Involvement - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Recalling My First Cold Call: A Conversation with Second-Year Students

discussing a topic that involved bottlenecks, processing capacities, and cycle times. In the split second after my name was called, I had to think about how I wanted to answer the question, but I also looked back at my past experiences to... View Details

22 Aug 2022
Research & Ideas

Can Amazon Remake Health Care?

kinds of ideas involving more consumerism in health care have not worked—and it’s not like other companies have not tried. More generally, Amazon has been interested in health care for over 20 years, but their performance is somewhere... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Health

28 Mar 2024
Blog Post

Empowering Future Leaders: Meet the HBS Women’s Student Association

year, we also introduced two new focus areas within the DEI committees: increasing the number of female case protagonists in HBS cases and restarting an Allyship committee to involve male allies in the WSA. Learn more about the HBS... View Details

30 May 2023
News

Finding PRIDE

business leaders continue to drive positive change. —Javier Bordes-Posadas (MBA 2004) I came out between college and grad school, so I wasn’t part of a PRIDE equivalent in undergrad, but I was intrigued with the idea of being involved at... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

06 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Behavioral Finance—Benefiting from Irrational Investors

there's less of a negative impact on their stock price." The Payoff As a result, the acquirer has a cheaper source of equity financing when pursuing growth opportunities, Baker explains, using the example of a hypothetical company with a fixed strategy that View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Jun 2023
News

From Big Pharma to Startup

Hunter Goble (MBA 2022) did not enroll in Harvard Business School with dreams of becoming an entrepreneur. After earning his MBA, Goble intended to return to Eli Lilly to continue to work building brands and launching products. He envisioned himself leading a big,... View Details

Keywords: April White

26 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

The Office of Strategy Management

ones." While they would seem to create the risk of more top-down management, the opposite effect happens. Could you give some examples of positive effects in companies you've seen? What activities should OSMs not be involved in? A:... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

defensive or difficult. By contrast, a few highly learning-oriented consultants were able to engage in discussion and analysis that involved raising questions about how they themselves contributed to the problem. In these analytic... View Details

Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Women Leaders and Organizational Change

powerful who are resistant to change. Most people resist change, even when change might be in their interest, because change is threatening; it involves taking risks and experimenting, not knowing the outcome. This is hard for most people... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

indoor air quality—notably involving fresh air and filtration—directly impacts productivity of healthy people and helps mitigate the onset of sick people. As Dr. Joseph Allen of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and I argue in... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

27 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets

but almost all have been involved in developing the reputation of their organizations, or enhancing it during their professional lifetimes. To what extent is the reputation traceable just to them? That is hard to disentangle from the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

18 Feb 2020
Blog Post

A Vision of Love@HBS in 2020

partner, and doubling up on the friendships and memories. Never could we have imagined a Texas guy and California gal surviving four east coast winters. We have given up planning and stayed open to the doors God opens, following our love for each other even when... View Details

17 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

How Managers Stifle Creativity

Creative thinking skills. Some people are naturally able to think outside the box. But we can all learn and improve our creative thinking skills. For example, there are techniques that involve using different kinds of visual stimulation.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

10 Sep 2001
What Do You Think?

Do MBAs Need More Street Smarts?

offspring. This, of course, may not guarantee the early development of street smarts. If experience is the key, how does one get it? Should more MBAs be counseled to become involved in jobs, perhaps in start-ups, where they can hone their... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

12 Jun 2014
Working Paper Summaries

The Triumph of the Humble Chief Risk Officer

Keywords: by Anette Mikes

October 2013 (Revised August 2016)
Case

NOWaccount

By: Ramana Nanda, William A. Sahlman and Lauren Barley

It was September 2013, and NOWaccount Network Corporation (NOW®) co-founders John Hayes and Lara Hodgson were putting the final touches on the presentation deck for their annual shareholders' meeting. Along with co-founder Stacey Abrams, the pair had designed NOW's... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Finance; Entrepreneurship

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The public release of Large Language Models (LLMs) has sparked tremendous interest in how humans will use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to accomplish a variety of tasks. In our study conducted with Boston Consulting Group, a global management consulting firm, we examine... View Details

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While successfully navigating the complexities of his highly competitive industry, Wyss, a pilot, lifelong hiker, and environmentalist, has demonstrated a passionate commitment to conservation and the preservation of natural resources. View Details

10 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone

talk less about how we can encourage positive spillovers." Creating virtuous cycles like FOSS involves rewiring existing market inefficiencies, which produce too many negative side effects and too few positive ones, Nagle says. It’s an... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

September 2012 (Revised December 2012)
Case

Addleshaw Goddard LLP (Abridged)

By: Robert G. Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson and James Weber

Addleshaw-Goddard (AG), the 15th largest law firm in the UK, is seeking ways to serve larger clients on more important legal matters. Part of this strategy involves its "Client Development Centre (CDC)," an innovative idea and set of services launched by Dr. Jim Hever... View Details

Keywords: Price; Innovation and Invention; Service Operations; Partners and Partnerships; Competitive Advantage; Diversification; Legal Services Industry; United Kingdom

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