Human Rights First - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: It Takes a Village

Editor's note: This is the first of occasional columns on managing the family business written by Senior Lecturer John A. Davis. In this first of two articles, Davis discusses leadership models. Part One:... View Details

01 Sep 2006
News

Marketing Giant Ted Levitt Remembered

unsuspecting students. In the September 2004 Bulletin, Bill Dunaway (MBA ’64) recalled his first experience with Levitt: “We were all anxious to talk and make a good first impression. I held my hand up until... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

04 Feb 2014
What Do You Think?

Has Listening Become a Lost Art?

when they raised their hand, the point at which they stopped listening to what was being said by other students. Others posed counter-questions that are important to consider as well. For example, Aim suggested, "I think the right... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

19 May 2022
Blog Post

HKS Policy Analysis Exercise Showcase

awareness in the city of South Bend, and much more. Clients included the World Health Organization, U.S. Department of State, Human Rights Watch, San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development,... View Details

10 Jul 2007
What Do You Think?

How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?

leadership theater is unplanned, but it requires the right reflex action on the part of the leader. For example, I once observed Bill Pollard, then CEO of ServiceMaster, spill a cup of coffee at a board meeting at the company, one... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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Enrico Ferrari

Born and raised in a small northern Italian town, Enrico Ferrari was the first in his family to attend college. Driven by an entrepreneurial mindset and a desire to write his own destiny, Enrico moved to Berlin, where he joined an ad... View Details

Keywords: Tech

03 Nov 2021
Blog Post

Recent Grad Reflections: From Being Cold Called to Becoming a Case Protagonist

MBA Program, noted that “our students are right that protagonist diversity matters. By studying cases with a wide diversity of protagonists, students learn that talent and leadership come from all backgrounds and identities. If students... View Details

January 2022 (Revised February 2022)
Case

Introducing EVA at ISS: A Better Way to Evaluate CEO Performance and Compensation?

By: Jonas Heese, Charles C.Y. Wang and James Weber

In early 2019, Anthony Campagna, the global director of fundamental research at ISS EVA, a unit of the proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), was preparing to release ISS's analyses of public company performance and CEO compensation ahead of Say... View Details

Keywords: Jobs and Positions; Compensation and Benefits; Performance; Performance Productivity; Measurement and Metrics; Analytics and Data Science; Value; Business or Company Management; Performance Evaluation; Business and Shareholder Relations

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18 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

Pulpit Bullies: Why Dominating Leaders Kill Teams

to ask questions and make comments. In reality, however, the speakers often do the opposite—dominating the time and not allowing for much discussion at all. "As professors we do this too," admits Gino. "It's very difficult when you think you have the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

Spring 2026 Q3 1.5 Entrepreneurial Sales 101: Founder Selling Mark Roberge Lou Shipley Fall 2025 Q2 1.5 Mark Roberge Lou Shipley DJ DiDonna Spring 2026 Q3 1.5 Entrepreneurial Sales 102: Building the First Sales Team Lou Shipley Spring... View Details

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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Value of Business Education

then to go into business means a great deal," Du Bois wrote. "It is, indeed, a step in social progress worth measuring." 3 Harvard Business School (HBS), the country's first graduate program in business administration, opened its doors in... View Details

20 Jan 2023
News

Free Spirits

for a year, first with commercial formulators, and ultimately finalized the recipes in Woods’s Cambridge kitchen. Each of their launch products—the Eden, Lacewing, and Tandem—satisfies one of three major flavor profiles (fruity, herbal,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

10 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Taking Advantage of Life’s (Few and Far Between) Inflection Points

not long after I first started working at Harvard, Howard and I were walking across the campus toward the Charles River. It was the kind of early April day that, while still chilly, held the promise of frostless mornings and slowly... View Details

Keywords: Re: Howard H. Stevenson

01 Jun 2023
News

In My Humble Opinion: Very Continental

is looking out the window, wondering what to do? I had 10,000 of those moments.”) She led one of the first private equity deals in Ethiopia. And as CEO of BGFI Investment banking, she oversaw the financing and the development of two ports... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; investment; exports; infrastructure; life experience; finance; Finance

10 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

conditions and the paramount importance of doing the right thing—some leadership teams have committed themselves to two guiding principles: act now to protect and run the business today, and plan now to retool the business for the... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

Profile

Wombi Rose

world." Perhaps most significantly, LovePop is involved in the Rock Accelerator, "a relatively intense program where you keep going in front of this investment committee," first to get into the program, then to gain... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Manufacturing/Energy; Retail/Hospitality

05 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?

Eiichi Shibusawa continues to gain influence in Japan—even though he died almost a century ago. Japan’s government announced earlier this year that the 19th century business leader would be the face on 10,000 yen ($90) bank notes—the highest value denomination in... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones and Rei Morimoto; Financial Services; Retail

10 Sep 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Branding Yoga

different styles of yoga to create a beneficial exercise. "There are two elements of brand authenticity, and they appeal to two different sorts of people," Deshpandé says. The enterprising Bikram, born in 1946 in Calcutta and known worldwide by his View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation

21 Nov 2015
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Stella McCartney Combines High Fashion with Environmental Values

basically the manifesto that she uses to create this ethos within Stella McCartney. A: Yes. I think she does not communicate her initiatives as much as we would have thought. First of all, it was interesting to see in class that many... View Details

Keywords: by Brian Kenny; Fashion

01 Jun 2022
News

In My Humble Opinion: Home Base

“How do I show leadership presence when I’m this exhausted?” Working parents were typically offered platitudes about work-life integration, Dowling realized, which was a shortcoming in talent development that became all the more glaring a decade ago, when she had her... View Details

Keywords: April White

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