Community Relations - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Feb 2020
Blog Post

Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Technology

Strategy, Marketing & Corporate Relations, Career & Professional Development Molly DeCastro – Recruiting Relations Manager, Career & Professional Development Cathy and Molly work closely with technology companies as they... View Details

Keywords: Technology

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Strategic Financial Analysis Online Course | HBS Online

liabilities and owner's equity Get social by collaborating and networking with a global community of peers before, during, and after the course. Learners who successfully complete an HBS Online program are added to the HBS Online... View Details

02 Mar 2017
News

Such Great Heights

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Tom Vogl (MBA 1998) was named CEO of the Mountaineers, an 11,000-member outdoor community in the Pacific Northwest, in February 2016. A lifelong climber, the job gave Vogl... View Details

Keywords: mountain; climbing; adventure

29 Jun 2015
HBS Case

Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records

predict the health care needs of patients, continually enhance patient outcomes, and drive transformative solutions to import community access to health care. For example, using patient data including emergency department visits and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Technology

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The Route of the Exhibition - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

allowing successive HBS educators and students the opportunity to study the work of the preeminent advertising photographers of the day. HBS’s broadly related collecting efforts did not go unobserved. “Art and industry, human View Details

23 Jul 2007
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn’t)

maintained, the power of self-policing organizations, the question of whether the service is drifting from its core principles, and whether a Wikipedia-like concept can work in a business setting. (See related story below.) The Wisdom Of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Publishing

27 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

Beware the Lasting Impression of a 'Temporary' Selfie

llSource: iStock Think that probably inappropriate Snapchat selfie is safe from leaking into your professional life because it disappears? Think again. Features on some communication apps like Snapchat and Instagram Stories allow you to... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

22 Dec 2016
Op-Ed

The Small Business Administration is a Model for How to Drive Economic Growth

restaurants, dry cleaners, and local grocery stores—form the backbone of communities across America and they are responsible for about 40 million jobs. And, as Mercedes Delgado and I show in research released earlier this year, small... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills

04 Sep 2019
News

The School that Donham Built

Professor of Business Administration until 1948, pursuing his long-held scholarly interest in human relations in business and mentoring a new generation of faculty. Linda A. Hill, the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

11 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 11

Entrepreneurial cognition and motivation frequently lay in individual, and very local, experiences, but many of the key pioneers were also highly globalized in their world views, with strong perception of how small, local efforts related... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?

in the family affairs of its most senior executives, family or not. Akfen Holding, founded 50 years after Koç in Ankara, holds a variety of construction, engineering and other firms related to infrastructure development. It has about... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

24 Feb 2009
First Look

First Look: February 24, 2009

improvement collaboration. The results support our hypothesis that learn-how is positively related to organizational performance, as measured by NICUs' risk-adjusted mortality rates for 1,061 infant patients. Moreover, our data reveal... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2015
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015

Roy K. McCall (MBA 1984) (iUniverse) Huai’an-born Zhou Enlai was contemporary China’s greatest statesman, spymaster, and negotiator. According to McCall, the People’s Republic of China would not exist today without Zhou’s skill as View Details

22 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS

and AIDS exert such power to wreck communities and companies that they should almost be viewed as a metaphor for "disruptive technology" along the lines of the model proposed by HBS Professor Clayton Christensen in his book, The... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

08 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform

out of the rut we're currently in, both the suppliers and those demanding information have to be willing to consider radical ideas in terms of reform. What radical measures should the investor community or those demanding information... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

02 Jul 2024
Blog Post

Climate Story #19: Nicole Neeman Brady (MBA 2008): The Critical Role of Business in Tackling Water Challenges

BEI is delighted to bring you this mini-series on HBS alumni tackling problems related to water and climate change. Emotional and visible connection to a topic is key to driving action. There seem to be few issues and topics that conjure... View Details

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The Space Renaissance Is Launching: Is the World Ready? | Working Knowledge

activities. These are, in a sense, the lowest rungs on a ladder. Our ascent up this ladder has already been transformative. In the model of central government control, space activities accomplished wonders and developed capabilities, like satellite View Details

01 Jun 2006
News

A Capital Asset

agency’s COO. Explains Cohen, “The department was underfunded, its buildings overseas were not in good shape, it couldn’t even communicate by open Internet overseas, and the personnel system needed changes. It turned out to be a 24/7... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

11 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: Dec. 11

PublicationsHow Much Is Sweat Equity Worth? Authors:Marquis, Christopher, and Joshua D. Margolis Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 12 (December 2012) Abstract The article presents a case study of a business decision related to... View Details