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  • 29 Sep 2015
  • Blog Post

5 Leadership Lessons from the First Year at HBS

become a better leader. I left RC year with more lessons than I can count, but I’d like to share with you five that I’ve taken away specifically around leadership. 1. There is no single best leadership style Prior to HBS, I looked to the... View Details
  • 20 Dec 2019
  • Blog Post

Top 10 MBA Voices Blogs of 2019

share their interests, their admissions fears, and their goals in our Class of 2020 student profiles. Read More>>> What to Expect from Your First Week at HBS By the time View Details
  • 08 Sep 2016
  • Blog Post

4 Unexpected Things I Learned at HBS

day-out with the extraordinary people who have surrounded me for the last two years. As I ready for my move to Chicago for my next adventure, I wanted to share a few things that I’ve learned during my time here. 1. I learned to ask for... View Details
  • 2007
  • Working Paper

Intra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment

By: Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton
We use a new firm level data set that establishes the location, ownership, and activity of 650,000 multinational subsidiaries -- close to a comprehensive picture of global multinational activity. A number of patterns emerge from the data. Most foreign direct investment... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Business Subsidiaries; Foreign Direct Investment; Geographic Location; Supply and Industry; Vertical Integration
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  • 16 Jun 2021
  • Blog Post

Seeing Everyday as a New Adventure: Reflections for Father's Day

Chad Losee, HBS MBA 2013 graduate and current HBS Managing Director of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid, shares his experience being a dad to his four boys. Tell us about your family. My wife and I have four growing boys. Lots of energy... View Details
  • 14 May 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Are You Managing To a ‘T’? Time To Break With Tradition

management. It relies on a new kind of executive, one who breaks out of the traditional corporate hierarchy to share knowledge freely across the organization (the horizontal part of the "T") while remaining fiercely committed to... View Details
Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen & Bolko Von Oetinger
  • 22 May 2020
  • In Practice

Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

shared savings and capitated arrangements and away from fee-for-service, they will be better positioned not only to withstand any COVID aftershocks but also to gain patients during the recession. Leemore S. Dafny (@LeemoreDafny) is the... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • Web

Annual Cost of Attendance - MBA

Fellowship At HBS, we consider getting your MBA a shared investment in your future . Our students meet the annual cost of our MBA program through scholarships, savings, and student loans. The HBS Cost of Attendance includes both direct... View Details
  • 10 Oct 2019
  • Blog Post

Coming Out at Business School

private. We accept everyone in any stage of their coming out process and hope that you will be inspired by the stories of these students as they continue to grapple with a world that is not always accepting of who they are. Here, students View Details
  • September 2013
  • Case

United Rentals (A)

By: Jay W. Lorsch, Kathleen Durante and Emily McTague

In December 1997 United Rentals (URI) went public on the NYSE. Ten years later, during the peak of the economic meltdown, the company's performance was in decline. United Rentals had experienced its share of problems in the prior years and was still struggling to... View Details

Keywords: Board Of Directors; Board Dynamics; Accounting Fraud; Governance; Board Committees; Merger; Corporate Governance; Construction Industry; United States
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  • Article

Experiments in Open Innovation at Harvard Medical School

By: Eva C. Guinan, Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani
Harvard Medical School seems an unlikely organization to open up its innovation process. By most measures, the more than 20,000 faculty, research staff and graduate students affiliated with Harvard Medical School are already world class and at the top of the medical... View Details
Keywords: Health Disorders; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Boston
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  • November 2011
  • Case

Pacific Grove Spice Company

By: William E. Fruhan and Craig Stephenson
Pacific Grove Spice Company is a profitable, rapidly growing manufacturer, marketer, and distributor of quality spices and seasonings. The company's business model requires significant investment in accounts receivable, inventory, and fixed assets to support sales.... View Details
Keywords: Capital Expenditures; Investments; Acquisitions; Securities Analysis; Debt Securities; Opportunities; Cost of Capital; Valuation; Investment; Capital Budgeting; Business Model; Cash Flow; Financing and Loans; Acquisition; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • January 2008
  • Supplement

Joe Bachelder: Reflections

By: Brian Hall and James K. Sebenius
After Charles Suarez's failed compensation negotiations with Victor, Suarez's attorney, Joe Batchelder, joined class discussions of the case in a course taught by Professor Brian Hall. Professor James Sebenius also interviewed Joe Bachelder at length on this case and... View Details
Keywords: Courts and Trials; Attorney and Client Relationships; Negotiation Deal; Executive Compensation; Knowledge Sharing; Talent and Talent Management; Perspective; Organizations
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  • 27 Jun 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Social Norms Versus Social Responsibility: Punishing Transgressions Under Conflicting Obligations

Keywords: by Francesca Gino, Celia Moore & Lamar Pierce
  • 13 Jun 2016
  • Blog Post

Is HBS Cutthroat or Collaborative?

of collaboration. At HBS each student feels a very real duty to come to class prepared, having carefully read and reflected on each case. In order for the section to function properly, each student must fulfill his or her duty: a balance... View Details
  • 19 Jan 2022
  • In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News

    Michael A. Wheeler

    Mike Wheeler joined the HBS faculty in 1993 and has taught extensively in its MBA, Executive, and distance learning programs. His highly interactive 8-week/40-hour HBS Online Negotiation... View Details

    Keywords: arts; construction; e-commerce industry; energy; federal government; green technology; internet; legal services; nonprofit industry; petroleum; pharmaceuticals; publishing industry; real estate; service industry; sports; state government; utilities
    • Article

    The Role of Finance and Private Investment in Developing Sustainable Cities

    By: John D. Macomber
    Three trends will drive urban investment, development, and entrepreneurship in the next two decades. This article provides tools to identify the situations and circumstances that will be most favorable for private sector involvement in consideration of these trends.... View Details
    Keywords: Trends; Demographics; Private Sector; Investment; City; Infrastructure; Opportunities; Urban Development
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    • 2007
    • Working Paper

    Recognizing the New: A Multi-Agent Model of Analogy in Strategic Decision-Making

    By: Giovanni Gavetti and Massimo Warglien
    In novel environments, strategic decision-making is often premised on analogy, and recognition lies at its heart. Recognition refers to a class of cognitive processes through which a problem is interpreted associatively in terms of something that has been experienced... View Details
    Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Decision Choices and Conditions; Mathematical Methods; Cognition and Thinking; Power and Influence
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    • 24 Feb 2021
    • Blog Post

    My HBS Student Loan Story: Les Williams (MBA 2005)

    about their loan repayment journeys. Les Williams Class: MBA 2005 Industry: Impact Investing Recipient of the 2020 Best King Award for Service Could you please share a little bit about your upbringing and background? I grew up pretty... View Details