Publications

02 Mar 2016
News

David Moss is Rewriting History

Photographed by Webb Chappell In March 2010, the 1787 drafting of the United States Constitution became breaking news. The members of the Texas State Board of Education had convened in Austin to review the state’s history and other social... View Details

Keywords: April White

06 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

Latest Isn’t Always Greatest: Why Product Updates Capture Consumers

necessarily better,” says Ximena Garcia-Rada, a former Harvard Business School doctoral student who is now an assistant professor at Texas A&M University. “We see a significant proportion of participants shift to the objectively... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products; Retail

28 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

Keep or Cut Workers? How Companies Reacted to the COVID-19 Crisis

Employment,” which Rouen co-authored with Stanford professor Rebecca Lester and University of Texas professor Braden Williams. As the American economy slowly recovers from the pandemic, corporate leaders, policymakers, and researchers are... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

Web

Systems Integration - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

significantly reduce cost to selected low risk patients operated on in an ambulatory surgery facility and avoiding the academic medical center downtown. When the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center expanded regionally, they... View Details

19 Oct 2022
Op-Ed

Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup

Recently, I was listening to the Huberman Lab podcast where Dr. Andrew Huberman interviewed Dr. David Buss, a founding member in the field of evolutionary psychology and professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, whose... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

14 Aug 2006
HBS Case

On Managing with Bobby Knight and “Coach K”

practices as can be imagined—Snook asks students to confront their basic assumptions about human nature, motivation, and preferred styles of leading. Bobby Knight, also known as "The General," is the head coach at Texas Tech... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports

Web

Geography of Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

as their hub, they expanded their care network over a 9 state area through affiliations. The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center geographically expanded initially through an MD Anderson Cancer Network that included certified... View Details

May 2013
Case

Wendy Peterson

By: Linda A. Hill and Alisa Zalosh

Wendy Peterson was recently promoted to Vice President of Sales at the Plano, Texas, office of AccountBack, an accounting software and services company. To penetrate a perceived market niche, Peterson hires Fred (Xing) Wu, whose familiarity with and access to Chinese... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Conflict Management; Salesforce Management; Rank and Position; Performance Evaluation; Management Teams; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Accounting Industry; Texas

2010
Working Paper

Course Materials For: 'Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership - An Ontological Model'

By: Werner H. Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron and Kari L. Granger

This course is designed to leave students being leaders and exercising leadership effectively as their natural self-expression - rather than attempting to learn the characteristics, styles, and skills of noteworthy leaders, and then trying to remember and apply them... View Details

Keywords: Curriculum and Courses; Leadership Development; Research; Science; Attitudes

SSRN

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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project

TX Monica Avila South Texas Academy for Medical Professionals Olmito, TX Subjects: Government, History TX Roger Azevedo John Paul II High School Plano, TX KY Delvin Azofeifa Martin Luther King Jr Academy for Excellence Lexington, KY... View Details

12 May 2023
Blog Post

Independent Project: The Rise of Electric Heat Pumps

These factors have led to most heat pumps today to be installed in Southern states, such as Florida and Texas (Figure 1) [7], and will likely continue to drive adoption there before permeating to the rest of the U.S. Figure 1: Heat pump... View Details

23 May 2018
News

Carla A. Harris, MBA 1987

Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1962 Born, Port Arthur, Texas 1984 Earns AB, Economics, Harvard University 1984 Joins Booz Allen Hamilton, Consultant 1987 Earns MBA 1987 Joins Morgan Stanley, Associate 1994 Joins... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Jul 2020
Blog Post

How SVMP Helped Me Take My Next Steps (2+2) and Find Myself

life-changing. It was my first time out of the country except to cross the border from Texas into Mexico to get my hair braided when I was younger. It expanded my outlook, brought me closer to the Spanish-speaking roots of my Afro-Latina... View Details

14 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2022

on a date. It was with a guy I met on an app. A kinda sketchy app looking back on it. I had just moved to Texas (from Pittsburgh) for short term engineering work. I’d had my share of dating bruises and was just in View Details

December 2020 (Revised April 2021)
Case

IBM Watson at MD Anderson Cancer Center

By: Shane Greenstein, Mel Martin and Sarkis Agaian

After discovering that their cancer diagnostic tool, designed to leverage the cloud computing power of IBM Watson, needed greater integration into the clinical processes at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, the development team had difficult choices to make. The Oncology... View Details

Keywords: Decision Making; Innovation Strategy; Knowledge Management; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Operations; Failure; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Health Care and Treatment; Product Development; Health Industry; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; United States; Houston; Texas

October 2022
Case

Cost Plus Drugs

By: Alexander MacKay and James Barnett

In September 2022, Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs Company CEO Alex Oshmyansky considered the future of the company. Cost Plus Drugs was a retailer for more than 340 generic oral medications, selling their drugs at significantly lower prices than typical pharmacies.... View Details

Keywords: Business Ventures; Decision Making; Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Health; Markets; Social Enterprise; Society; Strategy; Health Care and Treatment; Business Divisions; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Health Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States; Texas