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- July–August 2013
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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
Anteby, Michel. "Relaxing the Taboo on Telling Our Own Stories: Upholding Professional Distance and Personal Involvement." Organization Science 24, no. 4 (July–August 2013): 1277–1290.
- 26 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way to Go to Market
could possibly remember and convey. In other words, one should not jump to the conclusion that because the Internet appears cheaper it can solve a company's go-to-market problem. View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 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
- 06 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Meet the Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (ETA) Club
Acquisition (ETA) is a great career path. Club Mission The Club’s mission is two-fold. First, we intend to provide potential searchers with the network and resources needed to... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 29 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
Exploring the Intersection of Business & Health Care: Summer Fellow Derek Soled (MD/MBA 2022)
obstacles have on health inequities has solidified my desire to work at the intersection of medicine and public health as a both a practicing physician and policymaker. Healthcare has the potential to... View Details
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
encompassed other important inflection points. The end of the Civil War was one. The onset of the Great Depression... View Details
- 20 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular 'Cold Call' Podcasts
business practices. Professor Rebecca Henderson discusses what she calls the paradigmatic case: how Wal-mart takes huge risks, makes great strides, and demonstrates how companies are one of View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 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
Minor, Dylan, and Jan Rivkin. "Truly Human Leadership at Barry-Wehmiller." Harvard Business School Case 717-420, September 2016.
- 09 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Navigating Grey in the Ever-Evolving Tech Community
could offer to incoming MBAs interested in the tech community? My favorite tech roles to date have all been ones where I felt strongly about both the company culture and the... View Details
- 30 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: Preparing to Sell
great resources available to help with financial planning and asset management. Make the family strategic plan before you search for investment advisors. And before you do that, take View Details
- 25 May 2021
- Blog Post
The Surprising Power of Nostalgia at Work
important because meaning in life has great motivational power. Research finds that nostalgia motivates the pursuit of important life goals by increasing that sense of meaning. Humans are an existential... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 09 Feb 2024
- HBS Case
Slim Chance: Drugs Will Reshape the Weight Loss Industry, But Habit Change Might Be Elusive
to reduce appetite have become very popular. Lambert: Is this the American model for weight management: different programs for different needs and attitudes? Herzlinger: Yes. Employers have tried to offer successful fitness plans, and... View Details
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Education, Technology, and Business: What’s the Catch?
parents, students, and teachers are all invested in the company/school's success. Individualizing education, most likely via technology, is another important trend, said Fishman, pointing to research on the... View Details
- 27 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning to Make the Move to CEO
find that maybe that wasn't such a bad thing to do," Simons remarks. "It's given other people the time to stretch themselves and added a dimension to the organization that wouldn't have existed... View Details
- 12 Apr 2016
- News
How Disney’s Alan Horn Manages the Movies
say that the semi-autonomous businesses, with Pixar and Lucasfilm based in Northern California, run themselves. But director Rob Reiner, Horn’s old friend and former partner at Castle Rock Entertainment, suggests that even View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
HBS Faculty Explore Ideas Around the World
responsibility shared by so many business leaders in countries with great income disparities. Learn more at www.hbs.edu/businesshistory/emerging-markets Global Case Writing Shaped by Faculty Interests Assistant Professor Doug Chung’s... View Details
Keywords: faculty research
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Members of the Military | MBA
the 95+ student-run clubs at Harvard Business School (HBS) can be a great way both to explore interests and meet some of your closest friends. The mission of View Details
- 16 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Finding my Passion in the Startup Space
the interview process. Early on at Blueground, it was clear that the culture was a great fit for me. Blueground is highly focused on results and keeps itself honest about how... View Details
- November 2011
- Article
Ownership Structure and Financial Constraints: Evidence from a Structural Estimation
By: Chen Lin, Yue Ma and Yuhai Xuan
This article examines the impact of the divergence between corporate insiders' control rights and cash-flow rights on firms' external finance constraints via generalized method of moments estimation of an investment Euler equation. Using a large sample of U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Ownership; Social Enterprise; Reputation; Cash Flow; Annuities; Investment; Investment Funds; Financial Reporting; Accounting Audits; Financial Services Industry; United States
Lin, Chen, Yue Ma, and Yuhai Xuan. "Ownership Structure and Financial Constraints: Evidence from a Structural Estimation." Journal of Financial Economics 102, no. 2 (November 2011): 416–431.