Carnegie - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 1997
News

The World's Banker

Carnegie Hall, New York's financially troubled arts mecca that was then on the brink of collapse. A lover of the arts (and an accomplished cello player despite first taking up the instrument in his forties), Wolfensohn then orchestrated... View Details

01 Sep 2008
News

Balanced Equation

process, managing turnarounds of Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center, and three decades of leadership in international finance. He and two of his children recently launched Wolfensohn & Company, LLC, a private investment firm and adviser... View Details

Keywords: James Aisner;Deborah Blagg;Julia Hanna;Susan Young; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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Bibliography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Special Sections, with Profiles, Tables and Data Relating to Bars. Pittsburgh: United States Steel Corporation, 1940. Warren, Kenneth. Big Steel: The First Century of the United States Steel Corporation 1901–2001. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001.... View Details

06 May 2019
News

Startup Talk in Chicago

25 years of experience in numerous industries, Pritzker founded Vi Senior Living, and cofounded the Parking Spot and Artemis Real Estate Partners. She is a member of the board of Microsoft; chairman of the board of trustees of the View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Pritzker; Air Transportation; Transportation

07 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Excerpt: ‘The Art of Negotiation’

he deliberately played songs in difficult and unfamiliar keys because it "made me think" instead of just having his fingers play the notes automatically. Provocation can be aimed at others as well. Clarinetist Benny Goodman's famed View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael A. Wheeler

13 May 2002
Book

Bringing the Master Passions to Work

speeding along. He would like to wire his will into the lives of millions—by creating a structure that will constrain their behaviors according to his wishes. He is the ambitious demon of our age—one whose incarnation in the Carnegies and... View Details

Keywords: by Mihnea C. Moldoveanu & Nitin Nohria

27 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

When Researchers Cheat (Just a Little)

information," she says. John holds a PhD in behavioral decision theory from Carnegie Mellon University, where she also earned an MSc in psychology and behavioral decision research. View Details

Keywords: by Katie Johnston; Education

01 Jan 2006
News

Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976

with the University of Illinois and Carnegie Mellon, the University of Dundee and Imperial College in Great Britain, and Sweden's Karolinska Institute. And he is attracting superstar scientists from around the world such as Dr. Edison... View Details

24 Jul 2013
Op-Ed

Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In

Pittsburgh had a second act (or third, counting the city's reversal from untenable air and water pollution levels in the 1940s). Pittsburgh's recovery offers a potential model for Detroit. It went on to become a technology hub, anchored in the computer science and... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber, Robert C. Pozen, Eric D. Werker & Benjamin Kennedy; Auto

12 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

Creating Value Across Borders

start-ups—in every continent. However, the Internet has really been a catalyst for entrepreneurship in many countries, and this trend will last beyond the Internet wave. Entrepreneurship has always played a major role in the U.S., going back to the View Details

Keywords: by Staff

28 May 2019
News

INK: Maker’s Manual

Buchanan (MBA 2000) has witnessed the truth observed by Andrew Carnegie and Warren Buffett alike that it can be more difficult to give wealth away wisely than to accumulate it in the first place. Buchanan’s new book sheds light on... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

08 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

You Won't Make It If You Fake It

fields. Can you imagine doing brain surgery without proper training? Or playing the cello at Carnegie Hall or tennis at Wimbledon without years of training and practice? Just as you cannot learn these skills solely in the classroom,... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

13 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists

Later: Decreasing Impatience over Time in Online Grocery Orders" by Todd Rogers, Katherine L. Milkman, and Max H. Bazerman. TIP #2 - Put your money where your mouth is. Leslie John, now an assistant professor at HBS, led an experiment at View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

24 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

The Trick of Balancing Business and Government

transportation systems as well as the creation of a free press, said Marina Ottaway, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "I think we have to be very careful about creating too much of a role for... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2010
News

Rethinking the MBA

and being or a sense of purpose and identity. Ever since the seminal Carnegie and Ford reports in 1959, MBA curricula have emphasized knowledge and analytics, grounded in economics, statistics, applied mathematics, and social psychology.... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

08 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 8, 2007

Present, and Reconstructing for the Future Authors:Giovanni Gavetti, Daniel Levinthal, and William Ocasio Periodical:Organization Science (forthcoming) Abstract A Behavioral Theory of the Firm and the broader " Carnegie School"... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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A Message from Dean Srikant Datar | About

After having an appointment at Carnegie Mellon University and having taught back at Stanford, I came to HBS in 1996. My intellectual interests evolved in what many would say are pretty surprising ways, from a focus on governance and... View Details

23 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Are Great Teams Less Productive?

at HBS and Francesca Gino at Carnegie Mellon, is the development of an instrument to assess learning organizations. We've been developing and testing a survey to help organizations better reflect on how they are doing in terms of... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

29 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 29, 2008

in Manhattan's tony Carnegie Hill. Community resistance erupted immediately, spearheaded by celebrity and socialite residents. Facing rejection of his firm's proposal of a 17-story residential condominium building for the site by the New... View Details