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01 Sep 2012
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Expertise From The Front Lines Of The Eurozone

timing, he says, that couldn’t have been better. “The US financial crisis made students particularly interested in my views, and since the European crisis, I’ve been concentrating my research and case writing on this latter topic.” From... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

01 Dec 2016
News

Cast of Characters

Illustration by Brian Stauffer THE PROFESSOR: Asaf Ali Khan For his first book, James Glenn (MBA 1965) was going to write about his own experiences in India during the Green Revolution of the 1970s. Worried it might not be exciting... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 1998
News

Research Grows from Asian Financial Crisis

doctoral student Robert Pekkanen journeyed to Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines, interviewing more than one hundred executives at a dozen companies. Everyone, says Yoshino, was extremely optimistic. Intrigued by their findings, Yoshino and Pekkanen... View Details

Keywords: Anne Kavanagh

11 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Economic Jitters Push Pandemic Job Seekers to Big Companies, Not Startups

talent to draw from, write the authors of a recent working paper titled Flight to Safety: How Economic Downturns Affect Talent Flows to Startups. This has important implications, says Shai Bernstein, an associate professor of business... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders

course-development project in 1997. Writing cases on firms in China, Japan, Thailand, Argentina, Nigeria, and Russia, she focused on businesses indigenous to each culture as well as multinationals moving between cultures. In addition, she... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

19 Dec 2016
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016

Design and Identity Change at the Federal Bureau of Investigation Both the design and identity of the FBI changed greatly in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, write Ranjay Gulati, Ryan Raffaelli, and Jan Rivkin. Their... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

30 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Do Mergers Hurt Product Quality?

reviews throughout the years indicated that overall product quality remained consistent post-merger. "Though goods become more similar, they do not consistently increase or decrease in quality level," Sheen writes in the paper,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

06 May 2013
Research & Ideas

How Local Events Shake Up Corporate Philanthropy

for nonprofit organizations and city planners, the researchers hope their study will provide a jumping-off point for broader discussion about the importance of location to organizational behavior. "The English language is expressive in this regard," they... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

23 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Forgiving Medical Debt Won't Make Everyone Happier

patients finds the reality is much more complicated when it comes to languishing hospital bills. Canceling overdue medical debt on average does little or nothing to improve credit access, existing bill payment rates, or even mental health, researchers View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

27 Apr 2021
Blog Post

There Are No HBS People, Just People Who Happen to Go to HBS

and exposed me to more people who were wildly passionate about their careers. Like HBS Professor Youngme Moon who shared with us that she became an Uber driver to better understand the Uber driver experience when writing the Uber case. Or... View Details

08 Dec 2020
Blog Post

2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Brooke Carter (MBA 2019)

wanted to avoid. Where are you currently working? Can you describe your role? I am currently working as a Product Manager at Grammarly, the company behind the AI-powered writing assistant. I’ve been at the company for almost a year and... View Details

24 May 2023
Blog Post

Innovating, Funding, and Scaling Climate Solutions at Harvard Business School: Day Three of Harvard Climate Action Week

planted at that time have taken roots, sprouted, and matured,” said Datar. “Today’s session topics are areas we've been researching, writing cases about, and teaching and developing in the curriculum for many years.” The conference... View Details

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IFC: Saudi Arabia; A Nation and its Oil Economy Reimagined - Course Catalog

they will also be organized into teams of 5-6 students, with each team focusing part of its learning (and ultimately writing a report) on a particular agreed theme. Students will be in Riyadh for most of the Immersion, but will also... View Details

13 Oct 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Building a Business in the Context of a Life

malleable, a rough outline that will likely change as circumstances warrant or as a person's view of success evolves. The process of creating a vision and a plan of action provides a baseline, and it also increases a person's chances of success. "When you View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

25 May 2021
Blog Post

The Surprising Power of Nostalgia at Work

thus offer a way to orient employees toward creative thinking and problem-solving. Across three studies, researchers found that having individuals spend several minutes writing about a nostalgic memory made them feel more open-minded and... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Jun 2010
News

Rethinking the MBA

determine their relevance in the future. Datar and Garvin recently talked about the way forward for business education. In the opening pages of your book, you write that the need for change is “urgent.” Why urgent? Garvin: First, we heard... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Jewish American Heritage Month | Baker Library

. You can download a PDF of the above spread here . Below are Estée Lauder's Rules of Success in Business, excerpted from the Profiles : Rule 1. Find the proper location Rule 2. When you're angry, never put it in writing Rule 3. You get... View Details

13 Jun 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants

mortgage-backed securities, which experienced large losses. "There's a fascinating discrepancy there," says Becker. "Something works for decades, for a century, really, with corporate ratings, and it failed utterly with structured products." Becker... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Banking; Financial Services

05 May 2020
News

“Walking a Tightrope”

instance, in tiny poor villages in China that I was trying to write about poverty in China. And here it was in the US. April: Was there something that you came to understand about the lives of your friends in Yamhill that you hadn't... View Details

03 Jan 2018
News

Finding Faith in an NFL Locker Room

so, as they're responding, I'm literally writing, like an HBS facilitator, on the board, and writing their responses. What they don't know is, as I'm doing that, I'm engineering, or re-engineering, what I'm planning to discuss as a part... View Details

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