Frank Batten (MBA '52) - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Nov 2011
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again

performances—while reaching out to the younger demographic and speaking to them in their own language. "Lincoln Center hadn't been cool for a very long time, but it's cool now," says Grossman, the MBA Class of 1957 Professor of... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation

02 Nov 2016
What Do You Think?

Are Employees Becoming Job 'Renters' Instead of 'Owners'?

ownership. Tema Frank suggested that “If you want employees to behave like owners, they need to be allowed to express opinions and have them taken seriously.” LuAnne suggested that, “If you want an ownership culture, invest in career... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word

Alibris Rockets and reentry I failed my first year as a member of the Class of 1965 and was told not to come back for second year. So I went to work in GE’s spacecraft department, took two semesters of accounting at Wharton, and received two As. After that, I... View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

01 Apr 2001
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Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues

Each year hundreds of hardworking HBS students volunteer their time to arrange on-campus conferences that attract a wide variety of top-notch speakers, expert panelists, and enthusiastic audience participants. Working through student clubs, View Details

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

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Leading Change and Organizational Renewal | HBS Online

Organizational Renewal Baker Foundation Professor and Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School "You’ll develop strategies for building an ambidextrous organization capable of... View Details

01 Dec 2013
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Curing Health Care

unused in villages ravaged by disease, and boxes of mosquito nets that could slow the spread of malaria go unopened. The problem is that, sometimes, not enough attention is paid to what motivates the target population to use medicines or make changes. "In my View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

29 Aug 2018
News

The Value of Valleys

from your struggles, it can still be hard to share those publicly. Nevertheless, we set up on Spangler lawn at Spring Reunions and asked a few brave souls to recount some of their greatest challenges and tell us what they learned from those experiences. READ MORE David... View Details

25 Oct 2016
First Look

October 25, 2016

September–October 2016 European Business Review What Senior Executives Should Know About Sales By: Cespedes, Frank V. Abstract—Business is more complex, data more abundant, and more specialists are needed to stay up-to-date with... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 1999
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A Class Act

will know who will serve our country for the next four years. You can sense the disinterest wherever we go, which is a sad commentary on our available leadership, and let's hope it will be corrected in time. Maybe another Harvard Man like Teddy Roosevelt is in the... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

19 Aug 2013
Research & Ideas

Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior

with Anant Thaker (HBS MBA 2011) of the Boston Consulting Group and Howard Rudnick of the Tobin Project, Moss offers an alternative perspective: Perhaps we've been looking at the question the wrong way. Inequality And Making Decisions In... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

18 Aug 2021
News

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

AllyRioting website, which includes links to resources divided into three categories: how to be a better human, how to be a better company, and voting with your voice and your dollars. Endline, an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Harvard Innovation Lab, hosts a regular... View Details

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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

HBS Quick Links HBS Home MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton View... View Details

15 Dec 2015
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The Year in Ideas 2015

medical innovations. Jessica Beck and Marcela Sapone (both MBA 2015) launched the automated “personal butler” service Hello Alfred in a crowded on-demand marketplace. The service corrals other on-demand services, offering customers both a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White

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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Association. Art has been a Fulbright Fellow in Lisbon, a Batten Fellow at the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia, and the Thomas S. Murphy Distinguished Research Professor at the Harvard Business School. His... View Details

01 Feb 1997
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Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS

New Ventures, developed and taught by Professor Frank L. Tucker and doctoral candidate Patrick R. Liles (MBA '64, DBA '70). At about the same time, then Associate Professor Howard Stevenson and then Lecturer William J. Poorvu were busy... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry and Susan Young; profiles by Garry Emmons

06 Dec 2021
News

December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books

Dream: Tales from the Middle of the Pack By James Riehl, Jr. (MBA 1978) Palmetto Publishing During the running boom of the 1970s and early 1980s, the names of the swiftest runners were on everyone’s lips. Frank Shorter. Bill Rodgers.... View Details

01 Dec 2016
News

Alumni Books of 2016

young British Muslims, frank interviews with intelligence and police officers, and frontline reports from across the Middle East to offer answers to one of the biggest challenges of our time. Dragons: 10 Entrepreneurs Who Built Britain by... View Details

03 May 2011
First Look

First Look: May 3

MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads Authors:Srikant M. Datar, David A. Garvin, and Patrick Cullen Publication:Journal of Management Development 30, no. 5 (2011) Abstract The paper seeks to examine major challenges facing MBA programs... View Details