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- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
spending time with each other, those can be overcome.” The panelists also discussed the possibility of collaborating on teaching methods. For instance, some SEAS classes could adopt Harvard Business School’s View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 12 Jan 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.
clearly taken its toll. Today, we'll hear from Professor Bill George about his case entitled, Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Young Minister Confronts the Challenges of Montgomery. I'm your host, Brian Kenny, and you're listening to Cold Call.... View Details
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
spark organizational change. But because Muzak was a franchise organization, Kahn had to convince independent affiliates to pay for what turned out to be an extensive re-branding. This case can be used to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
survival is at risk. In business there is failure all the time. Our colleague Dorothy Leonard Barton developed the phrase “failing forward” to describe how innovative firms always take risks but learn from their failures. The trick as our colleagues in Entrepreneurial... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Founding CEO’s Dilemma: Stay or Go?
terms for that capital. That's one of the factors that Henry McCance and I examine in the "Wily" case. NB: Is it inevitable that founders will not be able to go the distance? Wasserman: Not inevitable, but probable. We teach a... View Details
- 03 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment
are much more likely to suffer from malemployment. Those who complete master’s degrees generally experience lower malemployment rates no matter what they study. Are we teaching the right things? An equally troubling possibility is that... View Details
- 27 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 27
Business School Supplement 911-405 A professor teaching a case discussion based on numeric analysis is pleased that a student finally "cracks" the case--but the numbers differ from her own. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Have a Better Idea To Improve Health Care?
Harvard faculty will create case studies about each of the finalists, and will teach the cases at the conference. Conference attendees will be expected to provide input on the... View Details
- 07 Jun 2019
- Book
Are You a Digital Manager?
Lagace: As you teach MBA students and Executive Education participants, are they describing new pressures that weren’t there before? Hill: Leadership is truly getting more demanding. I don’t think anyone ever succeeded by him- or herself... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Aug 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night
differences. That reality, however, hasn't slowed the rising tide of annual college rankings from every corner of the world, rating schools in every category imaginable. Today we'll hear from Professor Bill Kirby about his case entitled... View Details
- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
not performing the surgery at all, and treating the case in a different way. Value may be still greater if preventive care and advice is provided over time so that little or no treatment is needed at all. The relevant business in health... View Details
- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
large. Of particular interest to business leaders are a number of case studies of successful BOP business models. The co-editors are all associated with HBS: V. Kasturi (Kash) Rangan and John Quelch are faculty, Gustavo Herrero is... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates
course of action—in boarder guards' example, signs of who might be a security threat—then the silence becomes vocal. Let's return to HBS's context. Most teaching notes (used by faculty members to prepare their class sessions in the... View Details
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Listen to “Yes”
therefore facilitates implementation," says Roberto, who teaches in the School's General Management unit. An e-mail interview with HBS Working Knowledge follows. Martha Lagace: Why should a leader be concerned when he or she hears... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
School in 1963 I have been trying to find ways to teach about the political, social, economic, and cultural environment of business, the context that shapes corporate purpose, provides corporate legitimacy, and in many ways controls... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
video case studies of laid-off workers, as well as a couple of technical notes for students—one focusing on best practices for managers as they consider workforce reductions; the other on the overall effects of layoffs. View Details
- 04 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector
An entrepreneurial approach, they say, allows social organizations not only to maximize value from limited resources, but also to leverage resources beyond the organization's direct control through a creation of networks. Case studies in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss
balances laid off more workers, regardless of their levels of sales tax reliance, the researchers found, but in cases of high sales-tax dependence, having more cash on hand weakened the effect on job losses. Federal aid to states that... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 27 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Horrible Boss Workarounds
fact the boss may not be sure what the solution should be and is just waiting for someone to come forward." In her classes, Kanter teaches the case of the upscale cookware retailer Williams-Sonoma,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 23 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?
Multinational Banking 1830-1990, and Professor of Management Practice Dante Roscini, who held top leadership roles in the capital markets units of Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley before coming to HBS, where he teaches the... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini