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03 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

director of research. Garvin, the C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration, teaches courses for MBAs and executives on leadership, general management, and operations. Garvin is also faculty chair of the School's... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

31 May 2017
What Do You Think?

Can Amazon Do What Walmart Couldn’t, Stop the 'Wheel of Retailing'?

category. His success raises a question: Can Amazon successfully defy a notion—the wheel of retailing—that has been debated in retailing for nearly sixty years? The wheel of retailing was first described by Malcolm McNair, a distinguished View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

the Practical Relevance of Research, forthcoming in Production and Operations Management. “This is my soapbox message to academics: be more relevant,” says Toffel, the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management and faculty... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

than anyone else. The work affected us all, including Richard Tedlow, Tom McCraw, and myself. Al also set a work ethic that was an inspiration to any HBS faculty member. When I was at the University of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

13 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm

lead during a crisis such as the global economic crisis of 2008-09. I found that many failed to follow seven universal lessons for leading in crisis. I believe the root cause of the recent financial crisis was leaders who practiced... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

Research Summary

Leadership and Leadership Development: An Ontological Approach

This summarizes my research program over the last twelve years (with my co-investigators Werner Erhard, Steve Zaffron, and more recently Kari Granger) in which the objective has been to rigorously distinguish leader and leadership and to create a technology for... View Details

26 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Clayton M. Christensen, Acclaimed Author and Teacher, Dies At 67

Christensen joined the HBS faculty in 1992. He earned a B.A. with highest honors in economics from Brigham Young University (1975); an M.Phil. in applied econometrics from Oxford University, where he studied... View Details

30 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Harvard and HBS: The Next 100 Years

Editor's Note: This is a summary of an HBS Business Summit presentation. View a full summary and video of the event on the HBS Centennial Web site linked below. Date of Event: October 14, 2008 Speakers: Jay O. Light, Dean of HBSDrew Gilpin Faust, President of Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Education

27 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses

flattened landscape left behind, giant construction cranes, clustered over the site's several acres, accentuate its emptiness. It is here that Harvard University is putting down a big bet on the future—and on a dramatically new, emerging... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Biotechnology; Health

02 Feb 2010
First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

Theory and Practice. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, in press Abstract The current rigor/relevance debate is a central strategic issue for business schools and their faculty. I argue that ongoing relationships with firms, rooted on the joint acknowledgement of the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 Jun 2020
What Do You Think?

Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?

suggestions, including starting early (Kcorey: “How about connecting with youth at an earlier age who are interested in business?”), emulating efforts to bring women into management education (Roslyn Payne: “In the 1980’s when University... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

02 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2006

anything having to do with globalization. But in 2006, some new areas of HBS faculty research began to emerge that also struck a chord with readers. These included the business of open source, how network effects impact everything from... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

18 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

Enterprising Women—a History

1938; Larson was member of the Harvard Business School faculty and authored the seminal history of Standard Oil, published in 1955. Yeager's work focuses on women and the political economy and she is the editor of a three-volume history,... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

02 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

You, our readers, are especially hungry for information about individual leadership, according to a tally of the most-read feature stories and faculty working papers over the past year, half of which focused either on how to be a better... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

02 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

George C. Lodge

community as a whole has special and urgent needs that go beyond the needs of its individual members." A 1987 book with Harvard University professor Ezra F. Vogel, titled Ideology and National Competitiveness, looked at the... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

06 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?

long term. Two Harvard University faculty members—Amy C. Edmondson, the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School, and Dr. Howard K. Koh, the Harvey V. Fineberg Professor of... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

31 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Improving Fairness in Flight Delays

interesting insights." In another line of research, Fearing is working with MIT faculty member Steve Graves, Ph.D. student Jason Acimovic, and Columbia University professor Mark Broadie to develop... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Entertainment & Recreation; Air Transportation

21 Jun 2011
First Look

First Look: June 21

http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781846142734,00.html?strSrchSql=Civilization%3A+The+West+and+the+Rest/Civilization_Niall_Ferguson Accelerating Energy Innovation: Insights from Multiple Sectors Authors: Rebecca Henderson and Richard G. Newell, eds.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later

faculty chair of the HBS Gender Initiative, discusses with Kanter the genesis, key insights, and influence of the book—as well as its relevance in the #MeToo era. Kanter holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship at HBS. —Zeenat Potia... View Details

Keywords: by Robin J. Ely

27 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 27

education; provide case studies showing how leading MBA programs have begun reinventing themselves for the better; and offer concrete ideas for how business schools can surmount the challenges that come with reinvention, including securing View Details