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  • 08 Oct 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Management Education’s Unanswered Questions

must grapple with it. Khurana lays out his institutional analysis and its repercussions in his new book, From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
  • 22 Sep 2015
  • News

Promoting a Healthy Policy Agenda

and grew up in South Africa during the Apartheid (an Afrikaans word meaning ‘the state of being apart,’ literally ‘apart-hood’) years, so issues of human rights and social justice have always been important to me. Through my business... View Details
  • 13 Nov 2020
  • News

Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students

provides capital from a pool of donations to a portfolio of curated organizations whose ethos align with four pillars of purpose: justice system reform, education parity, health and wellness access, and community outreach and social... View Details
  • January 2010
  • Article

The Role of Experience in the Gambler's Fallacy

By: Greg Barron and Stephen Leider
Recent papers have demonstrated that the way people acquire information about a decision problem, by experience or by abstract description, can affect their behavior. We examined the role of experience over time in the emergence of the Gambler's Fallacy in binary... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Decision Making; Forecasting and Prediction; Knowledge Acquisition; Outcome or Result; Game Theory; Prejudice and Bias
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  • April 2001
  • Teaching Note

Katharine Graham TN

By: Kathleen L. McGinn, Lisa M. Gunther and Dina R. Pradel
Teaching Note for (9-801-276). View Details
Keywords: Leading Change; Public Ownership; Power and Influence; Experience and Expertise; Value; Decision Making; Personal Development and Career; Risk and Uncertainty
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  • May 2000 (Revised October 2001)
  • Case

Dell Ventures

By: Paul A. Gompers, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Cate Reavis
Describes the rationale behind the strategy and structure of Dell Computer Corp.'s VC arm, Dell Ventures. While Dell Ventures had a phenomenal year one, it faced a number of challenges including dealing with market risks, finding and retaining talent, maintaining... View Details
Keywords: Business Divisions; Talent and Talent Management; Goals and Objectives; Risk Management; Organizational Structure; Interests; Business Strategy; Computer Industry
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  • February 2008
  • Exercise

Gerson Lehrman Group

By: Robert G. Eccles Jr. and David Lane
Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG) brought together decision makers in search of hard-to-find answers with specialized experts in nearly every imaginable field. Over time, GLG developed software to help minimize potential conflicts of interest among and between experts and... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Customer Focus and Relationships; Governance Compliance; Conflict of Interests; Competitive Advantage; Software; Consulting Industry
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  • Web

Breaking Through the Self-Doubt That Keeps Talented Women from Leading | Working Knowledge

whereas men don’t seem to worry about their skills matching the specific job requirements as much, according to research by Harvard Business School Associate Professor Katherine B. Coffman recently published in Management Science . Women... View Details
  • 13 Aug 2021
  • Blog Post

Exploring Racial Justice with the Scaling Minority Businesses Course

learn in a proximate way - I could not recommend highly enough. More broadly, HBS is an opportunity to reflect deeply on how you can use this privilege and your skills towards addressing racial and social... View Details
  • 20 Apr 2015
  • Blog Post

India Conference 2015

Madhav (General Secretary BJP) and Mr. Prithvi Raj Chavan (Ex. Chief Minister of Maharashtra). Mr. Madhav, spoke about how the BJP was able to effectively use new social media platforms to not only gauge but also engage with the relevant... View Details
  • 20 Oct 2022
  • News

Lebanon Alumni Host US Ambassador for Dinner and Discussion

entrepreneurial skills and the Lebanese business community is competent and well known around the world,” says Ingea. “Despite the current hardships, she remains hopeful and optimistic about the future of Lebanon.” Ingea says a lively Q&A... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 18 Jun 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’

However, they have been most often studied separately. Because our focus was on leadership in action, we were able to observe how these three interrelated organizational skills work in concert as leaders and their groups undertake to... View Details
Keywords: by Linda Hill; Entertainment & Recreation
  • Web

Turning a Moment into a Movement: How the Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders are Fighting Racism and Encouraging Other Companies to Do Their Part - Recruiting

Recruiting Strategies Student & Alumni Stories Summer Internships In the spring of 2020, Kenneth Chenault (MBA 2019), Kevin Chenault (MBA 2021), Carter Lewis (MBA 2023), Lindsey Ferguson, Nicolle Mora, and Sesana Allen were each pursuing their own careers, utilizing... View Details
  • 01 Dec 1998
  • News

A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill

based on Outward Bound's educational philosophy. That path brought him to HBS, with the goal of gaining the organizational skills to put his plan into action. If Georgetown was the catalyst for O'Neill's dream of helping kids before they... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 18 Jan 2021
  • Book

How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems

adapting the skills and practices of entrepreneurship for the public sector,” he says. Before joining the HBS faculty and creating the MBA course Public Entrepreneurship, Weiss was chief of staff to Boston Mayor Thomas Menino. In 2010,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

Eight Among Many: Charles W. ("Bill") Cassell

projects-in-process, addressing topics in history, social studies, and science, line the walls. Standing in the midst of this cheery clutter is corporate executive turned newly certified grade-school teacher, Bill Cassell. "Like most... View Details
Keywords: Eileen McCluskey
  • 17 Jul 2019
  • Blog Post

Tech for the People

free disaster-relief housing to neighbors in need. “It’s the first program of its kind in the US,” he notes. “I’m grateful to have had the chance to help add another resource to San José’s robust emergency response program.” That chance had come by way of a fellowship... View Details
  • 25 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Developing the Global Leader

What skills do today's executives need to develop to become effective global leaders of tomorrow? And how do corporations teach these skills to their own leaders? "The shift from a country-centric... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 21 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle

managers are being held to higher standards when it comes to justifying customer investments. We foresee the need for marketing professionals to develop even greater analytical skill as the field continues to evolve. This should be a very... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Impact Stories - Business & Environment

fee on carbon where it enters the market. Only by pricing in external costs can we eliminate existing subsidies to fossil fuel use and shift to a clean energy economy.” Carl Ferenbach MBA 1972 | In the Market for Environmental Change "The reigning buzzword used to be... View Details