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    Jerry R. Green

    Jerry R. Green

    David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy

    John Leverett Professor in the University

    Harvard University

     

    Jerry Green is the John Leverett Professor in the University and the David A. Wells... View Details

    Keywords: aerospace; education industry; insurance industry; professional services
    • 21 Oct 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: October 21

    well-established organizations to act in new ways is never easy. This book is designed to support business leaders and organizational scholars who are grappling with this challenge by pulling together leading-edge insights from some of... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 10 Sep 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

    submitted, from managing a remote workforce to making decisions in the face of vast uncertainty. Not surprisingly, one significant challenge reported by many CEOs was how to position their company to survive, or even thrive, during the... View Details
    Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden
    • 16 Sep 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: September 16, 2008

    ethical dilemma for managers: Is it appropriate to let mere social category lines interfere with profit maximization? Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/06-033.pdf Performance Persistence in Entrepreneurship Authors:Paul View Details
    • May 2004 (Revised June 2004)
    • Case

    Sarvega

    By: Paul A. Gompers and Vanessa del Valle Broussard
    David Cowan, general partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, has taken the lead on Sarvega, a Bessemer-backed company that was recently orphaned by the departure of one of Bessemer's other general partners. Cowan must decide whether to reinvest in Sarvega and, if so,... View Details
    Keywords: Decisions; Venture Capital; Investment; Governance Compliance; Resignation and Termination; Negotiation Deal; Partners and Partnerships; Information Technology Industry
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    • 24 Nov 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA

    levity given the seriousness of the topic at hand. Some of the schools represented had already implemented major MBA program reforms. Others were considering them. But everyone had one thing in common: Each had assisted HBS professors Srikant Datar and View Details
    Keywords: by Roger Thompson & HBS Bulletin; Education
    • 24 Aug 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: August 24

    Publication:In Innovation Policy and the Economy. Vol. 11, edited by Josh Lerner and Scott Stern. NBER Book Series. University of Chicago Press, forthcoming Abstract In this paper we explore the innovations in governance that have... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 28 Feb 2011
    • News

    Don't Try to Learn from Failure

    • 03 Dec 2011
    • News

    The taxpayers' burden

    • December 2014 (Revised April 2015)
    • Case

    Apple, Einhorn, and iPrefs

    By: Carliss Y. Baldwin, Hanoch Feit, Edward A. Minasian and Brandon Van Buren
    In March 2013, Apple Computer has a very large cash balance, and is under pressure to return cash to shareholders. Hedge fund manager David Einhorn thinks Apple can "unlock value" by issuing perpetual preferred stock, dubbed iPrefs. Henry Blodget, CEO of Business... View Details
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    • 27 Jun 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

    Karthik, David F. Drake, and Douglas Fearing Abstract—Mobile money systems, platforms built and managed by mobile network operators to allow money to be stored as digital currency, have burgeoned in the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 11 Dec 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: Dec. 11

    Back, Moving Forward: A Review of Group and Team-Based Research, edited by Margaret A. Neale and Elizabeth A. Mannix, 359-381. Emerald Group Publishing, 2012 Abstract... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • September 2015 (Revised September 2017)
    • Case

    Pershing Square 2.0

    By: Robin Greenwood, Samuel Hanson and David Biery
    In June 2015 William A. Ackman, the CEO and founder of New York hedge fund Pershing Square Capital, reflects on the success of the fund he has spent over a decade building. Since its inception in 2004, Pershing Square's assets under management had grown from $500... View Details
    Keywords: Activism; Value Investing; Portfolio Management; Management; Investment Portfolio; Investment Activism
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      Janice H. Hammond

      Janice H. Hammond is the Jesse Philips Professor of Manufacturing. She currently serves as coursehead for the new MBA required course, Data Science for Managers. She serves as program chair for the HBS Executive Education International Women’s Foundation and Women’s... View Details

      Keywords: apparel; distribution; e-commerce industry; manufacturing; retailing; textiles; transportation
      • 30 Apr 2001
      • Research & Ideas

      New Paths to Success in Asia

      Businesses in the Asia-Pacific region today are caught up in a dizzying swirl of economic, cultural, political, technological, and social change. Enormous opportunities await managers who can harness these power currents to drive their businesses forward, but their... View Details
      Keywords: by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg
      • 27 Apr 2010
      • First Look

      First Look: April 27

        PublicationsRethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads Authors:Srikant M. Datar, David A. Garvin, and Patrick Cullen Publication:Harvard Business Press, 2010 Abstract : "Business Schools... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 01 Jun 2025
      • News

      Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Job

      practical tools. “And we believe very strongly that the ideas, the frameworks, and the skills we’re teaching are lifelong skills. You’ll need to keep improving them your whole life,” Edmondson says. Professor David View Details
      Keywords: Jen Mcfarland Flint; Illustration by Peter Arkle; Educational Support Services; Educational Services
      • 02 Jun 2010
      • First Look

      First Look: June 2

      of the Contract: How Contract Structure Shapes Inter-Firm Dispute Resolution Authors:Fabrice Lumineau and Deepak Malhotra Publication:Strategic Management Journal (in press) Abstract This paper investigates how contract structure influences inter-firm dispute... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • March 2008
      • Article

      Is Yours a Learning Organization?

      By: David A. Garvin, Amy C. Edmondson and Francesca Gino
      This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. An organization with a strong learning culture faces the unpredictable deftly.... View Details
      Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Learning; Surveys; Leading Change; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Organizational Culture
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      • 16 Aug 2011
      • First Look

      First Look: August 16

        PublicationsThe World Bank and Democratic Accountability: The Role of Civil Society Authors:Alnoor Ebrahim and Steve Herz Publication:Chap. 3 in Building Global Democracy? Civil Society and Accountable Global Governance, edited by Jan... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne