Elections - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2001
News

Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century

distractions, the time groups spend in discussion is enhanced. Overall, technology seems to have delivered a vastly streamlined approach to class preparation. It’s time to head back to Aldrich for Assistant Professor Alan MacCormack’s View Details

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

01 Dec 2006
News

Forestalling Terror

interest is examining the interactions that occur between and across the various functional and product boundaries of the firm, which is the subject of his popular MBA elective Advanced Competitive Strategy: Integrating the Enterprise.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Waleed Iskandar; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

15 Mar 2010
HBS Case

Developing Asia’s Largest Slum

it for the first time last December in the elective course Managing International Trade and Investment. Some said flatly that they would walk away from the deal, while others thought that it was a worthwhile risk to take, particularly... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Construction; Real Estate

18 Apr 2007
HBS Case

How Magazine Luiza Courts the Poor

the United States. We've been unable to crack that code of 'courting the poor' in any systematic way, so I wanted to investigate further." Frei, a member of the HBS Technology and Operations Management Unit, uses the case in the second-year View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

07 Sep 2021
News

Building New Connections

papers on investment, capital structure, working capital management, dividend policy, joint ventures, intellectual property, and corporate tax policy. He currently teaches Corporate Financial Operations, a second-year MBA elective course... View Details

01 Apr 2001
News

The Small Business Difference: How Smaller Companies Manage with Less

A few years ago, H. Kent Bowen, the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration, undertook a study of smaller companies (firms in the $5 million to $50 million range) in order to develop cases and teaching materials for the View Details

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

02 May 2023
Blog Post

From Harvard Business School to Spotify: Four Lessons in My Journey to Land My Dream Job

presence as a DJ on SoundCloud helped me gain a deeper understanding of the problems creators face in the industry, and the limitations of current technical solutions. 2. Use elective coursework to gain a deeper understanding of your... View Details

17 Jul 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence

and Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration at Harvard Business School and an expert in technology strategy. So when Yoffie began a three-year effort to update an HBS elective course on strategy development in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer; Education

18 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments

latest e-commerce enterprise. And in a new MBA elective course he has developed, Large-Scale Investment, Esty examines how private firms structure, value, and finance large, first-of-a-kind (or greenfield) projects. "Although the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

17 Jul 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up

G19 + 1. For business leaders, the early optimism following Trump’s election that corporate taxes would be reduced, America’s infrastructure would be improved, and an improved healthcare system would be created has faded away. Many... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

01 Dec 2020
News

Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers

providers feel comfortable about adopting your innovation? Can you make it the standard of care, meaning it is something doctors have to do? Can you get Medicare to pay for it? The MBA elective course I teach, Innovating in Health Care,... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2005
News

Winning Legally

business objectives.” Before joining the HBS faculty in 2000, Bagley was a corporate securities partner in Bingham McCutchen LLP and a faculty member at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She teaches the MBA elective Legal Aspects... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jan 2004
News

Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963

well when he was later elected student body president at the University of Washington. During his senior year, a faculty advisor encouraged him to apply to Harvard Business School, which Nielsen describes as a "life-changing experience"... View Details

September 2024
Case

The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor

By: Meg Rithmire, Hong Zhang and Salaar A. Shaikh

Since the launch of CPEC, two of Pakistan’s Prime Ministers had been removed from office, one by the Supreme Court and the other in a no confidence vote. Historic floods had underscored the country’s vulnerability to climate change, and the country had agreed to two... View Details

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Macroeconomics; Climate Change; Financing and Loans; Government Administration; International Relations; Political Elections; Projects; China; Pakistan

Citation

Educators

21 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?

have their director candidates' names included on the ballots sent out by the company (dissident shareholders now must send out their own ballots); puts an end to staggered boards at all companies (boards traditionally elect one-third of... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson

June 2017 (Revised August 2018)
Supplement

Making Target the Target: Boycotts and Corporate Political Activity (B)

By: Nien-hê Hsieh and Victor Wu

Supplements the (A) Case. View Details

Citation

Purchase

06 Aug 2013
First Look

First Look: August 6

to leave sued firms. Overall, shareholders use litigation along with director elections and director retention to hold some independent directors more accountable than others when firms experience financial fraud. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

14 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?

incorporates a focus on gender issues. His studies include a comprehensive global survey of board members, as well as a series of case studies that approach the issue of women on boards from an individual, an organizational, and a country level. This year, Groysberg... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

28 Oct 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance

Last spring HBS became the first top-ranked U.S. business school to offer a course in consumer finance. Jointly taught by HBS professor Peter Tufano and Harvard Law School professor Howell Jackson (HBS MBA '80), the elective course... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Financial Services; Education

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation

MBA course in negotiation as well as advanced dealmaking electives and Executive Education programs), has developed a model with former HBS faculty member David A. Lax called "three-dimensional negotiation." In a course note... View Details

Keywords: by Anita M. Harris

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