Filter Results
:
(6,622)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(6,622)
- People (34)
- News (1,844)
- Research (3,245)
- Events (43)
- Multimedia (21)
- Faculty Publications (1,083)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(6,622)
- People (34)
- News (1,844)
- Research (3,245)
- Events (43)
- Multimedia (21)
- Faculty Publications (1,083)
- 22 Apr 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught
well under uncertainty, come to realize that they too can be "entrepreneurial." It's not necessarily about putting all your chips on the table for every hand, it's actually about managing...
View Details
Keywords:
by Staff
- 06 Jan 2015
- News
China Still Isn’t Ready to Be a True Global Leader
- 16 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be
demands of consistent quality, innovative design, supply logistics, and the need for superior customer service, and it's easy to understand why David A. Birnbaum (HBS MBA '74), a private jeweler, would sound this cautionary note: "Luxury sounds very intriguing,...
View Details
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Be an Angel Investor
will do well to manage your time carefully. Some angels think that evaluation starts with the first meeting and continues right up to the moment of writing the check. In order to structure this book effectively, we address evaluation as a...
View Details
Keywords:
by David Amis & Howard Stevenson
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
Sharing News That Might Be Bad
that the division might be in trouble, that corporate support is wavering, and that potential buyers are lining up. He wants to know what you know. Though the rumors are not altogether accurate, they do contain more than a few grains of...
View Details
Keywords:
by Paul Michelman
- 10 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
Truth Be Told: Unpacking the Risks of Whistleblowing
report possible fraud? What kinds of internal control levers, employee training programs, or perhaps even internal (nonfinancial) rewards and recognitions lead to a greater number of internal whistleblower reports? Subject to data...
View Details
Keywords:
by April White
- 01 May 2015
- Blog Post
How Being an HBS Partner Changed My Life
I thought HBS would be my husband’s adventure. He would explore and I would share in that by co-piloting his journey. In hindsight, I have shared in his HBS travels, but he has also shared in mine. For HBS is the place where I began to...
View Details
- 05 Oct 2020
- Book
Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time
hesitation, she opted for the higher-paying position in a new city, figuring it would be an adventure with her partner of eight years and lead to more exciting work opportunities down the road. It’s a choice many people face at key times...
View Details
Keywords:
by Dina Gerdeman
- 2022
- Other Unpublished Work
Got 'Critical Minerals'? Hooray! But Be Careful
By: Louis T. Wells
When a country has “critical minerals,” certain issues require special attention in the country’s mining legislation or while negotiating contracts with potential mining investors. As well, to obtain maximum benefit the government should prepare for negotiations with...
View Details
Wells, Louis T. "Got 'Critical Minerals'? Hooray! But Be Careful." Columbia FDI Perspectives, No. 338, August 2022.
- 03 May 2021
- News
Why Being Promoted from within Gives You a Key Advantage
- 01 Sep 2003
- What Do You Think?
To Whom Should Boards be Accountable?
fill."—Allan Page "There is no definitive answer to the question of how any given board balances the needs of various classes of shareholders, employees, vendors, etc."—Amy Savin "The board should be guided by the...
View Details
Keywords:
by James Heskett
- 26 Nov 2001
- Op-Ed
Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed
Then there's the recent debacle involving a big beverage company. The vice president of sales for one of the company's largest regions dramatically underpredicted demand for an upcoming major holiday. His motivation was simple—he wanted to ensure a low revenue target...
View Details
Keywords:
by Michael C. Jensen
- 04 Jul 2005
- What Do You Think?
How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant?
substantial costs to faculty and institutions alike in fostering any changes as basic as these. Costs include large investments of time and money as well as risk of personal and institutional reputation (at least in the...
View Details
Keywords:
by James Heskett
- 04 Jun 2013
- News
Can Good Financial Behavior Be Taught In High School?
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
What applications might they suggest, William A. Sahlman asked his students, for "electronic ink"—particles and dyes, embedded in a surface, that could be charged to form changing texts without the bother of paper and printing?...
View Details
Keywords:
by John S. Rosenberg
- 04 Apr 2005
- What Do You Think?
Can an Organization’s “Deep Smarts” Be Preserved?
that "those companies that are in the hands of accountants will shrink from ... [preserving deep smarts] because they will not be able to quantify the benefits in business terms." C. J. Cullinane elaborates on this in commenting...
View Details
Keywords:
by James Heskett
- 16 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
How Being an Introvert Influenced My Business School Experience
Bismah Rahmat is a second-year student at HBS (Class of 2019). Here, Bismah shares her experience of how being an introvert specifically impacted her experience at the school as well as her summer internship...
View Details
- 16 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Can Consumers Be Saved From Their Misguided Decisions?
health, career—that an industry is evolving around motivating people to be smarter about their choices. The problem: solutions created by these researchers and other behavioral scientists, such as incentives to remind health care shoppers...
View Details
- 16 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?
production of weapon systems and equipment, DoD engages tens of thousands of prime contractors—including most of the major firms in the United States—and tens of thousands of suppliers and subcontractors. The importance of the DoD's huge acquisition projects over the...
View Details
- 2010
- Working Paper
Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological Model (PDF File of PowerPoint Slides)
By: Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen and Kari Granger
This presentation is based on our research program over the last seven years in which our objective has been to rigorously distinguish leader and leadership and to create a technology for providing access to being a leader and exercising leadership effectively (in... View Details
Keywords:
Curriculum and Courses;
Innovation and Invention;
Leadership Development;
Goals and Objectives;
Research and Development;
Attitudes;
Perception;
Technology;
United States
Erhard, Werner, Michael C. Jensen, and Kari Granger. "Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological Model (PDF File of PowerPoint Slides)." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-124, October 2010.