Observation - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Apr 2014
News

Delivering HBS-style training for teachers

teachers. “Almost all NAATE participants report improved classroom practice, more impact outside the classroom with their peers and school leaders, and a renewed commitment to classroom teaching,” says Klemmer, whose observations of a... View Details

01 Jun 2007
News

Fixing America’s Leadership Deficit

shape, observed HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter. “We’ve had 25 years of right-wing ideology saying that the only way to get elected is to run against government. Isn’t that ridiculous? There has not been sufficient value put on serving... View Details

Keywords: Government

01 Dec 2004
News

A Case of Achievement

in different sorts of organizational cultures and situations produced many interesting insights and observations — and some disagreements — about how to handle the Parson matter. Panelists’ opinions ranged from “I’d promote this guy in a... View Details

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

Profile

Jeff Bernstein

experiences better." An observant Orthodox Jew, Jeff also appreciates the accommodations the school makes such as providing kosher options whenever food is brought to student classes or events. Lessons for the future Jeff got married... View Details

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2013 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Eagly , Northwestern University Women As Leaders: Leadership Style Versus Leaders’ Goals Ella Bell , Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth Right Before Your Eyes: Observations as to Why Conversations on Gender Differences Don’t Tell the... View Details

01 Mar 2012
News

Learning to Speak the Language of Business

poses a barrier to the firm’s global ambitions. “There was a huge language barrier between the Tokyo office and our subsidiaries outside Japan,” he observes in a 2011 HBS case study on Rakuten. “One day the idea just struck me: ‘Why don’t... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; e-commerce; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

01 Dec 2006
News

2006 MBAs Go to Work

$134,438 for the Class of 2005. Another uptick was measured in the number of graduates entering the financial services industry, with a shift from 36 percent to 42 percent. Kierstead observes that the Class of 2006 is the first to... View Details

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

15 Sep 2009
News

Last Look - September 2009

was performed at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre for an audience of about 1,200 people on November 28, 1942, the evening of Boston’s deadly Cocoanut Grove fire.” George Hanford (MBA ’43 March) wrote, “I can’t help observing that they all look... View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

23 Oct 2019
News

Understanding Business Firsthand in South Korea

through which . . . [to learn] about South Korea and its people,” says Nix Maasdorp (MBA 2020). “Our customer interviews enabled us to approach our objective from a much deeper and more thoughtful perspective.” The students also had to View Details

Keywords: Global Understanding; Internationalization; Educational Innovation

01 Dec 1998
News

New Releases

experts have developed over the past 25 years. Jensen and his contributing authors reconceptualize organizations as equilibrium systems that exist in a larger system of markets - such as financial, product, labor, and materials markets. View Details

11 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

The New International Style of Management

certain qualities and practices not observed in firms that fall short. Multinational firms have understood for some time that certain activities, such as marketing, must remain local in concept and execution to be successful. At the same... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

01 Jun 2005
News

Do You Speak Business?

do business the same way — with identical processes, functions, and operations — while approaching this elevated stage; but by the time they attain it, successful companies do share certain qualities and practices not observed in firms... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

16 Feb 2012
Op-Ed

Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters

American Competitiveness site where resources, commentary, and solutions are showcased. Harvard Business School's US Competitiveness Project is another must-visit-site to better understand the complex problems facing the US. One good way to View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria

17 Nov 2008
Research & Ideas

Decoding the Artful Sidestep

Question the Right Way," is available for download [PDF]. Todd Rogers, now Executive Director of the Analyst Institute, explained more. Martha Lagace: What observations or experiences got you interested in studying conversational... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

Can Our Parenting Struggles Make Us Better Leaders?

let go. Finding a happy medium is far from easy. Diana Baumrind, a pioneering research psychologist, observed that parents often behave in ways that are either authoritarian, permissive, or negligent, with a tendency to bounce among the... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati; Air Transportation

Profile

Casey Gerald

garden” While at Yale, Casey attended a law school event at which the speaker made an observation that made a lasting impact upon him. “He said law was the instrument of social change in the twentieth century,” Casey explains, “but if you... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Retail; Nonprofit / Government

01 Jun 1997
News

Entertainment Moguls Ponder the Future at HBS Conference

managing director, Cowen & Co., and author of the influential book Entertainment Industry Economics; and Strauss Zelnick (MBA/JD '83), president and CEO, BMG Entertainment North America. Harold Vogel observed that while new technologies... View Details

Keywords: Paula Maute

01 Oct 1997
News

Terence P. Stewart

sectors, the U.S. economy, and American workers and their communities. "In fact," observes Stewart, "over the past forty years, virtually every segment of the U.S. economy has required assistance at our borders or overseas." Stewart and... View Details