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- 20 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening
When former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced earlier this year he was thinking about running for president of the United States, it wasn’t a new idea. Past CEOs seeking the White House have included Carly Fiorina, Ross Perot, Herman Cain, Steve Forbes, Mitt... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
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 Bill Sahlman, a contest organizer with faculty... View Details
- 09 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements
to explore the impact of a specific media source on the business landscape. "Depending on what the media reports on, it can actually create reputational costs for firms," says Jonas Heese, an assistant professor in the... View Details
- 11 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices
the Poronui Associate Professor of Business Administration. Pharmaceutical companies have long opposed efforts to regulate drug prices, arguing that prices reflect the companies’ massive research investments. But Germany’s approach shows... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
Two days after his Nobel Prize was announced, Professor Merton spoke with Bulletin editor Deborah Blagg in his Morgan Hall office, where imposing stacks of scholarly journals had been displaced temporarily by a garland of colorful... View Details
- 10 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Cofounders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke
managing performance, but also translates it into ESG metrics relevant to their industry. “The metrics we use are based on the latest academic research (including research from HBS professors Rebecca Henderson and View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
Harvard economist Joseph Schumpeter and HBS professor and Baker Librarian Arthur Cole at the Research Center in Entrepreneurial History at HBS. Professor Myles Mace, back from military service in the Pacific... View Details
- 13 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought
due in part to an overall lack of liquidity. On average, survey respondents with less than $10,000 in monthly bills had only enough cash on hand to cover one month of expenses. “Firms today are very lean and cash-strapped,” says... View Details
- 22 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs
the older worker is shown to the door," said Harvard Business School Associate Professor William R. Kerr, who recently cowrote a working paper called Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of US Firms with Sari Pekkala Kerr of... View Details
- 23 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training
Every year depression affects one in every five employees and costs American businesses $210 billion in medical bills and lost productivity. In fact, for every worker with a depressive disorder, a company loses an average of 32 productive... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act
exemplifies this ideal. Obviously moved by the tribute from Clark and further words of praise from HBS professor William A. Sahlman, Inc. magazine editor George Gendron, Lotus Development Corporation founder... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 07 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Negotiation and All That Jazz
negotiators” "You can't script the process," says Wheeler, the MBA Class of 1952 Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School. "Whoever who sits across the table from you is likely to be as determined, as smart, and as... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital
Venture capital is a tale of two continents, HBS professor Josh Lerner (coauthor of the book The Venture Capital Cycle) explained in his opening remarks at a Global Alumni Conference panel titled "European Private Equity: Can the... View Details
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Advanced Negotiation: Great Dealmakers, Diplomats, and Deals - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Advanced Negotiation: Great Dealmakers, Diplomats, and Deals Course Number 2261 Professor James Sebenius Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits Requirements : active, insightful class and negotiation exercise participation; paper or... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
parlance—are deep underwater. He then provides solutions on how to help them and the overall government surface. As President George H. W. Bush once said, “There is nothing more fulfilling than to serve your country and your fellow... View Details
- 20 Aug 2014
- News
With No Time to Lose
recently. And this week, Dean Nitin Nohria joined the movement taking the plunge and challenging Harvard President Drew Faust, HBS Professor Bill George, and Harvard College Dean Rakesh Khurana (PHDOB 1998).... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
capital. For more than a quarter-century, the percentage of women entering the sector annually remained stubbornly stuck around 9 percent, according to findings by HBS professor Paul Gompers and Harvard University PhD candidate Sophie... View Details
- 27 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential
School’s Dylan Minor, visiting assistant professor in the Strategy unit. But before you rise up tall in the saddle against politicians, consider another of Minor’s findings: The connection between risk taking and corruption is likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
HBS Professor Marco Iansiti and H.T. Kung, William H. Gates Professor of Computer Science at Harvard, solicited views on new directions for the Internet in a panel discussion called "e-Service: The Next... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
examined the role of business in ending global poverty, strike anyone else as being in poor taste? If “Every day, nearly 3 billion people have to get by on this,” as the headline and stark image of two crumpled dollar bills on the... View Details