MBA Class of 2005 - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Nov 2024
In Practice

Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times

time to maintain high standards and efficiency. Leaders of firms from start-ups to tech giants should give themselves the room they need to manage employee performance while shifting headcount to match strategic priorities when the need... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology

26 May 2022
News

Bidding Up

physics to philosophy to math. But Wilson did meet Howard Raiffa, a renowned scholar in the field of game theory and decision analysis, and followed him to HBS. There, Wilson completed the obligatory MBA... View Details

06 Dec 2021
News

December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books

Innovator’s Dilemma, Second Edition By Charles A. O’Reilly, III and Michael L. Tushman, Baker Foundation Professor; Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor View Details

30 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds

Group, Inc. in 2015: Celebrating 40. Co-written with HBS finance professor Adi Sunderam along with Allison M. Ciechanover (HBS MBA 2002), director of the HBS California Research Center, the case looks at the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

02 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?

A: The compensatory consumption thesis is particularly focused on how straight white men from working and middle class backgrounds, those below the top 10 or 15 percent, create a meaningful sense of identity... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

Web

Winning with Digital Platforms Online Course | HBS Online

X Fire Paintball & Airsoft, and Zhubajie (ZBJ). Description of silent animated video above: Learner scrolls through video interviews from prominent business leaders About the Professor Feng Zhu Winning with Digital Platforms View Details

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

academic sent me the link [to the petition] after I expressed sympathy for her situation I opened my class today echoing the Harvard president and HBS dean that all voices, religions, nationalities and values belong at Harvard and are... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

05 Oct 2021
Blog Post

First-Gen Voices: Eric Westphal on Tapping into the Global Alumni Network & Making a Difference across Borders

of different businesses and I learned more than I ever had. It was a formative experience for me professionally.” Deeply enjoying his work, Westphal didn’t consider an MBA originally and planned to continue... View Details

30 Sep 2016
News

Competing Against Luck

taught many of our alums, Professor Clay Christensen, member of the MBA class of 1979, and a 1992 DBA grad. In... View Details

02 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?

Alvarez, and research associate Dan Greenberg (Harvard MBA 2012). Their new book Retail Revolution: Will Your Brick-and-Mortar Store Survive?, predicts, among many other things, the continuing decline of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

01 Oct 1996
News

Leading In a New Era

manufactures and distributes paper, paper products, building products, and office supplies, and owns or controls some three million acres of timberland to support these operations. « Back The MBA View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Apr 1999
News

Spirit at Work

School's Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration and an expert on organizational behavior. "Quite simply, without a sense of purpose, we become alienated from our work and find it harder to... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

10 Mar 2021
News

New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts

in doing more good with your limited time on the planet, and experience greater satisfaction in the process. Sales Management That Works: How to Sell in a World That Never Stops Changing By Frank V. Cespedes, MBA View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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