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11 Mar 2024
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In Harmony

that recapitalized his home country in the wake of the Asian financial crisis. But Kim’s aptitude for finance is only a small part of who he is as a person. In 2020, he published Offerings, a deeply personal, autobiographical novel about... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photograph by Jun Michael Park

04 Oct 2016
Blog Post

The Peek Weekend Stem Cohort Experience

Peek has changed a lot since its founding in 2015! Please visit the Peek website for the most up to date information on dates, registration, and program events. My name is Minwei Cao and I’m a senior at Williams College, a small liberal... View Details

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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

the VELUX Foundations of Denmark have decided to allocate a small percentage of their investment portfolio to impact investments. Cambridge Associates, one of the leading investment advisory firms in the world, has been engaged to assist... View Details

21 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

Are Your Employees Passing Up Incentives? Try Promoting the Programs More

communicate them.” The reason might be as simple as employees not knowing about the incentive programs. Leslie John, professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, and a team of researchers... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

22 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

Innovation Lab. Upon his appointment last year, Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria named innovation, along with globalization and business ethics, as one of the most important focuses of the School... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

17 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance

Editor's note: In their new book, Producing Prosperity: Why America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance, Harvard Business School professors Gary P. Pisano and Willy C. Shih argue that reinvesting in America's manufacturing prowess is... View Details

Keywords: by Gary P. Pisano & Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing

02 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

in much the same way that historical perspectives helped to shape the first generation of endogenous growth theories. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55039 September 21, 2018 Harvard Business Review... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

27 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future

company to a larger one. In contrast, startups funded by a VC syndicate with less familiar co-investors are most likely to exit through a potentially splashy IPO that could let founders retain more control, says Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

27 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 27

PublicationsRethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads Authors:Srikant M. Datar, David A. Garvin, and Patrick Cullen Publication:Harvard Business Press, 2010 Abstract : "Business Schools... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Jul 2024
Blog Post

Driving Positive Impact on Community and Climate with Ben Schutzman (MBA 2016)

thinking about what I wanted from a career standpoint, I realized that I didn't want to be consulting for other businesses in the long run. I had a small business in college,... View Details

12 Jun 2006
Research & Ideas

The Promise of Channel Stewardship

Most company distribution systems are designed ad-hoc when needed, and serve neither value chain partners nor end users well—just look at the frustrating new-car buying process set up by American auto makers. At the same time, says Harvard View Details

Keywords: by V. Kasturi Rangan & Marie Bell; Consumer Products

03 Jan 2023
What Do You Think?

How Would the Leadership Style of Girl Scouts' Frances Hesselbein Fare Today?

of General Motors because of her skills at turning around a large organization. My colleague Regina Herzlinger, the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, knowing... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

16 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience

people who are thinking about it. But the HR director is a very experienced and quite strategic thinker and he's an adviser to the CEO on strategy as well as the CFO and others. SS: How does a small business... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

09 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

April 4, 2019 Palgrave Macmillan Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream: How Technology Is Transforming Lending and Shaping a New Era of Small View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

04 Mar 2025
Blog Post

WesTrek 2025: Exploring the future of tech in Silicon Valley

Building on a Legacy Decades in the Making For decades, WesTrek has been a flagship professional trek at Harvard Business School, giving students direct access to the heart of the tech industry. This year’s trek came at an especially... View Details

Keywords: Technology

19 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard

the food and apparel industries and the need to "secure" all elements of their production chain, most other industries have yet to recognize such a hazard. In the media business, news items require fair and secure sourcing, despite the fact that a... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Journalism & News; Publishing

28 Jan 2002
Research & Ideas

Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War

attention to the disruptive proposal. For example, when DEC launched the minicomputer, IBM might have looked at that new business and said, "let them have it." IBM's mainframe customers didn't need it, the View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing

11 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

Women Entrepreneurs Usher in the Next Generation

Spontaneous responses can often be quite telling. As a member of a panel discussion at the Women, Money, and Power conference, entrepreneur Joline Godfrey posed two simple questions to the mostly-female audience. "How many of you had View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

28 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Can Navigate Politicized Conversations and Inspire Collaboration

interested in improving their conversation styles to create higher quality collaboration. Francesca Gino, the Tandon Family Professor at Harvard Business School and author of Rebel Talent, began researching the conversation styles of... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

25 Jun 2001
Lessons from the Classroom

Machiavelli, Morals, and You

of one of the keys to leadership: the notion of accountability. Badaracco, the school's John Shad Professor of Business Ethics, uses the novel as part of his course called The Moral Leader, an unusual course for MBA students in which... View Details