasis on, human relations and control. Commensurately, the School began to boost its faculty (it had 98 members in 1946). By 1950, HBS was a commanding presence in... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna

01 Oct 2018
Blog Post

Josh Latson and his Fellowship: “It’s like a pie eating contest.”

post-graduation work role. “I spent every Monday afternoon at Baker Library searching for jobs.” Then two serendipitous events came together. Just as his roommate extolled the virtues of the fellowship opportunity that would take him to... View Details

Keywords: Health Care

01 Dec 2018
News

Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter

Illustration by Vahram Muradyan Illustration by Vahram Muradyan With one quarter of all renters spending more than half their income on housing in the United States, as Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

25 Apr 2012
What Do You Think?

How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?

the Big Thinker." Gerald Nanninga cautioned us that "the big risk is that it gives executives a false sense of comfort." Clifford Francis Baker added, "My concern is primarily focused on the possibility of complacency data derived from... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

01 Aug 2002
News

Class Day & Commencement

Skies were overcast on the afternoon of June 5 but that didn't faze this year's 911 graduating MBAs who, along with their families and friends, gathered on Baker Lawn to celebrate Class Day 2002. High spirits remained undampened as... View Details

21 Nov 2013
News

Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins

phones, and focused the company on the critical launch of its next iteration of handsets, BlackBerry 10. The phones came in two versions: first launched was a touch-screen phone designed to attract mass-market consumers, followed by... View Details

Keywords: Telecommunications; Information; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Dec 2010
News

The Transformers

Tom Tierney and Jeff Bradach Photographs by Webb Chappell Related Links Read about one graduate’s work at Harlem Children’s Zone View a recent case on Youth Villages A decade ago, Jeff Bradach (PhDOB 1992) and Tom Tierney (MBA 1980)... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

Web

Tools | New Venture Competition

HQ is a tool built by the trans community that addresses clinicians’ barriers around learning and advocacy. Team: Ivan Hsiao, MPH 2024. Alumni Webinars Launching & Scaling a Social Venture: Gerald Chertavian (MBA 1992), Founder & CEO,... View Details

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Crucibles of Crisis Leadership - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Crucibles of Crisis Leadership Course Number 1529 Baker Foundation Professor Nancy Koehn Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 28 sessions Paper Overview: This course focuses on crisis leadership and how leaders, their teams, and... View Details

25 Feb 2020
News

@Soldiers Field

videos, webinars, and podcasts. (photo by Susan Young) LEAD INVESTORS Hamilton James (MBA 1975), Tricia Glynn (MBA 2008), Jim Breyer (MBA 1987), and Dayna Grayson (MBA 2006) delivered keynote addresses at February’s 26th annual Venture... View Details

01 Dec 2002
News

Straddling Two Worlds

first honed at HBS. After his initial adjustment to the MBA Program, Tierney thrived and upon graduating as a Baker Scholar, completed the coursework for the doctoral program before realizing that academic life did not suit him.... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Dec 2017
News

Case Study: The Doctor Deficit

illustration by Pablo Amargo illustration by Pablo Amargo There is a doctor shortage in the United States, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges, which predicts that the deficit could... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 2017
News

Better Hiring Through Brain Science

Illustrations by Marcos Chin Illustrations by Marcos Chin Hiring companies employ Pymetrics to source additional talent and filter massive applicant pools as well as to boost retention and serve as a... View Details