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- 06 Aug 2021
- Book
Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO
Richard S. Tedlow, MBA Class of 1949 Emeritus Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and author of the forthcoming book, The Emergence of Charismatic Business Leadership, which will be published September 14. "A... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism
contributed an essay on creative capitalism to the blog Creative Capitalism: A Conversation (No longer available, -ed.), run by Michael Kinsley and Conor Clarke. We reprint her comments here with permission from the site. Bill Gates has... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy Koehn
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
Social Change By: Eesley, Charles, K.A. DeCelles, and Michael Lenox Abstract—We examine the variety of activist groups and their tactics in demanding firms’ social change. While extant work does not usually distinguish among activist... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Lady Gaga
agency. Should the performer continue with the arena tour solo? Should she develop a small tour for smaller venues? Or should she cancel the concert series entirely? The case, which Elberse coauthored with Michael Christensen (HBS View Details
- 30 Apr 2020
- Book
Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism
Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details
- 03 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2010
naturally proactive, according to Harvard Business School professor Francesca Gino. What Is the Future of MBA Education? Why get an MBA degree? Transformations in business and society make this question... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
disciplines, where academic research is leading to the development of a second skin that could improve drug delivery or alerting farmers and scientists on how to reduce nitrous oxide emissions from agricultural farming. Harvard Business... View Details
- 30 Jun 2021
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021
refusing to go to Vietnam (“I ain’t got no quarrel with them Vietcong”) and then loved him for his courage and grace. During this era, the book makes it clear that Ali didn’t change—America did. The Tyranny of Merit: Michael Sandel is one... View Details
Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
began to move into the position of dominance that it enjoys in the MBA curriculum today. Building on the foundational work of Adolf Berle and Gardiner Means on the separation of ownership and control in the large corporation, and of... View Details
- 17 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’
books about one tiny idea—he'd already done it, in a chapter. He would have cut right through it all." Levitt's personal interest in students sometimes led to lifelong friendships. Michael Berolzheimer (HBS View Details
- 04 Jun 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are There Conditions Under Which Directors Should Consider Hiring a CEO Fired Elsewhere for Inappropriate Behavior?
circumstances under which such a hire might be made. Michael E opined, “I don’t believe you can generalize across the breadth of potential situations all people deserve second chances under appropriate conditions as difficult as it may... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?
over the next 40 years. “The basic problem from the farmers' point of view is that the water is in the wrong place at the wrong time.” The 2009 case "Woolf Farming & Processing" illustrates many of these challenges through the eyes of Stuart Wolf, a... View Details
- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
Governance Codes in Context: How States, Markets, and Civil Society Shape Adherence to Global Labor Standards By: Toffel, Michael W., Jodi L. Short, and Melissa Ouellet Abstract—Transnational business regulation is increasingly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- September 21, 2013
- Other Article
Redefining Global Health-care Delivery
By: Jim Yong Kim, Paul E. Farmer and Michael E. Porter
Initiatives to address the unmet needs of those facing both poverty and serious illness have expanded significantly over the past decade. But many of them are designed in an ad-hoc manner to address one health problem among many; they are too rarely assessed; best... View Details
Keywords: Health
Kim, Jim Yong, Paul E. Farmer, and Michael E. Porter. "Redefining Global Health-care Delivery." Lancet 382, no. 9897 (September 21, 2013).
- 25 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lean Strategy Not Just for Start-Ups
Lean start-up strategies aren't just for start-ups anymore. That was the key message that Intuit cofounder Scott Cook (HBS MBA '76) shared in a small seminar with Harvard Business School faculty recently. Since its launch in 1983, the... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
from a UK prison, significantly reducing the rate of recidivism. The book is the result of four years of research, including a survey of 13 MBA classes, more than 200 interviews, and extensive archival and secondary research. Stevenson... View Details
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
extraordinary” "As long as students really dig hard and ask questions about themselves and the opportunity at hand, the contest is a terrific part of the MBA experience that has only gained strength over the years," says HBS professor... View Details
- 23 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19
fingertips: Harvard MBA students. Over the course of three months, they created the Global Policy Tracker, an interactive site that compares government policies and financial maneuvers for dozens of countries and regions around the world.... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
faculty, whose scholarship and teaching skills attract hundreds of Harvard MBA students to their classrooms each year. Among the latest books by HBS historians are publications by Professor Chandler, Professor Nancy Koehn, and Professor... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
assessed by understanding patterns of coupling among components in a system. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51343 in press Journal of Experimental Psychology: General Experience Theory, or How Desserts Are Like Losses By: Martin, Jolie... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne