Fundamentals - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 May 2018
Research & Ideas

How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps

The resourcefulness with which companies dealt with these staffing challenges could be an area of deeper research, Giacomin says, and has ongoing relevance in today’s tight labor market. The internment experience also fundamentally... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Manufacturing

27 Sep 2017
Research & Ideas

What Happens When Ordinary People Get Creative?

“Attacking this question is fundamentally important for both the science and the practice of creativity,” she writes. “It seems increasingly likely that products and services resulting from the creative behavior of ordinary individuals... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

24 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Can Obamacare Be Saved?

many carriers may have to develop a fundamentally different business model—the commercial segment model is not viable for the public exchanges.” INGREDIENTS FOR SUCCESS From consumers: Consumers need to learn how to make smarter choices... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch and Emily Boudreau; Insurance; Health

15 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 15

(Search-Based Peers or SBPs) are fundamentally similar on multiple dimensions. In direct tests, SBPs dominate GICS6 industry peers in explaining cross-sectional variations in base firms' out-of-sample (a) stock returns, (b) valuation... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

Managing Global Supply Chains There are fundamental differences between supply chains and global supply chains, say authors Ananth Raman and Noel Watson, both HBS professors. "The increasing globalization of supply chains makes it... View Details

Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors

13 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

Corporate Venturing: Entrepreneurship on the Inside

integrated back in. "But to try to take your core business, if your market's going through a fundamental shift, and migrate it on the fly without separating it out is a very big challenge." Incentive structure is a big issue for... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

28 May 2019
News

Cure All

management training to the people who are actually going to implement that change. It requires a fundamentally different approach in the day-to-day work, which is something the sector needs badly. View Details

Keywords: Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2005
News

Predictable Surprises

here. The most obvious answer is that we must fundamentally change the system. The predictable surprise that helps create all the other predictable surprises is the destructive force of special-interest groups in this country. I am a... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

24 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Debora L. Spar

In the long run, even the most fundamental innovations have a way of being influenced by government, says Harvard Business School professor Debora Spar. That's why business leaders need political skills, too. Silverthorne: In Next: The... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Apr 2000
News

Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti

possible turnaround of this huge institution, one that affects everybody in the country. I saw it as an opportunity to bring about fundamental change at an agency that really needed it, to have an impact on a key function of government,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

Profile

Tricia Lee

for my long term career. What are you most looking forward to in your career? I believe the way you interact with and experience entertainment is going to fundamentally shift. I'm looking forward to managing a company that is leading the... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media; Technology; Entrepreneurship

Profile

Brooke Boyarsky

me and helped me navigate the path to discover what I wanted to do. How has HBS prepared you for your summer internship & long term career? I felt extremely prepared going into my internship. I felt that HBS had taught me the View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Technology

13 May 2013
Blog Post

Exploring in a Passion Safe Environment

willingness to teach us the fundamentals of their business. The Marine Corps has a standing commitment to return better citizens back to communities across the Nation. While I was on Active Duty, we all strove to fulfill that commitment.... View Details

Profile

Tony Perez

hospitals, insurers, pharma, and government, whose goals historically have not always aligned. We need people who can address fundamental policy and management issues." Finding his voice In his fourth year of the five-year joint... View Details

25 Jan 2018
News

Investing in India’s Nonprofits to Overcome Poverty Sustainably

phone, you can't really do anything. Right? “So those are some of the fundamentals that you have to give. Apart from that, you have to train them in basic life skills. You will see a lot of people just leave their work, for example, if... View Details

15 Nov 2016
News

Field Course Helps Nascent Entrepreneurs Connect with Customers

drive a decision to offer two sessions of a more traditional, case-based ESM course in fall 2016 to provide fundamentals in preparation for the field-based course. “The startup dilemmas students will debate during case discussions in the... View Details

01 Mar 2003
News

“Culture Is Everything”

and rewards will come from leading transformation,” he told the audience. “Be somebody who brings about fundamental change in an institution. Do not be satisfied with managing, with continuing, with extending. Go for transformation — it... View Details

Keywords: IBM; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Apr 1999
News

An Eye to the East

new phase," said Clark at the opening dinner, which was attended by Hong Kong chief executive Tung Chee-hwa and over two hundred alumni and friends of the School. "Our research and teaching are fundamentally grounded in and connected to... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

08 Aug 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Parmigiano-Reggiano, Jane Austen, and Other Things You Didn't Know About Finance

State Street Global Advisers is responding the expanding influence of impact investing. What Jane Austen and Mel Brooks Can Teach Us About Finance A new book links the fundamentals of finance to several centuries of literature, history,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

Profile

Alexandra Stanek

understanding financial statements, accounting, all the fundamentals managers need. But the larger virtue of HBS is that it’s a place to be challenged. To be in a setting with 90 very sharp people and be able to speak up and represent a... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

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