American Well - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Aug 2014
Op-Ed

Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering

sheets, use sparse tax returns, and keep inadequate income statements. Community banks have traditionally placed greater emphasis on relationships with borrowers in their underwriting processes, but these relationships are expensive and have not in the past translated... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services

26 Jan 2009
Research & Ideas

Where is Home for the Global Firm?

that Nestlé's bankers fashioned a solution for Alcon that would preserve its Swiss identity for some purposes yet make it look completely American for various other reasons. It seemed to me that a firm could easily change its national... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

24 Nov 2008
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA

years to a 1959 Ford Foundation report that sparked a revolution in American business education. The report characterized MBA programs as "vocational" in content and "indefensible" in quality, citing the low caliber of... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson & HBS Bulletin; Education

10 Mar 2021
News

Next Normal

Neeley, the Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration, leverages years of research to help companies, and their leaders, address the challenges of virtual work. With well over half of Americans... View Details

01 Jun 1996
News

Keepers of the Flame

depends heavily on his close aide, Deputy COO Kay Wallace (MBA '90). The pair constitutes a formidable one-two punch when things need to get done immediately - as has been the case daily for some years now. Both are from the South and cite a desire to give something... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

22 Aug 2019
News

Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector

friends through classes ... Well I went to the American school in Paris, so it was quite international, which meant there wasn't a status quo we had people from all over the world, from Asia, from the United... View Details

01 Sep 2017
News

History’s Lessons

succeeded in cutting all major supply lines to the city, and on September 1, Confederate forces under the command of General John Bell Hood evacuated the area. The next day, Sherman’s army marched in, raising the American flag over city... View Details

Keywords: Abraham Lincoln; Ernest Shackelford; Rachel Carson

01 Sep 2008
News

Building a Better MBA

What’s usual today dates back nearly fifty years to a 1959 Ford Foundation report that sparked a revolution in American business education. The report characterized MBA programs as “vocational” in content and “indefensible” in quality,... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Web

Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

every minute, and he conveyed that....[Y]ou really learned from his passion and from his entrepreneurial fire." 10 Doriot became well known for his Manufacturing course, a second year class he began teaching in 1937. The full year course... View Details

01 Jun 2022
News

Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students

the African American Student Union hosts the annual Black New Venture Competition to help early-stage Black entrepreneurs further their business concepts. Tom Eisenmann: If you examine a sample of venture capital-backed startups, you’ll... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

06 Jan 2021
News

A Message from Dean Srikant Datar

leadership of Professor Jim Cash in whose honor we named Cash House on the campus. And Jim has helped us assemble a phenomenal advisory board. And the board consists of individuals like Ken Frazier, the CEO of Merck, Ken Chenault, the former CEO of View Details

22 Feb 2018
News

My First Job

careers. As alumni returned to campus last fall for reunion, we asked them to tell us about their first jobs and what those experiences taught them. READ MORE Dan Biederman, class of '77. I took a job in the Systems Consulting Firm, View Details

01 Mar 2025
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

Review Press Women around the world do extremely well when it comes to their education. They graduate at higher rates than men and have higher average GPAs. But then a strange thing happens upon entering the workforce: They immediately... View Details

01 Dec 2020
News

The Camel and the Unicorn

which raised hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital only to get wiped out in the dotcom bust. But entrepreneurs and venture capitalists were making expensive bets well before Silicon Valley existed, says Alex Lazarow. Alex... View Details

01 Mar 2009
News

Your Taxi Is Waiting

Clayton Christensen. This new category of aircraft, developed out of research done in the mid-1990s by NASA and aircraft-engine manufacturers, tied in well with government-funded efforts to decrease congestion at major hubs by encouraging... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Air Transportation; Transportation

19 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

data from a large Indian garment firm with rich survey data on line managers, we find that several key dimensions of managerial quality, like attention, autonomy, and control, are important for learning-by-doing as well as for overall... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

14 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

the sector, is that the metrics it uses to track its investments are largely output oriented, not outcome oriented. As an example, Acumen has invested in a Kenyan business that builds toilet and shower facilities in central business districts as View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

02 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 2

accountable? Nonprofit leaders tend to pay attention to accountability once a problem of trust arises-a scandal in the sector or in their own organization, questions from citizens or donors who want to know if their money is being well... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 Jun 2020
Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

updating the 10 disruptive forces identified in the first edition, showing how managers can address these challenges, and describing how public confidence in the market system could be rebuilt. The revised edition includes examples of private sector leadership by View Details