Reaching For Yield - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Aug 2022
What Do You Think?

Does Religious Belief Affect Organizational Performance?

(iStockphoto/35007) Anyone who has tried to pick up a Chick-fil-A sandwich on Sunday knows how religious belief affects organizational policy in that company. Chick-fil-A honors Christian beliefs and closes on Sunday. Whether it affects growth and profitability is a... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

19 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

A Brand Manager’s Guide to Losing Control

too, and then their followers will chime in, and so on. Smart companies are monitoring Twitter for complaints and asking, how can we quickly intervene to solve the problem? How can we reach the person in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

01 Oct 1997
News

W. Hall Wendel, Jr.

life-threatening situations, he had reached the top of Mt. Everest, the earth's highest point. By doing so, he became only the 24th person in history to "summit" the tallest mountain on each of the seven continents. Wendel was the first... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner; mountain; adventure; climbing

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Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

William Street Fund. Lehmans from subsequent generations also served as partners. The death of Robert Lehman in 1969, however, left a void in the company, as he was the last family member to lead the firm. "Ready for the New Era in... View Details

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Batten Hall | About

Harvard Business School presented Batten with its highest honor, the Alumni Achievement Award, recognizing him for reaching the “pinnacle of your profession,” and citing his life as “a landmark to admirers... View Details

02 Mar 2009
Research & Ideas

When Goal Setting Goes Bad

organization, goals are failing. This is what Staw and Boettger found many years ago. When employees care exclusively about reaching a goal, and bad things can happen if they fail, cheating goes up. This is the most important result in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

21 May 2024
News

A New Chapter

read with comprehension. If you play out the next 30 years, something really significant needs to change for the whole world not to be hugely impacted by the lack of resources in this region. You need to find solutions that can work... View Details

Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace; photo by Cayce Clifford

01 Sep 2023
News

Case Study: The Home Team

Illustration by Jon Krause Illustration by Jon Krause Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) wasn’t even searching for a business idea. A couple of years ago, the Wilmington, Delaware, native met up with an old friend who’d bought a new house. Over dinner this friend enumerated... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Real Estate

20 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

led you to write the book? Noel Maurer: The idea of the book grew out of two conundrums. First, why wasn't Panama richer in 1999, after [nearly] 100 years of the Panama Canal? After all, the United States and Panama were joined at the hip View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation

January 2016
Case

Haiti Hope: Innovating the Mango Value Chain

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey

This case study examines a market-based approach to economic development through the eyes of NGO TechnoServe's project manager, implementing a US$9.5 million five-year public-private partnership between Coca-Cola, IDB, and USAID. The case ends at the beginning of the... View Details

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01 Dec 2019
News

Bridging the Gap

pitched her group on tackling a visioning process to define Chattanooga’s priorities for the next two decades. With “inclusive” and “diverse” as the group’s watchwords, the YALP cohort returned to Chattanooga and launched the next stage... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

14 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Pay Attention To Your ‘Extreme Consumers’

consumer believes." Along with Michael Norton, professor of marketing, Avery explores those extremes in a recent HBS teaching note, Learning from Extreme Consumers. The researchers developed the concept as part of the Field Immersion Experiences View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

16 Nov 2010
News

The HBS Tunnels

mysterious at all, except for the closed-off parts. Like another local underground system, the MBTA, the HBS tunnels are color-coded — with red, blue, green, and orange “lines,” plus purple, brown, gray, and yellow branches. They View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson

04 Jun 2020
Book

It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward

two things simultaneously, but we typically do one or the other, because we incorrectly think of it as a trade-off. People will reach their full potential if we set high standards for them, but at the same... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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HBS - Key Metrics

Reserves 227 211 174 129 Endowment 5,086 5,265 4,092 3,985 Total Assets $6,603 $6,755 $5,558 $5,420 MBA 2022 2021 2020 2019 Incoming Class Applications 8,264 9,773 9,304 9,228 Percent Admitted 15% 13% 13% 12% Yield 86% 87% 85% 89% Gender:... View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

Since taking over as CEO of Tata Steel in 2013, T. V. Narendran had sought to transform India’s oldest steel manufacturing firm to ready it for a rapidly evolving business world. He instilled financial discipline, acquired new businesses,... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

09 Oct 2020
Blog Post

4 Things To Know About the MS/MBA Biotech

firms, and health care policy reformists. When I first was accepted to the joint degree program, I was absolutely thrilled. But, I also had some questions. I reached out to two of the faculty members and had one-on-one chats about what I... View Details

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HBS Entrepreneurship Summit - Alumni

Baker Professor of Administration; Dean of the Faculty 9:00 p.m. Bus transportation from HBS to the Charles Hotel 9:00–11:00 p.m. Night @ Noir Post-dinner off-campus reception for attendees to continue socializing and networking. *Please... View Details

December 5, 2024
Article

A Consensus Definition of Creativity in Surgery: A Delphi Study Protocol

By: Alex Thabane, Tyler McKechnie, Phillip Staibano, Vikram Arora, Goran Calic, Jason W. Busse, Sameer Parpia and Mohit Bhandari

Introduction
Clear definitions are essential in science, particularly in the study of abstract phenomena like creativity. Due to its inherent complexity and domain-specific nature, the study of creativity has been complicated, as evidenced by the various... View Details

Keywords: Creativity; Health Care and Treatment; Outcome or Result; Measurement and Metrics