The Great Divergence - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Nov 2021
Blog Post

Alumni Viewpoints: Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

Aveeram WindBeing Responsible Towards the Environment Is a Great Financial Investment+Jennifer Tisdel Schorsch (MBA 1992) President, Water.orgIntegrate Water Strategy into Business Strategy+Michael Skelly... View Details

15 Jul 2023

The MBA Tour: New York City

Interested in learning more about the Harvard MBA? Join us on July 15th at The MBA Tour: New York City hosted by GMAC. This in-person event is a great opportunity to learn more... View Details

03 Jan 2023
What Do You Think?

How Would the Leadership Style of Girl Scouts' Frances Hesselbein Fare Today?

that the Girl Scouts paid for their operations out of money earned from cookie sales. It was a set of assumptions difficult to change; it mattered a great deal in an organization in which each of View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

September 2016
Case

Truly Human Leadership at Barry-Wehmiller

By: Dylan Minor and Jan Rivkin

The chief executive of Barry-Wehmiller, a large maker of industrial equipment, has resolved to run the company via “truly human leadership” in which “success is measured by the way we touch the lives of people.” With unusual people practices and a distinctive strategy,... View Details

Keywords: Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Values and Beliefs; Organizational Culture; Employees; Business Strategy; Manufacturing Industry

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07 May 2015
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Career Change: From the Military to Consulting

you planning to do after HBS? After HBS I will work as a management consultant at Bain & Company in New York. I knew I wanted to move into the private sector, and consulting is a great way to gain... View Details

July–August 2013
Article

Relaxing the Taboo on Telling Our Own Stories: Upholding Professional Distance and Personal Involvement

By: Michel Anteby

Scholars studying organizations are typically discouraged from telling, in print, their own stories. The expression "telling our own stories" is used as a proxy for field research projects that, in their written form, explicitly rely on a scholar's personal involvement... View Details

Keywords: Fieldwork; Research Practiced; Distance; Involvement; Taboo; Practice; Ethics; Education Industry

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30 Sep 2024
News

The Making of a Streaming Sensation

over the past seven years or so. But the audience still has a voracious appetite for great content. There's this sort of consumer expectation that they're always going to be... View Details

01 Mar 2012
News

How to Close the Health Gap

companies largely ignored the world’s poor: few new drugs were created to combat tropical diseases and TB. The needs of the developing world also were neglected by View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

27 Nov 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Secrets for Creating a Long-Lasting Brand

built from the ground up and rebuilt again when the competitive landscape shifts. A Good Place to Start Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?Super Bowl advertising is increasingly about... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

01 Mar 2006
News

The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could

delivery truck, a 1920 Ford, still rolls out for promotional events. COURTESY DREYER'S GRAND ICE CREAM While war stories make for great company lore, even in their telling Rogers never loses sight of the two... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Dec 1996
News

Intellectual Debate: The Business of Business

economics overlap and highlighted the key implications this has for management and management education. When the afternoon was over, differences of opinion on the topics... View Details

01 Jun 2024
News

Research Brief: Ahead of the Game

abilities? Are great athletes born or developed? To what degree does the so-called old-boys’ network advantage these athletes in the professional space? “The next phase of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Antonio Pinna

01 Mar 2018
News

Realizing The Potential Of One Harvard

“special sauce,” which includes giving fellows an opportunity to hear from researchers at various stages in their careers—from first-year doctoral students to junior faculty to the Dean. “The program has really gathered momentum, and a... View Details

10 Nov 2008
Research Event

Social Media Leads the Future of Technology

effective in the sense that advertisers can reach great scale and do precision targeting. The challenge is to discern consumers' intent. "Search is unbelievably efficient... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2003
News

These Are the Good Old Days

reluctantly admits inspired the New York Times to dub her “Hazel,” Moore asked employees to clean out their offices and storerooms for a flea market where all employees could pay $10 to fill up a shopping bag with various items. “There... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups

and execute truly creative solutions. Perhaps the traditional image of the creative genius working alone to create great breakthroughs is not so accurate after all. To shatter... View Details

Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron

25 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University

rethink the entire traditional higher education model. Private universities without national recognition and large endowments are at great financial risk. So are public universities, even prestigious ones... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen & Henry J. Eyring; Education

01 Mar 2019
News

Action Plan: Fruit of the Vine

authenticity, and consistency.” Don’t take sales for granted. “It sounds obvious, but if you make the wine, you’ve got to sell the wine. As a small business owner, you can really get into a trap of providing... View Details

Keywords: Ryan Jones

Web

Expatriate Traders in the Treaty Port Communities - A Chronicle of the China Trade

masculine. . . . The men ate and drank a great deal too much.” 51 (The Heards particularly enjoyed good wine.) In general, American women were notably absent from factory life, and if a Westerner got married... View Details

04 Nov 2002
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What’s Best for the Corporate Brain?

organizations, like Southwest Airlines, seek to minimize employee turnover and go to great lengths to avoid downsizing, concentrating instead on very careful hiring and training. Others, like GE, in addition to providing an array of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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