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26 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Clayton M. Christensen, Acclaimed Author and Teacher, Dies At 67

Business School. He was granted tenure at the School in 1998 and named to a chaired professorship in 2001. “Clayton Christensen was one of the world’s greatest scholars on innovation and a remarkable person who had a profound influence on his students and colleagues,”... View Details

06 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Women MBAs at Harvard Business School

School: 1962-2012," the case delves into the experiences of alumnae and alumni over the past 50 years, both inside and outside the classroom, as Dean Nitin Nohria considers what HBS might be like 10 years from now, when his young... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

2024
Working Paper

Do Collusive Norms Maximize Profits? Evidence From a Vegetable Market Experiment in India

By: Abhijit Banerjee, Greg Fischer, Dean Karlan, Matt Lowe and Benjamin N. Roth

Social norms have been shown to facilitate anti-competitive behavior in decentralized markets. We demonstrate that these norms can also reduce aggregate profits. First, we present descriptive evidence of competition-suppressing norms in Kolkata vegetable markets.... View Details

Keywords: Collusion; Competition; Market Entry and Exit; Small Business; Microeconomics; Kolkata

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08 May 2020
Research & Ideas

We’ve Now Been Asking “What Do You Think?” for 20 Years

This month marks the twentieth anniversary of the beginning of my “What do you think?” column. The Working Knowledge website was the brainchild of a faculty and staff committee organized in 2000 by then Dean Kim Clark to communicate the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

30 Jun 2020
What Do You Think?

Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?

against Black citizens and resulting Black Lives Matter marches and protests. It prompted Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria to send an email (which quickly became public knowledge) to faculty, staff, and others associated with the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

08 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’

and international students were underperforming relative to their American male peers. As a result of a campuswide effort, HBS has closed that grade gap, a feat that drew applause in Burden Auditorium on Friday. Still, HBS Dean Nitin... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette

Article

The Perils of Excellence: Barriers to Effective Process Improvement in Product-Driven Firms

By: Rebecca M. Henderson, Jesus del Alamo, Todd Becker, James Lawton, Peter Moran, Saul Shapiro and Dean Vlasak

Keywords: Product; Performance Improvement

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29 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 29, 2008

Business School Supplement 508-051 508-051 Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=508051 Engineering a Renaissance: The Launch of the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Harvard Business School Case... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

George C. Lodge

In 1961, at the invitation of Dean Stanley F. Teele, George Lodge came to Harvard Business School to complete his first book, Spearheads of Democracy: Labor in the Developing Countries. He didn't have a master's or a Ph.D. and never... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

03 Jan 2018
What Do You Think?

In the Wake of #MeToo, Should Corporate Boards Hire Compliance Officers?

systems." Citing Robert Clarke, past Dean of Harvard Law School, Joe recalled Clarke noted that "Boards could be stewards of the corporation, looking after its long term health, or compliance officers using the Board's time to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

What’s an Internet Business Model? Ask a Health Care Professional

panelists went on to describe could not claim that ideal framework, the projects they described did identify niches and illuminate business issues that are already reshaping the health care field. Daniel D. Moriarty, Assistant Provost and Chief Information Officer of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

21 Mar 2016
Lessons from the Classroom

When Your Classmate is an NBA Superstar (or Fashion Model, or Movie Actress)

Administration and Senior Associate Dean and Chair of the MBA Program, also teaches a portion. “I’m blessed with a great team,” Elberse says. Applications are due at least four weeks before the June 1 program start date, and because... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Entertainment & Recreation; Sports; Media & Broadcasting; Education

20 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It

in November 2004 by Princeton University Press. Jaffe is professor of economics and dean of Arts and Sciences at Brandeis University. Lerner is the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School. In Innovation... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

30 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds

M. Viceira, the George E. Bates Professor and senior associate dean for International Development at Harvard Business School. “That raises the question, who is exercising control in these corporations?” In traditional mutual funds,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

18 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals

late 1950s, many faculty members resided on campus, especially unmarried instructors. Today, only the School's dean maintains a dedicated on-campus residence. Still, the notion of a residential campus, envisioned shortly after the... View Details

Keywords: Education

27 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 27

far more attention. In this compelling and authoritative new book, the authors document a rising chorus of concerns about business schools gleaned from extensive interviews with deans and executives as well as from a detailed analysis of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part One]

former HBS professor who is now dean at the new Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy at Tokyo's Hitotsubashi University; and Sakakibara, a former Ministry of Trade and Industry (MITI) official with a doctorate from Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer

29 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy

rapidly changing. Harvard Business School Senior Associate Dean Matthew Weinzierl’s new research explores the business opportunities hidden among the stars, particularly in data from and through space, but also in tourism, manufacturing,... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Aerospace

16 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

Healthcare, and Leadership. "The Initiative designation is meant to acknowledge a new phase of activity: one that we hope will engage the faculty, students, staff, and alumni in enhancing and extending both knowledge creation and impact," said Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman

08 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

coup against President Allende in 1973, and who is noted equally for structural reforms and human rights abuses. The informational void is by no means unique to these two countries, and this is why Harvard Business School Dean Nitin... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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