Always On - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Feb 2013
First Look

First Look: Feb. 5

goals, past research on these programs' impact has yielded mixed outcomes. Our goal is to understand why this might be the case. Design/Methodology/Approach: We rely on interview, archival, and longitudinal... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making

What determines whether decisions happen on the bottom, middle, or top rung of the corporate ladder? New research offers a surprising conclusion: The answer often lies in the technology that a company uses. Information-based systems, such... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

16 Jun 2015
Blog Post

HBS in San Francisco: West Coast Recruiting Recap

Students are accepting offers on the West Coast at a growing rate. Last year 14% of the class of 2014 accepted full-time offers in the Bay Area, and 18% of the class of 2014 accepted summer internships there. As enthusiasm for West Coast... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

03 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster

truly meeting on the underlying social contract. It's almost always best to get the managers who must make the deal work involved in the negotiating process, where they can begin to forge a positive social... View Details

Keywords: by Ron S. Fortgang, David A. Lax & James K. Sebenius

08 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’

Fifty years ago, when America was unquestionably a man's world, one small but influential part of it officially opened its doors to women: the MBA program at Harvard Business School. On Thursday, about 800... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette

09 Dec 2020
Blog Post

How to Create a Psychologically Safe Workplace

Candidates consider many factors when seeking new job opportunities – location, role, benefits, and compensation to name just a few. Yet there is another element that may be more difficult to explain on paper but is just as critical –... View Details

29 Jan 2025
Blog Post

Finding Professional Purpose: Building an Impactful Career that Reflects your Values with Lisa Tanzer (MBA 1993)

helped me realize that while I loved marketing, I wanted to focus on products and content that enriched or entertained. I’ve always been someone who wants to brighten peoples’ day, and I sought to integrate... View Details

07 Nov 2017
Blog Post

Women and the MBA: 6 Important Aspects of the HBS Program

At Harvard Business School, 42% of the MBA Class of 2019 are women, and the Women’s Student Association (WSA) is the largest club on campus. Women can face unique challenges in the workplace, and we often hear questions from prospective... View Details

25 May 2015
Blog Post

RapidSOS Wins the HBS New Venture Competition

HBS is an incubator of ideas. Students come to campus for two years to collaborate, innovate, and dream big. There are many entrepreneurial opportunities and resources available for budding startups and young entrepreneurs – and one... View Details

23 Sep 2024
Blog Post

HBS Latino Student Association Spotlight: Sebastian Forero (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 share what being Latino at HBS... View Details

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Venture Capital: Hot Markets and Current Industry Trends

doesn't mean you always agree—hopefully you don't," she said. "There is a need to push each other, but also to know your goals are the same at the end of the day." Their vision becomes your vision, Fagnan said. "I... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs

navigate conflicts both external and internal. Today, more than ever, markets exert continual pressure on organizations to cut costs and return capital to the bottom line, but building value demands that much of that same capital be... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Michelman

16 May 2016
HBS Case

Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer

prided itself on avoiding artificial ingredients, opting instead to use a relatively short supply chain of local growers for many of its ingredients. That strategy just might have been part of its problem, says John A. Quelch, the Charles... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Evolving for Success [Part Two]

territories where people control their own turf, their own profit-and-loss responsibility, and their own division. New ideas, whether that includes the Internet or anything else, don't descend upon a company in the boxes that have already been established View Details

Keywords: by Staff

03 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry

Cancer research, it has been said, is not unlike a group of blind men studying an elephant. One man feels the elephant's tail and says it is a rope. Another blind man handles its tusk and calls it a spear, and yet another declares its... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

07 Nov 2006
First Look

First Look: November 7, 2006

Executive MBA programs who had worked in a range of organizational settings. Overall, our analyses demonstrate that influences on the decision to speak up include both stable and situation-specific factors, such that conceptualizing... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Understanding Users of Social Networks

for someone who can help me with my start up, I would ask my friends if they know such a person, and if they don't, I would ask them to inquire with their friends. The problem is that those friends of friends don't always have an... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Advertising; Publishing

12 Jan 2018
Cold Call Podcast

Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered those remarks in a now famous speech in Memphis on April 3, 1968. Everyone present felt the power of his words, but no one could have known just how prescient they were.... View Details

31 Jan 2018
Blog Post

Tiffany Nida’s Amazon Journey: “I Continue to Grow Because They Keep Giving Me Responsibility.”

people. It’s a company that’s impatient on behalf of its customers. There’s a bias for action that doesn’t like the status quo, but is always looking for ways to innovate.” The feelings must have been... View Details

Keywords: Technology

26 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

David, Goliath, and Disruption

popular, in a way no one might have predicted. "It just depends on what behavior you're changing," said Michael Schreck (HBS MBA '96), principal of the venture firm General Catalyst, which attempts... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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