Administration of Economic Programs - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Apr 2021
What Do You Think?

Why Can’t More Leaders Teach?

regularly invites CEOs and other practitioners to complement our full-time, tenure-track faculty in teaching MBA classes. The executives are typically well-recognized for their successful careers. As faculty head of the MBA View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 Apr 2019
HBS Case

How Entrepreneurs Can Turn Lead Into Gold

cats, or whatever,” says Andy Wu, assistant professor of business administration in the Strategy unit of Harvard Business School. “What’s overlooked is a comprehensive... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

25 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]

people and lots of money. The opportunity seemed right for Bronner, who had founded Digitas, a marketing-services firm that created customer-loyalty programs for clients such as American Express and... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

15 Mar 2021
Office Hours

Readers Ask: What's the Next 'Big Thing' in Finance?

What’s next in finance? Is bitcoin an inflation shield? What’s your favorite weightlifting exercise? Lauren Cohen, the L.E. Simmons Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, recently... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

06 Dec 2010
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Doing Business in Emerging Markets

for Internet freedom or cover for a failed business strategy, depending on with whom you talk. Professor John A. Quelch looks behind the headlines in a new case. Key concepts include: China has become more emboldened and self-confident as a result View Details

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

destruction of trust and stability by one administration jeopardizes decades of step-by-step development. Other countries may seize at the current opportunity, but they can... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

When In-House Research Isn’t Enough

Advanced Management Program and a founding member of Intel. Now executive vice president of that corporation, he is also president of Intel... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

23 Jul 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Innovation Is Magic. Really

create such a spellbinding experience: a world-class magician. Thomke, the William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, has paired up with magician Jason Randal to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products

13 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?

economic impact, said Kanter, the HBS Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration. Based on discussions during the summit, Kanter outlined some of the country's... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation; Air Transportation; Auto

04 Mar 2002
What Do You Think?

Why the Bull Market in Leadership Books?

Summing Up There is no shortage of explanations for what seems to be a current bull market in writings about leadership, according to respondents to this column. Charles Cullinane attributes it to the View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: Big Messages, Small Screens, Many Choices

Business Administration and Chair of the General Management Program at HBS. Gupta, whose current academic interests lie in mobile advertising, mobile payments, and mobile... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

21 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19

long-term goals Agile programs usually include a session on the approach of Miyamoto Musashi, known as one of the greatest of all samurai. As a... View Details

Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo

04 Mar 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar

Secretary of Labor; and, fortuitously, Clay Christensen, the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration at HBS, and the world's foremost authority on disruptive... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto

03 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment

supply of skilled workers. Since unemployment rates for college graduates are much lower than for non-graduates and average incomes materially higher, more young people would presumably move down the path to View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Education

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

Beer, the School's Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration and an expert on organizational behavior. "Quite simply, without a sense of purpose, we become... View Details

Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso

05 Jun 2013
Op-Ed

Corporate Leaders Need to Step Up on Climate Change

Green initiatives are ubiquitous these days, implemented with zeal at companies like Dupont, IBM, Walmart, and Walt Disney. The programs being rolled out—lighting retrofits, zero-waste factories, and carpool incentives—save money and provide a green glow. Most large... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler

03 Apr 2017
What Do You Think?

How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?

government-industry initiative, why not include in the program an investment in humans as well as bridges? If there is a topic more frequently discussed than infrastructure decay in the US, it’s inequality. Both are important sources... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Construction

02 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity

There is next to no evidence that CSR positively adds to a company's bottom line, according to Felix Oberholzer-Gee, the Andreas Andresen Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. "You... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age

permitted by the Telecommunications Act of 1996 is realigning media ownership. Among other changes, the Federal Communications Commission recently relaxed restrictions on ownership of multiple television... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Advertising

12 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

international labor affairs in the U.S. Department of Labor during the administrations of Eisenhower and Kennedy. It was a time when many countries in Africa and Asia were... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

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