Technical and Trade Schools - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

02 Apr 2014
What Do You Think?

Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?

sell when it costs so little to be happy ." Warren speculated that "we are going to come up with a self-sustaining economy meaning that we will revert back to small towns that depend less on trade View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Service

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Patrick Chun

Center, thinking through ways students interested in entrepreneurship can be better served by the school as a whole." Overall, Patrick views his student government experience as a lesson in leadership View Details

02 Oct 2013
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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

21 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill

collaborate on a field experiment with Ashraf and two colleagues, Oriana Bandiera of the London School of Economics and Kelsey Jack of Tufts University. SFH had established a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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

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

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

01 Dec 2020
News

In Review

Under his ten-and-one-half years of leadership, the School launched FIELD and HBS Online. It created two joint degree programs: an MS/MBA in Engineering in conjunction with the Paulson View Details

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

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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

01 Dec 2020
News

New News

different outlets. Instead of saying we’re the outlet that is the best at political news or at financial news, we provide access to the best and most unbiased reporting for any given subject material. We want to make fact-first news easy... View Details

Keywords: entrepreneuship; digital media; startups; news; business models; young alumni; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services

11 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Riding the Internet Fast Track

warehouses. A November 1999 IPO valued Webvan at $8 billion. But while some companies tread cautiously, competitors in categories like furniture, pet supplies, and online trading are forcing their trains'... View Details

Keywords: by Peter Jacobs

11 Jun 2021
News

The Power of Resilience

daughter, I was technically on maternity leave and that maternity leave quickly shifted into a medical leave, which was a blessing in disguise in its own way, that I was able to be home, truly dedicated to... 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)

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

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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 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

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

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

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