Observability - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2002
News

To Educate Leaders Who Make a Difference in the World

mission of the University, and we are a far better institution for it,” Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers observed in his dinner speech. He then declared, “What HBS does in the next twenty years will be more important than... View Details

01 Oct 2002
News

Amy S. Langer

for me,” observes Langer. “I feel very fortunate to be alive, but I also found out how much needs to happen to educate people about access issues.” Lightning may have struck twice in her life, but Langer, who lives with her husband,... View Details

25 Jan 2012
News

Is Tax Reform Viable?

write to the government, and that started me thinking about America’s tax policy. Specifically, I recalled Warren Buffett’s observation that his secretary paid a higher tax rate than he did and that it was hard for him to justify that... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Government

23 Oct 2019
News

Understanding Business Firsthand in South Korea

through which . . . [to learn] about South Korea and its people,” says Nix Maasdorp (MBA 2020). “Our customer interviews enabled us to approach our objective from a much deeper and more thoughtful perspective.” The students also had to View Details

Keywords: Global Understanding; Internationalization; Educational Innovation

01 Dec 1998
News

New Releases

experts have developed over the past 25 years. Jensen and his contributing authors reconceptualize organizations as equilibrium systems that exist in a larger system of markets - such as financial, product, labor, and materials markets. View Details

31 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss

can explain over 660,000 of the state and local government jobs lost in April, about two-thirds of the total observed declines.” In their research, Green, an assistant professor in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School, and... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

A Fast Start on Your New Job

longer-term success. Q: What personal or professional experiences or observations led you to concentrate your research and thinking on this time period for executives? Why have you found this period to be so rarely studied? A: I started... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

15 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 15, 2008

that, at the aggregate level, is similar to the one sector neoclassical growth model, while, at the disaggregate level, has implications for the path of observable measures of technology adoption. We estimate our model using data on the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Profile

Mengwen Zhao

you form effective relationships with auditors? HBS gives us the big picture for managing our career paths." She recalls an observation from a HBS career coach. "He said that the purpose of this school is not to teach you skills... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; CPG; Healthcare/Biotech

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1.12 Clearance for Return | MBA

circumstances the student may continue in or return to residence or enrollment. HBS also may independently decide that, based on its observations or other information it has about a student, it should initiate the process of consultation... View Details

15 Sep 2020
News

Lifting Fallen Families

get to see it firsthand. Kim thinks of Jervon Lemon, a scholarship administrator on his team. After her father, Sergeant Jerome Lemon, was killed in Iraq in 2004, Children of Fallen Patriots stepped in to help fund her college education. Today, she speaks to the kids... View Details

09 Aug 2016
First Look

August 9, 2016

observers perceive employees who express distress as less competent than employees who do not. Across five experiments, we explore how reframing a socially inappropriate emotional expression (distress) by publicly attributing it to an... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Jan 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Operations Management

Shapiro and Kash Rangan bring us up to date on their pioneering research that helped ignite today's intense focus on the customer. The key? Know your order cycle management. Key concepts include: The order cycle provides a window through which to View Details

25 Jul 2018
News

HBS Alumni Leader, Benefactor Dies at 86

contributions to Harvard. He was the recipient of an honorary doctor of laws degree from the University in 2013. Read the complete HBS remembrance Read more (News & Observer report) View Details

01 Aug 2001
News

William F. Connell (MBA '63)

expensive, and many observers were questioning the ability of this country to compete in the world economy. Convinced that the postindustrial era had arrived in America, the chairman of the Ogden Corporation, a giant New York-based... View Details

Keywords: Alumni Achievement Award; William F. Connell (MBA 1963); James O.Dunn; Manufacturing

01 Oct 2001
News

Philip L. Yeo: The Next Big Thing

sciences and bioengineering. "In the next generation, we will know the genetic and molecular mechanisms of disease," Yeo declares. "Biomedical science will control and eradicate cancer and AIDS, and individualized medicine will be the norm." While to most View Details

Keywords: Government

24 Dec 2013
First Look

First Look: December 24

environments and does not seem to be explained by measurement error. Third, difference in differences estimates with respect to the cost of effort, due to weather shocks and popular sport events, reveal that the observed difference... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

27 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses

observes that at its founding, HBS was occupied with understanding—and imparting the skills to manage—the challenges posed by the emergence of large, complex business enterprises, particularly railroads. One hundred years later, Pisano... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Biotechnology; Health

21 May 2001
Research & Ideas

From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership

follow, observe the authors, since more than a few failed companies have run straight into the tiger's jaws while believing that all they had to do was outrun their competition. Ghoshal and Moran, both of the London Business School, and... View Details