Technical and Trade Schools - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Oct 2013
What Do You Think?

Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?

advantage in a world of impatient investors, restive employees, and demanding customers? Do they require leaders who have fewer answers, more questions, and a bias for testing View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Jun 2011
News

Where Conservation Means Business

communication devices, the tools of Anderson’s trade are more prosaic — a scalpel, a soft-bristle brush, tweezers, a razor knife, Q-tips, and the like. As collections conservator at the Baker Library |... View Details

Keywords: Roger thompson

13 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action

In his book, Learning in Action: A Guide to Putting the Learning Organization to Work (Harvard Business School Press), HBS professor David Garvin argues that Nike left open a critical gap between encouraging innovative thinking View Details

Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron

09 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices

developed by the company’s marketers and strategists. “They want to react to changing demand and supply conditions,” says study author Alexander J. MacKay, an assistant professor of business administration... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail

22 Jan 2018
News

The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition

your field? Guram: “If you’re interested in health care, take all the HBS health care courses. There are, I think, two schools of thought on this: 1) Don’t take any health care classes because you’ll be in this field for the rest of your... View Details

Keywords: Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade

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IFC: Cape Town; Africa Rising - Course Catalog

by meeting and working with other young Africans in the area. We will reflect on a changing international environment marked by COVID, the decline of globalization, a possible global recession and a new Cold... View Details

24 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

These Coronavirus Heroes Show Us How Crisis Leadership Works

their companies. If ever there was a time for leaders to be authentic, this is it. They need to be humble, open, and realistic about the health care and logistical challenges they are facing while using the... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Health

01 Sep 2007
News

To The Rescue

around the world — many of which have a single emergency number service. In their world travels, Raju and other Satyam executives saw the difference that a coordinated national emergency response system could make View Details

Keywords: Garrett M. Graff; emergency response networks; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Telecommunications; Information

01 Jun 2008
News

The Prophet of Start-Ups

development during World War II, spearheaded the construction of an HBS-like business school in France (INSEAD), and, perhaps most notably, launched the modern venture capital industry. His remarkable life is the subject of a new... View Details

Keywords: Spencer E. Ante; George Doriot; Charles F. Kettering; Lawrence Lowell; F. Warren Hellman; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments

14 Dec 2015
News

A Leader’s Call to Action

time when she was reflecting on her three-decade career working in the gas and electric utilities industry and realized that she could credit a series of strong leaders and... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

17 Jul 2023
Blog Post

From the Panelists: Toward a Decarbonized Future: Who Pays? Who Profits?

On May 10, 2023, Harvard Business School assembled a group of experts to discuss the path “Toward a Decarbonized Future: Why Pays? Who Profits?” In a discussion led by HBS Professor Peter Tufano, the experts described a series of vexing... View Details

01 Feb 2018
News

HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86

Hugo Uyterhoeven Hugo Uyterhoeven Hugo E.R. Uyterhoeven (MBA 1957, DBA 1963), an expert on general management and a member of the Harvard Business School (HBS) faculty for more than 50 years who maintained a... View Details

01 Dec 2011
News

Making the Case for Leadership

Issue Focus: Leadership Issue Focus Li & Fung's Global Footprint Reimagining the MBA Leaders come in all colors, ages, shapes, and sizes, with all manner of skills and temperaments, a variety View Details

31 Mar 2023
News

How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?

through the standard American dream script of from high school directly to four-year degree completion, directly onto career or further education? MDP: I think we need to figure out division of roles and... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

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Faculty & Advisors | MBA

Verganti is Professor of Leadership and Innovation at the Stockholm School of Economics – House of Innovation, where he is Director of The Garden – Center for Design and... View Details

01 Mar 2018
News

Making Sense of the Modern Startup

the spark plug behind the School’s recent push into entrepreneurship. And behind Stevenson was Dean John McArthur, quietly determined to steer the School into the tempting but elusive field of new ventures,... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy

Toyota, for instance, groups countries by existing and expected free trade areas. At other times, however, such definitions will yield regions that aren't geographically compact. After making its first... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

01 Dec 2002
News

What You Know Depends on Where You Go

existing emerging market firms like Jollibee, a Filipino fast-food chain that has entered the United States successfully in California. “This is the point of international trade and globalization — that it... View Details

01 Dec 2013
News

Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL

league is a nonprofit trade association) underpins the NFL's unique architecture. Even NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell concedes the model is "a form of socialism [that's] worked quite well for us. So we try to combine socialism View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries

16 Jan 2025
Blog Post

Alumni Career Journey: Sophie Levin (MS/MBA 2022) - How Risk Can Be the Key to a Sustainable Future

describe startups tackling some of the most pressing and complex challenges of our time. Many of these companies face technical hurdles or market risks that require significant time View Details

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