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  • 02 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 3, 2008

intention of the course is to leave the participants actually being leaders and being able to exercise leadership effectively and for the course to contribute to creating a new science of leadership. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Dec 2015
  • News

The Year in Ideas 2015

business: Investing in employees keeps churn rates down and distinguishes Hello Alfred in a moment when quantity of transactions often wins out over quality of service. “If we... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White
  • 17 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 17

of intermediaries create safe "money-like" claims, they go about this in different ways. Traditional banks create money-like claims by holding illiquid fixed-income assets to maturity, and they rely on deposit insurance and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 May 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

Review] Global Business over Time By: Jones, G. Abstract—This article explores how business enterprises have been powerful actors in the spread of global capitalism between 1840 and the present day. It also... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 26, 2010

course are founded on what we term an ontological model of human nature. The ontological approach is uniquely effective in providing actionable access to being a leader and exercising leadership effectively.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2010 (Revised April 2012)
  • Case

Sheila Mason & Craig Shepherd (Abridged)

The case describes two individuals who have met and are in the process of starting a company together. Each is still at his/her former employer, and each has signed a different employment agreement that, on paper, may prohibit some of the contemplated acts—i.e.,... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Resignation and Termination; Intellectual Property; Law; Agreements and Arrangements
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  • 12 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

workers with heterogeneous human capital interface with machine learning, relative to the older Boolean search technology. We randomly assign individuals with and without computer science and engineering... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney

called eVolution with venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins and buyout specialists Texas Pacific Group. This new partnership focuses on traditional corporations that are interested in spinning off new Internet businesses. And we've... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 14 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina

quality when networks of schools cooperate with each other. When school districts work well, they create these scale advantages; when they do not work well, they are cumbersome bureaucracies. Because View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education
  • 03 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 3, 2008

in the month of July. A sudden drop in capital market prices for an asset class can be caused by news affecting fundamental values or by a widespread liquidity shock. The implication View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 May 2014
  • Op-Ed

The Alibaba Effect

Alibaba is about to make history with the first genuine mega-IPO of a Chinese entrepreneur-founded company in the United States. The numbers are historic as well—an anticipated market capitalization View Details
Keywords: by Bill Kirby & Warren McFarlan; Retail
  • 05 Aug 2015
  • What Do You Think?

What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?

How Patient Should We Be In Waiting for the Tech Productivity Dividend? Respondents to this month’s column cited a number of factors accounting for the fact that there is no discernable increase in the rate View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology
  • 25 Oct 2024
  • Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows

capital firm investing in BIPOC founders in the education space. She is also the vice president of advocacy in the Women’s Student Association at HBS, and an author. “As a published fiction writer, I aim to... View Details
  • 07 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

Drivers of Corporate Sustainability and Implications for Capital Markets: An International Perspective Authors:Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim Publication:In The Landscape View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Jan 2012
  • News

Where Are They Now?

the HBS Club of India—over the top. “We identified a significant global market and focused on an unmet but essential need, as health care is not optional,” says Mahesh, who got a very personal perspective on India’s deep deficit View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

There’s a New Class in Town

Members of the MBA Class of 2010 (900 in all) reported for duty in September. Selected from a pool of 8,661 applicants, the group is 38 percent women and 33 percent... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 03 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 3

same quality as for financial information. A further challenge is that the cultures of the finance function and those who work in sustainability are very different. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 16 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 16

evolution between the years 1999 and 2012. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/113117-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 813-097 New Enterprise Associates NEA was established in 1977 and subsequently morphed into one of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Apr 2021
  • Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)

wanted to leverage my knowledge & experience in finance to focus on making a difference in my home region of Asia through impact investing. In China, for example, the sector lacks quite a bit with regards to View Details
  • 24 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 24

isolating settings where analysts would benefit more from either increased comparability or higher quality information, we document that the improvement in the information environment is driven both by information and comparability... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne