Shaping the Waves - Publications - Faculty & Research

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Reforming Social Science

Social science research affects all of us. When researchers learned organ donation rates are higher in countries where human organs are automatically available for donation unless you specifically “opt-out” of the system, as opposed to countries like the U.S., where... View Details

02 Oct 2017
What Do You Think?

Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?

2017, pp. B1 and B3. The Associated Press, “Bitcoin facing wave of doubt,” Sarasota Herald-Tribune, September 16, 2017, pp. D1 and D4. Kevin Roose, Such Currency, Such Risk, View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett; Financial Services

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By: Jill J. Avery

Creating Brand Value (MBA elective course)

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In the consumer/retail space, brands are often companies’ most valuable assets and sources of their sustainable competitive advantage. But, managing brands to achieve their full value potential... View Details

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Fostering Innovation in Life Sciences - Health Care

Innovating in Health Care This course helps students create successful entrepreneurial health care ventures by enabling them to identify the alignment between an entrepreneurial health care venture and the... View Details

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A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

foreshadowing the career path ahead of her, Shilla Kim-Parker (MBA 2009) wrote her HBS application essay about her desire to serve the social good. “I was drawn to... Riding View Details

10 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

High Commitment, High Performance Management

programmatic change, running tens of thousands of people through education aimed at changing their attitudes and behavior. Change must be led by local leaders and involve people in shaping their own destiny. Corporate staff groups can... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2023
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Made in Italy

HBS faculty members and students visited Lamborghini’s headquarters in Bologna during the immersion to learn how the company became experts in electric car technology. Photo courtesy Lamborghini IMMERSIVE FIELD COURSES OFFERED AS ELECTIVES IN 2023 Denmark and... View Details

Keywords: April White

02 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Increase Middle Class Incomes

Halfpoint In the worlds of economic theory and conservative political orthodoxy, corporate tax cuts, such as the 2017 tax reform in the United States, should create benefits... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

01 Dec 2023
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A Continuum of Innovation

discussions that make the case method such a powerful learning experience. In a related step, for the first time this year, we are offering an RC course called Data Science for Managers to help students, as... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Greenhill House | About

established his credentials as a preeminent investment banker and helped shape some of the world’s most successful corporations. During most of that time, he worked at Morgan Stanley, where he founded View Details

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Executive Education - Business & Environment

than 60 years, business leaders from around the world have gathered for the Agribusiness Seminar at Harvard Business School (HBS) to deepen their understanding of the food and... View Details

04 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them

Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Green Technology

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Case Method | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

years, HBS has been an innovative leader in the development and refinement of teaching with the case method, helping to shape business education programs and business leaders... View Details

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Gennaioli and Andrei Shleifer present a comprehensive new theory of belief formation that explains how beliefs shape financial markets, and the destabilizing role the beliefs... View Details

08 Apr 2010
Working Paper Summaries

Multinational Strategies and Developing Countries in Historical Perspective

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

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Our Curriculum - Business History

wide-ranging framework for understanding the role of entrepreneurs in shaping global capitalism. Through the eyes of entrepreneurs of the past... View Details

05 Jul 2021
What Do You Think?

Do Companies Really Need Chief Experience Officers to Know Their Customers?

2000, Gartner, gartner.com. Summing up last month's column Last month’s column raised questions about the challenges and opportunities associated with the wave of talent, much... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees - Recruiting

top to wave the flag. That’s an unfair burden,” Mayo says. “If real systemic change is going to happen, it has to come from the white majority who often are in positions that... View Details

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Building Entrepreneurial Organizations - Health Care

create successful entrepreneurial health care ventures by enabling them to identify the alignment between an entrepreneurial health care venture and the “Six Forces” that shape... View Details

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Developing Instructor Style - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

Teaching by the Case Method Developing Instructor Style Preparing to Teach Getting Started Developing Instructor Style Shaping the Learning Environment Knowing Your Students... View Details

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