Founders - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

Harvard Business School, where he teaches the (MBA) Foundations business history course, Creating Modern Capitalism. He also serves as co-editor of the Business History Review. Al Chandler is appropriately regarded as the founder of the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

17 Dec 2007
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Medical Tourism

founder and chairman of Apollo Hospitals, says he spent a lot of time studying specialists almost like an executive search firm would, to identify their pleasure points and pain points in terms of building a successful practice in the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Organizational Behavior Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students 2025 Linda A. Hill : Named to Inc. 2025 Female Founders 500 List. 2024 Summer R. Jackson : Runner-up for the 2024 Administrative... View Details

30 Mar 2018
What Do You Think?

What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?

ramifications for Facebook’s long-term business success. But can Facebook avoid changing its business model? What do you think? Original Column Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, one of the most dominant firms on the internet... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Information Technology

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Sexual Harassment - Race, Gender & Equity

that entrepreneurs experience harassment, typically from investors, in this report we focus on women employed full time in organizations, excluding founders as well as independent contractors and independent directors. * We asked men and... View Details

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Helping and harnessing business to address society’s greatest challenges. | Institute for Business in Global Society

the following donors who, through their generous support, are helping to harness business to address society’s greatest challenges. Founder Level Woods Staton Partner Level Richard W. Edelman, MBA 1978 High Meadows Foundation Anonymous... View Details

30 Jun 2021
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

10 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

Castelanelli, founder of the two-year-old company Club Vino, has made one such pivot. The company had been hosting themed wine tastings, often in prestigious locations, but when the COVID-19 outbreak hit and social gatherings were no... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

13 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)

blood testing market. The company and its founder were riding high, adorning the covers of magazines and making headlines. But the momentum slowed in October after a negative write-up in The Wall Street Journal, which questioned several... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Aerospace; Food & Beverage; Retail

01 Oct 1997
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High Fives

approach to problem solving.” Inspirations & role models: “Averell Harriman: a businessman, politician, and statesman who by the end of the 1960s was one of the few national leaders who still maintained people's respect. Bill Donaldson (MBA '58): my first boss and the... View Details

10 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker

Business is about making money, not measuring macho. The scrap heap of business disasters is littered with managers whose ego drive overwhelmed good business sense. Founder and former chief executive Ray Noorda had a wonderful business in... View Details

Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro

01 Mar 2018
News

Every Trick in the Book

negotiations, with its physical bookstores and an e-commerce site. When Demos Parneros, then COO, took the leadership reins from founder Leonard Riggio in the spring of 2017, he became the fourth CEO in four years to attempt to... View Details

Keywords: April White

2011
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Detour: My Unexpected, Amazing, Life Changing Journey With OnStar

By: Chet Huber

Detour is the story behind the launch of OnStar’s now well known blue button, as told through the eyes of its founder and CEO of over fourteen years, Chet Huber. It’s a personal narrative that describes the events that led up to General Motors’ unexpected choice... View Details

Keywords: General Motors; OnStar; Technological Innovation; Business Startups; Transportation; Safety; Personal Development and Career; Creativity; Success; Business History; Auto Industry

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

entrepreneurs can do to anticipate patterns and reduce mortality risk. Participants will learn how founders can decide whether to pull the plug on their struggling startup, and if they do, how they can “fail well” -- in ways that leave... View Details

22 Jul 2019
Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

property owners who wanted to rent out their properties. Where could they find this kind of information? A large number of owners had already posted their properties on a popular online classified website, Craigslist. Airbnb founders... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

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

founder of the Tobin Project, an independent, interdisciplinary initiative that uses academic research to tackle massive real-world problems like economic inequality, national security, and government regulation. “We’ve found that working... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

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The Value of Family Ownership, Control, and Management

In collaboration with Professor Raphael Amit of Wharton, Belén Villalonga is investigating how family ownership, control, and management affect firm value. Their forthcoming Journal of Financial... View Details

01 May 2019
What Do You Think?

What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?

YouTube and creators’ sites. On the surface, YouTube’s business model appears to be the work of genius. But it has posed problems. One problem was lack of profitability. Wojcicki, who got to know Google’s founders when she leased her... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting

John C. Mulliken

Strategy consultant, former CTO & CPO, public & private company board member, retail & climatetech entrepreneur, early stage investor. Father of two, husband, sailor, hiker, and aspirational road biker.

John is a senior lecturer in the... View Details

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Hybrid organizing

By: Julie Battilana

While historically the commercial and social sectors have evolved on fairly separate tracks, over the last 30 years we have witnessed a blurring of the boundaries between these two sectors. In an effort to account for this transition, Professor Battilana’s second... View Details

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