Business Education - Publications - Faculty & Research

November 2015 (Revised May 2016)
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Aspiring Minds

By: Karim R. Lakhani, Marco Iansiti and Christine Snively

By 2015, India-based employment assessment and certification provider Aspiring Minds had helped facilitate over 300,000 job matches through its assessment tools. Aspiring Minds' flagship product, the Aspiring Minds Computer Adaptive Test (AMCAT), used machine learning... View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Strategy; Higher Education; Technological Innovation; Employment; Technology Industry; India; China

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Japan - Global

studies and course materials for use in business education programs around the world. Since opening, the JRC has supported most of the Japan-focused cases and HBS research projects on the region. Location... View Details

July 2001 (Revised May 2002)
Case

Making a Doctor

Three doctors were interviewed to learn how they were trained to be a physicians. One was a family practice senior resident, one was a critical care pediatric chief resident, and one was an orthopedic staff surgeon 18 months out of residency. All three were interviewed... View Details

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Health Care and Treatment; Business Processes; Health Industry

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01 Nov 2017
What Do You Think?

What Are the Real Lessons of the Wells Fargo Case?

has “serious questions regarding the oversight responsibilities within all levels of management, especially the Board of Directors!” Arie Goldshlager labels this “a classic case of Goals Gone Wild, referring to a paper by Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Banking

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About the Institute - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC About the Institute About the Institute Contact Us Faculty & Staff Institute Associates Ludcke FAQs About the Institute The Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness (ISC) is a nonprofit research and education organization... View Details

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Research Services - Faculty & Research

Research Services 2ms Harvard Business School (HBS) provides unparalleled faculty support to facilitate the creation of enduring knowledge that shapes both business practice and pedagogy. HBS is distinct in... View Details

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General Management - Faculty & Research

American market? Keywords: Drones ; Hong Kong ; China ; Chinese Manufacturing ; Chinese Dream ; China's Political Economy Citation Educators Related Kirby, William C., and Daniel Fu. "DJI- Striving for Innovation Amid Contestation."... View Details

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

address any one of these challenges can cause the restructuring to fail. Having A Business Purpose Restructuring is more likely to be successful when managers first understand the fundamental business/strategic problem or opportunity that... View Details

Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson

04 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage

They look for disruptors that will "unfreeze" a stable industry and the companies that compete within them. They look for business models that worked well in one market and can be adapted and applied in another. They recognize... View Details

Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate

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Community College Report - Managing the Future of Work

disruptive automation, the nature of middle skills jobs is evolving much faster than educators’ abilities to change curriculum. Surveys of educators and employers reveal the disconnect behind this partnership’s underperformance and... View Details

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HBS Fund - Alumni

increase diversity and equity on campus and in the world. Faculty, Case Writing, and Research HBS is committed to developing passionate teachers and scholars and to advancing research that informs the School's educational programs and... View Details

Program

Value Creation Through Effective Boards

organizational responsibilities. Read More Application Submission You must complete and submit the online application. The IESE Business School Executive Education department will contact you by email to... View Details

01 Dec 2023
News

A Continuum of Innovation

As senior associate dean and chair of the MBA Program, Matt Weinzierl has a running list of questions that he and Jana P. Kierstead, the executive director of MBA and Doctoral programs, always keep in mind. They range from the curricular (How can we ensure that the MBA... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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For Alumni - Doctoral

For Alumni For Alumni HBS is recognized as a leader in educating faculty—renowned researchers and educators who are firmly grounded in both theory and practice—for business... View Details

09 Mar 2021
Blog Post

New BEI Director: Lynn Schenk

Harvard Business School (HBS) has named Lynn Schenk as the new director of its Business & Environment Initiative (BEI), succeeding Jennifer Nash, who will retire at the end of March after 5 years as... View Details

21 Jan 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Managing the Family Business: Market Basket’s Lessons About Buyouts

One of the highlights of my year is in November, when teams of enterprising families meet for the Executive Education program I founded and still lead at Harvard Business School, Families in Business. One of... View Details

Keywords: Retail

01 Sep 2023
News

That Was Then, This Is Now

perspective of our greatest teacher: time. Peggy Yu (MBA 2007) CEO and cofounder, Stack Education “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” I will close my eyes. Take a deep breath. And leap. Conscious.... View Details

Keywords: Photographed by Tony Deifell (MBA 2002); edited by Julia Hanna. Above: Heidi Brooks, photographed in 2003 and 2023.; life experience; family; leadership

01 Mar 2008
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A History of Women at HBS

for women was viewed as nothing short of radical. “A ‘Daring Experiment’: Harvard and Business Education for Women, 1937–1970,” tells the story of how coeducation at HBS evolved from an eleven-month... View Details

Keywords: Fritz J. Roethlisberger; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

16 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Seven Tips for Managing Price Increases

Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge. When driving... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

31 Oct 2019
Video

Binod Chaudhary

Binod Chaudhary, the prominent Nepalese entrepreneur, asserts his view that business schools cannot create entrepreneurs.

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