FAR - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 May 2013
Blog Post

Exploring new opportunities at HBS

Like any HBS student, I was also excited to make new friends and meet new people with unique and diverse backgrounds, and everyone I’ve met so far has definitely not disappointed on either of these fronts. My sectionmates are amazing (hi... View Details

Keywords: Technology

01 Sep 2014
News

The Next Lessons

Eric and Wendy Schmidt among his supporters. So how far can Khan Academy extend its reach? “We have a bunch of partnerships,” Khan said during his May return to campus, where he not only delivered the 2014 Class Day address but also told... View Details

Keywords: William Weber

01 Sep 2003
News

Dean Clark Reflects on the School’s Key Initiatives

1996, these research centers have enabled HBS to strengthen ties with local alumni, businesses, and universities; the result is a far deeper understanding of each area’s managerial issues and strategies and a View Details

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

05 May 2020
News

“Walking a Tightrope”

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes “Who's actually putting those groceries on the shelves still and who's driving the truck to get that food that gets put on those grocery shelves? It's the working class. We depend upon them View Details

Profile

Dan Vallone

not having to plan things so far ahead. I’ve learned from my colleagues here that you can have an impact in a much shorter time period. I have more faith in my ability to shape my destiny as I go. Have you made adjustments to your... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Nonprofit / Government

Profile

Rob Casper

Perhaps Rob Casper's previous experience as a Marine captain has given him sufficient adrenaline for a lifetime. Today, two years after completing his MBA at HBS, Rob has turned his career interests as far from the "adventurous"... View Details

09 Jan 2014
Blog Post

Looking back on 1st semester and looking forward to 2nd semester

the dialog into a single stream conclusion. Obvious perhaps, but also far harder to do than it sounds. I’ve caught myself suffering from delayed-response syndrome a few times, where the pieces don’t quite fit until a couple minutes later,... View Details

01 Mar 2018
News

Dance Dance Revelation

directors? If you don’t fall, you’re not trying hard enough: When was the last time we encouraged our employees to push an idea so far that their results or recommendations seemed outlandish? And how can we make them feel safe enough to... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Mele

10 Jan 2017
News

A Voice for Women Leaders

minister; a number of the women have come to power as legacy leaders after their husbands or fathers have been assassinated, or been in office. Obviously in countries like the Nordic countries, where you have far more equal systems, if... View Details

06 Nov 2013
What Do You Think?

Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?

drew attention to the resource allocation process (RAP) with his seminal study of four organizations in 1970. He concluded that a bottom-up process of idea generation begun by operational managers and shaped by middle management works best when top management (too... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

18 May 2009
Research & Ideas

The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth

paper concludes that savings contributes to growth in locations where entrepreneurs and companies lack access to necessary technological advances, in countries far away from the "technological frontier." To overcome this... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

16 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Confronting the Reality of Web Services

"take it or leave it" proposition. Amazon and eBay don't renegotiate Web services standards with each seller; they simply publish their standards and wait for other companies to adopt them. So far Web services are being used to... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Three Steps for Crisis Prevention

company pressed forward with launches of GMO food products in Europe, giving far too little weight to the fact that Europeans were still reeling from the mad cow disease crisis, reports of dioxin-contaminated chicken, and numerous other... View Details

Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet

instead, it has become integrated with the whole manufacturing process—David Upton But once that decision has been made, "sitting" is far from the operative word for IT systems, which require the same kind of continuous... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

03 Jun 2022
Blog Post

HiHome Sweet HiHome

out in their user interviews was the complicated spreadsheets compiled by potential buyers. On these spreadsheets, buyers listed every home they were considering, along with relevant data such as price, square footage, number of rooms and other features. Some even went... View Details

01 Mar 2010
News

Rx for Too Big to Fail

ensure adequate liquidity. Recall that after New Deal financial regulation was put in place in the 1930s, the country didn’t suffer another major crisis until deregulation commenced nearly fifty years later — by far the longest stretch of... View Details

Keywords: David Moss; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

04 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009

goals to be successful, they should be specific and challenging, and countless studies find that specific, challenging goals motivate performance far better than "do your best" exhortations. Lisa D. Ordóñez, Maurice E.... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Sep 2018
News

Research Brief: Where Top-Down Tops Out

recent study, “The Impact of CEOs in the Public Sector: Evidence from the English NHS,” Associate Professor Raffaella Sadun and her coauthors conclude that a singular leader is far less effective in these large and complex public... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

05 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Fixing the ‘I Hate Work’ Blues

company's mission on behalf of customers. They should be given full responsibility for performance, quality, achievement of goals, and compliance with company standards. To realize this change, organizational structures need to change. Dramatically. For starters,... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

01 Jan 2002
News

Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)

the company-and never left. The original business model reflects how far the world economy has come in just over two decades. "Mainland China was just opening up," Yang says. "Although joint ventures, not to mention private ownership,... View Details

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