Edmund P. Learned - Publications - Faculty & Research

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Health Care - Faculty & Research

Health Citation Read Now Related Allen, Joseph G., Heather A. Henrikson, and Michael W. Toffel. "Creating Workplaces Free of Forever Chemicals." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (April 8, 2025). Niramai: An AI Solution to Save Lives By: Rembrand Koning , Maria... View Details

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Business History - Faculty & Research

History Initiative seeks to facilitate learning from the past through innovative research and course development, employing global and interdisciplinary perspectives. Business History Harvard Business School has a long tradition of... View Details

05 Oct 2010
First Look

First Look: October 5, 2010

and market-implied yields fell, and the ability of ratings to predict default deteriorated. We offer several possible explanations for these findings that are linked to existing theories. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-051.pdf The Impact of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

comprehend and to defend are also on opposite ends of the spectrum. Learning requires openness, the willingness to fail and lose, to move into unknown territory. This is the very opposite of the drive to defend territory and status. Both... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

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Campaign Leadership Committee - Alumni

Sperling MBA 1981 Regional Chairs Lloyd C. Blankfein Bradley M. Bloom MBA 1979 Robert J. Carney MBA 1963 Robin S. Chandra MBA 1993 Sir Ronald M. Cohen MBA 1969 Edward W. Conard MBA 1982 John P. Connaughton MBA 1994 Richard A. Corbett MBA... View Details

26 Jan 2024
Blog Post

HBS Alumna Fighting Cancer with a Novel Cell Therapy

the body from fighting you, you want to make sure the body can’t recognize you, and can’t be trained against you.” Harvard introduced Zutshi to dendritic cells. She first learned about them through bioengineering courses with Samir... View Details

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Commodities, Currencies, and Balancing of the Trade Deficit - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business... View Details

27 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11

reads like a tagline for a dramatic feature film. “He thought he was signing up to run a law enforcement agency,” Rivkin says. “He ended up with a job he didn’t sign up for. And God bless him, he pulled it off.” Mueller’s major challenge was also a major View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

March 2023
Article

Developing Moral Muscle in a Literature-based Business Ethics Course

By: Inge M. Brokerhof, Sandra J. Sucher, P. Matthijs Bal, Frank Hakemulder, Paul G. W. Jansen and Omar N. Solinger

Moral subjectivity (e.g., reflexivity, perspective-taking) is a necessary condition for moral development. However, widely used approaches to business ethics education, rooted in conceptualizations of ethical development as objective and quantifiable, often neglect... View Details

Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Business Education; Growth and Development; Teaching

06 Oct 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

strenuously projecting an image of pre-2020 normalcy and “business as usual” can be daunting and lead employees to hide their own struggles. To learn more, read What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog Boris Groysberg, Richard View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

practices in global organizations; cross-cultural learning and adaptation processes; the challenges of taking companies global; emerging-market companies with global potential; and international political economy and its impact on... View Details

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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

Business School Case, 2023. With Frank Nagle, Maria P. Roche, Nataliya Langburd Wright, and Sarah Mehta. Hugging Face: Serving AI on a Platform , Harvard Business School Case, 2022. With Daniel Yue, Kerry Herman, and Sarah Gulick. AWS and... View Details

09 May 2017
What Do You Think?

Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?

2017, pp. 50-60. Milton Friedman, A Friedman Doctrine—The Social Responsibility of Business Is To Increase Its Profits, The New York Times Magazine, September 13, 1970, p. 17. Sumantra Ghoshal, Bad Management Theories Are Destroying Good... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 1

situational or strategic, emotional or contextual. The point is not to choose one over the other but to learn to move across a continuum of perspectives. Read the paper: http://hbr.org/2011/03/managing-yourself-zoom-in-zoom-out/ar/1... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

Inside the OR: Disrupted Routines and New Technologies

lens of a surgical team implementing a revolutionary new procedure called MICS (minimally invasive cardiac surgery), professors Amy C. Edmondson, Richard M. Bohmer, and Gary P. Pisano have looked beyond organizational factors to provide a... View Details

Keywords: by Hilah Geer

09 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization

results? What were our actual results? What caused our results? And what will we sustain or improve?” Admittedly, the corporate world has seen less success with AARs, despite the popularity of the practice, according to Marilyn Darling, Charles Parry, and Joseph Moore... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

01 Dec 2023
News

A Continuum of Innovation

As senior associate dean and chair of the MBA Program, Matt Weinzierl has a running list of questions that he and Jana P. Kierstead, the executive director of MBA and Doctoral programs, always keep in mind. They range from the curricular... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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AASU50 - Alumni

the following decades—students who were of Harvard Business School, not simply in it, and helped to shape its future. Clifford E. Darden, MBA 1969, DBA 1982 Don Harmon, MBA 1970 Grover P. Walker, MBA 1971 Matthew Augustine, Jr., MBA 1971... View Details

03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008

particular case in point. What had Metro International learned from experiences elsewhere on the globe and would they allow the company to make the Spanish unit profitable? What strategy should the Spanish country manager adopt? Purchase... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 May 2014
What Do You Think?

How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?

learning programs) to help the lower income groups and the under-privileged Government could launch reward programs to both groups to encourage their willingness to participate." Peter McCann said that, "The threat to democracy... View Details