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- 08 Apr 2011
- News
Management Matters In Health Care, Too
figure them out,” he said. “We’re going to have a revolution in coordinating care,” observed David Cutler, a Harvard professor of applied economics and a nationally recognized expert in the economics of health care. To underscore his... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Start It Up
MOOREHEAD: A green start-up designed to reduce the human and monetary costs of war. While serving in different parts of the world as a Navy SEAL, Doug Moorehead (MBA 2007) observed firsthand the human and material cost of energy... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rwanda Provides Students with Hands-On Learning
India, Peru, Rwanda, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, and Vietnam to observe local economies, study management practices in the field, and interact directly with business and community leaders. In addition, domestic programs took... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
Is There a Disconnect? Thanks for some interesting commentary in the December issue. I note in particular the preamble to the review of John Kao’s (MBA ’82) new book, Charlie Williams’s observations in “The Wise Men” feature, and... View Details
- 19 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Radical Design, Radical Results
sort of research process and then launches products based on its findings. Wait and see. The company allows others to experiment with various products, observes what is most successful, and reacts accordingly. In Verganti's study of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Dean Clark Addresses Journalists
HBS experience. As for the “barrel,” Clark observed that HBS and other business schools can also make important contributions by studying ways to design markets more effectively, reduce conflicts of interest, and build stronger governance... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Hit Pause
lives may seem. Observe yourself. The optimum time for reflection is different for everyone. “Pay attention to when you naturally find yourself stepping back, when it’s easier to get some distance from your to-do list and your mind is... View Details
- 09 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Manager in Red Sneakers
clothes rather than an elegant outfit to a luxury boutique, or wearing sneakers to a professional event. In The Red Sneakers Effect: Inferring Status and Competence from Signals of Nonconformity—an article appearing in the June 2014 Journal of Consumer Research—the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Feedback
March 2016 Early Observers Re: The New Space Race A nice overview, but what was neglected was the important contribution of earth observation (remote sensing) technology and spin-off ventures to the current... View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Exploring China’s Belt & Road Initiative
enhance regional connectivity and embrace a brighter future,” while some observers see it as a push to enhance China’s role in global affairs with a China-centered trading network. The course exposed students to the diversity of views... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
An Economy Undermined
Photo courtesy Jeff Madrick When I graduated from HBS in 1971, I chose journalism (at BusinessWeek) over business, a career decision that enabled me to observe “up close and personal” the coming Wall Street revolution. It was a revolution... View Details
- 08 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Four Questions Fundraisers Must be Prepared to Answer
Stevenson has concluded that public recognition is not the major reason why people make significant gifts. Instead, they want to make a positive impact on the world, says Stevenson, Harvard Business School’s Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus.... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 21 Aug 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Under the Magnifying Glass: The Benefits of Being a Case Study
ensures that the information within it is correct. If the draft contains certain observations or data they prefer not to have mentioned, they let the researcher know. Then the company authorizes the case. A case is never published without... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
White knight in the rye
When Sotheby's recently auctioned off fourteen love letters that reclusive author J.D. Salinger had written 27 years ago to Joyce Maynard, his then college-age companion, many observers derided Maynard's decision to sell the letters,... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Positive impact that hits home
religious heritage. Not least among these is the belief that “you can be a highly performing business executive and also be a very religious person,” observes Seck Mercier. “Those two things can go together without any issue.” She is... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
democratic history and an immediate, practical exercise for anyone looking for a way to strengthen our common civic commitments. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52134 2017 Academy of Management Annals Making Transparency Transparent:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 31 May 2017
- News
Father Agribusiness
Agribusiness, he explains, “..[i]s not just agriculture and business, it’s people from the medical school and government and the school for public health all working together.” For Goldberg, observing those connections in the context of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Karaoke Anyone?
After working in Asia for several years, Marti Speranza (MBA ’03) observed how karaoke was a very mainstream form of entertainment. “I thought it was fascinating it didn’t exist that way in the U.S,” she told the Boston Globe (December... View Details
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Jeff Bernstein
experiences better." An observant Orthodox Jew, Jeff also appreciates the accommodations the school makes such as providing kosher options whenever food is brought to student classes or events. Lessons for the future Jeff got married... View Details
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2013 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Eagly , Northwestern University Women As Leaders: Leadership Style Versus Leaders’ Goals Ella Bell , Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth Right Before Your Eyes: Observations as to Why Conversations on Gender Differences Don’t Tell the... View Details