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- 01 Jun 2000
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The Right Connections
resources -- what we call social capital." Organizational behaviorists have known for years that third-party endorsements are critical to a young firm's success. Higgins and Gulati wanted to understand the origins and nature of these... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Exhibit at Baker Library Marks HBS Centennial
Hawthorne facility’s multiple and diverse production units made most of America’s telephones and related equipment. Four years after the company launched a study of its workers’ productivity, a perplexed Hawthorne official invited HBS... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
be deeply embedded throughout the organization.” These findings suggest that excellence in global corporate competition demands certain success-enabling organizational characteristics, attributes that of course must be introduced and/or... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency
work and family," she notes. "I often have to make difficult choices between responsibilities at home and at the office. It's tough for a woman in a senior position." Meyer's challenges are not likely to subside. She is, however, considering taking a break from the... View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Faculty Books
(Harvard Business Review Press) Drawing on his years of experience studying and advising VC firms, companies, and governments, Lerner, the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking, weighs the strengths and weaknesses of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
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A Binary Formula
Executive Education offerings that teach scientists business and organizational fundamentals? What about joint MBA/Ph.D. programs? How about science/business seminars, more science-based cases, and more science-savvy faculty to teach... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Theory & Practice
Whether or not game theory has applications for business strategy remains unclear - to date, empirical studies have been too limited to yield any definitive conclusions. In Games Businesses Play: Cases and Modules, HBS professor Pankaj... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Class of 1975 in Review
think I would have predicted that Ken would rise to managing director of Goldman Sachs and that Giff would become a widely respected CEO before his tragic death in 1990. We all have similar stories of friendships begun or sealed at HBS -- in View Details
Keywords: J. Hans Stumm
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Commitment to Leadership
At its core, HBS is committed to educating leaders who make a difference in the world. In the early 1990s, I had the privilege of leading the development of an MBA course on leadership which was introduced into the required curriculum after a multi-year View Details
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
prison. Studies by the US Bureau of Justice Statistics show that nearly seven out of 10 former inmates reoffend and return to prison within three years. The Reset Foundation tries to break that cycle by diverting people from the penal... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
graduate student at Brigham Young University in 1974, DeLong studied organizational behavior under Stephen Covey (MBA 1957), who would go on to publish The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. “I focused as... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
beyond the banks of the Charles and transcend the study of business administration. When he received the School’s Distinguished Service Award in 1993, Christensen was honored not only for his pioneering work at HBS in corporate strategy... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
The School that Donham Built
government, became his mentor and continued to support his studies through law school. Donham specialized in corporate restructuring as a vice president at Boston’s Old Colony Trust Company and won wide praise from both labor and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
After Ozempic
Back before Ozempic, when Kate Mulroney (MBA 1984) spoke at technical conferences about her work at Novo Nordisk, people often assumed she was talking about Novartis. “I’d have to explain that’s a Swiss company; we’re Danish,” says Mulroney, now head of advanced... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
creative new markets. Lessons in Corporate Finance: A Case Studies Approach to Financial Tools, Financial Policies, and Valuation by Paul Asquith and Lawrence A. Weiss (DBA 1989) (Wiley) This book explains the fundamentals of the field in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015
journey from traditional manager to head of one of the most open organizational environments he’d ever encountered. Based on open-source principles of transparency, participation, and collaboration, he provides a blueprint for putting the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Star Search
recent Mercer study shows that organizational commitment is closely tied to employee confidence and engagement in the work that they do. Dig more deeply into these concepts by browsing HBR's collection of... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 05 Apr 2018
- News
A Philanthropic Eye Reframes African American Abstract Art
revolved around weekly piano and ballet lessons—and art. “I was the poster child for the value of early education in the visual arts,” she recalls. “I studied on South Michigan Avenue, across from the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC). Every... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 19 May 2015
- News
Getting Ready for Success
students annually and boasts a college-completion rate of more than 90 percent. “We’ve now proven our model replicates well and is quantitatively effective, so we are looking to aggressively expand.” Her time at HBS strengthened both her skillset and her network.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
Faculty Books Fit to Compete by Michael Beer, Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus Harvard Business Review Press In his 30 years of working in corporations, HBS professor Michael Beer has witnessed firsthand how View Details