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- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Keeping the Faith
It has been said that the note of a Tibetan singing bowl is the sound of inner peace. That’s not something you might expect to hear in the MBA classroom. But it rings through Hawes Hall at the beginning of each session of The Spiritual Lives of Leaders, a second-year... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
hovered prohibitively high. The solution was to tap into the resources of tax-exempt universities, starting, they hoped, with Harvard, whose chief investment officer was a friend of Dan Gregory's. "After we had given numerous dog-and-pony shows, Harvard agreed that our... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
been addressed, investors return to the markets, and the cycle continues. In light of this poor regulatory track record, we believe government-mandated reforms and more regulation alone cannot solve the current crisis of corporate... View Details
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
28 U.S. cities. In its early decades, City Year provided a variety of services to a variety of organizations in need. Over its most recent decade, City Year had pivoted to having all corps members serve in low-income public schools to keep students on View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
of rapid profit improvement. The question facing CEO Thomas J. Wilson was how to maintain the momentum. This case tracks the evolution of Allstate's strategy over 20 years, examining the logic behind the strategic changes, and the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
uses a unique panel dataset that allows us to track the career histories of individuals across firms. We find that an individual is more likely to become an entrepreneur if his or her co-workers have been entrepreneurs before, or if the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
quit his job and moved to Boulder to pursue his passion, trail running. He quickly became known in outdoor circles as “fast Dan from Seattle.” When Kim and Coup heard about his corporate background, they hired Brillon to help them put GoLite on a faster View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
newspapers on campus: room by room, to vending machines, and to executive programs. Dressed in blue jeans, a chamois shirt, track shoes, and my college jacket, I moved quickly through campus. I cannot tell you how cold Boston got in those... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
communicating that we want this to be a good, healthy place to work.” Achieving that buy-in comes from an explicit, public focus on that goal, incorporating creative employee ideas about how to achieve it, he adds—all backstopped by hard metrics to View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
day." One month into the entrepreneurial project, teams are encouraged to take a tough look at the work they've done and the feedback they've received, to decide whether they are on the right track or need a radical course correction... View Details
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
patients' families in an ongoing organizational learning process. The two-case series is particularly distinctive in tracking an organizational change initiative for almost a decade and, as such, uncovers and promotes discussion of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
makes sense to many people because they are so influenced by the most spectacular fragments of men's consumption that appear on the popular culture radar: Harley rallies in Sturgis, the Million Man March, men howling in the woods à la Iron John, men View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
departments. “The underlying logic of much of decision and control theory was similar to the underlying structure of how we at JPL would design trajectories and track and control a spacecraft,” says Light. “So intellectually, though this... View Details
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
of firm-level expected-return proxies (ERPs), based on the premise that superior proxies should closely track true expected returns both cross-sectionally and over time (that is, the proxies should exhibit lower measurement-error... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
fully involved, what it should do, and whether it could make a difference. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/fastercures-removing-barriers-to-treatments/an/814003-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 513-098 An Entrepreneur's New Product Development Journey... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
and to what extent their skill is impacted by the VC firm where they work. We examine a unique dataset that tracks the performance of individual venture capitalists' investments across time and as they move between firms. We find evidence... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
CEOs' personal assistants to track their bosses' activities with time-use diaries. Research was conducted by Raffaella Sadun of Harvard Business School, Luigi Guiso of the European University Institute, and Oriana Bandiera and Andrea Prat... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
measures: the resources needed to perform an activity, and the time it takes to perform it. Feeley, Kaplan, and a team at UnitedHealthcare are using TDABC to track the costs for the bundled payment pilot. "Bob Kaplan made the point... View Details
- 24 May 2021
- Blog Post
Rebekah Emanuel: Host of Season 3 of the Climate Rising Podcast
for ventures working to address climate change, which you Chair. How do you support climate entrepreneurs in your current role? Rebekah Emanuel: We have a group of 16 Harvard ventures, the Harvard Climate Entrepreneur’s Circle, who are making serious View Details
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
regular basis? And on top of sharing good practices, could it be extended to include the creation of new solutions and processes? Would this require more formalization of processes and more tracking of results? The case illustrates... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne