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ABC News, November 19, 2009
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The Boston Globe, November 19, 2009
Goldman, Buffett Team to Aid Small Businesses
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Wall Street Journal, November 18, 2009
Is America Losing Its Mojo?
Gary Pisano, Willy Shih
Newsweek, November 17, 2009
Inventing a Better Patent System
Robert Pozen
New York Times, November 17, 2009
Drucker's principles still relevant today
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Marketplace, November 16, 2009
Total quality management
David Garvin
Economist.com, November 16, 2009
The Great Wallop
Niall Ferguson
New York Times, November 16, 2009
Prof To Advise Health Care Group
Michael Porter
Harvard Crimson, November 16, 2009
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Bill George
WashingtonPost.com, November 15, 2009
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Josh Lerner
New York Times, November 15, 2009
Fertile Ground for Startups
Tarun Khanna
BusinessWeek.com, November 12, 2009
The Dark Side of Incentives
Felix Oberholzer-Gee
BusinessWeek.com, November 12, 2009
Synergy
Michael Porter
Economist.com, November 12, 2009
Whitacre, Critical of GM Change Pace, Pressures CEO
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Bloomberg News, November 11, 2009
Fixing The Financial System
Robert Pozen
CNBC, November 10, 2009
Harvard historian sees banks, China dragging down U.S.
Niall Ferguson
Boston Herald - Online, November 11, 2009
Q&A: Josh Lerner on Innovation's Role in the Economy
Josh Lerner
Wall Street Journal - Online, November 11, 2009
Give Employees Cash to Buy Care
Regina Herzlinger
New York Times - Online, November 10, 2009
New Book Asks Whether Governments Should be in the Venture Capital Business
Josh Lerner
Boston.com, November 9, 2009
The Year the World Really Changed
Niall Ferguson
Newsweek, November 9, 2009
The greatest real estate turnaround ever
Nicolas Retsinas
CNN Money, November 9, 2009
Serving society as well as the bottom line
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Boston Globe, November 8, 2009
In need of business skills
Regina Herzlinger
Financial Times, November 8, 2009
Longtime friends face public scrutiny
Jay Lorsch
Boston Globe, November 8, 2009
Steve Jobs's legacy
Nancy Koehn
Fortune, November 5, 2009
Regina Herzlinger: A Long-Term Vision for Healthcare Reform
Regina Herzlinger
Healthcare Financial Management, November 5, 2009
Battered Company Says 'No' To Job Cuts
Jordan Siegel
NPR Morning Edition, November 5, 2009
Ex-Goldman Sachs Partner Kaplan Expects Populist Rage to Swell
Robert Kaplan
Bloomberg News, November 4, 2009
The conceit of deceit
Michael Norton
Economist.com, October 27, 2009
Strauss-Kahn Sees G-20 Adopting Timeline, Method on Imbalances
Niall Ferguson
Bloomberg News , November 4, 2009
Give credit to create jobs - but only where it's due
Robert Pozen
Financial Times , November 3, 2009
UK takes right step on too-big banks
David Moss
Reuters , November 3, 2009
Real Estate Price Plunge Makes U.S. Homeownership Perilous Path
Nicolas Retsinas
Bloomberg News , November 3, 2009
'Greater love hath no man'
Scott Snook
WashingtonPost.com, November 3, 2009
Harvard Business School's New Curriculum: Everyday Finance
Peter Tufano
Forbes.com, November 2, 2009
5 Questions for Bill George
Bill George
USA Today, November 2, 2009
Starbucks focuses on relevance over cool as 4Q earnings loom
John Quelch
Seattle Times, November 1, 2009
Dreaming up a new way to build dream cars
Karim Lakhani
Boston Globe, November 1, 2009
Creative Kids Learn to Flow
Teresa Amabile
PsychologyToday.com, November 1, 2009
Barack Obama love affair with Google ends
Ben Edelman
The Sunday Times (UK), November 1, 2009
Everybody in the Pool of Green Innovation
Josh Lerner, Mary Tripsas
New York Times, October 31, 2009
NECN, SportsNet find way to share strengths
Stephen Greyser
Boston Globe, October 31, 2009
Focus on Short-Term Hurts Companies
Bill George, Michael Porter
Wall Street Journal - Online, October 29, 2009
How is the White House handling H1N1?
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Politico.com, October 29, 2009
Fish out of water
Josh Lerner
The Economist, October 29, 2009
After the Wall: A Debate Over Democracy's Reach
Niall Ferguson
The Wall Street Journal, October 29, 2009
Massachusetts Governor Says U.S. Health Plan Must Cut Costs
Regina Herzlinger
Bloomberg News, October 29, 2009
Is it possible to teach ethics to business school students?
Rakesh Khurana
Financial Times, October 28, 2009
Peltz could mean a bumpy ride for Legg Mason
Robin Greenwood
The Baltimore Sun, October 28, 2009
Housing gloom in state lifts a bit more
Nicolas Retsinas
The Boston Globe, October 28, 2009
The conceit of deceit
Michael Norton
Economist.com , October 27, 2009
Want to fix Wall Street? If you're Pozen, write a book
Robert Pozen
McClatchy-Tribune, October 27, 2009
Renters get little relief as demand increases
Nicolas Retsinas
The Boston Globe, October 27, 2009
10 things Google has taught us
Clayton Christensen
Fortune, October 26, 2009
Sitting Down with Jay Light
Dean Jay Light
The Harbus, October 26, 2009
Lessons from history
Niall Ferguson
CNN.com, October 26, 2009
Only one captain
Bill George
The Washington Post - Online, October 26, 2009
There is enough room for optimism
Tarun Khanna
The Hindustan Times, October 26, 2009
Oakley plans line of $4,000 sunglasses
Stephen Greyser
USA Today, October 25, 2009
The Chamber and U.S. Business
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
On Point with Tom Ashbrook , October 22, 2009
Yo-Yo Ma Completes GSE Residency
Ray Goldberg
Harvard Crimson , October 23, 2009
Arena Digest: Is Obama's offensive overdue or overdone?
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Politico , October 22, 2009
Obama & Google (a love story)
Ben Edelman
Fortune , October 22, 2009
Benetton's Faded Colors
Michael Porter
Time , October 21, 2009
Another View: Let's Stop Vilifying the Bankers
Bill George
New York Times - Online , October 21, 2009
On healthcare reform, carrots work better than sticks
Regina Herzlinger
The Hill (Washington, D.C.), October 20, 2009
Surprise! You've become a manager. Now what?
Linda Hill
d Press , October 19, 2009
Moffat Viewed as 'Classic IBM Executive'
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
The Wall Street Journal, October 19, 2009
Bank Of America, Burdened by Defaults, Posts Loss
Clayton Rose
NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, October 16, 2009
The Myth Of Efficiency
Clayton Christensen, Rakesh Khurana
Forbes.com, October 16, 2009
Beware Superstar CEOs
Boris Groysberg
Forbes.com, October 16, 2009
Japan can learn from Silicon Valley
Tarun Khanna
The Japan Times - Online, October 15, 2009
Around the Schools: Harvard Business School
Krishna Palepu
Harvard University Gazette, October 15, 2009
In pursuit of everyday excellence
Stacey Childress, David Thomas
Harvard University Gazette, October 15, 2009
'Profit-based growth wiser than increasing size of companies'
Michael Porter
The Korea Herald, October 15, 2009
A Problem-Solver's Guide to Copycatting
Karim Lakhani
FastCompany.com, October 15, 2009
Arena Digest: Reaction to reaction
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Politico.com, October 14, 2009
Web Ads Hidden Under Cloak of Invisibility
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Wall Street Journal, October 13, 2009
A Biz Dev Primer
Joseph Lassiter
Portfolio.com, October 13, 2009
The Partner Police
Joseph Lassiter
Portfolio.com, October 13, 2009
Masters of Corporate Governance
Jay Lorsch
Directorship.com, October 12, 2009
Michelin Man, tire-tossing superhero
Rohit Deshpande
CNN.com, October 12, 2009
The future of investing: academics predict more complexity
Robert Pozen, Luis Viceira
FT.com, October 11, 2009
Making the 'public option' a simple one
Robert Pozen
Boston Globe, October 10, 2009
A Better Health Care Alternative
Regina Herzlinger
Forbes.com, October 9, 2009
GOP needs power player to end 'warlord status,' expert says
John Quelch
CNN.com, October 9, 2009
PE bigwigs meeting in Dubai, raising money a focus
Josh Lerner
Reuters, October 9, 2009
Workers of the world, your plight: Beware the 'doom loop'
Amy Edmondson
Kansas City Star, October 9, 2009
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Clayton Rose
Boston Globe, October 9, 2009
On Leadership: Rosabeth Moss Kanter on 'Supercorps'
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Washington Post.com, October 8, 2009
Where were the doctors?
Research Fellow Sachin Jain
Boston Globe, October 8, 2009
Microfinancing China
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Wall Street Journal - Online, October 7, 2009
In E-Books, It's an Army vs. Google
David Yoffie
New York Times, October 7, 2009
Trichet, Lagarde Push China to Let Currency Gain Against Euro
Niall Ferguson
Bloomberg News, October 6, 2009
The World Bank must fix its business model
Alnoor Ebrahim
FT.com, October 5, 2009
HBS Curriculum Adapts to Meltdown
Rawi E. Abdelal, Dean Jay Light, David Moss, Clayton Rose, Peter Tufano
Harvard Crimson, October 5, 2009
IAB: Online Ad Spend Dips 5.3% in First Half
John Deighton
Mediaweek, October 5, 2009
It's Brand New, but Make It Sound Familiar
Mary Tripsas
New York Times, October 4, 2009
Online education expanding, awaits innovation
Clayton Christensen
Reuters, October 1, 2009
Who Can Take Charge at Bank of America?
Rakesh Khurana
New York Times, October 2, 2009
Rethinking Capitalism: How Very Enterprising
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Washington Post, October 2, 2009
Remembering Senator Kennedys Health Care Legacy
Ray Gilmartin
CNBC Squawk Box October 2, 2009
Rethinking Capitalism: How Very Enterprising
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Washington Post, October 2, 2009
Remembering Senator Kennedys Health Care Legacy
Ray Gilmartin
CNBC Squawk Box
Swiss Health Care Thrives Without Public Option
Regina Herzlinger
New York Times, October 1, 2009
HBS study goes inside the boardroom
Jay Lorsch
Harvard Gazette, September 30, 2009
Guest: Harvard's Rosabeth Moss Kanter on Super Corp
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Washington Business Tonight, September 30, 2009
When Taking Time Off Is Good For Business
Leslie Perlow
The Takeaway/ Public Radio International, September 29, 2009
How To Compete With Free Products
Ramon Casadesus-Masanell
The Business Insider , September 29, 2009
Los Angeles City Hall becomes tech giants' battlefield
David Yoffie
Los Angeles Times , September 28, 2009
Tuesday summit to target innovation in business
Clayton Christensen
Indianapolis Star , September 28, 2009
Is the Sun Setting on Japan?
Andrei Hagiu
Barron's , September 28, 2009
Opting in vs. Opting Out
Alvin Roth
New York Times, September 27, 2009
A Better Blueprint for Financial Regulation
Robert Pozen
Barron's , September 27, 2009
Case study on Najibnomics
Rawi Abdelal and Laura Alfaro
Malaysian Star , September 28, 2009
If You Need to Work Better, Maybe Try Working Less
Leslie Perlow
Wall Street Journal , September 23, 2009
Can the Future Be Built in America?
Willy Shih
BusinessWeek, September 21, 2009
Genzyme struggles to recover from virus
Bill George
Boston Globe, September 21, 2009
Turmoil in the Rankings
Nancy Koehn
BusinessWeek, September 21, 2009
Now, an Invention Inventors Will Like
Josh Lerner
New York Times, September 21, 2009
Why We Need Universal, Consumer-Driven Health Care
Regina Herzlinger
Richmond Times-Dispatch, September 20, 2009
A foot in the door
Nicolas Retsinas
Boston.com, September 20, 2009
A failure to communicate
Paul Gompers
The Deal, September 18, 2009
Something for the weekend
Teresa Amabile
FT.com, September 18, 2009
Transforming the Health Care System
Michael Porter
CNBC Squawk Box, September 17, 2009
Putting America Back to Work
Bill George
BusinessWeek, September 17, 2009
Bill George on Leading in a Crisis
Bill George
BusinessWeek.com, September 17, 2009
Greyser honored by Institute for Public Relations
Stephen Greyser
Harvard Gazette, September 17, 2009
As a Storm Approached, a Few Bankers Acted Wisely
William George
New York Times, September 17, 2009
Stop Pining for Glass-Steagall
Robert Pozen
Forbes, September 16, 2009
Lehman in Context: A Historical Perspective
Nancy Koehn
HarvardBusiness.org, September 16, 2009
Why a Lehman deal would not have saved us
Niall Ferguson
Financial Times, September 15, 2009
Can the Future Be Built in America?
Willy Shih
BusinessWeek, September 12, 2009
Losing Out on Flexible Displays
Willy Shih
BusinessWeek.com, September 10, 2009
Vikram Akula's Moment of Reckoning
Tarun Khanna
Forbes (India), September 16, 2009
Facebook: 300 million people, checking out photos of women
Mikolaj Piskorski
New England Cable News, September 16, 2009
Wall Street's New Gilded Age
Niall Ferguson
Newsweek, September 15, 2009
Insurance supermarket risks
Regina Herzlinger
Washington Times - Online, September 15, 2009
Moving Beyond the Conventional Wisdom of Whole-District Reform
Stacey Childress
Education Week , September 14, 2009
HBS Ups Size of Entrepreneurs-in-Residence Program
Michael Roberts
Harvard Crimson, September 13, 2009
Skilled Indian workers hit new job streets
Tarun Khanna
The Economic Times, September 13, 2009
Learning To Create Better Collaboration Hubs
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Investors Business Daily, September 11, 2009
We Don't Need a Public Option
Regina Herzlinger
National Review.com, September 11, 2009
Lehman's Last Contribution to Society: A Lesson on Social Insurance
David Moss
New York Times.com, September 11, 2009
The myth of the 'natural' CEO
Bill George
National Post.com, September 10, 2009
Reflecting On A Legacy Of Recessions: Job Losses
Niall Ferguson
NPR's All Things Considered, September 9, 2009
Getting justice right
Niall Ferguson
Harvard University Gazette, September 9, 2009
The Buffett and Munger Way
Joseph Bower
Directorship, September 8, 2009
Don't Get Boxed In
Lynda Applegate
WomenEntrepreneur.com, September 8, 2009
Manufacturing: Make or break?
Gary Pisano, Willy Shih
The Globe and Mail, September 8, 2009
Bernanke Rex
Clayton Rose
Portfolio.com, September 8, 2009
'Global Indian corporate citizens a new power group'
Tarun Khanna
The Economic Times, September 6, 2009
Government Health Plan May Fall Short in Spurring Competition
Regina Herzlinger
Bloomberg News, September 5, 2009
Will Windows 7 Reboot PC Sales?
David Yoffie
BusinessWeek, September 14, 2009
Business Books
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
TIME, September 14, 2009
The Friday Five: Great Books on Business and Innovation
Clayton Christensen
Boston.com, September 4, 2009
Louis Byington Barnes, 81, Harvard , author
Late Louis B. Barnes
Boston Globe, September 4, 2009
The electric-fuel-trade acid test
Joseph Bower, Clayton Christensen
The Economist, September 3, 2009
Paranoid survivor
Richard Tedlow
The Economist, September 3, 2009
John Kotter's Urgent Message for Entrepreneurs
John Kotter
Inc., September 1, 2009
A Failure to Communicate
Jay Lorsch
Directorship.com, August 31, 2009
Humility and the Successful Startup
Noam Wasserman
BusinessWeek.com, August 28, 2009
Health care in India
Regina Herzlinger
Lou Dobbs Tonight - CNN, August 28, 2009
Private alternatives
Regina Herzlinger
Washington Times - Online, August 28, 2009
Rules Eased on Bank Buyouts
Guhan Subramanian
Wall Street Journal, August 27, 2009
Working Better through Play
Teresa Amabile
Success Magazine, August 27, 2009
Taking the responsible route to success
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Financial Times, August 27, 2009
Housing Data Point to Recovery That May Help Economy
Nicolas Retsinas
Bloomberg News, August 27, 2009
Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank Defer IPO Fees for REITs (Update1)
Samuel Hayes
Bloomberg News, August 26, 2009
Inland Real Estate Dives Into Troubled Commercial Market
Arthur Segel
New York Times, August 26, 2009
High Five With Jay O. Light
Dean Jay Light
Forbes.com, August 25, 2009
As more banks fail, private investors gain favor
Josh Lerner
The d Press, August 25, 2009
The Poor Payoff of Pleasure Postponed
Anat Keinan
Harvard Magazine, August 25, 2009
An Ounce of Prevention
David Moss
Harvard Magazine, August 25, 2009
Slump Spurs Grab for Markets
Nancy Koehn
Wall Street Journal, August 25, 2009
Clustering
Michael Porter
Economist.com, August 24, 2009
Employers consider short-haul medical tourism
Regina Herzlinger
BusinessInsurance.com, August 24, 2009
US puts brake on 'clunkers' programme
John Quelch
The Times (UK), August 23, 2009
Happiness: A buyer's guide
Michael Norton
Boston Globe, August 23, 2009
Let's create real private market for health care
Regina Herzlinger
Kansas City Star - Online, August 22, 2009
Government should get back to the basics on health care
Regina Herzlinger
Pioneer Press - Online, August 19, 2009
Google's Chrome browser loads Web pages faster
David Yoffie
USA Today, August 19, 2009
Scholes, Merton Says Banks Should Value Assets Better (Update1)
Robert Kaplan, Robert Merton
Bloomberg News, August 19, 2009
Doing Good as Competitive Advantage
Michael Beer
Directorship.com, August 19, 2009
The 2009 Health-Care Reform Debacle
Bill George
BusinessWeek.com, August 18, 2009
Disclose the fair value of complex securities
Baker Foundation Robert Kaplan, Robert Merton
Financial Times, August 18, 2009
Why Be an Ethical Company? They're Stronger and Last Longer
Michael Beer
BusinessWeek.com, August 17, 2009
Can the Supreme Court Undress High Fund Fees?
Max Bazerman
Wall Street Journal, August 15, 2009
An influx of 40-year anniversaries
Nancy Koehn
Marketplace, August 14, 2009
Exploring the great dilemmas of leadership
Sandra Sucher
The Economic Times, August 14, 2009
Something for the weekend
Eric Van den Steen
FT.com, August 14, 2009
Creating a Sense of Urgency Among Employees
John Kotter
BusinessWeek.com, August 14, 2009
Netscape Founder Backs New Browser
David Yoffie
New York Times, August 14, 2009
Practicing Medicine in the Age of Facebook
Research Fellow Sachin Jain
New England Journal of Medicine, August 13, 2009
SEWA to feature in Harvard curriculum
Shawn Cole
The Times of India, August 12, 2009
Health Care's Taxing Problem
Regina Herzlinger
National Review Online, August 12, 2009
Quick Tips: Midyear Reviews in a Downturn
Bhaskar Chakravorti
Smart Money - Online, August 11, 2009
A runaway deficit may soon test Obama's luck
Niall Ferguson
Financial Times, August 11, 2009
GM And Why Size No Longer Matters
Michael Porter
Forbes.com, August 11, 2009
Destination dustbin
Michael Beer
Financial Times Online, August 10, 2009
Are Global Standards Bad for America?
David Hawkins, Karthik Ramanna
Business Finance Magazine, August 10, 2009
Ways To Ensure Results
Michael Beer
Investors.com, August 10, 2009
Business planning
William Sahlman
Economist.com, August 10, 2009
Staving Off a Spiral Toward Oblivion
Mary Tripsas, Daniel Snow
New York Times, August 9, 2009
For Private Equity, a Very Public Disaster
Josh Lerner
New York Times, August 9, 2009
What you don't know about your friends
Michael Norton
Boston Globe, August 9, 2009
US healthcare reform looks to the Swiss
Regina Herzlinger
Swissinfo.ch, August 8, 2009
Former homeless man takes part in Harvard Business School seminar
Dutch Leonard
Harvard University Gazette - Online, August 8, 2009
Area business schools sharpen focus on new standard
David F. Hawkins
Boston Business Journal, August 7, 2009
For N.F.L., Split Seconds Become 30-Second Spots
Stephen Greyser
New York Times, August 7, 2009
Seeking Growth, Cisco Reroutes Decisions
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Wall Street Journal, August 6, 2009
Despite Bailouts, Business as Usual at Goldman
David Moss
New York Times, August 6, 2009
The Hawthorne Effect
Michel Anteby, Laura Linard, Director, Baker Library Collections
BBC Radio 4, August 5, 2009
Why Scandinavia can teach us a thing or two about surviving a recession
Principal Christian Ketels
The Guardian.co.uk, August 5, 2009
Original thinking on health reform
Regina Herzlinger
Indianapolis Star, August 5, 2009
Traders Fired in Shakeout Migrating to Firms Off of Wall Street
Samuel Hayes
Bloomberg News, August 4, 2009
Rivals strive to topple Google in quest for the 'perfect search'
David Yoffie
The Guardian (UK), August 2, 2009
India's pockets of prosperity?
Laura Alfaro, Lakshmi Iyer
The Christian Science Monitor, July 31, 2009
Henry Louis Gates and the Global Economy
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
BusinessWeek.com, July 31, 2009
Best Stock Picks Came From Brokerages, Beating Funds
Boris Groysberg, Paul Healy, Devin Shanthikumar
Bloomberg.com, July 31, 2009
Nothing to shout about
John Deighton
The Economist.com, July 30, 2009
Survey Shows Americans Face Difficulty With Unexpected Bills
Peter Tufano
Wall Street Journal, July 30, 2009
Kinder, Gentler, Richer Companies
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
BusinessWeek, July 30, 2009
Behind Microsoft-Yahoo The Online Economics of Scale
Niall Ferguson
New York Times - Online, July 30, 2009
Obama's international tightrope
Niall Ferguson
Edinburgh Journal, July 30, 2009
For health-care system alternative, consider Switzerland
Regina Herzlinger
State Journal-Register, July 30, 2009
Independent minds make for better health-care decisions
Regina Herzlinger
Pioneer Press.com, July 28, 2009
Chatter about a new global currency is overblown
Robert Pozen
The Financial Times, July 30, 2009
Nothing to shout about
John Deighton
The Economist, July 30, 2009
Microsoft and Yahoo Are Linked Up. Now What?
David Yoffie
New York Times, July 30, 2009
As Slowdown Drags On, IBM Looks to Governments for New Growth
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Wall Street Journal, July 30, 2009
The Hawthorne Effect
Michel Anteby, Laura Linard, Director, Baker Library Collections
BBC Radio 4, July 28, 2009
Idea to split Coyotes home games draws criticism from observers
Stephen Greyser
The Arizona Republic.com, July 28, 2009
U.S. Government Owns GM, but Don't Call it Nationalization
Nancy Koehn
Worldview (Chicago Public Radio), July 27, 2009
Is U.S.-China Economic Marriage on the Rocks?
Niall Ferguson
The Huffington Post, July 27, 2009
Responsibilities Of Profit?
Bill George
The Washington Post.com, July 26, 2009
Some Inconvenient Truths About Medicare and the New 'Public Plan'
Regina Herzlinger
RealClearPolitics.com, July 25, 2009
Foreclosure's unrelenting tide
Nicolas Retsinas
Boston Globe, July 23, 2009
Perez policy for chasing revenue on shaky ground
Stephen Greyser
Thomson Reuters, July 23, 2009
Thinkers 50 Niall Ferguson
Niall Ferguson
The Times Online (UK), July 22, 2009
Marketing Pose
Michael Norton
New York Times Magazine, July 21, 2009
How to Market in a Downturn
John Quelch
BNET.com, July 21, 2009
Spending on home improvement still bleak
Nicolas Retsinas
Boston Herald.com, July 20, 2009
Warehouse Club Study Flawed in Conclusion
Michael Norton
BNET.com, July 20, 2009
'Booking' the Economy
Niall Ferguson
Newsweek.com, July 20, 2009
Wal-Mart using its clout to go green
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Boston.com, July 20, 2009
Using the Lottery Effect to Make People Save
Peter Tufano
Wall Street Journal.com, July 20, 2009
Non-stop season of sales for shoppers
Nancy Koehn
Chicago Tribune.com, July 18, 2009
Strength and smarts
Lauren Cohen
Boston Globe, July 17, 2009
Wal-Mart takes the lead in green retailing. (Yes, that Wal-Mart.)
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
The Christian Science Monitor, July 16, 2009
NHL details hockey at Fenway
Stephen Greyser
Boston Herald, July 16, 2009
Little laptops snap at the oligopoly
Willy Shih
Financial Times.com, July 15, 2009
Redesigning Health Care
Richard Bohmer
BNET, July 14, 2009
Business Guru's Prescription for Healthcare
Michael Porter
WBUR's Here and Now, July 14, 2009
Is Chrome OS a "Disruptive Innovation?"
Clayton Christensen
The Huffington Post, July 14, 2009
The more things change
Laura Alfaro
Business Standard (India), July 10, 2009
Sears' Edifice Complex
Richard Tedlow
Forbes.com, July 10, 2009
Systemic Risk and the Fed
Robert C. Pozen
Wall Street Journal, July 9, 2009
Should We Buy Health Insurance Like Yogurt?
Regina Herzlinger
BostonChannel.com, July 09, 2009
Whirlwind auto deals raise conflict questions
Josh Lerner
Reuters, July 09, 2009
The brightest and the rest
Josh Lerner
Economist.com, July 09, 2009
Limited Choices
Regina Herzlinger
National Review.com, July, 09, 2009
In Chrome, Hints of a Real Rival to Windows
David Yoffie
New York Times, July, 09, 2009
J&J Acts Fast on Tylenol
Stephen Greyser
Wall Street Journal, July, 09, 2009
Energy Traders on the Firing Line
Josh Lerner
New York Times July, 08, 2009
Is Digg the Jan Brady of Web 2.0?
Mikolaj Jan Piskorski
Fortune July, 07, 2009
Avoid the 50-Packs Of Cereal, and Other Tips for Bulk Buyers
Michael Norton
The Washington Post July, 07, 2009
The road a new GM must take
John Quelch
Marketplace July, 07, 2009
Economists Out to Lunch
Niall Ferguson
The Washington Post July, 06, 2009
Anatomy Of A Coup
Noel Maurer
Forbes.com July, 03, 2009
Chinese Fireworks Display
Niall Ferguson
New York Times July, 03, 2009
Heavy Job Loss Prompts Stimulus Criticism
Nicolas Retsinas
NPR Morning Edition July, 03, 2009
What the future of the auto industry will look like
Daniel Snow
The Christian Science Monitor July, 02, 2009
Upgrading the Computer History Museum
Richard Tedlow
BusinessWeek July, 01, 2009
Kotter: It's time to spark urgency for change
John Kotter
People Management (UK) July, 01, 2009
Buying That Bank to Get Tougher
Josh Lerner
Wall Street Journal July, 01, 2009
Harvard program targets diversity at highest levels
David Thomas
Boston Globe July, 01, 2009
Little luxuries bring consolation to consumers
John Quelch
Financial Times (Germany), June 30, 2009
Firm Offers Blueprint for Makeover in a Spinoff
Michael Beer, John Kotter
Wall Street Journal, June 29, 2009
Google Argues That It Really Isn't So Big
David Yoffie
New York Times, June 28, 2009
SME sector needs to be more robust to compete with China
Nitin Nohria
The Economic Times, June 26, 2009
For Pro Athletes, Business School Is No Game
Harvard Business School
BusinessWeek, June 26, 2009
Robert Kaplan and David Norton
Baker Foundation Robert S. Kaplan
The Economist.com, June 26, 2009
Book Review: Match Day by Brian Eule
Alvin Roth
American Chronicle, June 25, 2009
Joining the club
Lauren Cohen, Christopher Malloy
The Economist, June 25, 2009
It's official: business travel broadens the mind
Tsedal Beyene
The Economist.com, June 25, 2009
Heading for the emergency room
Regina Herzlinger
The Economist, June 25, 2009
KKR Stock Is Coming, via Europe
Josh Lerner
Wall Street Journal, June 25, 2009
Boeing 787's design glitch comes as no surprise
John Quelch
Chicago Tribune.com, June 24, 2009
How Boomers Can Change the World (Again)
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Bloomberg News, June 23, 2009
Report: State has small under-supply of available homes
Nicolas Retsinas
Seattle Post-Intelligencer.com , June 23, 2009
Think Lean, Think Mean
John Quelch
The Financial Express, June 23, 2009
Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria
The students who swear by a business school
Financial Times.com, June 22, 2009
Bill George
Does Apple Need to Come Clean About its CEO's Health?
Fox Business.com, June 22, 2009
John Quelch
Focus Sharpens On Obama's Management Style
NPR Morning Edition, June 22, 2009
Josh Lerner
Q&A With Harvard's Josh Lerner On State Of Venture Capital
Wall Street Journal.com, June 22, 2009
Michael Porter
Test-Driving a Foreign Business Model
Washington Post.com, June 22, 2009
Nicolas Retsinas
Echo boomers a lifeline for embattled U.S. housing
Reuters, June 22, 2009
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Benefiting from Relationships
Human Resource Executive Online, June 22, 2009
Heidi Gardner
When friends make you poorer
Boston Globe, June 21, 2009
Nicolas Retsinas
Foreclosures in Mass. plummet 58.6% in May
Boston Globe, June 19, 2009
Felix Oberholzer-Gee
Economists say P2P file-sharing fuels art
The Register, June 18, 2009
Regina Herzlinger
Co-Pays On Rise, Govt. Regulations Blamed
Heartland Institute, June 18, 2009
Bill Sahlman
Innovation in New England
AlwaysOn Magazine, June 18, 2009
Regina Herzlinger
How Ingestible Chips and Implantable Devices Will Keep You Healthy
Big Think.com, June 17, 2009
Regina Herzlinger
Should Supermarket Clinics Replace Doctors? Offices?
Big Think.com, June 17, 2009
Regina Herzlinger
A Transparent Health Care Industry Focused on Patient Outcomes
Big Think.com, June 17, 2009
Regina Herzlinger
Imagine This: A Health Care System Organized Around the Patient!
Big Think.com, June 17, 2009
Michael Porter
Business looks in mirror and winces
Toronto Star, June 17, 2009
Principal Christian Ketels
Nordic welfare state coping well, so far
Reuters, June 16, 2009
Benjamin Edelman
Web Ad Sales Open Door to Viruses
Wall Street Journal, June 15, 2009
Mikolaj Jan Piskorski
I'm Going to Harvard. Will You Sponsor Me?
New York Times, June 14, 2009
Matthew Weinzierl
Do you really want to tax ability?
Vox.com, June 12, 2009
Niall Ferguson
Europe Lags as U.S. Economy Shows Signs of Recovery
New York Times, June 12, 2009
Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria
A Hippocratic oath for MBAs
The Economist.com, June 11, 2009
Bill George
Novartis: Radically Remaking Its Drug Business
BusinessWeek.com, June 11, 2009
Fabrizio Ferri
U.S. Targets Excessive Pay for Top Executives
Washington Post.com, June 11, 2009
Gary Pisano
Despite Odds, Cities Race to Bet on Biotech
New York Times, June 11, 2009
John Deighton
Study: Internet economy has created 1.2M jobs
ComputerWorld.com, June 10, 2009
Daniel Snow
What the sale of Chrysler means for Massachusetts dealers
Greater Boston - WGBH-TV, June 10, 2009
William Sahlman
A Kindle Connection
Harvard Magazine, June 10, 2009
Mihir Desai, C. Fritz Foley
Obama Tells American Businesses to Drop Dead: Kevin Hassett
Bloomberg News, June 08, 2009
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Lafley Leaves Big Shoes to Fill at P&G
BusinessWeek.com, June 08, 2009
Mihir Desai
Tech cos enlist Democrat to blast Obama tax plan
Reuters, June 08, 2009
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Good for GM, bad for taxpayers
Boston Globe.com, June 08, 2009
Niall Ferguson
Cash in on the war between inflation and deflation
Sunday Times Online, June 07, 2009
Michael Porter
Michael Porter on Inner-City Economics
BusinessWeek.com, June 05, 2009
Michael Beer
Business Sustainability
Big Think, June 07, 2009
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Bank of America Ousts Head of Risk Oversight
New York Times, June 07, 2009
C. Fritz Foley
Tax Break for Profits Went Awry
New York Times, June 07, 2009
Josh Lerner
Return of the grave-dancers
The Economist, June 04, 2009
Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria
Forswearing greed
The Economist, June 04, 2009
Michael Porter
A Strategy for Health Care Reform - Toward a Value-Based System
The New England Journal of Medicine, June 04, 2009
Niall Ferguson
Markets Want Exit Strategy from BOE
CNBC.com, June 04, 2009
Research David Ruben, Richard Tedlow
GM and the world we have lost
Boston Globe, June 03, 2009
Clayton Christensen
Don't prop up failing schools
CNN, June 02, 2009
Michael Porter
Take heart, graduates: You've got what it takes
Globe and Mail, June 02, 2009
Li Jin
Geithner Goes to China
On Point with Tom Ashbrook, June 02, 2009
Andrei Hagiu
Innovation through regulation
The Economist.com, June 02, 2009
Mikolaj Piskorski
Is Twitter dominated by men?
The Guardian.com (UK), June 02, 2009
Max Anderson (HBS 2009), Brian Elliott (HBS 2009), Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria
HBS Students Take Ethics Oath
Harvard Crimson, June 02, 2009
Bill George
How GM Wasted 'a Good Crisis'
Wall Street Journal.com (6/01/2009)
Niall Ferguson
Panel on Economy
CNN, June 01, 2009
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
A boom in 'encore careers'
Boston Globe, June 01, 2009
Richard Tedlow
Experts Weigh In on GM
BusinessWeek.com, May 31, 2009
Teal Carlock (HBS '09), Max Anderson (HBS '09), Dalia Rahman (HBS '09)
A Promise to Be Ethical in an Era of Immorality
New York Times, May 30, 2009
Niall Ferguson
How economists can misunderstand the crisis
Financial Times.com, May 29, 2009
Stephen Greyser
Play On
The Economist, May 28, 2009
Niall Ferguson, Robert Kaplan
The coming recovery
The Economist, May 28, 2009
Regina Herzlinger
Life is expensive
The Economist, May 28, 2009
Forest Reinhardt
A green revolution
The Economist, May 28, 2009
Niall Ferguson
The fragile web of foreign trade
The Economist, May 28, 2009
Samuel Hayes
Goldman Shareholders Suffered as Blankfein Earned $43 Million
Bloomberg News, May 28, 2009
Peter Tufano
Banks find ways to boost fees; checking accounts latest target
USA Today, May 28, 2009
Nicolas Retsinas
Home prices, sales plunge in Bay State
Boston Globe, May 27, 2009
Mukti Khaire
Dressed to impress
Financial Times.com, May 27, 2009
Niall Ferguson
How to offset the current deflation while preparing for inflation in the future
Boston Globe, May 27, 2009
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Charlie Bolden and the Boomers, Still Flying High
Bloomberg News, May 26, 2009
Regina Herzlinger
Good luck on health care reform
The Herald News, May 26, 2009
Malcolm Baker
One Key Number in Pricing a Deal: The 52-Week High
Wall Street Journal, May 26, 2009
Niall Ferguson
Historian Niall Ferguson warns of debt calamity threatening the west
The Guardian.com , May 25, 2009
John Quelch
Little luxuries bring consolation to consumers
Financial Times.com, May 25, 2009
Stephen Greyser
Selig staying optimistic despite attendance drop
Fox Sports.com, May 22, 2009
William Sahlman
How Businesses Can Prosper, Even Now
U.S. News & World Report, May 21, 2009
Josh Lerner
'Super Angels' Shake Up Venture Capital
BusinessWeek, May 21, 2009
Niall Ferguson
Assessing the American Future
On Point, May 21, 2009
Mihir Desai, Fritz Foley
Obama's Tax Proposal Won't Create U.S. Jobs, GE, Microsoft Say
Bloomberg News, May 21, 2009
Harvard Business School
News from the schools, May 2009
The Economist.com, May 20, 2009
Clayton Christensen
To Fix Healthcare, Let's Not Just Rearrange the Deck Chairs on the Titanic
Huffington Post, May 20, 2009
Research Katherine Jocz, John Quelch
Using Market Research in a Recession
BusinessWeek.com, May 19, 2009
Michael Porter
Mid-level jobs key to recovery
Boston Globe - Globe 100 Magazine, May 19, 2009
Josh Lerner
A Private-Equity Bid Is Key for Bank Deals
Wall Street Journal, May 18, 2009
Clayton Christensen
Smart Ideas For Fixing Healthcare
Big Think, May 18, 2009
Rakesh Khurana, Dean Jay Light
Business Schools Mull Over Blame In Financial Crisis
NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday, May 17, 2009
Regina Herzlinger
Obama, Congress should look to the Swiss for health help
Aurora Sentinel, May 17, 2009
Niall Ferguson
Diminished Returns
The New York Times Magazine, May 15, 2009
Rakesh Khurana
Training Managers to Behave
Time.com, May 15, 2009
Joshua Coval, Erik Stafford
Too big to swallow
The Economist, May 14, 2009
Nancy Koehn
Stores adapt to a whole new shopper
Marketplace, May 13, 2009
John Deighton
Something to tweet about
Financial Times.com, May 12, 2009
Jay Lorsch
Schumer's Shareholder Bill Misses the Mark
Wall Street Journal, May 12, 2009
Linda Hill
Get Ahead By Reaching Out
Forbes.com, May 11, 2009
John Deighton
Too much information, Elizabeth Edwards
The Seattle Times.com, May 11, 2009
Harvard Business School
Analysis: Open field led by Harvard
Financial Times, May 11, 2009
Harvard Business School
Executive Education - open - 2009
Financial Times, May 11, 2009
Harvard Business School
Executive Education - customised - 2009
Financial Times, May 11, 2009
Research Katherine Jocz, John Quelch
Research May Be Costly, but It's Critical
Advertising Age, May 11, 2009
Clayton Christensen
Disruptive technology/innovation
The Economist.com, May 11, 2009
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Will bigger Kindle be boon for e-readers?
Boston Globe, May 11, 2009
C. Fritz Foley, Mihir Desai
Tax Dodge Myths
Washington Post.com, May 08, 2009
Samuel Hayes
Capital race is on for banks
CNN.com, May 08, 2009
Regina Herzlinger
Viewpoint: Who will bring change to American healthcare?
Medical Economics, May 08, 2009
Samuel Hayes
JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs to Gain as Rivals Seek Funds
Bloomberg News (5/08/2009)
Clayton Christensen
The Other GM
TIME, May 07, 2009
William Kirby
'Enormous changes' in thirty years
Harvard Gazette, May 07, 2009
Clayton Christensen
Clayton Christensen
The Economist.com, May 07, 2009
Regina Herzlinger
Are the Elderly Committing Generational Theft?
ABC News, May 07, 2009
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Harvard think tank addresses societal concerns, poverty
Bay State Banner, May 07, 2009
Clayton Christensen
Clayton Christensen: Something is better than nothing
BusinessWeek.com, May 06, 2009
Peter Tufano
HBS Group Helps Fight Foreclosures
Harvard Crimson, May 06, 2009
John Quelch
Stimulus provides boon for economy and politicians
d Press, May 05, 2009
John Quelch
Expo changes behaviors and attitudes of the citizens permanently
English.EastDay.com, May 05, 2009
Josh Lerner
What Will Fix the Venture Capital Crisis?
New York Times, May 04, 2009
Nicolas Retsinas
Lessons unlearned
San Diego Tribune.com, May 03, 2009
Shawn Cole
Electoral ATMs
IndianExpress.com, May 02, 2009
John Quelch
Is Recession the Time to Boost Ad Spending?
BusinessWeek.com, May 01, 2009
Toby Stuart
Is Your Great Idea A Real Business?
Forbes.com , May 01, 2009
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Bringing Efficiency to the Infrastructure
New York Times (4/30/2009)
Carl Kester, Rakesh Khurana
Twijfel op harvard door economische crisis
(Netherlands)
NOVA TV (4/28/2009)
Bill George
The Economic Crisis Will Shape New Leaders
BusinessWeek.com (4/28/2009)
David Scharfstein
Economic recovery
Harvard Gazette (4/28/2009)
Rajiv Lal
Why Brooks Brothers bought a Harverhill, Mass., textile company
Greater Boston (4/28/2009)
Richard Vietor
Clear and present danger
Haaretz (Tel-Aviv) (4/28/2009)
Benjamin Edelman
Accused adware purveyor Zango shuttered by bank foreclosure
SC Magazine (4/27/2009)
Anita Elberse
The Long Tail Redrawn
Billboard.biz (4/27/2009)
Abraham Zaleznik
Idea Entrepreneurship
The Economist.com (4/27/2009)
Regina Herzlinger
Health Care Reform that Will Kill the U.S. Economy
The Huffington Post (4/27/2009)
Stacey Childress, David Thomas
Soapbox: Raise the educational bar
Financial Times (4/27/2009)
Harvard Business School
Managing the mood is crucial
Financial Times (Germany)(4/27/2009)
Josh Lerner
Harrah's Gets Some Debt Relief
BusinessWeek.com(4/27/2009)
Kathleen McGinn
The E-Mail Handshake
New York Times(4/26/2009)
Abraham Zaleznik
Can It Be Taught?
Washington Post.com (4/26/2009)
Karim Lakhani
TopCoder-Crowdsourcing Software Long Before Crowdsourcing Got Cool
Xconomy (4/26/2009)
Max Bazerman
How Group Decisions End Up Wrong-Footed
Wall Street Journal (4/25/2009)
Rohit Deshpande
The art of designing a model home
Chicago Tribune (4/24/2009)
Michael Porter
Know your masters: Michael Porter
Economic Times (4/24/2009)
David Bell, Forest L. Reinhardt, Mary L. Shelman, Director, Agribusiness Program
Harvard Business School to teach Agri-business lessons in Mumbai
MBA Universe.com (4/24/2009)
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Rakesh Khurana
Interdisciplinary program on leadership hosts a host of fellows
Harvard University Gazette (4/23/2009)
Nancy Koehn, Baker Foundation Howard Stevenson
We've Been Here Before
Wall Street Journal (4/23/2009)
Visiting Scholar Daniel Heller
Give the Big Three another chance
Boston Globe (4/23/2009)
Clayton Christensen
Clayton Christensen, Disrupting Class Author
District Leader's Podcast (4/22/2009)
Michael Chu
Getting Microfinance Right
Forbes.com (4/22/2009)
Stephen Greyser
With seats available, Sox roll out ads
Boston Globe (4/21/2009)
Andrew McAfee
So little space, so much ado
Boston Globe.com (4/20/2009)
John Quelch
Strategies for marketing in a recession
The Business Times (Singapore) (4/20/2009)
Robert Merton
In Finance, Too, Learning Entails Risk
Wall Street Journal.com (4/20/2009)
Anat Keinan
Why it's good to indulge the urge to splurge
Sunday Times - Online (UK) (4/19/2009)
Joshua Coval, Erik Stafford
The Short End of the Stick
Wall Street Journal.com (4/18/2009)
Teresa Amabile
Wouldn't It Be Great If We Were All Creative?
Huffington Post (4/18/2009)
Benjamin Edelman
Why Google Is The New Pirate Bay
Forbes.com (4/17/2009)
Thomas Eisenmann
Analysts braced for bleak news in Times Co. first-quarter report
Boston Globe (4/17/2009)
John Davis
General Growth collapse bucks Bucksbaum dynasty
Reuters (4/17/2009)
Randolph Cohen
As big as it is, China can't save the world
Globe and Mail (4/17/2009)
Nicolas Retsinas
Shelter, or burden?
The Economist (4/16/2009)
Clayton Christensen
Getting personal
The Economist (4/16/2009)
Niall Ferguson
Global Scorecard for the Economic Slowdown
Wall Street Journal.com (4/15/2009)
Nancy Koehn
Fashion Forward
Conde Naste Portfolio (4/14/2009)
David Moss
A genuinely stunning graph for your consideration
The Guardian.com (4/14/2009)
Tom Nicholas
Four reasons to be cheerful
Financial Times (4/14/2009)
Nancy Koehn
The Shifting Paradigm: Rules Being Redefined For Fashion and Retail
(PDF)
Women's Wear Daily (4/13/2009 )
Benjamin Esty
Teamwork beyond the borders
Financial Times (4/13/2009)
Myra Hart
CEO of Me Inc.
Washington Post (4/12/2009)
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
How P&G Finds and Keeps a Prized Workforce
BusinessWeek (4/09/2009)
Christopher Marquis
IBM employees set foot overseas
Human Resources (4/09/2009)
Paul Healy, Carl Kester, Dean Jay Light,
Harvard Business School Evaluates Past Performance
Harvard Crimson (4/09/2009)
Clayton Christensen
The Past and Future of General Motors
Huffington Post (4/08/2009)
Karim Lakhani
The Next Wave of Open Innovation
BusinessWeek.com (4/08/2009)
Benjamin Edelman
Digital advertising: Fraudian Slip
Economic Times.com (4/08/2009)
Niall Ferguson
How the crisis happened
Money Magazine (4/08/2009)
Joshua Coval, Erik Stafford
Report: Bank bailout a bad deal for U.S.
Boston Herald.com (4/08/2009)
Bill George
Why Obama and Geithner Should Find a Bank Czar
BusinessWeek.com (4/07/2009)
Anita Elberse
Will consumers determine iTunes prices?
CNET.com (4/07/2009)
Harvard Business School
A new dynamism
Financial Times (4/06/2009)
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Big changes apt to require new leaders
Boston Globe.com (4/06/2009)
James Heskett, Dorothy Leonard
Internet-savvy leaders waiting in the wings
Financial Times.com (4/06/2009)
John Deighton
The world's no 1 bestseller
The Observer (UK) (4/05/2009)
Rohit Deshpande
Hope and cosmetics: Makeup company adding to list of products with 'hope' in the name
Chicago Tribune (4/05/2009)
Stephen Greyser
If You Build It (During a Recession), Will They Come?
FoxBusiness.com (4/03/2009)
Michael Porter
This year, at Harvard: Jerusalem's mayor builds economic partnership
The Jewish Voice and Herald (4/03/2009)
Regina Herzlinger
Harry and Louise ride again
The Economist (4/02/2009)
Clayton Christensen
Online Education Offers Access and Affordability
US News & World Report (4/02/2009)
Laura Alfaro, Joseph Badaracco, Paul Healy, Carl Kester, Dean Jay Light, Peter Tufano
Harvard Begins Case Study as Tainted MBAs Reveal Damaged Brand
Bloomberg News (4/02/2009)
David Moss
Bankruptcy Is Vital to Capitalism
Wall Street Journal (4/02/2009)
Nancy Koehn
Let's make a deal
Boston Globe.com (4/02/2009)
Mihir Desai
Trouble in tax paradise
Fortune.com (4/01/2009)
Benjamin Edelman
Finite possibilities
Economist.com (3/31/2009)
Josh Lerner
Cerberus Tries to Get Chrysler Out of a Ditch
New York Times (4/01/2009)
Malcolm Salter
With autos, Obama expands government's role
d Press (3/31/2009)
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Obama, the nation's CEO
Politico (3/31/2009)
David Yoffie
Agri-business as a career
The Hindu.com (3/30/2009)
Dutch Leonard
HBS Extends Efforts in Social Enterprise
Harvard Crimson (3/29/2009)
Mikolaj Jan Piskorski
Putting Your Best Faces Forward
Wall Street Journal (3/29/2009)
Late Alfred J. Chandler, Rakesh Khurana
How Crisis Shapes the Corporate Model
New York Times (3/29/2009)
Benjamin Edelman
Could the Internet run out of space?
CNN.com (3/28/2009)
Michael Porter
Building up Jerusalem's economy
Boston Globe (3/27/2009)
Michael Porter
HBS helps Jerusalem develop 'competitive advantages'
Harvard Gazette(3/27/2009)
Samuel Hayes
Management by heart, not by mind: Shehnaz Husain
Economic Times (3/27/2009)
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
When Money Doesn't Talk
Huffington Post (3/26/2009)
Michael Norton
When Did Your Dreams Come True?
New York Times.com (3/25/2009)
Senior Fellow Tim Butler
Economy forces some moms back to work
Fox25 News (3/25/2009)
Nicolas Retsinas
February home sales rise as prices sink
d Press (3/24/2009)
Anat Keinan
Oversaving, a Burden for Our Times
New York Times (3/24/2009)
Tarun Khanna
The World's Cheapest Car Debuts in India
TIME (3/23/2009)
Bill George
Letting Ed Liddy Twist in the Wind
BusinessWeek.com (3/23/2009)
Research Robin Abrahams, Boris Groysberg
The Myth of the Lone Star: Why One Top Performer May Not Shine as Brightly as You Hope
Wall Street Journal (3/23/2009)
Richard Tedlow
American Capitalism Besieged
Washington Post (3/23/2009)
Regina Herzlinger
Pharmacy Board Dismisses Most Prescription Error Complaints
WCVB-TV Online (3/23/2009)
Bill George
Political Courage Required
Washington Post.com (3/22/2009)
Paul Gompers; Josh Lerner, David Scharfstein
Try, Try Again, or Maybe Not
New York Times (3/22/2009)
David Moss
Resistance grows to Obama's bigger government
Reuters (3/22/2009)
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Companies making profit through greed hurt all: RM Kanter
Economic Times (3/20/2009)
Max Bazerman
The goal: To set goals that really can be met
Toronto Globe and Mail - Online (3/20/2009)
Gerald Zaltman
Shift to thrift: Is recession creating 'new consumer'?
Arizona Republic (3/19/2009)
Bhaskar Chakravorti
How to Innovate in a Downturn
Wall Street Journal - Online (3/18/2009)
John Quelch
WPP, Google to Fund Web-Ad Research
Wall Street Journal (3/18/2009)
Amy Cuddy
'Her Hair's Falling Out!': Would You Hawk a Harmful Product?
ABC News (3/19/2009)
Niall Ferguson
The CEO Poll: The Great Recession
Canadian Business (3/17/2009)
Thomas McCraw
Regulate, Baby, Regulate
The New Republic (3/18/2009)
Dean John McArthur
Railroad Bailout May Offer a Model for Detroit
New York Times (3/16/2009)
William A. Sahlman
What will business as usual look like?
Boston Globe (3/15/2009)
David Garvin, Rakesh Khurana, Dean Jay Light
Is It Time to Retrain B-Schools?
New York Times (3/15/2009)
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Krauthammer's Non Sequitur
Harvard Crimson (3/15/2009)
Max Bazerman
Ready, aim ... fail
Boston Globe - Online (3/15/2009)
Harvard Business School
An idea whose time has come
The Economist (3/14/2009)
Noam Wasserman
All in the mind
The Economist (3/14/2009)
Ramana Nanda, Howard Stevenson
Global heroes
The Economist (3/14/2009)
Sandra Sucher
Are Ethic Lapses Responsible For Bad Economy?
NPR - Morning Edition (3/13/2009)
Michael Porter
Staying Competitive
Squawk Box (3/13/2009)
John Quelch
Trust Us: We'll Do Better This Time
Wall Street Journal (3/13/2009)
Niall Ferguson
The Dow at 36,000 and the end of history
Thomson Reuters (3/13/2009)
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Christopher Marquis
The World Is IBM's Classroom
BusinessWeek Online (3/12/2009)
Tarun Khanna
Asian footsteps in Africa
Jordan Times (3/11/2009)
Regina Herzlinger
Canada's hero
Boston Globe - Online (3/12/2009)
Lauren Cohen
Should CEO pay restrictions spread to all corporations?
Christian Science Monitor (3/09/2009)
Michael Anteby
Trade-offs in the moral maze
Financial Times (3/09/2009)
William Kerr
Give me your scientists…
The Economist (3/05/2009)
Joshua Coval
Managing risk of structured finance better in times of crisis
Economic Times - Online (3/05/2009)
Robert Pozen
US experts clash on who can monitor financial risk
Thomson Reuters (3/04/2009)
David Yoffie
The end of paper?
Fortune (3/03/2009)
Stephen Greyser
Dodgers' feud with Manny Ramirez goes very public
Los Angeles Times (2/28/2009)
Michael Porter
Health pioneer to head Dartmouth
Boston Globe (3/03/2009)
John Kotter
Feeling down? Author hopes to help with new book
d Press (3/03/2009)
Michael Tushman
Mark Hurd's moment
Fortune.com (3/02/2009)
Clayton Christensen
The Innovative HR Leader
Human Resource Executive (3/02/2009)
Nicolas Retsinas
Foreclosures, drop in values make Hub more affordable
Boston Herald (3/02/2009)
Max Bazerman
The pitfalls of goals gone wild
Globe and Mail - Online (3/02/2009)
Josh Lerner
Venture capital sector makes adjustments
Boston Globe - Online (3/01/2009)
Niall Ferguson
Our Great Recession
New York Times (3/01/2009)
Regina Herzlinger
Switzerland has the medical bills covered
Times of London (2/27/2009)
Principal Christian Ketels
Nordics ponder globalisation, "shelter" of euro
Reuters (2/26/2009)
Tom Nicholas
Does Microsoft really want to be the next RCA?
Marketwatch (2/26/2009)
William Sahlman
They're going to work on their own terms
Boston Globe - Online (2/26/2009)
Nicolas Retsinas
For the Dream Home, a New Blueprint
New York Times (2/26/2009)
Josh Lerner
Investors say leverage critical to US toxic fund
Reuters (2/25/2009)
Tim Butler, Director of Career Development Programs
Harvard Business School's career advice to mothers returning to the workforce
Financial Times Online (2/25/2009)
Michael Norton
What Do Dreams Mean? Less Than We Think
TIME Online (2/25/2009)
Nicolas P. Retsinas
Renters Lose Edge on Homeowners
Wall Street Journal (2/25/2009)
Bill George
Seven Lessons for Leading in Crisis
Wall Street Journal (2/24/2009)
Dean Jay Light
MBA Student Hiring Steady
Harvard Crimson (2/24/2009)
William Kirby
Beijing Office Plans Delayed
Harvard Crimson (2/24/2009)
Samuel Hayes
Wall Street's allure may be gone for good
Reuters (2/24/2009)
Niall Ferguson
'There will be blood'
Globe and Mail Online (2/23/2009)
Andrew McAfee
Twitter takes off
Good Morning America Weekend (2/23/2009)
Clayton Christensen
A Disruptive Solution for Health Care
BusinessWeek Online (2/23/2009)
Tom Nicholas
Startups in a Downturn
BusinessWeek Online (2/23/2009)
Max Bazerman
What's in the journals, February 2009
Economist.com (2/23/2009)
Regina Herzlinger
Obama pursues universal health care
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (2/22/2009)
Nicolas Retsinas
Homeowners anxious for details
Boston Globe (2/20/2009)
Harvard Business School
Thursday, February 19: In Focus
The Chronicle (WCVB-TV) (2/19/2009)
Bharat N. Anand
Turning the Page: The News on Europe's Newspapers
TIME Online (2/19/2009)
William Kirby
Pakistan and China: A Fraying Friendship?
TIME Online (2/19/2009)
Michael Norton
Do Dreams Reveal Hidden Truths?
WebMD (2/19/2009)
Jay Lorsch
Bonus Cuts Hurting More Than Top Wall Streeters
New York Times (2/19/2009)
Harvard Business School
MC Hammer Speaks To HBS On Marketing
Harvard Crimson (2/18/2009)
Regina Herzlinger
Creating a real healthcare market
Boston Globe (2/18/2009)
David S. Scharfstein
The Bailout Is Robbing the Banks
New York Times (2/18/2009)
John Quelch
Can instant coffee give Starbucks a boost?
Times Online (UK) (2/17/2009)
Nicolas Retsinas
Obama heads west to sign stimulus bill
Los Angeles Times (2/17/2009)
Josh Lerner
LBO-Owned Companies Raise Productivity Faster, Report Concludes
Bloomberg News (2/17/2009)
Samuel Hayes
Dodd?s Pay Limit Makes Wall Street Face Pandit?s ?New Reality?
Bloomberg News (2/17/2009)
Brian Kenny, Chief Marketing & Communications Officer
To respond or not to bloggers' sniping?
Boston Globe (2/16/2009)
Shawn Cole
Financial education leaving Americans behind
Chicago Tribune Online (2/15/2009)
John Quelch
Eco firm Seventh Generation is riding high in Obama revolution
The Sunday Times (UK) (2/15/2009)
Rakesh Khurana
Are Executives Worth Their Compensation?
National Public Radio (2/14/2009)
Principal Christian Ketels, Michael Porter
The Regional Force
Businessworld.com (2/13/2009)
Nicolas Retsinas
No one home: 1 in 9 housing units vacant
USA Today (2/13/2009)
Rakesh Khurana
A Puritan View Of The Crash
National Public Radio-Online (2/13/2009)
Clayton Christensen
After The Stimulus: It's Time for a New Foundation
The Huffington Post (2/12/2009)
Luis Viceira
Growth Vs.Value Re-Examined
Forbes.com (2/12/2009)
Boris Groysberg
The Shifting Power Balance: Is Gender the Issue?
The Huffington Post (2/12/2009)
William R. Kerr
Don't Blame H-1B Workers for Woes
BusinessWeek Online (2/10/2009)
Sachin H. Jain, Research Fellow
Rethinking our rules of organ donations
The Record (2/10/2009)
John T. Gourville
Bet Your Bottom Dollar on 99 Cents
New York Times (2/08/2009)
Rakesh Khurana
You Can Cap The Pay, But The Greed Will Go On
Washington Post (2/08/2009)
Teresa Amabile
Will the Blackberry Sink the Presidency?
Newsweek (2/07/2009)
David Garvin
Three Keys To Staying Ethical In The Age Of Madoff
Forbes.com (2/06/2009)
Michael Porter
Obama stimulus package questioned
BBC Business Daily (2/06/2009)
Niall Ferguson
Keynes can't help us now
Los Angeles Times (2/06/2009)
Samuel Hayes
Government hopes bank aid helps recession recovery
USA Today (2/06/2009)
Ranjay Gulati; Nitin Nohria
Tasting the fruits of effective innovation
Financial Times (2/06/2009)
Victoria Ivashina; David S. Scharfstein
The big freeze
Financial Times (2/06/2009)
Research Katherine E. Jocz, John A. Quelch
Keeping a keen eye on consumer behaviour
Financial Times (2/06/2009)
Stephen Greyser
Bailout spotlights banks
Boston Herald (2/04/2009)
Malcolm Salter
Jeffrey Skilling's Latest Lesson For Us All
Forbes.com (2/04/2009)
David Moss
Financial regulation shaping up as a political battleground
Los Angeles Times (2/03/2009)
Bill Sahlman
What's On The Job Frontier? Experts Weigh In
National Public Radio (2/03/2009)
Bill George
How Business Can Help Untangle the Mess
BusinessWeek Online (2/03/2009)
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Surviving the Recession With Rosabeth Moss Kanter
The Women on the Web (2/03/2009)
Niall Ferguson
Stimulus Package: If You Jump Halfway Across a Chasm You Fall Into the Abyss
The Huffington Post (2/03/2009)
Abraham Zaleznik
Leadership
The Economist Online (2/02/2009)
Peter Tufano
A recession of biblical proportions
CNNMoney.com (2/02/2009)
Niall Ferguson
World Leaders Wary of U.S. Economic Measures
New York Times (2/02/2009)
Bharat Anand, Nitin Nohria and Noam Wasserman
Tale of the Tape: Benchmarking Talent
Directorship(2/01/2009)
Karim Lakhani
Machine dream
Boston Globe Online (2/01/2009)
Niall Ferguson
30 Years Of Tragedies And Triumphs
CBS Sunday Morning (2/01/2009)
George Baker
Creating Corporate Value
Human Resource Executive Online (2/01/2009)
Clayton Christensen
Disruptive Innovation, Applied to Health Care
New York Times (2/01/2009)
Tarun Khanna
China and India: The power of complementary cultures
The McKinsey Quarterly (1/31/2009)
Josh Lerner
KKR's Kravis Says Buyout Firms Face More Regulation
Bloomberg News (1/30/2009)
Michael Porter
Rebuilding America's Job Machine
BusinessWeek Online (1/29/2009)
Heidi Gardner
Swinging the axe
The Economist (1/29/2009)
Clayton Christensen
Christensen on disruption in health care
EE Times (1/29/2009)
Niall Ferguson
Global Worries Over U.S. Stimulus Spending
New York Times (1/29/2009)
Michael Porter
Economic Productivity
Squawk Box - CNBC (1/29/2009)
Deepak Malhotra
What's in the journals, January 2009
The Economist (1/28/2009)
Samuel Hayes
Nervous investing experts wait out cheap bank stocks
USA Today (1/28/2009)
Gary Pisano
Not What the Doctor Ordered
Washington Post (1/28/2009)
Thomas DeLong
Finding Anchors in the Storm: Mentors
Wall Street Journal (1/27/2009)
Clayton Christensen
How Can Web Tech Help Enterprises with Innovation Management?
Read Write Web (1/26/2009)
Boris Groysberg
Portable Skills Lessons From The Gridiron
Globe and Mail Online (1/26/2009)
Gary Pisano
Pfizer in Talks to Buy Wyeth
Wall Street Journal (1/23/2009)
Samuel Hayes
How to play chicken and lose
The Economist (1/22/2009)
Robert Merton
In Plato's Cave
The Economist (1/22/2009)
Jay Lorsch
Bank of America and JPMorgan CEOs buy shares
Thomson Reuters (1/21/2009)
Arthur Daemmrich
Forecast 2009: Up in the Air
Pharmaceutical Executive (1/01/2009)
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Obama's address draws mixed reviews
Politico.com (1/21/2009)
John Quelch
Obama: Politician, pop icon -- or both?
CNN.com (1/20/2009)
John Quelch
Corporate America sells Obama, message of change
d Press (1/20/2009)
Forest Reinhardt
MBA Programs Go Green
BusinessWeek.com (1/19/2009)
Josh Lerner
Sour stock market stalls initial public offerings
USA Today (1/19/2009)
Amy Edmondson
Making the Most of Your Workplace Mistakes
New York Times (1/18/2009)
Richard Tedlow
One Day You?re Indispensable, the Next Day...
New York Times (1/18/2009)
Stephen Greyser
Obama inauguration rivals Super Bowl for some brands
Reuters (1/16/2009)
Carl Kester
Still in the Game
Southwest Airlines Spirit (1/15/2009)
John Quelch
Retailers fight slump by pushing generics
Toronto Star (1/15/2009)
Nancy Koehn
How to survive the storm
Fortune.com (1/15/2009)
Josh Lerner
Private equity year-end writedowns ahead
Reuters (1/14/2009)
Ben Edelman
Harvard Prof: Deceptive Ads 'Widespread' On Yahoo's Right Media
Search Engine Land (1/14/2009)
Andrew McAfee
The knowledge worker and Enterprise 2.0
Teblog (1/14/2009)
Michael Porter
Business ideas don't all profit non-profits
Financial Times Online (1/12/2009)
Gary Pisano
Biotech Blues
Forbes (1/12/2009)
Niall Ferguson
Giving the crisis perspective
Boston Metro (1/12/2009)
Abraham Zaleznik
Segway inventor wants to know: When should I quit?
CNN.com (1/12/2009)
Robert G. Eccles; Rosabeth Moss Kanter; Nitin Nohria
Change management
The Economist Online (1/12/2009)
Regina Herzlinger
Health Insurance CEOs Get Big Raises
Channel 5-Boston (1/10/2009)
Samuel Hayes
Brokers Disdain Toaster Salesmen in Bank America?s Merrill Deal
Bloomberg News (1/09/2009)
Sharon Katz
Shareholder files lawsuit in effort to stop ANL sale to Green Courte
Tampa Bay Business Journal (1/09/2009)
Regina Herzlinger
W. and the damage done
Salon.com (1/08/2009)
Mikolaj Jan Piskorski
The Art of Making Online 'Friends'
Wall Street Journal Online (1/08/2009)
Teresa Amabile
Why You (Yes, You!) Need a Cool Office
Entrepreneur.com (1/08/2009)
Ranjay Gulati
Czar Power
Forbes.com (1/07/2009)
Andrew McAfee
A conversation with Leo Apotheker and Andrew Mcafee
The Charlie Rose Show (1/06/2009)
Peter Olson
A Long Winter
Publishers Weekly (1/05/2009)
Tom Nicholas
Rewards go to those with courage to innovate
Globe and Mail (1/05/2009)
Max Bazerman
100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics 2008
Ethisphere (1/05/2009)
Anita Elberse
Blockbuster or Bust
Wall Street Journal (1/03/2009)
Stephen Greyser
Why Wall Street Should Be More Like the NFL
FoxBusiness News (1/02/2009)
Professor Rakesh Khurana
Citigroup's Top Executives to Forgo '08 Bonuses
New York Times (12/31/2008)
Professor Josh Lerner
GMAC Adds Loans as U.S. Injects $6 Billion to Aid GM
Bloomberg News (12/30/2008)
Professor Nancy Koehn
Retailers Brace for Major Change
Wall Street Journal (12/29/2008)
Professor Niall Ferguson
Wisdom of crowds
Globe and Mail (12/26/2008)
Professor Josh Lerner
With IPOs at lowest level since 1977, firms run out of options
USA Today (12/26/2008)
Professor Josh Lerner
Venture to Nowhere
Forbes.com (12/25/2008)
Professor Malcolm Salter
Just Say No To A Car Czar
Forbes.com (12/24/2008)
Professor John Quelch
The End of Normal: The New Simplicity -- Real or Reaction?
Huffington Post (12/23/2008)
Professor Emeritus Stephen Greyser
Free-Spending MLB Cuts Back
Fox Business (12/23/2008)
Professor Andrew McAfee
Looking for a Few Good Answers Online
Wall Street Journal(12/23/2008)
Professor Fabrizio Ferri
Executive Pay
Washington Post(12/21/2008)
Professor Jay Lorsch
Shareholders Seek More Say on Pay
Washington Post(12/21/2008)
Professor David Yoffie
Internet Leaders Vie To Remain Strong Amidst Downturn
CNN Money.com (12/19/2008)
Professor Emeritus Samuel Hayes
Fixing the SEC
Boston Globe Online (12/19/2008)
Professor Josh Lerner
Private equity firms not immune as job cuts bite
Reuters (12/17/2008)
Professor Michael Porter
America's Needed Economic Strategy
Squawk Box (12/17/2008)
Professor Michael Porter
A conversation with Michael Porter
Charlie Rose Show (12/16/2008)
Professor Bill George
The Innovation Economy
BusinessWeek.com (12/16/2008)
Associate Professor Tom Nicholas
Five Opportunities to Help Beat World Recession
Bloomberg News (12/16/2008)
Professor Emeritus Malcolm Salter
History may ride on reign of 'car czar'
Chicago Tribune (12/16/2008)
Lecturer Nicolas Retsinas
Fannie Mae gives renters a break
CNN.com (12/15/2008)
Professor Clayton Christensen
2008's Best Books on Innovation
BusinessWeek Online (12/15/2008)
Professor Robert Kaplan
Today's mistakes can teach tomorrow's leaders
Globe and Mail (12/15/2008)
Professor Paul Gompers
When do you start a firm? Timing's not just dumb luck
Boston Globe (12/15/2008)
Professor Clayton Christensen
How Hard Times Can Drive Innovation
Wall Street Journal Online (12/14/2008)
Professor John Quelch
The great car crash
The Times Online (UK) (12/14/2008)
Professor Niall Ferguson
Origin of specie
Boston Globe (12/14/2008)
Professor Nancy Koehn
When the coffee goes cold
Financial Times Online (12/13/2008)
Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Starting Over, With a Second Career Goal of Changing Society
New York Times (12/12/2008)
Professor John Quelch
Shrinking your gift footprint
Marketplace (12/12/2008)
Professor Regina Herzlinger
If Health Care Were Run Like Retail...
BusinessWeek (12/11/2008)
Professor Niall Ferguson
The Money Theory of World History
BusinessWeek (12/11/2008)
Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Expert: Auto Rescue Plans Lack Credibility
Wall Street Journal Online (12/10/2008)
Professor Alvin Roth
A Program in Progress
Harvard Crimson (12/10/2008)
Assistant Professor Dennis Campbell
The Franchising Way to Grow
Businessweek.com (12/10/2008)
Professor Emeritus John Kotter
An urgent message: Change starts with urgency
Globe and Mail (12/10/2008)
Professor Niall Ferguson
Watching the sun set on the great British empire
Boston Globe.com (12/10/2008)
Professor Nancy Koehn
A government-run auto industry?
The Christian Science Monitor (12/10/2008)
Professor Alvin Roth
A Program in Progress
Harvard Crimson (12/10/2008)
Professor Malcolm Salter
Professor: Auto Bailout Won't Work
NPR Day to Day (12/09/2008)
Professor Malcolm Salter
Professor: Auto Bailout Won't Work
NPR Day to Day (12/09/2008)
Professor John Gourville
Smaller sizes, same prices at the market
The Today Show (12/09/2008)
Professor Emeritus Malcolm Salter
Washington Takes Risks With Its Auto Bailout Plans
New York Times (12/09/2008)
Professor Niall Ferguson
10 clues: A new bubble is blowing
Marketwatch (12/08/2008)
Professor Josh Lerner
DEALTALK-Tribune may be tip of bankruptcy iceberg among LBOs
Reuters (12/08/2008)
Professor John Quelch
Adultery website lures recession-hit balding bankers
Irish Times (12/08/2008)
Professor Michael Porter
Roads, bridges, and U.
Boston Globe (12/07/2008)
Professor Josh Lerner
In Private Equity, the Limits of Apollo's Power
New York Times (12/06/2008)
Professor Bill George
America needs a strong FDA
Boston Globe (12/06/2008)
Professor Regina Herzlinger
Friday Interview: Consumer-Driven Health Care
Carolina Journal Online (12/05/2008)
Professor Stuart Gilson
Bear Stearns Wins Dismissal of Investor Lawsuits
Bloomberg (12/05/2008)
Professor John Quelch
Rebuilding America - now
Boston Business Journal (12/05/2008)
Lecturer Nicolas Retsinas
High Inventory Killing Home Builders; Industry Asks For Help
Wall Street Journal Online (12/05/2008)
Professor Bill George, Professor Emeritus Malcolm Salter
Since Enron, Little Has Changed
Wall Street Journal Online (12/04/2008)
Professor Michael Porter
Pump It Up
Time Online(12/04/2008)
Associate Professor Deepak Malhotra
Auto CEOs Aren't Making Their Case
Wall Street Journal (12/04/2008)
Assistant Professor Benjamin Edelman
Blocking Online Ads May Save Energy
InformationWeek (12/04/2008)
Assistant Professor Daniel Snow
In Defense Of American Cars
Forbes.com (12/03/2008)
Assistant Professor Michael Norton
Butter tarts lure tourists to travel tasty trail
Toronto Star (12/03/2008)
Professor Thomas Eisenmann
Google Gears Down for Tougher Times
Wall Street Journal Online (12/03/2008)
Professor John Quelch
Beirut lecture explores modern marketing practices
The Daily Star (Lebanon) (12/03/2008)
Professor Niall Ferguson
How the ascent of money led to crisis
Marketplace (12/02/2008)
Professor Emeritus Richard Nolan
Use bailout money for new ventures, not old ones
Seattle Times (12/01/2008)
Professor Clayton Christensen
RIM's answer to the iPhone not helping earnings
Marketwatch (12/01/2008)
Professor Nancy Koehn
Business could learn from Obama style, experts say
Reuters (12/02/2008)
Professor John Quelch
Wooing Customers With Social-Good Efforts
Wall Street Journal (12/01/2008)
Professor David Bell
Bad for the store, bad for the mall
NPR's Marketplace (12/01/2008)
Associate Professor Andrew McAfee
SAP to bring unified interface to apps suite
Computerworld(12/01/2008)
Professor Bill George
GM, Ford, Chrysler CEO Jobs May Hinge on Bailout Plan
Bloomberg News (12/01/2008)
Professor John Quelch
Four steps to living a more frugal life
Vancouver Sun (11/30/2008)
Professor Nancy Koehn
Delayed Gratification
New York Times (11/30/2008)
Professor Michael Porter
Stimulus for Skeptics
New York Times (11/28/2008)
Professor Nancy Koehn
'Black Friday'
PBS' Newshour with Jim Lehrer (11/28/2008)
Professor John Quelch
The Significance of Marketing in Challenging Times
Chief Executive (11/26/2008)
Professor Max Bazerman
Obama: Hire These Heroes from the Bush Era
Daily Kos (11/26/2008)
Professor Emeritus Thomas McCraw
Harvard prof honored for Schumpeter book
Boston Business Journal (11/26/2008)
Professor Amy Edmondson
The C.E.O. of Thanksgiving Dinner
New York Times (11/25/2008)
Professor David Moss
Saving Citi May Create More Fear
New York Times (11/25/2008)
Professor Michael Porter
Stephen Roach: Morgan Stanley Envoy in Region
Wall Street Journal (11/24/2008)
Associate Professor Anita Elberse
Group Think
Boston Globe (11/23/2008)
Professor Andrew McAfee
Enterprise 2.0 101: An Executive Guide to Enterprise 2.0
CIO (11/21/2008)
Professor Kathleen McGinn
The Negotiator's Playbook
Forbes.com (11/21/2008)
Professor Clayton Christensen
A gathering storm?
The Economist (11/20/2008)
Dean Jay O. Light
The Leadership Imperative
Forbes.com (11/19/2008)
Senior Associate Dean John Quelch
Obama poised to rebrand America, experts say
CNN.com (11/19/2008)
Professor Nancy Koehn
Refocus on the family
The Guardian (UK) (11/19/2008)
Professor Niall Ferguson
Author Niall Ferguson with his new book, The Ascent of Money
Greater Boston (11/18/2008)
Professor Josh Lerner, Dean Jay Light; Dean Emeritus John McArthur
At Harvard, It's Business As Usual
Globe and Mail (11/19/2008)
Dean Emeritus John McArthur
Calling Canada
Globe and Mail (11/19/2008)
Professor Niall Ferguson
Ferguson Faults Fed in Failure
Harvard Crimson (11/19/2008)
Senior Lecturer Thierry Breton
Atos Origin Board Fires Chief Germond, Hires Breton
Bloomberg News (11/18/2008)
Associate Professor Anita Elberse
The Long Fail: Web 2.0's faith meets the facts
The Register (UK) (11/18/2008)
Professor James Cash
The CIO as Innovation Czar
ComputerWorld (11/17/2008)
Professor Victoria Ivashina, Professor David Scharfstein
Banks Keep Lending, but That Isn't Easing the Crisis
Wall Street Journal (11/17/2008)
Professor Niall Ferguson
Team 'Chimerica'
Washington Post (11/17/2008)
Professor Rakesh Khurana
Meet your new leader
Fortune (11/14/2008)
Professor Niall Ferguson
Insight: 'Bretton Woods Two'?
BBC (11/13/2008)
Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Prophet for a new age
The Guardian (UK) (11/12/2008)
Professor Howard Stevenson
N.Y. Times Executive Chosen as Head of NPR
Washington Post (11/12/2008)
Professor Emeritus Gerald Zaltman
Taking an ad break
Economic Times Online (11/12/2008)
Kim Budd, Director, Community Values Program
Governor installs 12-member public integrity task force
Boston Globe (11/09/2008)
Professor Emeritus Bob Hayes
Future cars will be built on order, not for stock
Economic Times Online (11/09/2008)
Professor Teresa Amabile, Professor Amy Edmondson, Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Getting Women's Management Ideas Heard
Wall Street Journal Online (11/09/2008)
See also:
Podcast with Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Professor Paul Gompers
What Harvard says about Israeli VC
Globes (Israel) (11/09/2008)
Professor Emeritus John Kotter
Quick, do something
Montreal Gazette (11/08/2008)
Professor Michael Norton
Do Wealth and Well-Being Go Hand in Hand?
Wall Street Journal (11/07/2008)
Professor Niall Ferguson
Obama's foreign policy picks
Los Angeles Times (11/07/2008)
Professor Clayton Christensen
Obama Ran a Capitalist Campaign
Wall Street Journal (11/07/2008)
Professor Nancy Koehn
Wal-Mart reports profits while other retailers report losses
Greater Boston (11/06/2008)
Professor Nancy Koehn
New frugality shows up in retail figures
Marketplace (11/06/2008)
Professor Tarun Khanna
Nurturing entrepreneurship in India's villages
The McKinsey Quarterly (11/06/2008)
Professor David Yoffie
Google Won't Pursue Yahoo Ad Deal
New York Times (11/06/2008)
Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter
I.B.M. Has Tech Answer for Woes of Economy
New York Times (11/06/2008)
Professor Willy Shih
Sweetly Disruptive Technology
Forbes.com (11/05/2008)
Professor Srikant Datar, Professor David Garvin
Happy Birthday, Harvard B-School
Newsweek (11/03/2008)
Professor Josh Lerner
US economy set to turn towards socialist path
Time Online (UK) (11/03/2008)
Assistant Professor Michael Norton
Bradley Effect May Not Hold On Tuesday
Harvard Crimson (11/03/2008)
Professor Josh Lerner
Debt Linked to Buyouts Tightens the Economic Vise
New York Times (11/02/2008)
Associate Professor Edward Riedl
Could the Crisis Crimp Convergence?
CFO.com (10/31/2008)
Professor Michael Porter
Why America Needs an Economic Strategy
BusinessWeek (10/30/2008)
See also:
Podcast:: Behind the story
Professor John Quelch
Redefining the American Dream
The Washington Times (10/31/2008)
Professor Tarun Khanna
Harvard Portrait: Tarun Khanna
Harvard Magazine (10/30/2008)
Research Associate Robin Abrahams, Associate Professor Boris Groysberg
NFL Study Sheds Light on Teams
Harvard Crimson (10/31/2008)
Associate Professor Boris Groysberg
Orbit may affect star's shine
Boston Globe (10/30/2008)
Professor David Scharfstein
Banks to Continue Paying Dividends
Washington Post (10/30/2008)
Professor Michael Porter, Professor Larry Summers
A new type of capitalism
Boston Globe(10/30/2008)
Research Associate Robin Abrahams, Associate Professor Boris Groysberg
Harvard Business School researchers look to NFL
Boston Globe Online (10/29/2008)
Professor Richard Tedlow
Great Depression survivors uncertain of nation's mettle
Boston Globe (10/28/2008)
Professor Clayton Christensen
Disruption, One Step at a Time
Forbes (10/27/2008)
Professor Robert Austin
How Hard Could It Be?: Sins of Commissions
Inc. (10/27/2008)
Professor Emeritus John Kotter
Blog: Sustaining Urgency
CIO (10/27/2008)
Assistant Professor Aldo Musacchio
Economic crisis hits as Brazil builds
Los Angeles Times (10/27/2008)
Professor Niall Ferguson
Harvard's Ferguson Praises `Ascent of Money' as Markets Plunge
Bloomberg News (10/27/2008)
Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Empowerment
The Economist Online (10/27/2008)
Professor Josh Lerner
As stocks plunge, funds lose balance
Boston Globe (10/27/2008)
President Drew Faust
Citing global warming, Gore renews call to cut use of oil
Boston Globe (10/23/2008)
Professor Clayton Christensen
Clayton Christensen: Innovation Key to Healthcare Reform
BNET (10/22/2008)
Professor Emeritus Ray Goldberg
Biofuels: From hope to husk
Financial Times Online (10/21/2008)
Professor Peter Tufano
Just Keep Our Money
Washington Post (10/21/2008)
Professor David S. Scharfstein
This Bailout Doesn't Pay Dividends
New York Times (10/20/2008)
President Drew Faust, Dean Jay Light, Lecturer Robert Higgins
The "Harvard MBA Indicator" for the Next 100 Years
The Harbus (10/20/2008)
Lecturer Stacey Childress, Professor Robert S. Kaplan
HBS Profs To Discuss Nonprofits
Harvard Crimson (10/20/2008)
Professor Rakesh Khurana, Professor Nitin Nohria
Management must become a profession
Financial Times Online (10/20/2008)
Professor David Moss
The Great Depression - how close are we?
San Francisco Chronicle (10/20/2008)
Professor Nancy Koehn
It's Fantasy Economy! Some Expert Views on What Should Happen Next.
Washington Post (10/19/2008)
Associate Professor Boris Groysberg
Global 100: Man of the world
LegalWeek.com (10/16/2008)
Professor Tarun Khanna
Prof. and Panel Talk Asia
Harvard Crimson (10/15/2008)
Senior Lecturer Sandra Sucher
Teaching, Morals and Learning at HBS
The Harbus (10/15/2008)
Professor David Yoffie
Humor and Leadership
The Harbus (10/15/2008)
President Drew Faust, Dean Jay Light
Three Stonecutters: On the Future of Business Education
Harvard Magazine (10/15/2008)
Harvard Business School
JPMorgan Chase chief attacks Washington for prolonging banking crisis
Times Online (UK) (10/15/2008)
Senior Lecturer Thierry Breton, Professor Michael Porter
HBS Summit Talks Economy
Harvard Crimson (10/15/2008)
Professor Nitin Nohria
Business Leadership and the Future of Markets: Helping "Capitalism Save Itself from Itself"
Harvard Magazine (10/15/2008)
Harvard Business School
Harvard sends gloomy signal to Corporate America
Economic Times (India) (10/15/2008)
Harvard Business School
At Harvard summit, most back US move
Boston Globe (10/15/2008)
Professor Richard Tedlow
Fast track the new president
Boston Globe (10/15/2008)
Assistant Professor Ben Edelman
Google Profits From Typo Squatting
Conde Naste Portfolio (10/14/2008)
Harvard Business School
JPMorgan Chase's Dimon says political leadership to solve complex problems is lacking
Associated Press (10/14/2008)
Professor James Cash, Professor Niall Ferguson
Harvard Business School Marks 100 Year Anniversary
Harvard Crimson (10/13/2008)
Professor James Cash
Bill Gates on "Creative Capitalism"
Harvard Magazine (10/13/2008)
Professor Niall Ferguson, Dean Jay Light, Professor John Quelch
Financial Crisis: Confidence-and Some Cautions
Harvard Magazine (10/13/2008)
Professor Nancy Koehn
Intervention Is Bold, but Has a Basis in History
New York Times (10/13/2008)
Harvard Business School
Gates Predicts `Significant Recession,' More Job Loss
Bloomberg News (10/13/2008)
Dean Jay Light
At Harvard, Gates addresses economic turmoil
Boston Globe (10/13/2008)
Professor Robert Steven Kaplan
Robert Kaplan on Leadership During Crisis
Fox Business News (10/13/2008)
Senior Associate Dean John Quelch
European Markets Imitate American
Fox Business News (10/13/2008)
Professor Josh Lerner
Deal recovery seen coming first in emerging economies
Reuters (10/13/2008)
Professor Bill George
Bill George: Where Were the Boards?
Wall Street Journal Online (10/13/2008)
Assistant Professor Andre Hagiu
Beyond the industrial
Financial Times Online (10/13/2008)
Dean Jay Light, Senior Lecturer Clayton Rose
Monday Manifesto: Irony is not lost on the Dean of Harvard Business School
The Times Online (UK) (10/13/2008)
Professor Josh Lerner
Private equity gets a lifeline for research
Financial Times Online (10/13/2008)
Professor Regina Herzlinger
Healthcare overhaul: How McCain and Obama differ
Miami Herald (10/12/2008)
Assistant Professor Ben Edelman
McAfee sees rise in stock scams, social engineering attacks
CNET.com (10/12/2008)
Professor Nancy Koehn
Economic indicators for Joe and Jane Six-Pack
Chicago Tribune (10/09/2008)
Professor Josh Lerner
Shutting up shop
The Economist (10/09/2008)
Professor Alvin Roth
Markets, By Way of The BCS
Harvard Crimson (10/09/2008)
Professor Joseph Bower
Calls grow for a new model for global trade
Boston Globe (10/09/2008)
Professor Emeritus Samuel Hayes
Bailout Role Elevates U.S. Official
New York Times (10/08/2008)
W. Carl Kester, Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs
B-school: nervous students and case studies
Marketwatch (10/08/2008)
Professor Gary Pisano
Biologics: How to regulate the science frontier
Shreveport Times (10/08/2008)
Professor Niall Ferguson
The End of Prosperity?
TIME (10/08/2008)
Professor Rakesh Khurana, Professor Nitin Nohria
Keeping up standards
CNN (10/07/2008)
Professor Nancy Koehn
The Dow plunges almost 370 points
Greater Boston (10/07/2008)
Professor Michael Porter
Village Idiocy: Enough with small-town triumphalism
The New Republic (10/08/2008)
Professor Rakesh Khurana, Professor Nitin Nohria
First, do no harm
The Economist (10/07/2008)
Professor John Quelch
Economic Choices: 2008 Leadership Strategies
PBS Nightly Business Report (10/06/2008)
Assistant Professor Michael Norton
Artful Dodging Trumps Open Evasion, Studies Show
Washington Post (10/06/2008)
Professor Thomas Delong
Company wallflowers need careful nurturing
The Times (South Africa) (10/05/2008)
Professor John Gourville
Help! Our food is shrinking
Minneapolis Star Tribune (10/04/2008)
Assistant Professor Aldo Musacchio
Brazil's Lula takes center stage in Latin America
Los Angeles Times (10/04/2008)
Professor Bill George
Wall Street's Latest Crisis of Leadership
BusinessWeek (10/03/2008)
Professor Tarun Khanna
China's communist party
The World (10/03/2008)
Professor Josh Lerner
Capitalism to the Rescue
New York Times Magazine (10/03/2008)
Professor John Quelch
Unilever: a break with history
Financial Times (10/02/2008)
Professor Rakesh Khurana
Business School Ethics
NPR (10/02/2008)
Assistant Professor Zeynep Ton
Retailers should not skimp on staffing in downturn
Financial Times Online (10/02/2008)
Associate Professor Robert Austin
How Hard Could It Be?: Sins of Commissions
Inc.com (10/02/2008)
Associate Professor Diego Comin
The Importance of Adopting New Technologies
Strategy and Business (10/02/2008)
Assistant Professor Karim Lakhani
We Can Benefit From Abundance of Innovation
The State Journal (10/02/2008)
Senior Lecturer Clayton Rose
U.S. Executives May Draw Don't-Do-This Lessons From Washington
Bloomberg.com (09/30/2008)
Christine Sullivan, Director, Alumni Career Services
In Wall St. chaos, Wharton reaches out to alums
The Daily Pennsylvanian (09/30/2008)
Professor David Yoffie
It's Intense at the Top
The Wall Street Journal (09/30/2008)
Senior Associate Dean Carl Kester
Hard Lesson
Boston Globe (09/29/2008)
Harvard Business School
Campuses adjust to being green
Boston Globe (09/29/2008)
Baker Foundation Professor Robert Kaplan
BOOK REVIEW 'The Execution Premium'
Los Angeles Times (09/29/2008)
Senior Lecturer Sandra Sucher
Why chief executives will never choose to read novels
Irish Times (09/29/2008)
Professor Emeritus Michael Jensen
CEO pay is a real problem, but this isn't the time to fix it
Fort Worth Star-Telegram (09/29/2008)
Dean Jay Light
Hank Paulson: CEO of America
The Harvard Crimson (09/29/2008)
Senior Lecturer Sandra Sucher
This novel approach to the chief's role is pure fiction
The Financial Times (09/29/2008)
Research Fellow Walter A. Friedman
"Birth of a Salesman"
Fortune (09/26/2008)
Assistant Professor Michael Norton
Do Warehouse Stores Really Save You Money?
The Wall Street Journal (09/25/2008)
Professor Emeritus John Kotter
Don't panic, but keep it urgent
Financial Times (09/25/2008)
Senior Lecturer Clayton Rose
Meltdown Vs. Bailout: How Did We Get Here?
WBZ-TV (09/25/2008)
Professor Emeritus Samuel Hayes
Icahn Biotech Stakes Rise on Drugmaker Demand as Markets Gyrate
Bloomberg News (09/25/2008)
Professor Emeritus John Kotter
Financial fairy tales
The Globe and Mail (09/25/2008)
Dean Jay Light, Professor Robert Merton, and Professor Robert Steven Kaplan
Panel Weighs Market Meltdown: FAS, HBS, and HLS profs explain situation, offer potential solutions
Harvard Crimson (09/25/2008)
Professor David Yoffie
Curbs on Pay Advance in Bailout Plan
Wall Street Journal (09/25/2008)
Assistant Professor Deishin Lee
A Roadmap To Destroy Open Source?
Information Week (09/24/2008)
Dean Jay Light, Professor David Moss, Lecturer Nicolas Retsinas, and Senior Lecturer Clayton Rose
Harvard Professors Address Finance Fears
The Harvard Crimson (09/24/2008)
Professor Robert Merton
Nobel Laureate Merton Says $4 Trillion Lost as Home Prices Fall
Bloomberg (09/23/2008)
Assistant Professor Daniel Bergstresser, Senior Lecturer Clayton Rose
Professors Plan Bear Sterns Case Study
The Harvard Crimson (09/23/2008)
Professor Rakesh Khurana, Professor Nitin Nohria
Business Schools Aim To Change Attitudes
WBZ (09/22/2008)
Dean Jay Light
Bailout's rules and processes are key
Marketplace (09/22/2008)
Assistant Professor Fabrizio Ferri,
Professor V. G. Narayanan
Harvard dips into Friendly's
Mass Live.com (09/21/2008)
Professor Herman "Dutch" Leonard
Clinton summit hopes for generosity amid turmoil
Reuters (09/22/2008)
Professor Boris Groysberg
How to Minimize the Risks of Hiring Outside Stars
The Wall Street Journal (09/22/2008)
Professor Ranjay Gulati
Staring You in the Face
The Wall Street Journal (09/22/2008)
Professor Niall Ferguson
A long shadow
The Financial Times (09/21/2008)
Professor Peter Tufano
Savings Bonds' Swan Song?
The Washington Post (09/21/2008)
Assistant Professor Anat Keinan
Giving in to temptation
CNN (09/20/2008)
Professor Emeritus Samuel Hayes
Rally, aftershocks end brutal week
The Boston Globe (09/20/2008)
Professor William A. Sahlman
My Hometown: Boston
Fox Business.com (09/18/2008)
Professor William A. Sahlman
Take a Harvard Business Class
Fox Business.com (09/18/2008)
Professor Regina Herzlinger
Health-Care Nation
Conde Naste Portfolio (09/18/2008)
Professor Nancy Koehn
The Fed bails out AIG - is more market regulation needed?
WGBH's Greater Boston (09/17/2008)
Professor John Quelch
Palin power recharges GOP ticket
CNN (09/17/2008)
Professor John Quelch
Palin 'phenomenon' hijacks online sales
CNN (09/16/2008)
Professor Nancy Koehn
No-bailout stance sends vital message
The Boston Globe (09/16/2008)
Professor F. Warren McFarlan
How the Colonel captured China
China Daily (09/16/2008)
Professor Bill George
Thain's Swiftness Praised; Fuld's Hesitation Faulted
The Wall Street Journal (09/16/2008)
Professor Emeritus Samuel Hayes
Boston assesses financial fallout
The Boston Globe (09/16/2008)
Senior Lecturer Peter Olson
Olson High on Cambridge, Amazon
Publishers Weekly (09/15/2008)
Tim Butler, Director of Career Development Programs
On-Rampers: Time to Head Back to School?
The Wall Street Journal Online (09/15/2008)
Assistant Professor Lakshmi Iyer
The story of nexus between politicos & bureaucrats retold
The Economic Times (09/15/2008)
Professor Clayton Christensen
Teaching To The New Test
Forbes (09/15/2008)
Professor Rakesh Khurana
How US b-schools are redefining management study
The Hindu Business Line (09/15/2008)
Professor Emeritus Samuel Hayes
Lehman rescue stalls; BofA and Merrill talking
The Associated Press (09/14/2008)
Professor Joseph Bower, Professor Bill George
Is There Anybody Out There?
Forbes.com (09/12/2008)
Professor Robert Steven Kaplan
Return of 8% for Harvard Endowment
The New York Times (09/12/2008)
Professor Vicki Sato
HBS team wins big - and twice
The Harvard Gazette (09/11/2008)
Professor John Quelch
9/11 victims recalled as names, not numbers
The Boston Herald (09/11/2008)
Professor William W. George, Professor Jay W. Lorsch
The Most Influential People on Corporate Governance and in the Boardroom
Directorship (09/11/2008)
Professor John T. Gourville
Good Pricing Strategies for Bad Times
Gallup Management Journal (09/11/2008)
Professor Emeritus John Kotter
John Kotter - A sense of urgency
Financial Times (09/10/2008)
Baker Foundation Professor F. Warren McFarlan
Gome Is Tops in China
BusinessWeek (09/10/2008)
Meghan Duggan, Assistant Director of Sustainability and MEP Projects
Building Green Classrooms
BusinessWeek (09/09/2008)
Professor Emeritus Samuel Hayes
Wall Street Trading Gets Zero Value From Lehman, Merrill Owners
Bloomberg.com (09/08/2008)
Associate Professor Suraj Srinivasan
Leadership: The Consequences Of Missing Quarterly Earnings
Globe and Mail (09/08/2008)
Professor Josh Lerner
The 'Same Ol' Is Actually Good Enough for Many
The Wall Street Journal (09/08/2008)
Professor Joseph Bower
An old question revisited
The Boston Globe (09/07/2008)
Professor Robert Kaplan
New book by Harvard's Robert Kaplan examines How to Execute Strategy
MBA Universe.com (09/06/2008)
Professor David Yoffie
Microsoft Works to Perfect Windows Vista
The New York Times (09/05/2008)
Harvard Business School
Full-Tuition Fellowships from Top B-Schools
BusinessWeek (09/04/2008)
Professor John Quelch
How to spot a chief executive who is going off the rails
The Times Online (08/31/2008)
Professor Alvin Roth
Harvard Portrait: Alvin Roth
Harvard Magazine (08/29/2008)
Professor Michael Porter
When CSR is neither profit nor public good
The Jakarta Post (08/28/2008)
Professor Paul Gompers, Professor Josh Lerner
Venture capitalists today look far and wide for start-ups
USA Today (08/28/2008)
Baker Foundation Professor Robert S. Kaplan
The strategy missing link
The Financial Times (08/27/2008)
Baker Foundation Professor F. Warren McFarlan
Will China Change IT?
CIO Insight (08/27/2008)
Assistant Professor Jason Riis
Healthy people more willing to take drugs
The Times of India (08/23/2008)
Assistant Professor Ben Edelman
Cracking China's Social Network Market
Forbes.com (08/21/2008)
Senior Lecturer Michael Chu
Microfinance must embrace the free market
The Economic Times (08/20/2008)
Harvard Business School
News from the schools, August 2008
The Economist.com (08/19/2008)
Dean Jay Light
How They Grow, the Leaders Who Guide the Age
Nikkei Business (07/2008)
Professor Tarun Khanna
What the Olympics tell us about China and India
The Economic Times (08/18/2008)
Professor John Quelch
Lean is in as companies are weighed down by rising costs
Livemint.com (08/18/2008)
Assistant Professor Ben Edelman
Adware vendor Zango profits from pirated movies, says researcher
ComputerWorld (08/18/2008)
Jim Aisner, Director of Media Relations
Orientation Is Getting Longer
BusinessWeek (08/18/2008)
Professor Nancy Koehn, Associate Professor Andrew McAfee, Professor John Quelch
For some Harvard professors, the blogosphere is new terrain
The Boston Globe (08/17/2008)
Professor Mihir Desai, Associate Professor Fritz Foley
The Export of Jobs
The Washington Post (08/17/2008)
Assistant Professor Ben Edelman
War of the Computers
NECN (08/15/2008)
Baker Foundation Professor Warren McFarlan
What the Olympics Means for China, IT
CIO Insight (08/14/2008)
Professor Regina Herzlinger
Operating profit
The Economist (08/14/2008)
Professor Emeritus John Kotter, Professor Emeritus Abraham Zaleznik
Freedom Fighters & Bhagavad Gita - Defining Leadership
MBA Universe.com (08/14/2008)
Assistant Professor Ben Edelman
Longtime Battle Lines Are Recast In Russia and Georgia's Cyberwar
The Washington Post (08/14/2008)
Professor Emeritus Christopher Bartlett, Professor Rakesh Khurana, Professor Nitin Nohria, Professor Krishna Palepu
Independence Day Special: The Rise Of The Indian Thought-Leaders
MBA Universe.com (08/14/2008)
Professor Mihir Desai
Corporate-Tax Reporting Draws GAO Scrutiny
The Wall Street Journal (08/13/2008)
Professor Rafael M. Di Tella
Dreaming of Swatantra
Livemint.com (08/13/2008)
Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven
Hugo Uyterhoeven: Drawing the line on growth
TCPalm.com (08/11/2008)
Professor David Yoffie
Is Google a Media Company?
The New York Times (08/10/2008)
Professor John Quelch
Brands act local to woo a billion Chinese consumers
The Financial Times (08/10/2008)
Professor Nancy Koehn
Starting Up: Teaming Up With Other Businesses
Small Biz.com (08/08/2008)
Professor Toby Stuart
Experience counts
The Financial Times (08/07/2008)
Professor Joseph Bower, Professor V.G. Narayanan
Harvard professors discuss compensation and succession
IR Magazine (08/07/2008)
Professor Robert Steven Kaplan
Harvard Endowment Aces a Brutal Year
The Wall Street Journal (08/07/2008)
Associate Professor Julie Wulf
'Don't Touch My Perks'
Human Resource Executive Online (08/07/2008)
Professor Jay Lorsch
Deal may help Citi Center stage turnaround
The Boston Globe (08/07/2008)
Assistant Professor Michael Norton
Warehouse shoppers: Do you save enough to justify the trip?
The Christian Science Monitor (08/04/2008)
Senior Lecturer John Davis
Wait to Work for Family
The Wall Street Journal (08/03/2008)
Professor Michael Porter
Michael Porter
The Economist.com (08/01/2008)
Professor Emeritus Michael Jensen
Feedback from the Stern Stewart Summit. Professor Michael Jensen - Harvard Business School
MoneyWeb.com (07/31/2008)
Professor and Senior Associate Dean Bill Sahlman
Spreading the gospel
The Economist (07/31/2008)
Professor V. Kasturi Rangan
Understanding business models at the Base-of-Pyramid is critical for future growth: Harvard Business School's Prof V. Kasturi Rangan
MBA Universe (07/28/2008)
Professor Tarun Khanna
Digesting this `happy mutualism'
The Standard (Hong Kong) (07/28/2008)
Professor John Deighton
Whiten Your Teeth Even While Walking the Dog
The New York Times (07/27/2008)
Professor Marco Iansiti
A Souped-Up Model T May Have Been the First Mash-Up
The New York Times (07/27/2008)
Professor Joseph Bower
Stefan Stern on Jack Welch's place in history
The Financial Times (07/26/2008)
Professor Nancy F. Koehn
It's a buyer's market. Haggle.
CNN Money.com (07/25/2008)
Professor Emeritus Stephen Greyser
Sox air new TV ad starring Manny and Pap
The Boston Globe Online (07/25/2008)
Professor William C. Kirby, Dean Jay Light
Business School, China Fund open office in Shanghai
The Harvard University Gazette (07/24/2008)
Visiting Scholar James Bamberg, Professor Niall Ferguson, Professor Geoffrey G. Jones
A rummage in the corporate attic
The Financial Times (07/23/2008)
Professor Mihir A. Desai
Senate Panel Will Probe a Tax Haven
The New York Sun (07/24/2008)
Professor Joshua D. Coval
Bush pins credit mess on 'drunk' Wall Street
Globe and Mail Online (07/24/2008)
Professor Kenneth Froot
Global institutional investors take heart
Investment News (07/23/2008)
Professor Dutch Leonard
Time to get real
CSR Asia (07/23/2008)
Professor Tarun Khanna
Breaking the Wall
Deccan Herald (07/23/2008)
Assistant Professor Karim Lakhani
If You Have a Problem, Ask Everyone
The New York Times (07/22/2008)
Professor Emeritus John Kotter
Analysis: Finding a Sense of Urgency
Businessweek (07/22/2008)
Associate Professor Boris Groysberg, Professor and Senior Associate Dean Nitin Nohria
Harvey Schachter's guide on how to handle everything from overflowing e-mail to meeting overload
The Globe and Mail (07/21/2008)
Professor Tarun Khanna
'Development in China is top down'
The Hindu (07/20/2008)
Professor Amy C. Edmondson
Another Meeting? Say It Isn't So
The New York Times (07/20/2008)
Professor Tarun Khanna
Intelligent Discussion
The Deccan Chroncile (07/19/2008)
Professor Emeritus James Cash, Professor Benjamin Esty
Business School summer program offers world of possibilities
The Harvard Gazette (07/18/2008)
Assistant Professor Gregory Barron
Experience vs. Information, Part 2
The New York Times Online (07/15/2008)
Programming Coordinator Carolyn Gould
Yoga Makes Headway in Business Schools
Businessweek (07/15/2008)
Associate Professor Anita Elberse
Long Tails and Big Heads
Slate.com (07/14/2008)
Dean, Emeritus John H. McArthur
Ex-Senate president in race to head BPL
The Boston Globe (07/14/2008)
Professor Teresa Amabile
Creativity can thrive, if you keep the e-mail in check
The Boston Globe (07/13/2008)
Professor Nancy Koehn
Creative Capitalism in Context
Creative Capitalism (07/12/2008)
Professor and Senior Associate Dean David Bell
LAND HOE: Demand surges for local food
Enterprise News.com (07/12/2008)
Professor Clayton Christensen
Public school evolution
The Denver Post (07/11/2008)
Professor Tarun Khanna
Author's Corner
(Scroll to pages 10/11)
360/The Merrill Lynch Leadership Magazine (07/11/2008)
Assistant Professor Lauren H. Cohen, Assistant Professor Christopher J. Malloy
A Connection Premium
The New York Sun (07/10/2008)
Associate Professor Robert S. Huckman
When there's no room to grow
Nature (07/09/2008)
Professor Michael Tushman
Tushman receives honorary degree from University of Geneva
The Cambridge Chronicle (07/09/2008)
Professor Nabil N. El-Hage
Straying from the blueprint
The Boston Globe (07/09/2008)
Professor William C. Kirby
Harvard Opens First China Office
The Harvard Crimson (07/08/2008)
Associate Professor Anita Elberse
Long live the long tail? Maybe not so much
Time.com (07/07/2008)
Associate Professor Robert D. Austin
Oops!
The Wall Street Journal (07/07/2008)
Dean Jay Light
Harvard expands in Asia
The Financial Times (07/07/2008)
Professor John Gourville
Consumers get less bang for their buck
The Globe and Mail (07/08/2008)
Assistant Professor Anat Keinan
Splurging Is Good for Your Health
The Wall Street Journal Online (07/07/2008)
Associate Professor Andrew McAfee
Why Companies Need Web 2.0
Forbes.com (07/07/2008)
Professor Michael Porter
Rethinking the role of employers
Financial Times (07/03/2008)
Associate Professor Robin Greenwood
Inexperience May Feed the Bubbles
The New York Times (07/04/2008)
Professor Clayton Christensen
Digital revolution is now transforming education
Minnesota Public Radio (07/03/2008)
Assistant Professor Karim Lakhani
Stepping into the shoes of a designer
The Seattle Times (07/03/2008)
Associate Professor Li Jin
A Better Solution for China
The Wall Street Journal Asia (07/03/2008)
Professor Regina Herzlinger
Stepping into the shoes of a designer
The Financial Times (07/02/2008)
Professor William C. Kirby, Dean Jay Light
Harvard opens office in Shanghai
The Boston Globe (07/02/2008)
Assistant Professor Daniel Bergstresser, Professor Peter Tufano
Bear market freak out
CNN Money (07/01/2008)
Assistant Professor Andre Hagiu
Microsoft's Plan B for Search
BusinessWeek (07/01/2008)
Professor Tarun Khanna
India Lets Success Happen
The American Spectator (07/01/2008)
Assistant Professor Anita Elberse, Assistant Professor Michael Norton
Battle of the Network All-Stars
Inc.com (07/01/2008)
Professor Niall Ferguson
A Revisionist View of a Century Dominated by War
The New York Times (06/30/2008)
Professor Nancy Koehn
The leader and the moment
Fortune.com (06/30/2008)
Professor Emeritus James Heskett, Professor Emeritus Gerald Zaltman
Ever wonder why managers don't think deeply? It turns out, it's not their fault
The Montreal Gazette (06/30/2008)
Professor and Senior Associate Dean David Yoffie
Microsoft Seeks Path Beyond the Gates Legacy
The New York Times (06/27/2008)
Professor Clayton Christensen
The meaning of Bill Gates
The Economist (06/26/2008)
Professor Ranjay Gulati
Redefining Innovation
CNBC's The Business of Innovation (06/24/2008)
Associate Professor Rakesh Khurana
Firms more inclined to promote insiders as CEO
Chicago Tribune (06/24/2008)
Professor Clayton Christensen
Harvard professor sees technology as cure for ailing, costly healthcare system
Healthcare Finance News (06/23/2008)
Professor John Quelch
The Prius Liberal
Newsweek.com (06/20/2008)
Professor Tarun Khanna
What plagues Indian entrepreneurs?
Moneycontrol.com (06/20/2008)
Senior Lecturer Robert F. Higgins
Health-Care Innovation
BusinessWeek Online (06/18/2008)
Listen
Professor Tarun Khanna
The Growing Economic Influence of China and India
NPR's Morning Edition (06/17/2008)
Professor Emeritus Samuel Hayes
AIG's Sullivan Joins List of Deposed Financial Chiefs
Bloomberg.com (06/17/2008)
Senior Lecturer John Davis
'Copy This! How I Turned Dyslexia, ADHD, and 100 Square Feet Into a Company Called Kinko's'
The Wall Street Journal Online (06/16/2008)
Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Accounting and Senior Associate Dean Srikant Datar
B-schools will grow out of the classroom
The Economic Times (06/16/2008)
Professor and Senior Associate Dean David Thomas
Diversity in the C-Suite
Human Resource Executive Online (06/16/2008)
Lecturer John Macomber
Turning 'dirt to dollars'
The Hindu (06/15/2008)
Professor Max Bazerman
Evaluating Your Business Ethics
Gallup Management Journal (06/12/2008)
Assistant Professor Ben Edelman
Experts: Spyware Legislation Needs More Work
PC World (06/12/2008)
Professor Tarun Khanna
The two rising Asian giants
The Hindu (06/10/2008)
Professor Emeritus Michael C. Jensen
Now Professors Get Their Star Rankings, Too
The New York Times (06/09/2008)
Professor Stuart C. Gilson
Heir care tips for Mr Gandhi
The Economic Times (06/09/2008)
Professor Emeritus Malcolm S. Salter
Sides talk on budget problems
The Boston Globe (06/08/2008)
Professor Nancy Koehn
Wal-Mart's Scott Benefits From Economic Slump, Discount Demand
Bloomberg.com (06/07/2008)
Professor Tarun Khanna
A Case Of Reverse Imperialism
Forbes.com (06/06/2008)
Professor of Management Practice John R. Wells
Industry-specific
The Economist.com (06/05/2008)
Professor Joseph Bower
Gates-Ballmer Clash Shaped Microsoft's Coming Handover
The Wall Street Journal (06/05/2008)
Professor Michael Porter
How nations compete
The Times of India (06/04/2008)
Professor Tarun Khanna
Global Business
BBC Radio (06/03/2008)
Professor Bill George
When Intolerance Becomes Intolerable
The New York Times (06/02/2008)
Professor Emeritus John Kotter
Changes with Penguins: A Q&A with Harvard Guru John Kotter
ManageSmarter.com (06/02/2008)
Assistant Professor Karim Lakhani
The Customer is the Company
Inc. (06/01/2008)
Assistant Professor Fabrizio Ferri
Not-So-Modest Proposals
CFO (06/01/2008)
Assistant Professor Karim Lakhani
The Customer is the Company
Inc.com (06/01/2008)
Professor Teresa Amabile
You can train yourself to be more creative in the way you tackle problems
The Montreal Gazette (05/31/2008)
Senior Lecturer Stephen P. Kaufman
CIOs need to talk
MIS Magazine (Australia) (05/30/2008)
Professor Mihir A. Desai; Associate Professor C. Fritz Foley
America the Difficult
The American (05/29/2008)
Professor Regina Herzlinger, Professor Andre Perold
Newsmakers
The Harvard Gazette (05/29/2008)
Professor Tarun Khanna
Future of the world depends on whether India and China can get along
Reuters (05/28/2008)
Professor Emeritus Sam Hayes
Wall Street Dismissals, Not as Bad as '01, Signal Worst to Come
Bloomberg (05/27/2008)
Professor Regina Herzlinger
Making health-care history
Fortune (05/26/2008)
Professor Nancy Koehn
A Star-Spangled Banner Yet Waves at Lord & Taylor
The New York Times (05/26/2008)
Professor Jay Lorsch
For the Chief, a Little Skepticism Can Go a Long Way
The New York Times (05/25/2008)
Professor Max Bazerman, Associate Professor Deepak Malhotra
Negotiate logically, not intuitively
The Montreal Gazette (05/24/2008)
Professor Peter Tufano
Plastic makes it too easy for consumers to spend more than they planned
The Boston Globe (05/23/2008)
Professor Michael Porter
Foreign Hires, Offshoring Part of Japan's Response to Engineering Drought
ITBusinessEdge (05/23/2008)
Associate Professor Andrew P. McAfee
CIOs Look Beyond Web 2.0
CIO (India) (05/23/2008)
Professor Emeritus Gerald Zaltman
Thinking Deeply About Consumers
Forbes (05/20/2008)
Professor Tarun Khanna
Playing for Keeps: A Symposium
The American (05/20/2008)
Senior Lecturer John Macomber
Harvard examines Indian real estate
IndUS Business Journal (05/20/2008)
Professor Michael Porter
'Strategy is about competitive advantage'
The Times of India (05/20/2008)
Professor Regina Herzlinger
Health Care and History's Hand
The Washington Post (05/20/2008)
Professor Teresa Amabile
Creativity and productivity
The Boston Globe (05/20/2008)
Professor Tarun Khanna
China over-errs on the side of public interest, India on pvt property
Daily Nws & Analysis (India) (05/19/2008)
Professor Emeritus Sam Hayes
Banks Keep $35 Billion Markdown Off Income Statements
Bloomberg (05/19/2008)
Professor Clayton Christensen
The Computer Industry Comes With Built-In Term Limits
The New York Times (05/18/2008)
Professor Niall Ferguson
Rebellion without a cause
The Financial Times (05/17/2008)
Professor André Perold
Passions Run High on Indexing
The New York Times (05/17/2008)
Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Panels contrive job interview for the next president of the U.S.
The Harvard Gazette (05/16/2008)
Stephen Laster, Chief Information Officer
Harvard Business School CIO's hiring process
CIO Asia (05/16/2008)
Professor Josh Lerner
All Clear?
The Economist (05/15/2008)
Senior Associate Dean Joseph L. Badaracco
Schools Coordinate Calendars
The Harvard Crimson (05/15/2008)
Professor Peter Tufano
Credit Cards Cost, No Matter What
The Washington Post (05/15/2008)
Assistant Professor Andrei Hagiu
Getting Japan to capitalize on its innovation
The Japanese Times (05/15/2008)
Assistant Professor Karim R. Lakhani
L'adoption de l'innovation
ITRManager.com (05/15/2008)
Professor Louis T. Wells
Governments in a topsy-turvy world of disputes with investors
The Financial Times (05/14/2008)
Professor Tarun Khanna
Something fishy in the heart of Mumbai
Daily News and Analysis (India) (05/14/2008)
Professor Josh Lerner
No more easy money? Private equity's plan B
Fortune (05/14/2008)
Senior Associate Dean Srikant Datar
Tradition makes way for innovation
The Times Online (UK) (05/14/2008)
Assistant Professor Aldo Musacchio
Brazil Joins Front Rank Of New Economic Powers
The Wall Street Journal (05/13/2008)
Professor David Yoffie
Analysis: Google triumphant
The Financial Times (05/13/2008)
Assistant Professor Noam T. Wasserman
Goliath Solutions' chance to grow makes it easier to give up some equity
Chicago Tribune (05/12/2008)
Executive Director Ralph James
Course design: Students learn best through experience
The Financial Times (05/12/2008)
Professor Regina Herzlinger
Insurance model follows American tradition
Associated Press (05/12/2008)
Associate Professor Rakesh Khurana
A little leeway goes a long way
The Times (05/11/2008)
Senior Associate Dean John A. Quelch
Low road of negative ads
The Washington Times (05/11/2008)
Professor Regina Herzlinger
Who will fix America's broken health care system?
The Real News Network (05/08/2008)
Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Executives from around country gather in Greenville to trade ideas
The Greenville News (05/08/2008)
Professor Josh Lerner
Methods and madness
The Economist (05/08/2008)
Professor Josh Lerner
The changing face of private equity
CNN (05/08/2008)
Professor Clayton Christensen
Report: Half of High School Classes Could Be Online by 2019
T.H.E. Journal (05/08/2008)
Professor Pankaj Ghemawat
Global Maket an Illusion in a Semi-Globalized World, Expert Says
Deutsche Welle (05/08/2008)
Associate Professor Rakesh Khurana, Lecturer John Macomber, Senior Associate Dean David Yoffie
Executive Education programme on South Asia real estate
The Hindustan Times (05/07/2008)
Professor Michael Porter
'Strategy is about competitive advantage'
The Time of India, Mumbai (05/06/2008)
Professor David Yoffie
Google Ends Microsoft's Yahoo Search
The New York Times (05/06/2008)
Professor Clayton Christensen
Buying Resources, Process And Values
Forbes (05/05/2008)
Professor Bill George
How CEOs Stay On Top Of Their Game
Forbes (05/05/2008)
Professor Tarun Khanna
'India, China can gain more with better cooperation'
The Economic Times (05/04/2008)
Professor Tarun Khanna
Billions of Entrepreneurs
Ottawa Business Journal (05/02/2008)
Professor Pankaj Ghemawat
The Cognitive Age
The New York Times (05/02/2008)
Professor David Yoffie
The Mac in the Gray Flannel Suit
BusinessWeek (05/01/2008)
Senior Associate Dean Srikant Datar
Wall Street trends seen in new book
Tulsa Beacon (05/01/2008)
Professor Gary Pisano
Biotech Focus: Chasing the Pot of Gold
Medical, Marketing and Media (05/01/2008)
Professor Regina Herzlinger
McCain: Put Families 'Back in Charge' of Health Care
NPR's All Things Considered (04/30/2008)
Professor Clayton M Christensen
Perspectives: XG's low-energy mobiles threaten high disruption
The Financial Times (04/30/2008)
Professor Regina Herzlinger
McCain's Health-Care Proposal
BusinessWeek (04/29/2008)
Professor Josh Lerner
Warren Buffett's stake helps Mars take over Wrigley
The Times Online (UK) (04/29/2008)
Senior Lecturer Robert Pozen
How to Revive Securitization Markets
The Wall Street Journal (04/29/2008)
Senior Lecturer John A. Davis
US, European business families eye Indian PE
Livemint.com (04/28/2008)
Associate Professor Rakesh Khurana
Pay Gap Fuels Worker Woes
The Wall Street Journal (04/28/2008)
Associate Professor Frances X. Frei
Getting Service Right
The New York Times (04/28/2008)
Professor Tarun Khanna
Not India vs China but India and China
The Telegraph (India) (04/27/2008)
Senior Associate Dean John Quelch
Crisis fears recede on Wall Street
Times Online (UK) (04/27/2008)
Professor Tarun Khanna
India and China: the friendly giants
The Guardian (UK) (04/25/2008)
Professor Emeritus Samuel Hayes
Fuld of experience
The Economist (04/24/2008)
Professor Tarun Khanna
'Mandalay now more Chinese than Indian'
Thaindian News (04/24/2008)
Tim Butler, Senior Fellow and Director of Career Development Programs, MBA Program Administration
The Call of Wall Street
The Boston Globe (04/24/2008)
Senior Associate Dean John Quelch
Growing Green During Downturn
Policy Innovations (04/22/2008)
Professor Tarun Khanna
Why China Needs India's Transparency
Businessweek (04/22/2008)
Assistant Professor Aldo Musacchio
O primeiro boom capitalista do Brasil
Epoca (04/12/2008)
Professor Pankaj Ghemawat
A Mittal secret from the 'rust buckets' of Kazakhstan
Daily News & Analysis (04/21/2008)
Professor Josh Lerner
Economic News Too Negative? Just Cut Funding for Data
Fox Business (04/21/2008)
Professor Pankaj Ghemawat
'There is a lot of headroom for Indian IT'
Daily News & Analysis (04/21/2008)
Professor Josh Lerner
Small Portions
Forbes (04/21/2008)
Professor Clayton Christensen
How to Reduce Health Care Costs
Forbes (04/21/2008)
Assistant Professor Karim Lakhani
The Power of the Prize
Fast Company (04/18/2008)
Professor Max Bazerman, Professor Srikant Datar
Academic News:
Academic news - Business school bulletin April 2008
Ethical Corporation (04/17/2008)
Assistant Professor Michael Norton
Money spent on others can buy happiness
The Harvard Gazette (04/17/2008)
Professor David Yoffie
For Microsoft, Holding Yahoo Talent May Be Costly
The New York Times (04/16/2008)
Professor Bill Sahlman
Faculty Profile
The Harbus (04/14/2008)
Adjunct Professor David Collis
Thomson Remake Cost Chief Job
The Wall Street Journal (04/14/2008)
Assistant Professor Gregory M. Barron
You Won't Like This Article
The Boston Globe (04/13/2008)
Harvard Business School
More than a helping hand for charities
The Boston Globe (04/12/2008)
Professor Emeritus Stephen Greyser
Olympic sponsorship isn't an automatic gold medal
USA Today (04/11/2008)
Professor Josh Lerner
High finance laid low
The Economic Times (04/11/2008)
Professor Tarun Khanna
Burmese Squeeze
The Wall Street Journal Asia (04/10/2008)
Professor Tarun Khanna
Burmese Squeeze
Wall Street Journal Asia (04/10/2008)
Professor Jay Lorsch
Stocks may fall, but execs' pay doesn't
USA Today (04/10/2008)
Professor Gail McGovern
Former Corporate Executive to Run Red Cross
The New York Times (04/9/2008)
Assistant Professor Fabrizio Ferri
Giving Investors a Say on CEO Pay
Time Magazine (04/09/2008)
Professor Josh Lerner
High Finance Laid Low
The Washington Post (04/9/2008)
HBS Centennial
Happy Birthday, HBS
Economist.com (04/8/2008)
Senior Lecturer John A. Davis
A Vintage Strategy Faces Modernity
The Wall Street Journal (04/05/2008)
Associate Professor Andrew P. McAfee
100 Most Influential People in IT
Eweek.com (04/04/2008)
Harvard Business School
'To whom much is given ...'
The Harvard Gazette (04/04/2008)
Timothy Butler, Director of Career Development Programs
Job Searchers Face a New Reality
Businessweek (04/04/2008)
Professor Alvin Roth
Matchmaker, mathmaker
The Daily Princetonian (04/04/2008)
Professor Jan Rivkin
From Law School to Business School - evolution of the case method
The Harvard Gazette (04/04/2008)
Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Fixing a Broken Dream One Night at a Time
The New York Times (04/04/2008)
Professor Robert C. Merton
On Markets and Complexity
MIT Technology Review (04/02/2008)
Assistant Professor Noam T. Wasserman
Making the right decisions can be more emotional than you'd think
The Jerusalem Post (04/02/2008)
Assistant Professor Michael Norton
Giving Money Brings Joy
The Harvard Crimson (04/02/2008)
Lecturer Stacey Childress, Professor Allen Grossman
No Child law fixes; Don't leave them behind
Washington Business Journal (04/01/2008)
Professor Joseph Bower
The Leader Within
Directorship (04/01/2008)
Senior Associate Dean John Quelch
The Brand Called Obama
Fast Company (04/01/2008)
Professor Regina Herzlinger, Professor Michael Porter
Your Retiring Clients' Biggest Fear
Financial Planning (04/01/2008)
Adjunct Professor, Emeritus William J. Poorvu
Waiting for real estate bounce
The San Francisco Chronicle (03/30/2008)
Assistant Professor Boris Groysberg
Shifting Stars
The Boston Globe (03/30/2008)
Senior Associate Dean John Quelch
Dunkin Donuts vs. Starbucks Democrats
NPR's All Things Considered (03/30/2008)
Professor, Emeritus Stephen Greyser
Red Sox Nation Sold On Owners
The Hartford Courant (03/30/2008)
Professor Regina Herzlinger
America, Insure Thyself
The Washington Post Online (03/29/2008)
Professor Tarun Khanna
A tale of two giants
The National Post (03/29/2008)
Professor Josh Lerner
Democratic rivals urge more fiscal oversight
The Boston Globe (03/28/2008)
Professor Anita Elberse
Anita Elberse
Variety (03/27/2008)
Professor Josh Lerner
Boston buyout firms sue banks over financing
The Boston Globe (03/27/2008)
Professor Toby E. Stuart
Is Your Great Idea A Real Business?
Forbes.com (03/26/2008)
Assistant Professor Michael Norton
Scientists Detect Nice NYT Readers
The New York Times Online (03/26/2008)
Professor Michael Porter
Managing care the right way
The Boston Globe (03/26/2008)
Professor Joseph Bower
Spring cleaning ...for the mind
The Globe and Mail (03/26/2008)
Professor, Emeritus Samuel L. Hayes
Lawyers in spotlight over loophole
The Financial Times (03/25/2008)
Professor, Emeritus John J. GabarroProfessor, Emeritus John P. Kotter
Turning 'Top Down' Upside Down
Forbes.com (03/25/2008)
Professor Alvin E. Roth
The "Yuck!" Factor
NPR's Here and Now (03/25/2008)
Professor Richard Tedlow
Will History Happen to your Company
The Times of India (03/25/2008)
Professor Pankaj Ghemawat
An antidote to Thomas Friedman
The Time of India (03/25/2008)
Professor Joseph L. Bower
The urge to merge
The Boston Globe (03/24/2008)
Professor David A. Moss
Legacy of Depression at work now
The Los Angeles Times (03/24/2008)
Professor Nancy F. Koehn
Even at Megastores, Hagglers Find No Price Is Set in Stone
The New York Times (03/23/2008)
Professor Regina Herzlinger
Kellogg School Corner | A 'code red' on US health care
Livemint.com (03/23/2008)
Professor Alvin E. Roth
David Gale, 86; UC Berkeley mathematician
The Los Angeles Times (03/23/2008)
Professor Richard Tedlow
Why Old Technologies Are Still Kicking
The New York Times (03/23/2008)
Associate Professor Giovanni Gavetti
How Did Your Computer Crash? Check the Instant Replay
The New York Times (03/23/2008)
Professor Niall Ferguson
Time travellers
The Financial Times (03/22/2008)
Professor Krishna Palepu
Corporates seek advice from management thinkers
The Economic Times (03/21/2008)
Professor Tarun Khanna
Q&A
India Abroad (03/21/2008)
Professor, Emeritus William Poorvu
Crisis of Confidence
The Newshour with Jim Lehrer (03/21/2008)
Professor, Emeritus Stephen Greyser
Symposium held on 'Olympic' architecture
The Harvard Gazette (03/20/2008)
Associate Professor Scott A. Snook
Helping Military Students Adjust
Businessweek (03/20/2008)
See Also:
From the Battlefield to B-School
Businessweek (03/20/2008)
Professor Richard S. Tedlow
Target's inner circle
Fortune (03/19/2008)
Professor Geoffrey G. Jones
The battle for global business is not yet won
The Financial Times (03/18/2008)
Assistant Professor Ben Edelman
ValueClick to settle FTC charges
The Los Angeles Times (03/18/2008)
Professor Josh Lerner
Bear Stearns Holders Balking at $2/Share
Smartmoney.com (03/18/2008)
Professor, Emeritus Samuel L. Hayes
Waves from Wall St. engulf most everyone
The Boston Globe (03/17/2008)
Professor, Emeritus Samuel L. Hayes
Bear Stearns Bought Out by JP Morgan Chase
NPR: Talk of the Nation (03/17/2008)
Associate Professor Andrew Mcafee
Portals in an Enterprise 2.0 World
CRM Buyer (03/17/2008)
Professor Michael Porter
Rwanda: Blair Advisor to Kagame - Lessons to Draw
All Africa.com (03/17/2008)
Professor Peter Tufano
Research Backs Rebates
Businessweek (03/16/2008)
Professor Peter Tufano
Run on Big Wall St. Bank Spurs Rescue Backed by U.S.
The New York Times (03/15/2008)
Professor Debora Spar
In baby business, what are the rules?
The Boston Globe (03/15/2008)
Professor Louis T. Wells
Governments in a topsy-turvy world of disputes with investors
The Financial Times (03/14/2008)
Assistant Professor Mukti V. Khaire
HBS To Host Weekend Conference on India
The Harvard Crimson (03/14/2008)
Professor Bill George
L'Affaire Spitzer: Leaders Who Lose Their Way
Businessweek (03/14/2008)
Professor John Quelch
Upwardly Mobile Stationery
Businessweek (03/14/2008)
Professor Josh Lerner
Privates on Parade
The Economist (03/13/2008)
Professor, Emeritus Samuel Hayes
Spitzer forced out by sex scandal
The Financial Times (03/13/2008)
Professor Tarun Khanna
For Chinese, India's pride is Bollywood: Harvard professor
The Times of India (03/13/2008)
Assistant Professor Victoria Ivashina
Delphi's Woes: Chapter 11
The Wall Street Journal (03/13/2008)
Professor Michael Porter
Michael Porter
Big Think (03/12/2008)
Professor Linda Hill
You're The Boss. What Now?
Forbes.com (03/11/2008)
Associate Professor Rakesh Khurana, Lecturer John D. Macomber
HBS Offers Seminar in India
The Harvard Crimson (03/11/2008)
Professor Josh Lerner
Congress examines PE's telecom role
The Deal (03/11/2008)
Professor Josh Lerner
Ahead of the Bell: Private Equity Firms
CNN (03/11/2008)
Professor Tarun Khanna
Accountability is missing in China
Business Standard (03/11/2008)
March 10, 2008
Ethical Corporation
Associate Professor Joshua D. Margolis
Columnists: Letter from America - The competitive pursuit of goodness
March 10, 2008
Business Spectator (Australia)
Associate Professor Mark T. Bradshaw
Best of a bad lot
March 10, 2008
The Times of India
Professor Tarun Khanna
'India and China are inverted mirror images'
March 10, 2008
Read Write Web
Professor Clayton Christensen
SXSW: Lessons Learned at 37 Signals
March 8, 2008
The New York Times
Professor Joseph Bower
Avoiding a Problem C.E.O.
March 7, 2008
Marketplace
Professor Joseph Bower
Outsiders don't make good CEOs
Listen
March 7, 2008
<The Harvard Crimson
Professor Michael Chu, Director of Donor Relations Kerry Cietanno
HBS Renews Womens' Program
March 7, 2008
<Yale Global Online
Professor Tarun Khanna
India's Forgotten Farmers
March 7, 2008
<The Economic Times
Professor Thomas J. DeLong
Art of Retaining professionals
March 6, 2008
<Networkworld
Professor Michael Porter
"War game" pits MBA students in wireless Internet battle
March 6, 2008
<The New York Times
Harvard Business School
Goldman To Give $100 Million to Teach Women in Third World
See Also:
If It's Good for Goldman Sachs, It's Good for the World
The Wall Street Journal (03/06/2008)
March 5, 2008
ESPN
Harvard Business School
These NFL players know football is a business
March 5, 2008
The Canberra Times
Professor Michael Porter
Hesitancy on feed-in law adds to climate miseries
March 3, 2008
Information Today, Inc.
Associate Professor Andrew McAfee
FAST Forward to the User Revolution
March 3, 2008
Businessweek
Professor, Emeritus Samuel Hayes
Who's Looking Out for Wall Street?
March 3, 2008
The Christian Science Monitor
Professor Regina Herzlinger
Arguments mount for a national healthcare system
March 2, 2008
American Chronicle
Professor Debora Spar
An Inconvenient Troth. The Mess Media In The Philippines
March 2, 2008
The Province
Professor Max Bazerman
Authors explore shoddy ethics in the workplace
March 2, 2008
Parade
Professor Richard Vietor
Wind Power
February 28, 2008
The Economic Times
Professor Krishna Palepu
'Maintain work-life balance'
February 28, 2008
The New York Times
Professor Peter Tufano
A Cash Literacy Deficit?
February 28, 2008
Businessweek
Professor, Emeritus Christopher A. Bartlett
Multinationals: Are They Good for America?
February 28, 2008
The Washington Post
Professor David Yoffie
E.U. Slaps Third Fine on Microsoft
February 27, 2008
The Boston Globe
Professor Regina Herzlinger
How much is too much to pay?
February 26, 2008
The Harvard Crimson
Professor W. Carl Kester
Executive Director of the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship Michael Roberts
Players Prepare for Life After Football
February 26, 2008
The American
Professor Richard Tedlow
The Dangers of Wishful Thinking
February 26, 2008
Sydney Morning Herald
Associate Professor Andrew P. McAfee
Facebook up to it
February 26, 2008
Fox Business
Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter
How not to innovate
February 25, 2008
Businessweek
Professor Rakesh Khurana
The Post-Bubble Curriculum
February 25, 2008
Business Standard
Professor Krishna Palepu
Board Games
February 25, 2008
Chicago Tribune
Professor Nancy Koehn
Sears CEO job tough sell
February 25, 2008
Star-Telegram
Professor, Emeritus James Cash
A historic leap
February 24, 2008
The News Journal (Delaware)
Professor Regina Herzlinger
Good ideas -- but pessimistic diagnosis
February 24, 2008
The New York Times
Professor Malcolm P. Baker
A Sign of Hope for Stocks
February 24, 2008
Business Standard
Professor Tarun Khanna
Mine, Yours And Ours
February 23, 2008
The Star Phoenix
Professor Max Bazerman
Blind eye turned too often on unethical behaviour
February 23, 2008
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Senior Associate Dean John Quelch
Vanguard CEO to pass torch
February 22, 2008
Here and Now (WBUR)
Professor Tarun Khanna
China and India
Listen
February 22, 2008
VietNamNet
Senior Associate Dean John Quelch
US academic advises Vietnam firms on global market
February 22, 2008
The Harvard Crimson
Centennial Institutional Memory Project Leader Melissa Shaffer
New Web site Launched This Week Rings In One Hundred Years of Harvard Business School
February 22, 2008
The Wall Street Journal
Professor Tarun Khanna
To Revive Vodafone, CEO Bets on India
February 21, 2008
The Times Online (UK)
Baker Foundation Professor Hank Reiling
Master the money and the rest falls into place
February 21, 2008
National Post
Professor Peter Tufano
Why the fuss over mutual fund fees?
February 21, 2008
The Economic Times
Professor Tarun Khanna
India comes to terms with its diaspora
February 20, 2008
Front Page Magazine
Professor Regina Herzlinger
Curing the Health Care Crisis
February 20, 2008
The Boston Globe
Professor Amy Edmondson
Comics Thinking
February 19, 2008
Editor & Publisher
Professor Clayton Christensen
Newspaper Next Has New 'Jobs to Do' for Industry
February 19, 2008
AmedNews
Professor Regina Herzlinger
Wal-Mart partners with hospitals to rapidly expand in-store clinics
February 19, 2008
ABC News
Professor John Gourville
Prices That Will Make You Cry
February 19, 2008
Statesman Journal
Professor Regina Herzlinger
Steigerwald Q&A: What's ahead with health care
February 19, 2008
The Economic Times
Senior Associate Dean David Yoffie
Global B-Schools design courses for Indian managers
February 19, 2008
The Boston Globe
Executive Director of Knowledge and Library Services Mary Lee Kennedy
Harvard Business School launches history site
February 19, 2008
Newsweek
Professor Tarun Khanna
Quick Read
February 19, 2008
The Gazette (Montreal)
Professor Max Bazerman
Unethical behaviour thrives because it's easy to turn a blind eye to it
February 16, 2008
Philippine Daily Inquirer
Senior Fellow Timothy Butler
Getting Unstuck
February 15, 2008
Tehelka
Professor Tarun Khanna
Crouching Tigers
February 15, 2008
FinChannel
Harvard University President Drew Faust, Dean Jay Light, Senior Associate Dean John Quelch
Harvard Business School Sets Out Centennial Activities
February 15, 2008
Business Standard
Professor Michael Porter
Innovation clusters to drive growth
February 15, 2008
The Boston Globe
Senior Associate Dean John Quelch
Global summit to cap Harvard Business School centennial
February 14, 2008
ZDnet
Associate Professor Andrew P. McAfee
February 11, 2008
FinChannel.com
Assistant Professor Lauren Cohen, Assistant Professor Christopher Malloy
Harvard Business School Faculty Members Win Smith Breeden Prize for Distinguished Paper in Finance
February 11, 2008
CIO Asia
Professor Clayton M. Christensen
Nokia CTO mission: Reinvent the company
February 11, 2008
The Malaysia Star
Associate Professor Gregory S. Miller
How to talk to investors through the media
February 11, 2008
BusinessWeek
Professor Tarun Khanna
Just Don't Call It 'Chindia'
February 10, 2008
The New York Times
Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter
When Women Rule
February 8, 2008
Computer Weekly
Associate Professor Robert D. Austin
Specialisterne finds a place in workforce for people with autism
February 8, 2008
The Huffington Post
Professor Josh Lerner
Too Many Patents? How Patent Inflation Plagues Information Technology
February 7, 2008
The Providence Journal
Professor Regina Herzlinger
Who killed health care?
February 7, 2008
BusinessWeek
Professor David Yoffie
Will Yahoo! Feel the Love?
February 6, 2008
Financial Times
Professor Tarun Khanna
The right questions on India and China
February 6, 2008
The Clarion Ledger
Professor Regina Herzlinger
Health insurance expenses weighed at governor's summit
February 6, 2008
The New York Times
Associate Professor Thomas R. Eisenmann
Microsoft Adversary Rises Instinctively at Yahoo Bid
February 6, 2008
The Wall Street Journal
Professor David Yoffie
Ballmer Should Adopt Oracle's Mantra
February 6, 2008
CIO
Curriculum Services Specialist Ann Cullen
Six Techniques to Get More from the Web than Google Will Tell You
February 6, 2008
Living In Peru
Professor Teresa Amabile
What can we learn from Einstein and Woody Allen?
February 5, 2008
Financial Times
Professor V. Kasturi Rangan
Everybody wants to save the world
February 5, 2008
Sifty
Professor Jay W. Lorsch
Is global model of corporate governance likely or desirable?
February 5, 2008
Business Report (South Africa)
Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter
What Zuma must learn: confidence needs clarity
Directors & Boards
Professor Joseph Bower
Why so many companies fail at succession
February 4, 2008
Chowk
Professor Richard H.K. Vietor
India Chalo - An Anecdotal Look at the Indian Economy
February 4, 2008
Malaysian Star
Professor Bharat N. Anand
The more the merrier approach
February 2, 2008
The New York Times
Professor David B. Yoffie
Yahoo Offer Is Strategy Shift for Microsoft
February 1, 2008
Professional Roofing
Professor, Emeritus James L. Heskett, Professor, Emeritus John P. Kotter
Working with Diversity
February 1, 2008
CNN
Professor David Yoffie
Microsoft Seen Facing Daunting Yahoo-Integration Challenge
January 31, 2008
Reuters
Professor Tarun Khanna
Business Books: Weaving parallels between China and India
January 31, 2008
The New York Times
Professor Alvin Roth
Economists Dissect the 'Yuck' Factor
January 31, 2008
The Harvard Crimson
Professor Janice Hammond, Professor Debora L. Spar
HBS Prof To Lead Barnard College
January 30, 2008
On Point
Professor Tarun Khanna
China, India, and Billions of Entrepreneurs
Listen
January 30, 2008
The New York Times
Professor David A. Thomas
Executive Life; Putting a Formal Stamp on Mentoring
January 30, 2008
Bloomberg
Associate Professor Belen Villalonga
Musical Indonesian Billionaires Bet Oil Growth on Libya Gusher
January 30, 2008
Philadelphia Daily News
Professor Clayton Christensen
Fight crime the modern way
January 30, 2008
The Wall Street Journal
Associate Professor Randolph B. Cohen
Looking for Market Idols
January 29, 2008
Forbes
Professor Joseph L. Badaracco
The Right War To Fight?
January 29, 2008
Channel News Asia
Professor Robert Merton
Rising power of Sovereign Wealth Funds sparks controversy
January 28, 2008
American Medical News
Professor Alvin E. Roth
Economists' study says paying for organs would cut wait lists
January 27, 2008
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Professor Regina Herzlinger
Website may spark change in medical economics
January 27, 2008
The New York Times
Senior Lecturer Clayton Rose
What's $34 Billion on Wall Street?
January 26, 2008
The Pioneer Press
Baker Foundation Professor Joseph Bower
The downside of CEO turnover
January 26, 2008
House Call with Dr. Sanjay Gupta
Professor Regina Herzlinger
The Truth About Caffeine; Health Care: Is Our Government Getting Too Involved or Not Doing Enough?; Cold Versus Allergies
January 26, 2008
The Register
Assistant Professor Ben Edelman
Spamford Wallace's MySpace riches come under attack
January 25, 2008
The New York Times
Professor Josh Lerner
Study Says Private Equity Isn't Big Job Killer
January 25, 2008
The Coloradoan
Professor Teresa Amabile
Name-calling at work is sloppy way to communicate
January 25, 2008
The Financial Times
Professor Josh Lerner
Private equity acquisitions create fewer jobs
January 24, 2008
The Economist
Professor Tarun Khanna
Shifting the balance
January 24, 2008
The Boston Globe
Professor Josh Lerner
Outgoing PerkinElmer chief sets a new course
January 24, 2008
Bloomberg
Professor, Emeritus Samuel Hayes
Atonement Comes to Wall Street as Exiled Risk Guardians Return
January 24, 2008
The Times (UK)
Professor Josh Lerner
MBA is the best bet for equitable futures
January 23, 2008
Vietnam Net Bridge
Professor John Quelch
Harvard Business School Dean holds HCM City conference
January 22, 2008
PennLive.com
Professor Cynthia A. Montgomery
Collaboration or individual leadership? Which is it?
January 22, 2008
The Financial Times
Professor Josh Lerner
Guide to Davos: The big questions - (Part 1)
January 22, 2008
The Wall Street Journal
Senior Associate Dean David A. Thomas
Obama's Bid Turns Focus On Class Split Among Blacks
January 22, 2008
Arab News
Professor Michael Porter
Raise Culture of Productivity, Says Expert
January 22, 2008
IT World Canada
Associate Professor Rakesh Khurana
IT, MBAs and ideals
January 22, 2008
Axcess News
Professor Alvin E. Roth
Panel debates whether paying organ donors would save lives
January 21, 2008
Fox Business
Professor, Emeritus Stephen A. Greyser
NFL's Business Model Works for the Underdog; MLB's ... Not So Much
January 21, 2008
Business Today
Professor Clayton M. Christensen
Waiting for the wavelets
January 18, 2008
The New York Times
Associate Professor Joshua D. Margolis
Bottom Line on Doing Good
January 18, 2008
U.S. News & World Report
Professor John Gourville
Why Shoppers Love to Hate Rebates
January 18, 2008
The Boston Globe
Professor Clayton Christensen
Unhealthy turf war
January 17, 2008
BusinessWeek
Professor Rosabeth M. Kanter
International Isn't Just IBM's First Name
January 17, 2008
The Economist
Professor Dutch Leonard, Professor Michael Porter
Just good business
January 16, 2008
The Jakarta Post
Professor Linda Hill, Professor Tarun Khanna
Find your brand DNA
January 16, 2008
Medical News Today
Professor Bill George
Hospitals-Physicians-Consumers--At The Intersection Of Improved Quality, Safety And Performance. - Conference
January 15, 2008
International Herald Tribune
Professor Tarun Khanna
Why cooperation matters
January 15, 2008
BusinessWeek
Professor, Emeritus Stephen Greyser
Green Isn't Gold for MBAs
January 15, 2008
Media Daily News
Assistant Professor Anita Elberse
Online Video Wealth Heart Of WGA Strike
January 14, 2008
Computerworld
Professor Andrew McAfee
8 Blazing Hot Technologies for '08
January 13, 2008
PC World
Professor Andrew McAfee
Is Enterprise 2.0 Bad for Business?
January 11, 2008
The Christian Science Monitor
Professor John A. Quelch
Nonprofit slips in race for cheap laptop for world's poor kids
January 11, 2008
CondeNaste Portfolio
Professor Max H. Bazerman
Harold & Kumar or Citizen Kane?
January 10, 2008
The Times (UK)
Professor David Yoffie
Choose a course to master the business
January 10, 2008
Singapore News
Professor Robert Merton
In-house retirement scheme can benefit both companies and employees
January 9, 2008
IT Business Edge
Associate Professor Andrew McAfee
Integrating Facebook
January 9, 2008
BusinessWeek
Assistant Professor Ben Edelman
Online Privacy's Call to Arms
January 9, 2008
The Economic Times
Professor Krishna Palepu
Message for India Inc: Embrace neutrality to go global
January 8, 2008
The Times (UK)
Senior Lecturer Sandra Sucher
How to tell right from wrong: join a book club
January 8, 2008
Business Today
Professor Pankaj Ghemawat
The world not-so-flat
January 8, 2008
The Financial Times
Professor Michael Porter
May the forces be with you and your plans for 2008
January 7, 2008
BNET
Senior Lecturer Sandra Sucher
Useful Commute: Moral Lessons in Literature
January 7, 2008
The Huffington Post
Professor Michael E. Porter
Peaceful Revolution: Business Leaders of America: Fear Not Paid Family Leave
January 7, 2008
MarketWatch
Assistant Professor Mikolaj Jan Piskorski
The ABCs of online networking
January 7, 2008
ComputerWorld
Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter
What Makes Great Companies Great?
January 7, 2008
Forbes
Professor Michael Chu
Microfinance Fever
January 5, 2008
MBA Universe
Associate Professor Rakesh Khurana
International Business & Management books from 2007 that are must reads
January 5, 2008
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Professor, Emeritus Gerald Zaltman
Getting to heart of market research
January 5, 2008
Quad City Times
Professor Niall Ferguson
Lessons for Today from the Ottoman Empire's Decline
January 4, 2008
The New York Times
Ratan Naval Tata (AMP '75)
Tata Pulls Ford Units Into Its Orbit
January 4, 2008
Reuters
Professor Paul Gompers
Sevin Rosen venture capital partners splitting up
January 3, 2008
Forbes.com
Assistant Professor Ben Edelman
China Clamps Down On Internet Video
January 3, 2008
Freelance UK
Professor Emeritus John P. Kotter
The creative mind at work - Part 1
January 2, 2008
The Wall Street Journal
Associate Professor Joshua D. Margolis
Doing Well and Doing Good Are Only Weakly Linked
January 1, 2008
The Financial Times
Professor Niall Ferguson
An Ottoman warning for indebted America
January 1, 2008
SmartMoney
Professor Daniel Bergstresser, Senior Associate Dean Peter Tufano
Unconventional Wisdom: Get a Load of This!
January 1, 2008
ComputerWorld
Professor Ben Edelman
Researcher says Sears downloads spyware
January 1, 2008
Business Daily (Africa)
Professor Clayton Christensen
Safaricom brings money services to your cellphone
January 1, 2008
The New York Times
Professor Joseph L. Bower
In 2007, Some Giants Went Smaller
December 31, 2007
Investors Business Daily
Lecturer Tony Mayo
Time For A Career Check
December 31, 2007
The Seattle Times
Professor Paul Gompers
Veteran quartet takes page from old days, seeds new ventures
December 31, 2007
Adweek
Professor Nancy Koehn
The New Brand Ambassadors
December 27, 2007
Exduco
Professor Clayton Christensen
HBS Professor Addresses Dilemma of Innovation in U.S. Education
December 26, 2007
BusinessWeek
Professor Rakesh Khurana
Business Education Under the Microscope
December 26, 2007
Conde Naste Portfolio
Professor Clayton Christensen
Natural Selection
December 26, 2007
Canada Free Press
Baker Foundation Professor Robert Kaplan
Global Banks Adopting Islam
December 26, 2007
The Concord Monitor
Professor Regina Herzlinger
Democrats' healthy debate
December 24, 2007
ITWorld Canada
Senior Associate Dean John Quelch
A reality check for OLTP
December 23, 2007
The New York Times
Professor Michael Porter
Capital Ideas and Social Goals
December 20, 2007
Wired
Professor Michael Norton
Dating 2.0 Picks Up Speed
December 20, 2007
The Los Angeles Times
Professor John A. Deighton
Investor may stir up Cheesecake
December 20, 2007
Network World
Senior Associate Dean John Quelch
YEAR END - OLPC struggles to realize ambitious vision
December 18, 2007
The Economist
Professor Michael Toffel
News from the schools, December 2007
December 18, 2007
The Los Angeles Times
Professor Paul Gompers
Facebook backer now a rival to venture capitalists
December 17, 2007
CNN
Senior Lecturer Sandra Sucher
A moral take on leadership
December 16, 2007
Reuters
Professor Samuel Hayes
Goldman success brings unwanted attention
December 16, 2007
Forbes Magazine
Professor Clayton Christensen
Man vs. Machine
December 16, 2007
The Freelance Star
Professor Daniel Bergstresser; Senior Associate Dean Peter Tufano
Study shows broker funds may not be best option
December 16, 2007
The New York Times
Professor David Yoffie
Google Gets Ready to Rumble With Microsoft
December 16, 2007
The Boston Globe
Professor Thomas R. Eisenmann
Old media seek to know Google, not just fear it
December 15, 2007
The Washington Post
Professor Clayton Christensen
In Mitt Romney's Neighborhood, A Mormon Temple Casts a Shadow
December 14, 2007
Business Standard
Professor Clayton Christen, Baker Foundation Professor Robert Kaplan
Ajit Balakrishnan: The research dilemma at the IIMs
December 13, 2007
The Harvard Gazette
Marvin Bower Fellow Andrew King, Professor Michael Toffel
Performance evaluations for industry
December 13, 2007
The Harvard Gazette
Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Panel talks politics and principles
December 13, 2007
The Hertiage Foundation
Professor Regina Herzlinger
How Congress Is Killing Competition: The Future of Specialty Hospitals
December 13, 2007
ABC Radio Australia
Professor Richard Vietor
ASIA: Impact of US recession in Asia and Australia
December 12, 2007
Livenews.com (Australia)
Marvin Bower Fellow Andrew King, Professor Michael Toffel
Environmental conscience on click: outing polluters
December 12, 2007
Deccan Herald
Professor Bill George
Why leaders fail to reach their full potential?
December 12, 2007
The Economist
Professor Rakesh Khurana
Pick of the bunch
December 12, 2007
CNN
Marvin Bower Fellow Andrew King, Professor Michael Toffel
Mapping out the environment
December 11, 2007
Forbes
Professor Joseph L. Bower
Holiday Choices For The Corner Office
December 11, 2007
The Harvard Crimson
Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Professor Touts Optimism in Presidential Race
December 11, 2007
ABC News (Australia)
Professor Richard Vietor
US consumerism poses global recession threat: expert
December 10, 2007
The Wall Street Journal (Online)
Professor William George
Ways 'Authentic' Leaders Acquire Management Skills
December 10, 2007
WWJ 950- Daily Dash
Senior Lecturer Sandra Sucher
Moral Leadership Can (And Should) Be Taught to Future Executives, Author says
December 10, 2007
The Daily Texan
Professor Rajiv Lal
Fresh & Easy for the United States?
December 10, 2007
The Boston Globe
Professor Josh Lerner
Subprime crunch cools leveraged buyout market
December 10, 2007
The Daily Campus (Univ. of Connecticut)
Professor Nancy Koehn
Is Online Shopping A Better Way To Buy?
December 9, 2007
The New York Times Magazine
Assistant Professor Michael Norton
Ambiguity Promotes Liking
December 9, 2007
The Washington Post
Assistant Professor Devin Shanthikumar
'Sell' Ratings Remain a Rarity
December 8, 2007
The Financial Times
Professor Joseph L. Bower
The best of 2007
December 8, 2007
The Financial Times
Professor Niall Ferguson
World war four is off: time for a bargain with Tehran?
December 8, 2007
The Houston Chronicle
Walter A. Friedman
A sales career is often a hard sell
December 7, 2007
Harvard Business Review
Professor Geoffrey G. Jones
Lo que la
Historia le puede ense?ar sobre el futuro de su negocio
December 7, 2007
The Washington Post
Professor Ben Edelman
AdultFriendFinder settles pop-up adware charges
December 6, 2007
Computer Weekly
Professor Emeritus John Kotter
How to nurture innovation in your business
December 6, 2007
The Boston Globe
Professor Josh Lerner
Lee Partners raises its largest fund at $10.1b
December 5, 2007
Baseline
Associate Professor Andrew McAfee
Social Networking: Collaborating Minds Are Better than One
December 5, 2007
CFO
Professor Deepak Malhotra, Professor Kathleen McGinn
Not-So-Small Talk
December 5, 2007
CNN Money
Professor Bill George
Prepare To Sharpen Your Judgments
December 4, 2007
Vedomosti
Professor Michael Porter
Competitiveness at the Crossroads: Which Way for the Russian Economy?
December 4, 2007
The Financial Times
Professor Joseph Bower
Theatrical lessons of a bloody leadership transition
December 4, 2007
The San Francisco Chronicle
Professor Peter Tufano
Kathleen Pender: Treasury takes new whack at savings bonds
December 3, 2007
All American Patriots
Professor H. Kent Bowen
Romney Announces Education Policy Advisory Group
December 3, 2007
The Boston Globe
Professor Clayton Christensen
Pressed, Romney to speak on his Mormonism
December 3, 2007
The Wall Street Journal
Professor William George
'Authentic' Ways of Leading
December 3, 2007
FCW.com
Professor Max Bazerman, Associate Professor Deepak Malhotra
Kelman: Smart negotiating
December 3, 2007
The Boston Globe
Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Andrews sings some praises
December 3, 2007
Bloomberg
Professor Devin Shanthikumar
No Sign of `Sell' on Wall Street as Analysts Say: `Buy,' `Hold'
December 2, 2007
The New York Times
Professor Pankaj Ghemawat
The World as an Imperfect Globe
December 1, 2007
Foreign Affairs
Professor Louis T. Wells
Book Review: Making Foreign Investment Safe: Property Rights and National Sovereignty
November 30, 2007
Financial Times
Professor Michael Toffel
Pollution is put on the map
November 30, 2007
International Herald Tribune
Professor Josh Lerner
Buyout companies slash jobs, research finds
November 30, 2007
SmartMoney
Professor Devin M. Shanthikumar
A Bronx Cheer for Analysts
November 30, 2007
Education Week
Professor John Kotter
Can A Change Strategy Alienate Every Stakeholder, Reduce the Chance for Quick Wins in Student Performance, But Still Succeed?
November 30, 2007
Mail Tribune
Professor Rohit Deshpande
Coffee Break
November 30, 2007
The Harvard Crimson
Professor Michael Toffel
HBS Prof's Site Maps Pollution
November 26, 2007
The Wall Street Journal
Hannah Goldie Mestel
'Homework Doesn't Feel the Same'
November 29, 2007
Computer World
Professor Ben Edelman
Advertiser settles FTC 'test it, keep it' charges for $650,000
November 29, 2007
The Korea Times
Professor John Kotter
In Search of Leadership
November 28, 2007
Strategy and Business
Professor Bill George
The Thought Leader Interview: Bill George
November 27, 2007
The Information Week
Professor Joseph Bower
Do You Know Who Your Next CIO Will Be?
November 27, 2007
The Saipan Tribune
Professor John Kotter
The Paradox of Change
November 26, 2007
AllAfrica.com
Professor Michael Porter
Kenya:Are CEO's High Salaries Aligned to Performance
November 27, 2007
The Boston Globe
Professor Anita Elberse
Kennedy agrees to pen memoirs in lucrative deal
November 23, 2007
The Economic Times
Professor Paul Marshall
Seven ways to avoid the growth traps
November 26, 2007
Teaching Expertise
Professor Bill George
Leading authentically
November 24, 2007
The New York Times
Professor Joseph Bower
Short Sighted Management
November 20, 2007
SC Magazine
Professor Ben Edelman
McAfee: Typo-squatters cashing in on website misspellings
November 19, 2007
IT Business Edge
Professor Andrew McAfee
IT's obstinace on Enterprise 2.0
November 19, 2007
The Wall Street Journal
Professor Regina E. Herzlinger
Foreign Health Affairs
November 19, 2007
Daily News & Analysis (India)
Professor Tarun Khanna, Professor Krishna G. Palepu
Harvard to unveil South Asia initiative
November 19, 2007
Conde Nast: Portfolio
Professor Rawi Abdellal
Putin's Power Grab
November 15, 2007
The Economist
Professor Michael Porter
Business and Innovation
November 15, 2007
BusinessWeek
Professor Joseph Bower
Planning a smooth succession
November 15, 2007
Financial Times
Professor Joseph Bower
Look inside for the best outside candidate
November 13, 2007
National Public Radio
Professor Rakesh Khurana
Have Business Schools Strayed from Their Mission?
November 13, 2007
Hedge Fund Net
Professor Robin Greenwood
Hedge Fund Activism Predicts Takeovers, Study
November 12, 2007
The Wall Street Journal
Professor Nancy Koehn
Looking at Clinton, Seeing themselves
November 11, 2007
The New York Times
Professor William W. George
Perhaps Too Many Acts in the Corporate Tent
November 10, 2007
The Boston Globe
Professor Joseph Bower
What's Next at Fidelity?
November 09, 2007
NPR: Marketplace
Professor Stephen Greyser
The fix is in decline
November 09, 2007
The Economic Times
Professor Tarun Khanna, Professor Krishna G. Palepu
The journey and the destination
November 08, 2007
Harvard Gazette
Professor Kathleen McGinn
Scholars ask, 'How does gender affect negotiation?'
November 12, 2007
BusinessWeek
Professor Das Narayandas, Professor W. Earl Sasser
The Best Spare Time B-Schools
November 7, 2007
The Wall Street Journal
Professor Jay W. Lorsch
For CEOs, Off-Duty Isn't an Option
November 7, 2007
The Wall Street Journal
Professor Joseph L. Bower
Avoiding a Succession Crisis
November 6, 2007
Newsday
Professor Joseph L. Bower
Finding a New CEO
November 2, 2007
The Boston Globe
Professor Josh Lerner
Risk pays off for endowments
October 31, 2007
People's Daily Online (China)
Christian H.M. Ketels
China ranks 34th in Global Competitiveness Index
October 31, 2007
Business Daily (Nairobi)
Professor Michael Porter
Kenya: Country's Economy Ranked Competitive
October 30, 2007
MBA Universe (India)
Professor Clayton Christensen
Good companies are fallible to disruptive innovators: HBS' Clayton Christensen
October 30, 2007
PBS: NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Professor Samuel Hayes
Record Loss, Mortgage Crisis Spur Merrill CEO's Exit
October 30, 2007
NPR: Morning Edition
Professor Emeritus Samuel Hayes
Speculation Over Fate of Merrill Lynch CEO Swirls Listen
October 29, 2007
The Times of India
Professor Tarun Khanna, Professor Krishna Palepu
Idea of India Inc whose time has come
October 29, 2007
MarketWatch
Professor Deepak Malhotra
BEA faces tricky bid dance with Oracle
October 26, 2007
The Boston Globe
Professor Emeritus Stephen Greyser
And the Pitch Is�
October 23, 2007
Livemint
Senior Lecturer Michael Chu
Clients' Perspective Important for Product Development
October 22, 2007
CIO
Professor John Quelch
Beyond Peter Pan
October 21, 2007
CBS News Sunday Morning
Professor Nancy Koehn
The Town Maytag Left Behind
October 20, 2007
The New York Times
Assistant Professor Eric Werker
A Global Tax Credit
October 19, 2007
The Boston Globe
Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Second Acts
October 16, 2007
NPR: Morning Edition
Nathaniel Fick (HBS 2008/H)
Military Memoirs Offer
October 2, 2007
The Harvard Crimson
HBS
HBS Rings in New Russian Bell
October 1, 2007
The National Post
Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Driven to [Self] Destruction
October 1, 2007
The Washington Post
Professor John Davis
A Digital Mom and Pop
September 31, 2007
NAFSA International Educator
HBS
Educating for Global Business
September 30, 2007
The New York Times
Professor W. Carl Kester
The M.B.A. Investment
September 29, 2007
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Professor Regina Herzlinger
Experts Weigh In on Clinton Care Plan
September 28, 2007
Bloomberg Marketplace
Professor Josh Lerner
A Pioneer of Buyouts Takes Side of Tax Man
September 27, 2007
St. Petersburg Times
Professor Emeritus Stephen Greyser
Romney Helped Salvage Olympics
September 26, 2007
CIO.com
Chief Information Officer Stephen Laster
Wikipedia's Awkward Adolescence
September 26, 2007
International Herald Tribune
Professor Emeritus Michael Jensen
Despite Its Flaws, Inventor of 'Pay for Performance' Is a True Believer
September 23, 2007
The Boston Globe
Timothy Butler
Director of Career Development Programs
Recognizing Your Career Is Stuck Is the First Step in Getting Unstuck
September 21, 2007
KCPW
Professor Regina Herzlinger
Midday Edition, Friday, September 21
September 21, 2007
The Financial Times
Professor David Yoffie
Growing Google Searches for the Right Balance
September 20, 2007
BusinessWeek Online
HBS
A Harvard Plan Targets College Juniors
September 20, 2007
The Economist
Professor Regina Herzlinger
If At First You Don't Succeed
September 20, 2007
The Harvard Crimson
HBS
Adding Value
September 19, 2007
Business Standard (India)
HBS
Harvard Plans First India Programme in Feb
See Also:
Harvard B-School Tests Waters in India with EDP
The Economic Times (India) (09/19/07)
Harvard Business School Sketches Programme for Senior Executives
The Financial Express (India) (09/18/07)
Harvard Offers Weeklong Course for Rs 1,80,000
The Economic Times (India) (09/18/07)
September 18, 2007
The New York Times
Professor David Yoffie
Microsoft Ruling May Bode Ill for Other Companies
September 17, 2007
Inside Higher Ed
HBS
Courting the Younger Business School Student
September 16, 2007
The New York Times
Professor Emeritus Michael Jensen
It's Just a Matter of Equity
September 16, 2007
The New York Times
Timothy Butler
Director of Career Development Programs
Katie Shaw (HBS 2008/G)
Bye, Bye B-School
September 13, 2007
The Wall Street Journal
HBS
Harvard Aims to Widen M.B.A. Pool
See Also:
HBS Unveils New MBA Track
The Harvard Crimson (09/14/07)
September 12, 2007
CNBC: Squawk on the Street
Assistant Professor Robin Greenwood
Following Activist Investors
September 12, 2007
The Wall Street Journal
Assistant Professor Robin Greenwood
When Investor Activism Doesn't Pay
September 11, 2007
Greater Boston
Professor David Bell
Buying Organic
Watch
September 10, 2007
BusinessWeek
Professor David Yoffie
Is Tech A Port In This Wild Storm?
September 10, 2007
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Professor Regina Herzlinger
Market Can Reform Health Care System, Professor Says
September 10, 2007
The New York Times
Assistant Professor Anita Elberse
Trading in a Movie Star's Ticket Sales
September 9, 2007
The New York Times
Professor David Yoffie
Can Michael Dell Refocus His Namesake?
September 7, 2007
The Economic Times (India)
Professor David Garvin
Corporate Classroom
September 6, 2007
Time
Professor John Quelch
This Christmas, A Lump of Lead?
September 6, 2007
BusinessWeek Online
Professor Bill George
Nonperforming CEOs
September 5, 2007
BusinessWeek Online
Associate Professor Andrew McAfee
A Case Study in Online Promotion
September 5, 2007
NPR: Morning Edition
Professor Emeritus James Heskett
The Generation That Can't Wait to Move Up at Work
Listen
September 5, 2007
WBUR Newsroom
Professor Regina Herzlinger
Debate Over "Minute Clinics"
Listen
September 4, 2007
Forbes.com
Professor Regina Herzlinger
Commentary: Regina Herzlinger
September 1, 2007
Directorship
Professor Bill George
Professor Jay Lorsch
The Directorship 100
August 27, 2007
Modern Healthcare
Professor Regina Herzlinger
100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare -- 2007
August 24, 2007
The Economic Times (India)
Professor Emeritus John Kotter
Mass Mystery
August 23, 2007
BusinessWeek Online
HBS
Harvard Bell Goes Home
August 21, 2007
BusinessWeek Online
Professor Bill George
Private Equity, Public Gain
August 20, 2007
The Economic Times (India)
Professor Krishna Palepu
Professor Nitin Nohria
Deserters or Commandos?
August 20, 2007
Newsweek International
Lecturer Mohamed El-Erian
Don't Fear the Credit Crunch
August 19, 2007
The New York Times
Assistant Professor Robin Greenwood
The Unforgivingness of Forgetfulness
August 16, 2007
The Boston Globe
HBS
For Russia, A Chime from the Past
See Also:
Harvard Business School Rings in New Era
The Boston Herald (08/16/07)
St. Danilov Bells to Ring in Russia Once More
The Harvard University Gazette (08/15/07)
August 15, 2007
Education Week
Lecturer Stacey Childress
Scholars Reaching Outside Education for School Fixes
August 15, 2007
The Wall Street Journal
Associate Professor Thomas Eisenmann
Why Google Inspires Diverging Case Studies
August 13, 2007
BusinessWeek Online
Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter
IBM's Global Hold
August 13, 2007
The Wall Street Journal
Professor Jeffrey Polzer
How a Company Made Everyone a Team Player
August 13, 2007
BusinessWeek
Ratan Tata (AMP 71 1975)
Professor Tarun Khanna
The Last Rajah
August 12, 2007
The Boston Globe
Professor Nabil El-Hage
GULP!
August 10, 2007
The Boston Globe
Professor Emeritus Stephen Greyser
Beckham's Galaxy
August 10, 2007
The Harvard Crimson
Assistant Professor Eric Werker
Assistant Professor Lakshmi Iyer
Businesses on the Ballot?
August 9, 2007
The Boston Globe
Professor Emeritus Stephen Greyser
Bench It Like Beckham
August 9, 2007
The Wall Street Journal Europe
Professor Emeritus Samuel Hayes
Mutual Interest: As Islamic Investment Grows, Wall Street Struggles to Adapt
August 7, 2007
NPR: Morning Edition
Professor Rajiv Lal
British Grocer Tesco Comes to America
Listen
August 7, 2007
The Financial Times
Lecturer Mohamed El-Erian
The Fund Needs to Refocus Its Agenda to be Relevant
August 7, 2007
Dow Jones Newswires
Professor Regina Herzlinger
Mark to Market: Dr. Meyer Now Wields a Rubber Hammer
August 6, 2007
The Wall Street Journal
HBS
Case Studies Adapt to the Web
August 5, 2007
BusinessWeek Online
Professor Bill George
The U.S.'s Hidden Asset: Global Capitalism
August 2, 2007
The New York Times
Professor Emeritus Ray Goldberg
Surviving without Subsidies
August 2, 2007
Dow Jones Business News
Professor Emeritus Samuel Hayes
Behind Murdoch's Winning Bid, Unfair and Unbalanced Advice
August 1, 2007
Health Executive Magazine
Associate Professor Robert Huckman
Data Driven
July 30, 2007
SABEW Online
Associate Professor Gregory Miller
Professor Paul Healy
Professor Krishna Palepu
Business Press Plays "Watchdog" Role, Says Harvard Study
July 30, 2007
National Review Online
Associate Professor Randolph Cohen
Not with My Money
July 28, 2007
The Boston Globe
Professor Emeritus Stephen Greyser
Doping Scandals Turning Race into 'Tour de Farce'
July 27, 2007
Boston Bu gn="top">The Financial Times Online
Senior Lecturer Thierry Breton
French Finance Minister Heads for Harvard
July 10, 2007
The Financial Times
Lecturer Mohamed El-Erian
How to Reduce Risk in the Financial System
July 9, 2007
The Financial Times
HBS
The Teacher Goes Back to School
July 9, 2007
The New Yorker
Assistant Professor Anita Elberse
The Science of Success
July 5, 2007
The Economist
Professor Emeritus Michael Jensen
The Business of Making Money
July 3, 2007
American Public Media: Marketplace
Professor Josh Lerner
$1M to Rat Out Your Company
Listen
July 3, 2007
U.S. News & World Report
Professor Gail McGovern
Cellphone Contracts Cause Angst
July 1, 2007
Foreign Policy Online
Senior Fellow Regina Abrami
Associate Professor Rawi Abdelal
The List: Five Lies My Economist Told Me
July 1, 2007
Harvard Magazine
Associate Professor Laura Alfaro
Associate Professor Rawi Abdelal
Lecturer Mohamed El-Erian
Debtor Nation
July 1, 2007
Harvard Magazine
Professor Emeritus Thomas McCraw
Entrepreneurs' Evangelist
June 28, 2007
WCVB Boston
Professor Regina Herzlinger
Could Rising Costs Sabotage Health Reform?
June 28, 2007
BusinessWeek Online
Professor Clayton Christensen
Welcome to Planet Apple
June 27, 2007
The New York Post
Professor Josh Lerner
Firms Caught Napping
June 26, 2007
Education Week
Lecturer Stacey Childress
Professor Allen Grossman
Harvard Program Boils Down Ingredients for District Success
June 25, 2007
The Boston Globe
Associate Professor Andrew McAfee
Social-Network Sites Give Businesses Ideas for New Collaboration
June 25, 2007
The Wall Street Journal
Professor Emeritus James Austin
Profits on the Side
June 24, 2007
CNN: In The Money
Professor Richard Tedlow
What a CEO Could Bring to the White House
June 23, 2007
The Economist
Professor Rajiv Lal
Fresh, But Far from Easy
June 22, 2007
Fortune Small Business
Senior Lecturer John Davis
Famed Designer's Daughter Saves His Firm
June 20, 2007
The Wall Street Journal
Senior Lecturer Kevin Coyne
Can 'Chief Yahoo' Rise to Challenges As Yahoo's Chief?
June 19, 2007
The Financial Times
Lecturer Mohamed El-Erian
Sit Tight for a Rollercoaster Ride on Global Interest Rates
June 18, 2007
BusinessWeek Online
Timothy Butler
Director of Career Development Programs
Networking for Interns
June 18, 2007
BusinessWeek Online
Professor Clayton Christensen
Clayton Christensen's Innovation Brain
June 18, 2007
The Washington Post
Assistant Professor Karim Lakhani
T-Shirt Maker's Style, Drawn from Web Users
June 18, 2007
The Wall Street Journal
Associate Professor Andrew McAfee
Companies of All Kinds Are Figuring Out Which Tools Work and How to Use Them
June 17, 2007
The New York Times
Professor Nancy Koehn
Some Buyers Grow Web-Weary, and Online Sales Lose Steam
June 16, 2007
The Wall Street Journal
Professor Josh Lerner
The Buyout Backlash
June 16, 2007
The Associated Press
Professor Josh Lerner
Private Equity's Lobby Power May Stop Tax Bill
June 15, 2007
Boston Business Journal
Professor Regina Herzlinger
HBS Prof: Let Marketplace Dictate Health Care Plans
June 15, 2007
Inc. Magazine
HBS
Harvard to Offer Entrepreneurship Program
June 14, 2007
The Financial Times
Professor W. Earl Sasser
Professor James Heskett
In the Pursuit of Happiness
June 14, 2007
The New York Times
Professor Bruce Scott
An Unexpected Odd Couple: Free Markets and Freedom
June 13, 2007
NPR: Morning Edition
Senior Lecturer Kevin Coyne
New CEO May Mean New Job for the Ranks
Listen
June 13, 2007
Education Week
Lecturer Stacey Childress
Harvard Course Yields Education Entrepreneurs
June 12, 2007
The Toledo Blade
Professor Alvin Roth
Program Helps Find Match for Kidneys
June 11, 2007
BusinessWeek
Professor Michael Tushman
At 3M, A Struggle Between Efficiency and Creativity
June 8, 2007
The Financial Times
Associate Professor Mihir Desai
The Bad Dream of Options Expensing Lingers
June 7, 2007
The New York Times
Professor Josh Lerner
U.S. Seeking Stricter Rules on Qualifying for a Patent
June 6, 2007
CIO.com
Chief Information Officer Stephen Laster
Harvard Business School CIO Stephen Laster on Web 2.0 Technologies
June 5, 2007
The Boston Globe
Professor Clayton Christensen
The Return of the Guru
June 5, 2007
The New York Times
Professor David Yoffie
Competing as Software Goes to Web
June 4, 2007
Dow Jones Newswires
Associate Professor Mihir Desai
Senate Panel to Examine Tax Gap on Executive Stock Options
June 4, 2007
The Boston Globe
Associate Professor Thomas Eisenmann
Search for Tomorrow
June 2, 2007
The Economist
Professor Regina Herzlinger
Health-Care Heretic
June 1, 2007
The Wall Street Journal Asia
Professor Krishna Palepu
Executive Education: Westerners Commute to Asia to Get MBAs
June 1, 2007
Fortune Small Business
Senior Lecturer John Davis
Bringing New Ideas to the Table
June 1, 2007
SmartMoney
Ph.D. in Business Economics Candidate Halla Yang
Time to Hit the Mall
May 31, 2007
Fortune
Lecturer Mohamed El-Erian
Global Guru
May 30, 2007
The Financial Times
Lecturer Mohamed El-Erian
How Investors Should Respond to the Boom in M&A Activity
May 29, 2007
Dow Jones Newswires
Associate Professor Constance Bagley
CFA Inside Info: Sallie Mae Chmn Says Trades, Info Diverged
May 28, 2007
BusinessWeek
Professor Clayton Christensen
Put Investors in Their Place
May 28, 2007
Fortune
Professor John Quelch
Meet The New AT&T
May 25, 2007
Inside Consumer-Directed Care
Professor Regina Herzlinger
Can CDH Resuscitate 'Dead' Health System? Herzlinger Thinks So
May 24, 2007
BusinessWeek Online
Professor Allen Grossman
A New Model for Community Service
May 23, 2007
The South China Morning Post
Professor Tarun Khanna
Firm's US Arm Fits Mainland Strategy
May 22, 2007
The New York Times
University Professor Michael Porter
Professor Regina Herzlinger
Film Offers New Talking Points in Health Care Debate
May 22, 2007
The Wall Street Journal
Assistant Professor Li Jin
The U.S.-China Trade Deficit, Debunked
May 21, 2007
The Financial Times
University Professor Robert Merton
The Appliance of Financial Science
May 21, 2007
Bloomberg
Lecturer Anthony Mayo
Professor Nitin Nohria
Harvard Study Shows Corporate Ladder Opening to Asians, Women
May 20, 2007
The Jakarta Post
Professor Louis Wells
How Shady Deals, Corrupt Gov't Go Together
May 19, 2007
The Toronto Star
Professor Peter Tufano
Industry's in Denial about High Fund Fees
May 18, 2007
The Globe and Mail
Senior Lecturer Kevin Coyne
How to Survive Regime Change
See Also:
Got a New CEO? How to Make the Cut
BusinessWeek Online (05/17/07)
New CEOs Judge Senior Execs Quickly
SmartMoney.com (05/17/07)
May 16, 2007
Embassy
Professor Louis Wells
Global Finance Bodies and the Revolving Door Trend
May 16, 2007
Dow Jones Newswires
Professor Josh Lerner
Getting Personal: New Mutual Fund Focuses on Private Equities
May 16, 2007
The New York Times
HBS
A Bluestocking Route from Gridiron to Commerce
May 16, 2007
The National Post
Associate Professor Rakesh Khurana
Character Key to Leadership
May 16, 2007
NPR: All Things Considered
Professor Josh Lerner
Cerberus Drags Private Equity Firms into Spotlight
Listen
May 15, 2007
People's Daily Online (Beijing, China)
Dean Jay Light
Interview with Jay Light, Dean of Harvard Business School
May 15, 2007
The Wall Street Journal
Assistant Professor Benjamin Edelman
Web Sites' Lists of 'Most Viewed' Too Easy to Game?
May 15, 2007
The New York Times
Professor Debora Spar
As Demand for Donor Eggs Soars, High Prices Stir Ethical Concerns
May 14, 2007
The Financial Times
Associate Professor Robert Huckman
Professor Gary Pisano
Swapping Scalpel for Healthcare Consulting
May 14, 2007
The Wall Street Journal
Senior Lecturer Kevin Coyne
CEOs Are Spending More Quality Time with Their Customers
May 14, 2007
The Financial Times
HBS
The Financial Times 2007 Executive Education Rankings
May 14, 2007
The New Yorker
Professor Josh Lerner
Exporting I.P.
May 13, 2007
The Boston Globe
Professor Emeritus William Poorvu
Designed So You'll Walk This Way
May 13, 2007
The Boston Globe
Senior Lecturer Kevin Coyne
Executive Exodus
May 9, 2007
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Professor Alvin Roth
Paired Donations Give Organ Transplants a Brighter Future
May 8, 2007
The Toronto Star
Professor Peter Tufano
New Draft Says Fund Sector Still World's Most Expensive
See Also:
Canada Trails Pack on Fund Fees
The National Post (05/08/07)
The Mutual Fund Sucker Factor
The Globe and Mail (05/08/07)
May 7, 2007
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Professor Alvin Roth
The Thinkers: CMU Prof Using Game Theory to Match Kidneys
May 7, 2007
The Wall Street Journal
Professor Josh Lerner
The Informed Reader
May 6, 2007
The Boston Globe
Professor Vicki Sato
Professor Toby Stuart
The Gender Gap
May 6, 2007
The New York Times
Professor Emeritus Thomas McCraw
The Silver Lining to Impending Doom
May 6, 2007
The Boston Globe
Professor Gary Pisano
Bigtime Losses, but Cash Still Flows In
May 4, 2007
Forbes
Professor Alvin Roth
Cupid and Colleges
May 3, 2007
The Boston Globe
University Professor Michael Porter
Hub's Inner City Ranks High in Booming Firms
May 3, 2007
The Harvard University Gazette
HBS
HBS Holds Annual Business Plan Contest
May 2, 2007
Bloomberg
Professor Nabil El-Ha
HBS
Here from Over There
April 16, 2007
The Economist
Professor Regina Herzlinger
Health Care: McClinics
April 16, 2007
The Boston Herald
Professor Emeritus Stephen Greyser
Hub vs. London in Marathon Battle
April 16, 2007
Forbes
Assistant Professor Nava Ashraf
Should Clean Water Have a Price?
April 15, 2007
US News & World Report
Professor Bill George
Bill George on Leadership
April 12, 2007
Time
Professor Emeritus Gerald Zaltman
Word on the Street
April 12, 2007
Forbes.com
Senior Lecturer Kevin Coyne
Strategic Planning vs. Citi Planning
April 11, 2007
The Wall Street Journal
Lecturer A. Eugene Kohn
Dubai Puts a New Spin on Skyscrapers
April 11, 2007
American Public Media: Marketplace PM
Professor Josh Lerner
Putting Patents on Saving Money
Listen
April 9, 2007
The Miami Herald
Daniel Kafie (HBS 2007/H)
Mario Schlosser (HBS 2007/B)
'Online Party' Helps Latins Stay Connected
April 9, 2007
The Wall Street Journal
Professor Bill George
CEO Reading Lists Have Fewer Celebrities and More Big Ideas
April 9, 2007
The Wall Street Journal
Professor David Yoffie
CEO Compensation Survey
April 8, 2007
The Independent
Professor Alvin Roth
Gordon Brown's Abusive Relationship with Pensions Won't Ruin His Own Retirement
April 5, 2007
The Harvard Crimson
Associate Professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee
Prof Says No Sales Loss from Piracy
April 5, 2007
The Wall Street Journal
Professor Emeritus Thomas McCraw
The Colorful Life of Capital's Champion
April 5, 2007
The Harvard University Gazette
HBS
HBS, KSG Announce New Joint Degree Program
April 5, 2007
The Boston Globe
HBS
Learning to Be of Two Minds
April 5, 2007
The Boston Globe
Professor Emeritus James McKenney
James L. McKenney, at 77
April 4, 2007
The Boston Globe
HBS
At Harvard Workshop, Light Is All Business
April 4, 2007
The Harvard Crimson
HBS
New Joint Degree Offered
April 3, 2007
International Herald Tribune
HBS
Harvard to Offer Joint Business-Government Master's Degree
April 3, 2007
The Boston Globe
HBS
Harvard Adds a Hybrid MBA Degree
April 3, 2007
The Harvard Crimson
HBS
HMS, HBS Keep Top Rankings
April 1, 2007
The Boston Herald
Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Sage Advice for Sox Skipper
April 1, 2007
The New York Times
Professor Bill George
What Consultants May Not Know about Leadership
March 30, 2007
Bloomberg
HBS
Harvard Business, Medical Schools Top U.S. Graduate School List
March 28, 2007
BusinessWeek Online
Assistant Professor Andre Hagiu
Matsushita's Platform for Success
March 28, 2007
MarketWatch
Professor D. Quinn Mills
As Second Half of Boomer Century Looms, So Do Some Costly Problems
March 26, 2007
The Boston Globe
Daniel Kafie (HBS 2007/H)
Mario Schlosser (HBS 2007/B)
A MySpace for the Spanish Community
March 26, 2007
Forbes
Assistant Professor Eric Werker
KPMG for Mayor!
March 25, 2007
BostonWorks
HBS
A Stop on the Way Back to the Office
March 24, 2007
The Wall Street Journal
Lecturer Mohamed El-Erian
Capital Currents
March 24, 2007
NPR: Weekend Edition - Saturday
HBS
Hear the Tolling of the Russian Bells
Listen
March 22, 2007
The Financial Times
Lecturer Mohamed El-Erian
In the New Liquidity Factories, Buyers Must Still Beware
March 21, 2007
The Boston Globe
HBS
Harvard to Return Historic Bells to Russian Church
See Also:
A Journey That Will Come Full Circle and End with a Ring
The New York Times (03/21/07)
Harvard to Return Bells to Moscow Monastery
The Associated Press (03/21/07)
March 21, 2007
The New York Times
Professor Max Bazerman
A State's Files Put Doctors' Ties to Drug Makers on Close View
March 21, 2007
The Harvard Crimson
University Professor Michael Porter
Porter Posits Healthy Reforms
March 21, 2007
The Harvard Crimson
HBS
In First, BYU To Use HBS Case Studies
March 17, 2007
The San Diego Union-Tribune
Professor Emeritus Stephen Greyser
Are Bolts' Uniform Changes Colored by Few Greenbacks?
March 17, 2007
The Financial Times
John Teeling (DBA 1975)
Teetotal Teeling Promises Whiskey Galore
March 16, 2007
PBS: Now
Professor Bill George
A Spy in the Spotlight & Bill George Interview
Watch
March 16, 2007
The Financial Times Online
Professor Josh Lerner
Blackstone in Advanced IPO Talks
March 14, 2007
BusinessWeek Online
University Professor Michael Porter
Libya Is Open for Business
March 14, 2007
The Journal of the American Medical Association
University Professor Michael Porter
How Physicians Can Change the Future of Health Care
March 14, 2007
The Boston Globe
University Professor Michael Porter
Harvard Economist Proposes Team Approach on Healthcare
March 12, 2007
BusinessWeek Online
Associate Professor Andrew McAfee
No Rest for the Wiki
March 12, 2007
MIT Technology Review
Professor Regina Herzlinger
The Accountant Is In
March 12, 2007
USA Today
Assistant Professor Mikolaj Jan Piskorski
Networking Takes Giant Strides Online
March 12, 2007
BusinessWeek
Professor Bill George
Getting to the Corner Office
March 12, 2007
BusinessWeek
Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Innovation Hype: Enough Already!
March 12, 2007
Forbes
Post-Doctoral Fellow Carmit Segal
For Love of the Game
March 8, 2007
The Harvard University Gazette
HBS
HBS Sponsors Program for NFL Pros
March 7, 2007
The Harvard Crimson
Daniel Kafie (HBS 2007/H)
Mario Schlosser (HBS 2007/B)
Students Start Spanish Social Site
March 7, 2007
Bloomberg
Professor Emeritus John Kotter
Greenspan's Long Shadow Needs to Shrink, Management Gurus Say
March 7, 2007
The Times Online (UK)
HBS
Harvard Joins the Rush to Set up Shop in India
March 6, 2007
CNBC: Squawk Box
Professor Jay Lorsch
Boards of Directors Coming from New Talent Pool
Watch
March 4, 2007
The Chicago Tribune
Professor Debora Spar
The Incredible, Sellable Egg
March 3, 2007
The Economist
Professor Josh Lerner
Eco-Warriors at the Gate
March 2, 2007
The Boston Herald
HBS
Harvard Eyes Biotech Execs: Biz School to Teach Science Savvy
March 2, 2007
The New York Times
University Professor Michael Porter
Libya Gingerly Begins Seeking Economic but Not Political Reform
March 2, 2007
The Age (Australia)
Professor Paul Healy
Bosses' Pay Packets 'May Alienate Middle Class'
March 1, 2007
The Boston Herald
Assistant Professor Li Jin
Bulls Beat out Bears
February 27, 2007
The Harvard Crimson
University Professor Michael Porter
HBS Prof Working on Libya's Economy
February 27, 2007
The National Post
Professor Josh Lerner
TXU Deal Takes Buyout Crown: US$45B Utility Takeover
February 27, 2007
The Globe and Mail
Professor Emeritus Malcolm Salter
Private Equity Party Fuelled by Cheap Debt
February 26, 2007
The New York Post
HBS
New Field Goal$
February 26, 2007
The Globe and Mail
Professor John Deighton
RIM Mascot Targets Online Scene
February 26, 2007
BusinessWeek Online
University Professor Michael Porter
Michael Porter on Libya's Potential
February 26, 2007
BusinessWeek
University Professor Michael Porter
Get Healthy - Or Else
February 25, 2007
The Financial Times
Professor Allen Grossman
Lecturer Stacey Childress
Schools Cry Out for Leadership Material
February 24, 2007
The Economist
Associate Professor Mihir Desai
Places in the Sun
February 24, 2007
The Economist
Associate Professor Mihir Desai
Assistant Professor Fritz Foley
Unintended Consequences
February 22, 2007
The Harvard University Gazette
Joseph Ewers (HBS 2007/E)
Student KSG, HBS Veterans Honored
February 21, 2007
USA Today
HBS
NFL Players Learn How to Win after Football
February 20, 2007
BusinessWeek Online
University Professor Michael Porter
Harvard Guru to Help Libya
February 19, 2007
Les Echos
HBS
Ce Que Vous Apprendrez a Harvard
Please Note: Interview Text in French
February 19, 2007
The New York Times
Professor Bharat Anand
While Others Struggle, Norwegian Newspaper Publisher Thrives on the Web
February 19, 2007
BusinessWeek
Professor Clayton Christensen
Where Dell Went Wrong
February 16, 2007
The Boston Business Journal
Professor Josh Lerner
A World View
February 15, 2007
American Public Media: Marketplace PM
Professor Regina Herzlinger
Are CEOs Being Paid An Unhealthy Amount?
Listen
February 14, 2007
The New York Times
Visiting Professor Guhan Subramanian
Board Silly
February 14, 2007
The Wall Street Journal
Associate Professor Rawi Abdeal
Business Bookshelf: Why Money Can Now Make Its Way around the World
February 13, 2007
CNNMoney.com
Timothy Butler
Director of Career Development Programs
Why a Job in Private Equity Pays
February 12, 2007
La Tercera
Gustavo Herrero
Director, Latin American Research Center
India, El Nuevo Territorio Favorito de las Universidades de Elite
Please Note: Interview Text in Spanish
February 12, 2007
Investor's Business Daily
Senior Lecturer Robert Higgins
Q&A: Venture Capital Exec Takes Medicine Very Personally
February 12, 2007
Forbes
Professor G. Felda Hardymon
Technology's Top Dealmakers
February 12, 2007
BusinessWeek Online
Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter
The Innovation Backlash
February 11, 2007
The New York Times
Professor Gary Pisano
It's Alive! Meet One of Biotech's Zombies
February 11, 2007
The New York Times
Professor Josh Lerner
Should You Buy When Private Equity Sells?
February 11, 2007
CNN: In The Money
Professor Richard Tedlow
Effect on President Bush's Deficit Decisions; What Really Counts in Housing Market; Men and Valentine's Day Gifts
February 10, 2007
The Economist
Professor Josh Lerner
The Uneasy Crown
February 8, 2007
CNN International
Professor Joseph Badaracco
Learning to Be Creative
February 5, 2007
The Wall Street Journal
Professor Niall Ferguson
Chimerical? Think Again
February 5, 2007
Nikkei Weekly
Masako Egawa
Executive Director, Japan Research Office
Investment Banker Turns to Harvard Business School
February 5, 2007
The Financial Times
Professor Cynthia Montgomery
Less Than the Sum of Its Parts?
February 5, 2007
Time
Professor Niall Ferguson
The Reality of Civil War
February 5, 2007
The Associated Press
Professor Emeritus Stephen Greyser
Amateur Ads Follow Super Bowl Tradition
See Also:
Peyton's Payday
The Indianapolis Star (02/04/07)
February 4, 2007
The Los Angeles Times
Professor Richard Tedlow
Call It the 'Andy Amendment'
February 3, 2007
The New York Times
Professor Joseph Bower
What Happens When the Ex-Chief Re-enters
February 2, 2007
The Economic Times (India)
Professor Tarun Khanna
New Giant of Steel
February 1, 2007
Inc. Magazine
Assistant Professor Siobhan O'Mahony
Mitchell Baker and the Firefox Paradox
February 1, 2007
The Harvard University Gazette
HBS
HBS Models Look for New Markets While Serving the Global Poor
February 1, 2007
The Harvard University Gazette
HBS
Innovative HBS 'Immersion' Programs Flourish
February 1, 2007
The Financial Times
Ratan Tata (AMP 71 1975)
Business Hero Returns with Historic Trophy
January 31, 2007
CNBC: Closing Bell
Professor Brian Hall
President Prefers Pay for Performance
January 31, 2007
Reuters
Professor Dwight Crane
Analysis: Global Exchange Alliances Seen Easier than Mergers
January 30, 2007
The Boston Herald
Professor Emeritus Stephen Greyser
Bank Reissues Cards as TJX Sued Over Cyberscam
January 28, 2007
BostonWorks
Timothy Butler
Director of Career Development Programs
Flex for Success
January 27, 2007
The Economist
Professor Regina Herzlinger
Daniel Vasella (PMD 57 1989)
Billion Dollar Pills
January 26, 2007
American Public Media: Marketplace Money
Professor Regina Herzlinger
Charge It To My Health Care Card
Listen
January 25, 2007
CNBC: Power Lunch
Paul Hemp
Senior Editor, HBR
Harvard Knows Best
Please Note: Interview URL Unavailable
January 25, 2007
The Wall Street Journal
Assistant Professor Karim Lakhani
Prizes for Solutions to Problems Play Valuable Role in Innovation
January 25, 2007
Michigan Business Review
Professor Lynda Applegate
Harvard Business Professor Sees Opportunity in Turbulent Times
January 25, 2007
The Financial Times
Lecturer Mohamed El-Erian
Comment: Complex Finance and the Brave New World Economy
January 23, 2007
American Public Media: Marketplace
Professor Regina Herzlinger
Less Effective Birth Control?
Listen
January 22, 2007
The Financial Times Deutschland
Professor John Quelch
The German Boss
Please Note: Interview Text in German
January 22, 2007
The Financial Times
HBS
Harvard Course for Chinese Academics
January 22, 2007
CNN International
HBS
Marketing Your Business School
January 22, 2007
Fortune
Senior Lecturer John Davis
Ferragamo's Step
January 21, 2007
The Sunday Telegraph (U.K.)
Professor Niall Ferguson
Are We Too Thick to Realise The World Isn't Flat?
January 20, 2007
The Economist
Professor Jay Lorsch
In the Money
January 20, 2007
The Economist
Professor Brian Hall
Professor Krishna Palepu
The Market Rate
January 19, 2007
Project Syndicate
Professor Peter Tufano
Laying a Retirement Lifeline for the Poor
January 17, 2007
Dow Jones Newswires
Professor Peter Tufano
SEC's Risk Expert Pushed for 'Cultural Change'
January 16, 2007
Dow Jones Newswires
Associate Professor Andrew McAfee
In The Pipeline
January 16, 2007
The Wall Street Journal
Professor Max Bazerman
Why Preparing Others for An Effort's Failure Can Bring You Success
January 15, 2007
USA Today
Associate Professor Rawi Abdelal
Enthusiasm for Globalization Ebbs
January 13, 2007
The San Diego Union-Tribune
Professor Emeritus Stephen Greyser
Bolts Bank on Big Bucks Online
January 13, 2007
The Economist
Ratan Tata (AMP 71 1975)
The Shy Architect
January 13, 2007
The Times of India
Assistant Professor Deepak Malhotra
Beware of Competitive Arousal
See Also:
The 'Winning-At-Any-Cost' Syndrome
The Times of India (01/13/07)
January 12, 2007
The Associated Press of Pakistan
HBS
Pakistan Has World Class Leadership with Investment Friendly Policies
January 12, 2007
WRNO: Jim Brown
Anthony D'Avella (HBS 2007/A)
AT&T to Drop Cingular Brand
Listen
January 12, 2007
American Public Media: Marketplace
Professor John Deighton
AT&T to Drop Cingular Brand
Listen
January 11, 2007
American.com
Assistant Professor Regina Abrami
Not Your Father's Vietnam
January 11, 2007
The Orange County Register
Professor Emeritus Stephen Greyser
Beckham Love$ L.A.
January 9, 2007
Dow Jones Newswires
Associate Professor Randolph Cohen
Getting Personal: ETFs to Focus on US States
January 9, 2007
The Financial Times
Professor Josh Lerner
Beware the 'Patent Trolls' of Finance
January 8, 2007
The Boston Globe
Associate Professor Rakesh Khurana
Is Legendary Apple CEO on the Way Out?
January 8, 2007
The Wall Street Journal
Professor Alvin Roth
Economists Learn Matchmaking Role
The Wall Street Journal
There's Nothing Wrong with Sharing
December 7, 2006
Is it wrong for private equity firms to band together to do a deal? HBS professor Josh Lerner offers his view in an op-ed.
The Boston Globe
The Business of Lift Outs
November 19, 2006
The Globe cites research by Assistant Professor Boris Groysberg and HBS Research Associate Robin Abrahams about the practice of "lift out" hiring — a practice that finds firms hiring whole teams of professionals from their competitors.
The New York Times
Wallflower at the Web Party
October 15, 2006
HBS assistant professor Mikolaj Jan Piskorski comments on the failure of Friendster, a social networking Web -start-up.
The New York Times
This Fall, You Can Vote for Your Favorite Flop
September 11, 2006
Assistant Professor Anita Elberse notes the effect of online audience participation in predicting the success or failure of prime- time TV programming.
The New Yorker
Private Lies
August 28, 2006
New Yorker columnist James Surowiecki examines the current trend of taking public companies private. Nearly 100 top-level executives at public companies have participated in management buyouts (MBO) since 2005, he says. The problem is, they want to pay the lowest possible price for their purchase — which means that that they don't do right by their shareholders, who are legally entitled to the highest possible price. Executives on the MBO prowl use a variety of techniques and gimmicks to get a good deal. A study by HBS assistant professor Sharon Katz, for instance, found that, "in the two years preceding a management buyout, companies recorded lower than expected accounts receivable," driving profits down as a result. And when profits head south, so does the value of the company. According to Surowiecki, this didn't happen totally by chance. The executives involved, he concludes, were purposely trying to make their companies look bad before the buyout.
The Wall Street Journal
Consultant Lets Client Use 'Gut' To Set Final Fee
August 21, 2006
Trium, a small San Francisco-based management consulting firm, offers its clients something a bit different--a performance-based pricing structure They undertake a project at an agreed-upon price. But when it's time to take care of the bill, dissatisfied clients come up with as little as half the quoted amount, while contented customers pay a premium of up to 35 percent more than the quote. HBS professor emeritus Benson Shapiro says this pricing approach is catching on in the construction, advertising and trucking industries. "The strategy acts as an insurance policy for buyers and sellers, and improves communication," he says. "Linking pay to performance encourages consultants and clients to discuss expectations in greater depth than with traditional project-based pricing."
The New York Times
Let's Make A Deal
August 20, 2006
HBS professor Max Bazerman lends his advice to the negotiation process involved in the current homebuying market. He warns against using brokers, as their "most important goal is to close the deal, and that's not necessarily your goal as a buyer or seller because you care more about the quality of the deal." In addition, he suggests falling in love with three houses, not just one, "because if you have to have it, you're going to pay for it."
International Herald Tribune
When Blood Is Thicker Than Money
August 13, 2006
The International Herald Tribune examines the heightened attention currently being paid to family businesses and the differing roles they play across the globe. HBS professor D. Quinn Mills has studied leadership in Asia and notes that in societies like "Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia, family businesses dominate, displaying a cultural affinity with a society that is based around relationships with the family and between families." Furthermore, Mills believes "that the increased number of studies on the dynamics of family business might produce insight into a crucial issue that besets Asian capital markets: how publicly traded companies with a dominant family shareholding can address discrepancies in the rights and information given to minority shareholders."
The Boston Globe
Women Scientists Lag Far Behind Men in Patents, Study Says
August 4, 2006
HBS professor Toby Stuart has coauthored a study in the journal Science revealing that women scientists in universities apply for patents at a fraction of the rate of men, potentially costing the United States billions of dollars in the commercial development of their inventions. "Interviews showed women scientists increasingly realize the benefit of seeking patents, yet remain hindered by their lack of personal connections to those in industry who make decisions about the patents' commercial viability," says Stuart. "From the national interest policy, anything that you would ever say about the benefits of diversity, you would say it in spades," he adds.
The Economist
Dates from Hell
July 20, 2006
The backdating of executive share options is causing the reputation of American corporate leaders to fall even further amid a backdrop of corporate scandals. HBS professor Brian Hall notes that "backdating options granted later to take advantage of past share-price movements is clearly illegal, and always has been." That said, he expects the number of examples of such blatant criminality to be small.
Inside Training Newsletter
What Your Employees Really Care About
July 19, 2006
Reinforcing what your employees value in their work may do more to enhance workforce motivation than financial incentives. Doing so "will help ensure that their interests are aligned with company goals," says HBS professor Jay Lorsch. "Individuals come into these jobs with certain motivational sets, and what you've really got to figure out is how to take advantage of those motivational qualities, and align [the motivations] to what you want [employees] to do for the firm," he adds.
The Toronto Star
Are Fund Advisors Worth It?
By James Daw
June 29, 2006
A work-in-progress study conducted by HBS professor Peter Tufano, HBS assistant professor Daniel Bergstresser, and John Chalmers of the University of Oregon suggests that most mutual fund buyers do not gain financial benefit from professional advice. They examined how well investors did after buying units from 4,541 mutual funds between 1996 and 2002. "The prominence of funds sold through brokers implies that brokers provide consumers with valued services," they write, but "Our study identified few, if any, of these benefits."
The Washington Post
Global Capital On the Run
By Robert J. Samuelson
June 14, 2006
Recent declines in global stock markets are sparking concern worldwide, but a few decades ago, massive global money movements didn't exist. Most countries employed "capital controls" that restricted how much their citizens could invest abroad, as well as the ability or level of foreign investment. HBS associate professor Rawi Abdelal notes that "a turning point was France's decision in the early 1980s to relax controls;" since they were so widely evaded by the wealthy, they were deemed impractical. Once France changed, the rest of Europe and many other countries did likewise to maintain a presence in the worldwide investment fund chase.
The Financial Times
Calculating Compensation
By Sudhakar Balacharandran
May 26, 2006
In the wake of growing concerns about corporate governance, Balacharandran examines the relationship between executive pay and incentives and overall company performance. Noting that shareholders typically face a series of legal and structural hurdles if they try to influence compensation policies, he cites work by HBS assistant professor Fabrizio Ferri and others, examining proxy statement proposals made by union fund shareholders at various companies in 2003-2004. "The study found that shareholders could be strategic and effective," by picking "a topic of interest to a broad set of constituencies (accounting for stock options)" and selecting "large companies (to obtain media attention) with large employee stock option plans and potential dilution (that is, where the cost to shareholders was likely to be high)."
The Wall Street Journal
As Nissan Sales Hit a Pothole, CEO Starts Shifting Gears
By Jathon Sapsford
May 26, 2006
HBS professor emeritus Michael Yoshino examines the recent change in Nissan's business model. In 2002, the company set an ambitious three-year goal of forging full-speed ahead, boosting sales to 3.6 billion cars from the 2.6 recorded the year before the plan was started. But things have recently taken a turn for the worse. Sales are down in major markets such as Europe, North America, and even Japan. Now, says Yoshino, the company is making the move to a "less frenetic" pace. "The transition from sprint to marathon isn't an easy one," he points out.
The Associated Press
Author with the Golden Touch 'Just a Guy That Tells Stories'
By Brian Skoloff
May 13, 2006
Former advertising firm chairman James Patterson has become such a successful author, earning $40 million last year alone, that HBS professor John Deighton wrote a case study on his business practices. "Marketing James Patterson" came about after Deighton heard the author speak at a business meeting and "realized Peterson is a marketer who happens to be his own product."
BusinessWeek Online
The Return of the MBA Mom
By Janie Ho
May 11, 2006
In a story about business school programs for mothers with MBA degrees, HBS professor Myra Hart, chair of Harvard's Center for Women's Business Research, says that "the fundamental issue is that more women are going to business school and leaving the workforce in the prime of their careers after accumulating great experience." But according to her research, almost all of them want to return eventually. She notes that this is why HBS offers two programs "so moms who already have MBAs can sharpen their skills and speak with counselors about the transition."
The Boston Globe
The Endangered Land of Renter-World
By Nicolas P. Retsinas
May 5, 2006
Writing about the home rental market in The Boston Globe-HBS lecturer Nicolas Retsinas notes that the lack of new "affordable" housing may prevent a large percentage of renters from progressing towards home ownership. He calls upon the government for reform, as "the promise of America, the dream for millions of Americans is to leave Renter-World."
The Wall Street Journal
Wal-Mart Demotes Price-Slashing 'Smiley' in New Ads
By Kris Hudson and Ann Zimmerman
April 18, 2006
In overhauling its advertising campaign, Wal-Mart has replaced its familiar smiley-faced logo with actors and celebrities making pitches for the giant retailer. While many marketing experts question the benefits of replacing the advertising icon, HBS professor Rajiv Lal thinks otherwise: "In my judgment, [the old logo] has run its course," he says.
Education Week
Kinder and Gentler
By Jeff Archer
April 12, 2006
San Francisco public schools have boosted overall student performance over the past year with the help of a restructuring program called Students and Teachers Achieving Results (STAR). HBS lecturer Stacey Childress, a co-founder of the Public Education Leadership Project, a joint program of HBS and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, studied the program and found that its success stems, in part, from the fact that STAR allows San Francisco "to have a district-wide strategy that nonetheless can be tailored to each school's needs."
The Boston Globe
Giving Life Despite Limits
By Scott Allen
March 14, 2006
Massachusetts General Hospital performed its first kidney transplant from a system matching strangers in early March. HBS professor Alvin Roth helped design the New England Kidney Exchange, a computer system that matches kidney disease patients with compatible organ donors. Roth describes this first match as "a great accomplishment," but notes that potential legal issues may prevent such pairings from becoming commonplace.
Harvard Magazine
The Marketplace of Perceptions
By Craig Lambert
March 1, 2006
HBS assistant professor Nava Ashraf applied principles of behavioral economics to develop a savings technique in the Philippines called SEED ("Save, Earn, Enjoy Deposits"). Under the program, banks give clients a locked box, retain the key, and establish a contractual agreement prohibiting them from withdrawing money before reaching a certain date or sum. SEED is "practical, and very important in development, for anybody who wants to help people reach their goals," says Ashraf.
USA TODAY
Super Bowl Ad Watchers Make a Run for the Web
By Bruce Horovitz
February 7, 2006
Super Bowl ads have clearly found a home in cyberspace, as millions of fans visited sites hosting game spots both during and after the big game. The popularity of commercials on the Web contributes to brand enhancement, advertisement shelf life, and sales potential. "Driving Web hits is like driving traffic to an auto-dealer," says HBS professor emeritus Stephen Greyser. "It leads to the test drive — or even the sale."
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ASIA
Selling Livedoor
By Robin Greenwood
February 6, 2006
In an op-ed article, HBS assistant professor Robin Greenwood comments on Japanese internet company Livedoor's recent fall from grace. While many are likening its transgressions to the Enron scandal, Greenwood urges caution. Though the company is now accused of hiding operating losses with its acquisitions, "that's yet to be proven," he writes.. "And even if Livedoor may turn out to be a fraud, it showed that the stock market is a powerful disciplining device for firms. As for Livedoor investors, they should have known better."
ENTREPRENEUR MAGAZINE
Know Thy Worth
By C.J. Prince
February 6, 2006
HBS associate professor Mark Bradshaw has some advice for small business owners trying to determine the value of their company. Above all, they need to findan appraiser who specializes in their particular business or industry. "You have to understand the business to be able to value it — it's not just a spreadsheet exercise," he says. Furthermore, he adds, a specialty in small business valuation certainly helps.
BUSINESSWEEK
How Apple Could Mess Up, Again
By Peter Burrows
January 9, 2006
After a half decade of steady profit and solid success, few are willing to question Apple's long-term potential. HBS professor Clayton Christensen however, believes the company's strategy is destined to fail again soon. "Apple may think the proprietary iPod is their competitive advantage, but it's temporary," he says. "In the future, what will matter will be the software inside that lets users find exactly the kind of music they want to listen to, when and where they want to, with minimal effort."
CBS NEWS SUNDAY MORNING
The Crowd Knows Best
By Serena Altschul
January 8, 2006
Contrary to popular belief, an expert's opinion is not always as correct as a group's. Research shows that this phenomenon holds true in everything from game shows to stock trades to gambling. HBS assistant professor Anita Elberse notes that popular opinion websites such as the Hollywood Stock Exchange (www.hsx.com), where movie executives monitor activity on a virtual stock exchange that enables users to predict the success or failure of forthcoming motion pictures, provide further proof of what author James Surowiecki describes as "the wisdom of crowds.".
THE INDEPENDENT
The Baby Millionaires
By Sophie Goodchild and Jonathan Owen
January 8, 2006
Fertility experts are becoming some of the highest paid players in the medical game today. Couples desperate to conceive are seeking miracles and paying top dollar to start a family. In her new book The Baby Business, to be published by the Harvard Business School Press in February, HBS professor Debora Spar notes that more safeguards must be put in place as a response to the huge potential for exploitation: "You have a large number of potential customers, each of whom is willing to do whatever it takes and pay whatever they can to purchase the product at hand."
NEWSWEEK
Flying South
By Mac Margolis
December 26, 2005
Cash flows between developing nations have more than doubled over the past decade. Cross-border contracts between companies in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe have become common. HBS professor Tarun Khanna Tarun Khanna notes the dangers inherent in such deals: "Many of these companies share an information set with the countries they do business in," he says. "What's important is not the absolute amount of risk but your ability to bear it better than anyone else. Greater familiarity means you can take more risks."
BUSINESSWEEK
Mining the Vein of Great Ideas
By Christopher Farrell
December 26, 2005
Novel products and inventive services are key to a company's success in
today's competitive economy. How often a company's existing patents are
cited in future patent applications is a key indicator of a genuinely
innovative idea. Putting that in historical perspective,HBS assistant
professor Thomas Nicholas notes that "32% of Thomas Edison's patents
granted between 1910 and 1930 were cited in patents awarded from 1976 to
2002."
THE NEW YORKER
The Talk of the Town
By James Surowiecki
December 19, 2005
The BlackBerry, the popular wireless e-mail device, may soon be forced to end its service in the United States pending the outcome of a patent-infringement case. The lawsuit could serve as a symbol of a patent system gone amuck: overworked examiners, too little research, too many patents granted, a plethora of firms known as "patent trolls" that thrive simply by suing other companies. Ironically, the view that stronger patents are better has a downside, since rewarding some inventors at the expense of others can limit innovation. In a study of 150 years of patent protection, for example, HBS professor Josh Lerner found that "countries that introduced stronger protections for patents saw no increase in innovation by their citizens."
THE NEW YORK TIMES
When PayPal Becomes the Back Office, Too
By Julie Bick
December 18, 2005
Seven years after its inception, Paypal now accounts for over $25 billion in transactions and has a customer base of 80 million users. The online money transfer service helps small business internet sales and online auctions, but it also suffers from frequent claims of fraud and other online schemes. HBS associate professor Frances Frei says Paypal "is bound to make mistakes, thanks to the sheer volume and heterogeneity of its customer base, [but] The way they treat people they've mistakenly inconvenienced will be key to retaining their brand value."
FORTUNE
The Education of Andy Grove
By Richard S. Tedlow
December 12, 2005
Andy Grove has left an indelible mark on computers and business management as we know them today. In this essay, HBS professor and business historian Richard Tedlow takes a closer look at Intel's legendary leader. "Grove's output as a teacher of management has been prodigious," writes Tedlow, "Yet it is one thing to search for truth in the ivory tower and quite another to take those lessons, however wrenching, and apply them to a living, breathing business like Intel. Grove's most powerful lessons have been in the doing."
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
It's the Purpose Brand, Stupid
By Clayton M. Christensen, Scott Cook, and Taddy Hall
November 29, 2005
HBS professor Clayton Christensen, along with Intuit chairman Scott Cook and Taddy Hall, chief strategy officer of the Advertising Research Foundation, argue in a piece adapted from their December Harvard Business Review article that "prevailing models of segmentation and brand building are to blame" for the incredible failure rates associated with product innovation today. They suggest marketing strategies that utilize "purpose brands" as a remedy: "the marketer's fundamental task is not so much to understand the customer as it is to understand what jobs customers need to do -- and build products that serve those specific purposes."
CNN.COM
Business Students Follow the Case
By Ian Grayson
November 13, 2005
Pioneered by Harvard Business School as a tool for management education, the case method is growing in popularity as an alternative to traditional lectures. HBS senior lecturer Mike Roberts lends his perspective: "It's an approach that teaches [students] how to think, present their ideas, listen to others, defend their point of view, and use their judgment to make a decision, even if the information in the case is incomplete," he says. "That, after all, is a reflection of real life in the business world."
CNBC
Does Spirituality Mix with Commerce?
By Jerry Cobb
October 25, 2005
Starbucks is brewing controversy with its reported plans to include a spiritual quotation on its coffee cups beginning next spring. The coffee company is the latest player on the corporate scene to narrow the separation between church and office. HBS senior lecturer Laura Nash notes, "Companies must ask how far down the path of spirituality they are willing to venture without just turning it into one more way of making an extra dollar."
THE HARVARD UNIVERSITY GAZETTE
KSG Faculty Examine Katrina Response
By Alvin Powell
September 27, 2005
Experts from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government say that the mishandling of the Hurricane Katrina response could have been avoided if a management system originally created to fight forest fires had been fully implemented nationally. Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard, who holds professorships at both Harvard Business School and the Kennedy School, agreed that the Forest Service's Incident Management System was designed to react to such emergencies. "This was not a failure to anticipate conditions, it was a failure to react to conditions that people had predicted perfectly," said Leonard.
THE FINANCIAL TIMES
Out to Change the World of Work
By Sarah Murray
September 25, 2005
HBS professor Leslie Perlow is profiled as "a woman with a mission to shift working practices and improve work-life balance." According to the article, she aspires to "go beyond [her] academic role in just writing about it and really help people see that change is possible." Her current research examines long working hours and lack of job flexibility in service companies.
THE BOSTON HERALD
Federated Tosses Recognized Brand Names
By Brett Arends
September 21, 2005
Federated Department Stores has drawn the attention of marketing experts in light of its decision to abolish the Filene's and Marshall Fields chains in favor of Macy's or Bloomingdale's. Some see the move as financially wise, since consolidation will help maximize advertising potential. Others note that brand value is being sacrificed. HBS professor David Bell suggests that Federated operate under a single name: "The cost savings are huge, and the advertising's better."
THE FINANCIAL TIMES
Letting Users Lead the Way to New Ideas
By Elizabeth Biddlecombe
September 19, 2005
Innovations based on user input have played a role in the development of a number of products, including personal computers and open-source software. But while many see so-called user development as the basis for a strong business model, HBS professor Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole of the University of Toulouse argue in "The Economics of Technology Sharing: Open Source and Beyond," a working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, that "user development can only be taken so far." "It is easy, for example, for the computer programmer to test the integrity of a software application...whereas testing drugs requires an expensive and extensive infrastructure."
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Theory & Practice: Rethinking the Quality-Improvement Program
By Erin White
September 19, 2005
Some academics and consultants are now questioning once wildly popular programs designed to reduce error and improve quality by standardizing processes. HBS professor Michael Tushman joins critics in arguing that process management helps improve existing standards, but can hinder innovation. In a study with Wharton School professor Mary Benner, Tushman found that "quality-improvement or process-management programs can hamper a company's ability to respond to technological change by effectively forcing employees to focus on honing routine tasks associated with the older technology."
THE HARVARD CRIMSON
Rebuilding a Lost City
By Robin Peguero
September 12, 2005
After the destruction of the Gulf Coast wrought by Hurrican Katrina, many are left to ponder the future of the region and offer suggestions for the rebirth of New Orleans. HBS professor of management practice Arthur Segel says, "It is imperative that the government dedicate much of its finances to attracting capital to the beleaguered city." He suggests that the city rebuild "miles from its original location, keeping the region's economic advantages as a trade hub...while doing away with its rampant crime and corruption."
THE FINANCIAL TIMES
A Network Wherever He Looks
By Sarah Murray
September 5, 2005
At the heart of HBS visiting professor Toby Stuart's investigations lies one dominant theme — networks. "I consider myself to be a networks person," he says. "There's a network in every paper I've written." Stuart's research on "interconnection in the business world" has covered a wide range of topics, from venture capital firms' syndication networks to intercorporte alliances in the biotech and pharmaceuticals industries. Stuart was profiled in the FT's "Gurus of the Future," series, focusing on prominent business school faculty members under the age of 40.
THE LOS ANGELES TIMES
Why FEMA Was Missing in Action
By Peter G. Gosselin and Alan C. Miller
September 5, 2005
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina's rampage through the Gulf Coast, many wonder why FEMA — the government agency created to respond to national disasters — had very little presence. Budget cuts, elimination and reduction of key programs and staff, and a shift of focus to Homeland Security are to blame. HBS professor David Moss, author of When All Else Fails: Government as the Ultimate Risk Manager puts the government's efforts into historical perspective: "A century ago, no one would have expected a massive federal response. Most people viewed natural disasters mainly as things to be endured on their own or with the help of their neighbors and communities." He adds that the government has "dramatically increased its role in absorbing disaster losses after [9/11]. Until recently, many may have assumed we'd made similar strides in disaster prevention."
FAST COMPANY
The Three Ways of Great Leaders
By Bill Breen
September 2005
In a new book, In Their Time: The Greatest Business Leaders of the 20th Century, HBS lecturer Anthony J. Mayo and Professor Nitin Nohria compile a list of the top 100 U.S. business leaders of all time. Their research reveals that all such business giants share a common trait: contextual intelligence, or "acute sensitivity to the social, political, technological, and demographic contexts that came to define their eras." The pair further identify three leadership prototypes — the entrepreneurial leader, leader as manager, and charismatic leader — and show how each employed contextual intelligence to build success. "Leaders and those who aspire to lead benefit from having a sense of history" but not because history repeats itself, says Nohria. "History's real value is that it allows you to imagine what's possible."
EDUCATION WEEK
Leaders Go To School on Business Practices
By Sarah Schafer
August 31, 2005
Harvard's Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), a joint effort among Harvard Business School, the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and school districts throughout the United States, aims to create an understanding among participants about redesigning districts to achieve large-scale improvement in student learning. HBS professor Allen Grossman, one of the faculty leaders of the Project, argues that knowledge concerning how to attain such improvements is still missing. Central to PELP is the notion of congruence — aligning all of an organization's parts to drive its mission. HBS lecturer Stacey Childress adds that such a goal is "not easy in school districts, where the various constituents so often are at odds."
NEWSWEEK
Help Wanted
By Sarah Schafer
August 29, 2005
While China may boast a raging economy and surplus of factories, its critical shortage of skilled and experienced managers is its most staggering economic characteristic. Many reasons are cited, ranging from the effects of governmental change to ingrained cultural differences. One solution to the problem is higher education. In that regard, Harvard Business School recently hosted 70 Chinese business school professors, initiating them to ways of the case method. HBS professor F. Warren McFarlan, who has extensive experience working with professors from China's top b-schools, comments on the trend: "Everything is in the process of changing, and these schools feel very much like the American schools were in 1975. I'm actually just struck by the extraordinary progress that's been made in the last 20 years."
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Investment Firms Buy Stakes in New Boston Stock Exchange Venture
By Mark Jewell
August 24, 2005
In an effort to compete with the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq, the Boston Stock Exchange has partnered with four Wall Street firms to create a new electronic trading network. While many see this venture as a solution to the Boston Exchange's recent hard times, others, including HBS assistant professor Pai-Ling Yin note that the emergence of many new regional exchanges and the greater scope of the two dominant national exchanges will still make it hard for Boston to compete. "Once everyone coordinates on one exchange platform, it's very hard for them to move to another one," Yin said.
THE FINANCIAL TIMES
Family Ties That Can Strangle Heirs
By Stefan Stern
August 22, 2005
On the heels of a second potential Murdoch heir leaving the News Corporation, many in the business world have weighed in on the inherent pitfalls that come with family members filling the boardrooms of big business. Most subscribe to the notion that families working together will eventually produce profound management problems and tension within the ranks. HBS professor John Davis however, faculty chair of the School's "Families in Business Program," cites the intrinsic benefits in family business: "The big advantage family businesses have is stability," he says. "The owners aren't going away. This gives management more room to operate: they can think patiently but act aggressively."
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Investors Want Firms to Boost Dividends
By Ellen Simon
August 19, 2005
Today's investors are growing weary of the current trend that finds companies buying back their stock while cutting their dividend. HBS associate professor Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler of NYU's Stern School of Business examined this trend in a 2002 paper titled "Why are dividends disappearing? An Empirical Analysis" (later published in the Journal of Financial Economics). They found that investor behavior could alter corporate behavior, since "dividend payments grow when investors are willing to pay more for stocks with strong dividends and shrink when investors aren't willing to pay more for stocks with strong dividends."
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Insurer Reveals What Doctors Really Charge
By Vanessa Fuhrmans
August 18, 2005
Aetna Inc. became the first major health insurer to publicly disclose the fees it negotiates with physicians. Posted online, these fees will help subscribers comparison shop for many medical procedures. HBS professor Regina Herzlinger, a leading consumer-directed health-care advocate, sees believes that this decision will leadas leading to price competition between doctors. "That, in turn, may prod physicians to publish or share data on the quality of the care they provide," she says, "even though some have resisted attempts at doctor quality ratings until now."
THE BOSTON GLOBE
A Nimble Approach to Innovation
By Robert Weisman
August 7, 2005
Though many innovations have emerged in the course of economic history, it has been difficult, if not impossible, to predict which would be accepted by large numbers of consumers and when. In an article titled "In Search of the 'Next Killer App'", in this summer's edition of the MIT Sloan Management Review, HBS associate professor Robert Austin and HBS professor emeritus Richard L. Nolan (now of the University of Washington as well) explain that they have created a Biz-Apps group at Harvard Business School "to study the difficulties companies encounter in accommodating new technologies and to shorten the gestation period." One problem the authors have identified is the "poor communication" between those who come up with an innovative idea and the managers who are charged with turning it into a reality. The former just want to go for the gold; the latter feel responsible to the shareholders and the money they've invested.
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Insiders Prosper Despite SEC Rule
By Tony Cooke and Serena Ng
August 5, 2005
The SEC's implementation of Rule 10b5-1 in 2000 was meant to address ambiguity over when an insider could legally trade. In short, insiders are required to establish a plan — at a time when they do not possess material nonpublic information - for buying or selling their company's stock. But this rule has some leeway that could benefit insiders, who are still allowed to cancel their plans while in possession of material information. HBS associate professor Constance Bagley regards this as a major - and unnecessary — loophole. Insiders "can get rid of the bad trades and keep what look like the good trades," she says.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Merger Presents Challenges in Keeping Adidas, Reebok Brands Distinct
By Mark Jewell
August 3, 2005
Industry watchers say that the recent merger of German-based Adidas and the USA's Reebok will produce few changes for consumers and ease competition between the two former rivals. HBS professor and former Reebok board member John A. Quelch cites some of the brand distinctions: "The Reebok name and product line is still slightly positioned toward fashion versus performance shoes, and toward women versus men, whereas Adidas' strength is in soccer shoes, and I think it's still regarded as a more male-oriented and performance-oriented brand." Quelch also notes that the merger will produce a greater market presence for the combined brands "that will probably present Nike with more formidable competition than Adidas or Reebok--as individual companies."
THE NEW YORK TIMES
The Price is Right
By Pankaj Ghemawat and Ken A. Mark
August 3, 2005
In the midst of all the negative issues facing Wal-Mart, HBS Professor Pankaj Ghemawat and business consultant Ken A. Mark argue that there is something positive to report about the retailer's impact on consumers. "To chalk up Wal-Mart's success simply to the exploitation of its work force, as many of the company's most ferocious critics do, is simply wrong," they say. Rather, Wal-Mart has increased the size of the economic pie and created valued that can be pocketed by the customer. "Wal-Mart saves its consumers something like $16 billion a year," they write. "And because Wal-Mart's presence forces the store's competitors to charge lower prices as well, this...figure understates the company's real impact by at least half."
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Medicine for Medicaid
By Regina Herzlinger and Tom Nerney
August 2, 2005
HBS Professor Regina Herzlinger and Tom Nerney commend some "visionary governors" for what they propose as a cure for Medicaid's staggering costs: consumer-driven programs that fundamentally alter Medicaid's power equation by allowing "consumers to allocate their own health care, instead of bureaucrats doing so on their behalf." Citing models put forth by governors in Florida, South Carolina and Vermont, among others, the authors note common characteristics based on freedom, innovation, and choice among both enrollees and providers. "The best cure for Medicaid's budget woes," they argue, "and the best medicine for its beneficiaries are market-based innovations by prescient governors."
CHINA ECONOMIC REVIEW
The Elephant at the Gate
August 2005
China continues to be an economic force to be reckoned with, but after years of reform and growth, India seems to be making considerable headway. In a 2003 Foreign Policy article co-authored with MIT's Yasheng Huang, HBS Professor Tarun Khanna predicted that India would eventually eclipse CHina on the financial stage. Evidence of India's threat to China is still inconclusive, however, since a number of liabilities exist, including a budget deficit, a caste system, that wastes human talent, and rival political factions. Adds Khanna: "The inefficient side of India remains — democracy needs consensus and bureaucracy slows things down — those things won't change."
THE ECONOMIST
The Ones that Get Away
July 28, 2005
This corporate earnings season, many are wary of the the numbers being bandied about, as the use of estimates in company accounts increases. A recent study by Assistant Professor Daniel Bergstreser and Associate Professor Mihir Desai, both of HBS, along with Joshua Rauh of the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business, found ample evidence of tampering at opportune moments: "Before acquisitions and equity offerings and exercising stock options, for example, some bosses inflated the assumed rate of return on pension-fund assets, thus flattering profits."
FORTUNE
A Big Year
By Janet Guyon
July 25, 2005
The numbers needed to be ranked among the world's largest corporations give new meaning to the "big" in big business. If a company didn't have revenues of at least $12.4 billion, it didn't make the cut. HBS professors David Garvin and Rosabeth Moss Kanter provide some insights regarding these economic giants. Garvin notes that CEOs of such successful enterprises are people who "can articulate a vision, develop systems and policies to implement that vision, and operate on the ground to steer those systems." Technology can also an important part of the mix. Citing Wal-Mart as an example, Kanter notes: "The fact that they can ask their suppliers to conform to certain standards and can replenish stores quickly is a big part of their success."
THE FINANCIAL TIMES
Smart Companies Take on "Intrapreneurial" Spirit
By Paul Tyrell
July 25, 2005
Innovative companies such as Apple Computer and Lockheed Martin are described as having an "intrapreneurial" culture, where innovative ideas are discovered, rewarded, and cultivated. HBS assistant professor Clark Gilbert advises that established companies should try to generate "disruptive" ideas on a regular basis. But they should be "opportunity-based rather than resource-based," he says, noting that most big businesses rely too heavily on internal resources as opposed to looking outside for ideas. "The problem in so many existing markets is that product lines have already overshot what most consumers can absorb" he adds.
HR MAGAZINE
Safety Consciousness
By Pamela Babcock
July 2005
Safety is an iportant concern in workplaces today, with employee injuries accounting for big expenses. HBS Professor Amy Edmondson says that "creating a culture of safety is a long and challenging journey—but it actually can be done." She advocates implementing workplace safety programs at every level and reporting unsafe workplace conditions and worker behaviors, regardless of scale. "Organizations are pretty good at learning from major mishaps" she says, "but what we don't do a good job learning from are small failures — the little things that go wrong that we recover from."
THE LONDON DAILY TELEGRAPH
Why the Best New Ideas Often Come from People on the Ground
By Stefan Stern
July 7, 2005
According to conventional wisdom, business strategy is something that comes down, fully formed, from the highest ranks of an organization. Wrong, says HBS professor Joseph Bower, who has studied corporate strategy for decades. "What actually happens is determined at a lower level. It's a rare company where the people at the top really have the detailed knowledge to second guess what the people on the ground are recommending." Bower is a contributor and coauthor, with Assistant Professor Clark Gilbert, of the forthcoming book From Resource Allocation to Strategy (Oxford University Press, October).
THE BOSTON GLOBE
Managers Who Dispense Bad News Also Feel the Pain
By Robert Weisman
June 12, 2005
Research abounds on the psychological effects on employees who have been downsized or fired, but what about the employer who has to break the bad news? In order to act in the company's best interest, this "necessary evil" "lies at the heart of business responsibility," says HBS assistant professor Joshua Margolis, who has been studying this issue with Andrew Molinsky, an assistant professor at Brandeis University's International Business School. In these situations, many professionals experience emotional distress, the researchers report, and "a fair number of [them]...seek to reach out and have some kind of relationship with the person they're about to harm."
INC. Magazine
Is it Time to Raise Prices?
By Alison Stein Wellner
June 2005
When setting prices, entrepreneurs often "go by their gut." But this method may lead to inappropriate prices and missed profits. HBS associate professor John Gourville explains that "The price you get for a product is a function of what the product is truly worth -- and how good a job you do communicating that value to the end user," an idea that can be overlooked by entrepreneurs. No need to fear losing customers because of heftier price tags, either. "People are actually very sensitive to what they think something costs to make," he adds.
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
Upping The Ante At GM
May 16, 2005
Financier Kirk Kerkorian's hefty investment in General Motors may make him an ally of the CEO instead of a dreaded corporate raider, as the company pushes for unpleasant changes such as forcing unionized employees to pay for more of their medical care and breaking down internal fiefdoms. "It's external ammunition for the changes GM has to make but that others have resisted," says HBS professor David Garvin. "The Kerkorian bid could be a very good thing for the company."
COMPUTERWORLD
Harvard Professor Sees IT Entering Transformative Era
May 3, 2005
Information technology is entering a transformative era driven by massive investments in fiber optics and other technologies, according to HBS professor F. Warren McFarlan. "Of the nearly 50 years I've been in IT, 2005 is probably the most exciting, transforming time for business applications," he said at a recent conference. Although other participants observed that the ability of many companies to leverage new business opportunities and engage in new IT projects would be hampered by systems repairs and compliance requirements, McFarlan contended that the "technology friendliness" of a company's CEO goes a long way toward moving an organization in the right direction.
THE HARVARD COMMUNITY RESOURCE
Learning From Reputational Crises
April 2005
No brands -- even the most well known -- are safe from the danger of a reputational crisis. Think Martha Stewart and Arthur Andersen, to mention just a recent few. So what's an organization to do? According to HBS professor emeritus Stephen Greyser, there are three precepts to keep in mind: "Understand your brand, and its essence, based on a study of attitudes held by interested publics; recognize that threats...are legion and anticipate what could cause a brand crisis;" and when bad things do happen, "focus on forthrightness and a truly substantive response."
USA TODAY
Ignorance Isn't Bliss for Execs on Trial
By Greg Farrell and Del Jones
March 16, 2005
In the future, CEOs who go on trial for accounting fraud and plead complete ignorance of company finances will most likely face unsympathetic and skeptical jurors. Former Worldcom CEO Bernie Ebbers was found guilty of securities fraud, conspiracy, and filing false documents; yet he denied knowledge of any wrongdoing. In exposures of fabricated earnings involving millions, even billions, of dollars,"It's implausible that a CEO doesn't know what's going on," says former Medtronic CEO Bill George, now a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School.
FINANCIAL TIMES
When a Company's Success Breeds Failure
By Gary Rivlin
March 14, 2005
The absence of dissent is one of many factors that can contribute to the failure of once-successful companies. When high-level managers are in charge, junior employees often lack the confidence to point out problems that may lead to catastrophe, according to Michael Roberto, HBS assistant professor of business administration, who has written cases about the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Challenger disaster. "Many groups and organizations shy away from vigorous conflict and debate," he points out.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Fliers Find That Mileage Points Go Only So Far
By Micheleine Maynard and Eric Dash
March 13, 2005
Mileage points earned by frequent fliers no longer have the trading power they had in the past several years due to tightened restrictions by airlines. As fliers have racked up millions of miles to redeem, airlines in turn have imposed higher requirements for redemption. "What the airlines have done," says HBS professor Max H. Bazerman, "is devalue miles." As a result, fliers contend with more blackout dates and a steep downturn in available seats on popular routes. According to Bazerman, "miles today are worth half of what they were five years ago. And they will be worth half again some day."
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Power Switch: In Electronics, U.S. Companies Seize Momentum From Japan
By Gary McWilliams
March 10, 2005
U.S. companies have taken the lead in consumer electronics, eclipsing Japan. Software design and low manufacturing costs give U.S. companies the edge. "Software is an area where the U.S. has a strong advantage going back two or three decades," says HBS professor David B. Yoffie. "It's no surprise that most of the interesting consumer-electronics products -- the iPod, TiVo and Treo -- are coming out of Silicon Valley. It has to do with being close to leading-edge technology."
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Hewlett's Board Forces Chief Out After Rocky Stay
By Morgen Witzel
February 10, 2005
Although the board of Hewlett-Packard dismissed former CEO Carly Fiorina, the company maintains that it will continue to execute its strategy essentially the same way it did before the ouster. However, some observers are skeptical. "I have trouble believing that the new management team at H.P. is going to stay the course they're on and just try and execute better on it," said HBS associate professor Andrew P. McAfee. "It's hard enough to compete in one line of business but when you do it in several, it's an extremely tough act to pull off."
THE NEW YORK TIMES
A Sector Where 'Merger' Can Mean the Start of Something Ugly
By Andrew Ross Sorkin and Barnaby Feder
February 10, 2005
The success rate of large-scale mergers and acquisitions among technology companies is abysmal. Nevertheless, companies continue to press ahead with big deals. According to HBS professor and senior associate dean Krishna G. Palepu, the problem facing big technology deals like Hewlett-Packard and Compaq is that they often combine two struggling businesses rather than thriving ones. "Putting two businesses that aren't doing well together doesn't help in any industry unless there are economies of scale to produce savings." But the savings in that deal were not big enough to go toe-to-toe with the competition. "Getting as big as Dell doesn't help if you aren't as good as Dell."
FINANCIAL TIMES
Why Top Performers Hit Rock Bottom When They Change Jobs
By Michael Skapinker
February 9, 2005
Star employees who thrive in one company often fail to duplicate their stellar performance when they jump ship and join a rival. They not only lose the support of the team that helped them rise to the top but fall short in rapidly learning how a new organization works because they think they are above cultivating such knowledge. "The informal systems through which executives find information and get work done are unique to each company," said HBS assistant professer Boris Groysberg, associate professor Ashish Nanda, and professor Nitin Nohria in a May 2004 Harvard Business Review article. "When stars join new organisations, they must learn about the informal networks and build trust with other people before the systems will work for them."
FINANCIAL TIMES
Training Tomorrow's Lecturers
By Linda Anderson
January 24, 2005
HBS pioneered the case method and sells more than 6 million cases a year in this country and around the world. However, according HBS professor Thomas Piper, many people do not understand what is involved in teaching a case. As a result, the School has taken a leading role in training professors from emerging economies how to do it. For the past five years, business school faculty from developing regions have attended the HBS Colloquium on Participant-Centered Learning (CPCL). "We do some careful assessment of the learning and development needs of the participants in each school," says Piper. The program, he adds, is about teaching teachers that there is no right or wrong answer for a case but a right thought process about business.
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
Pension Tension
By Kim Clark
January 24, 2005
Because of troubles in the pension system, workers can no longer count on company-funded retirements. Less than 20 percent of working Americans have pension plans compared to more than 35 percent in 1980. Since many firms estimated big future investment gains during the market run-up of the 1990s, they put little or no extra cash in their pension funds to keep up with rising liabilities. According to a recent study of more than 1,000 companies coauthored by HBS assistant professor Daniel Bergstresser and associate professor Mihir Desai, organizations that had poor independent oversight and executives who were on the verge of exercising their stock options tended to use higher estimates of future pension fund returns than did other companies. When the stock market bubble burst, a pension free fall ensued, resulting in the current crisis.
THE BOSTON GLOBE
Drug Firms Seek Profit in Giveaways, Marketing Targets Consumer Loyalty
By Christopher Rowland
January 17, 2005
Prescription drug manufacturers are using aggressive marketing techniques to entice consumers. Since 1997, when the FDA removed many regulations on drug advertising, free trial offers, coupons, and loyalty programs have surged. Besides gaining an edge on competitors with these promotions, another side benefit is coveted market data, according to HBS assistant professor Marta Wosinska. Many offers require consumers to part with valuable personal information. ''Pharmaceutical companies cannot buy any third-party data about who is using their drugs, because of medical privacy laws," she said. ''This way, they get medical marketing information."
THE WASHINGTON POST
Branded for Life; What if a Familiar Name Becomes a Different Animal?
By Griff Witte
January 23, 2005
Businesses spend billions creating brand recognition for their products. However, with the acceleration of technological change in recent years, more and more companies with successful brands are being forced to break the bond between their name and their product. IBM smoothly evolved its brand as its business changed, but AT&T's transition was marked by several false starts that have damaged the brand, according to HBS professor John A. Quelch. "The AT&T brand has been messed with repeatedly in the last 15 years," says Quelch. "As a result, I don't think it commands much respect, except among a very small, aging, loyal segment of the marketplace." The branding challenge is even harder for companies with names that literally say what a company sells. "It's terrific to have a brand that says very clearly what your business is all about. But if you want to expand or diversify or get out of the business, it makes it almost impossible to do the migration."
FINANCIAL TIMES
Goodbye to Your Golf Partner
By Sundeep Tucker
January 19, 2005
Corporate scandals have led to changes in the selection process and roles of independent directors. Gone are the days of chief executives tapping their golfing buddies and loyal colleagues to sit on boards. According to HBS professor Jay Lorsch, author of Back to the Drawing Board: Designing Corporate Boards for a Complex World, CEOs should never be involved in recruiting outside executives. "CEOs, especially in the US, have for too long been able to pick their own cronies to sit on the board," he says. "They should have nothing to do with the process - although, of course, they should be comfortable with whoever is appointed." The process should involve only those on a company's nominations committee.
BLACK AMERICA WEB.com
Spotlight Shines on Black Lawyer in Vioxx Drama
By Monica Lewis
January 5, 2005
Merck & Co.'s defense strategy now rests in the hands of senior vice president and general counsel Kenneth Frazier. A graduate of Harvard Law School, he is one of only a handful of blacks in such positions with a Fortune 100 company. "[Merck] did the right thing by taking [Vioxx] off the market when they did," said HBS professor David Thomas, co-author of Breaking Through: The Making of Minority Executives in Corporate America (HBS Press: 1999) commenting on Frazier's role in managing the Vioxx fallout. "His job was to immediately do the risk assessment, and he was definitely at the table when the decision to pull the drug was made."
FORBES.com
When Not to Outsource
By Penelope Patsuris
January 5, 2005
Outsourcing is often viewed as a boon for corporate America and a bust for U.S. workers. But in the opinion of HBS professor Rajiv Lal, that's not quite right. Companies are beginning to realize that there are plenty of cases in which outsourcing is not the best business strategy. "The issue isn't that less will be outsourced," said Lal. "It's just going to be a matter of what is outsourced."
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
America Becomes Global Marketplace
By Jeffrey Sparshott
December 29, 2004
Granted, the United States imports more than it exports and the trade gap is growing with each passing month. However, U.S. businesses spend more money expanding into international markets than any other country in the world. Of the world's 100 most valuable brands, 62 are American, according to Interbrand, a consulting group that annually evaluates products. That's a significant accomplishment for a country that produces less than one-third of the world's economic output. "It's testimony to the superior marketing and business acumen of American companies. We punch 200 percent of our business weight," said HBS professor John Quelch, who has studied and written extensively about global brands.
BBC NEWS
Could Yukos be a Blessing in Disguise?
By James Arnold
December 21, 2004
In a report for the Center for Economic Policy Research, the authors, including HBS associate professor Mihir Desai, praise Russia's crack down on corporate tax cheats—a reform, they say, that has several benefits. "An increase in tax enforcement can increase the amount [of dividends and other income] outside shareholders will receive, even accounting for increased levels of taxation," they write. In addition, companies' financial positions have become much more transparent.
MIAMI HERALD
U.S. Political Divide Similar to Familiar Aesopian Fable
By Rosabeth Moss Kanter
December 16, 2004
Forget the red and blue patchwork of the election-night map. HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter likens the political agendas of the Democrats and Republicans to the fable of the City Mouse and the Country Mouse. Each comfortable with their own level of sophistication and values, neither finds common ground between the "complex and contradictory" life in town and the utopia of the country. But, Kanter writes, this sociological tug-of-war is at least as old as America itself. "By learning to give rather than take and to engage rather than escape, they can leave both city and countryside in better shape."
THE TIMES OF LONDON
Devoured by the Dragon
By David Smith and Dominic Rushe
December 12, 2004
In a stunning deal loaded with symbolism, IBM sold a controlling stake in its personal-computer business to Lenovo, China's biggest PC manufacturer. While Beijing-based Lenovo has a quarter of the Chinese market, its annual sales are a third of IBM's. "Lenovo could be the first global Chinese brand," said HBS professor John Quelch. "The Chinese have only to look at what Samsung achieved in Korea. They came from practically nowhere to rival Sony and are now the 23rd-most valuable brand in the world. This IBM deal is a huge step forward for Lenovo but also for Chinese business," Quelch said.
WALL $TREET WEEK WITH FORTUNE
Cool Products
Reported by Geoff Colvin
December 10, 2004
Fortune magazine's 25 best new products of 2004 are valued for their substance as well as their style. HBS professor Marco Iansiti, a judge on the Fortune panel, commented on such form-and-function concepts as sunglasses with a built-in MP3 player; or bio-degradable, one-time-use bamboo plates; or an insulated coffee cup that is elegant in its simplicity. "Everybody knows about Apple and what they've managed to do with design. It's good business when you solve design problems in an elegant way -- in a way that's still exciting to consumers. It makes for a great business model, and the evidence speaks for itself."
FAST COMPANY
The Six Myths of Creativity
By Bill Breen
December 1, 2004
HBS professor Teresa Amabile has spent almost 30 years studying the creative process in the corporate world. Her latest research project has turned up some surprises and debunked some long-held myths about what drives creativity in organizations. Contrary to conventional wisdom, monetary reward, competition, and pressure do not make people more creative. "Over the past five years, organizations have paid more attention to creativity and innovation than at any other time in my career. But I believe most people aren't anywhere near to realizing their creative potential, in part because they're laboring in environments that impede intrinsic motivation," she said.
THE NEWSHOUR
Retail Sales
Reported by Jeffrey Brown
November 26, 2004
'Tis the season, and this year, according to HBS professor Nancy Koehn, many stores were ready for Christmas "as soon as the Halloween candy came off the shelves." True, $5,000 plasma-screen TVs are not flying off the shelves, but Koehn — an authority in retailing, branding, and business history — sees a trend in shoppers looking for "cheap chic" -- "-- the phenomenon of affordable luxuries in which consumers of lower income levels have access to goods that they once deemed very scarce or very rare--everything from a double tall latte with a hazelnut shot to a Tiffany's bracelet to a Coach key bob to a beautiful shimmering scarf from Saks Fifth Avenue."
THE BOSTON GLOBE
Wall Street Said to Overreact to Recall
By Theresa Agovina
November 17, 2004
Wall Street overreacted to Merck's withdrawal of its pain reliever Vioxx, according to HBS professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee and co-author Noorein Inamdar, writing in The New England Journal of Medicine. They believe the Vioxx episode will actually cost Merck $14 billion -- $9 billion in lost profits and as much as $5 billion in legal costs. Yet the pharma's market value plummeted by more than $28 billion. "In part," say the authors, "investors reacted to growing concerns about Merck's business strategy," which shuns mergers and joint ventures with biotechnology firms. As defensible as that approach may be, investors weren't buying it.
THE ECONOMIST
The Cost of Ideas
By Steve Marlin
November 11, 2004
Intellectual property is the cornerstone of the modern knowledge economy. But one of the main incentives for and protectors of intellectual property, the patent, is increasingly being found wanting, as the number of applications soars at patent offices around the world. America's patent system, in fact, has "become sand rather than lubricant in the wheels of American progress," HBS professor Josh Lerner and co-author Adam Jaffe conclude in Innovation and Its Discontents: How Our Broken Patent System Is Endangering Innovation and Progress and What To Do about It (Princeton University Press: 2004).
INFORMATION WEEK
Double Duty
By Steve Marlin
November 8, 2004
Giving Chief Information Officers dual executive jobs isn't unusual. In fact, it's becoming more of a trend as business processes become more tightly knit with the IT infrastructure. This new wave in multitasking may be aseem like a "win-win" situation for companies and individuals, but HBS associate professor Robert Austin disagrees. Giving line-of-business responsibilities to the CIO effectively reins in the previously untouchable stand-alone IT organization, he said. "The fact is that a lot of CEOs are uncomfortable with IT and are seeking ways to control it," Austin said.
BLOOMBERG
GE, Dow, Caterpillar Find Pricing Power in Raw-Materials Surge
By Rachel Layne
November 8, 2004
After years of market constraints, manufacturers of products ranging from earthmoving equipment to plastic resins are increasing prices to reflect their increased cost of raw materials. For longer than anyone cares to rememberyears, sales were made and deals were closed on price point. "You'll see the Wal-Marts of the world keeping prices down," according to HBS associate professor John Gourville, who studies pricing trends. However, demand has increased to the point where manufacturers now feel confident enough to raise prices and increase margins, which have been heretofore virtually nonexistent.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
The Enlightened M.B.A.
By Pagan Kennedy
November 7, 2004
HBS recently celebrated the 10th anniversary of its Social Enterprise Initiative -- a program that aims to prepare MBA students to manage nonprofit enterprises, oversee philanthropic activities or start scrappy companies that attack social ills. As it is defined today, social enterprise can have wide-ranging meaning mean just about anything. "At one end of the spectrum, you could have a soup kitchen in the basement of a church, where all the labor is volunteer and all the materials are donated -- pure charity," says HBS professor James Austin, former faculty chairman of the Initiative. "At the other end of the spectrum, you have a for-profit company that is engaged in an undertaking that has some embedded social purpose."
THE NEW YORK TIMES
It's Cleanup Time at Citi
By Timothy L. O'Brien and Landon Thomas Jr.
November 7, 2004
To say that Citibank has had more than its share of problems would be an understatement. In May, for instance, the bank agreed on a $2.65 billion settlement with investors who bought stock and bonds in WorldCom before it filed for bankruptcy. Later that month, the Federal Reserve fined the bank $70 million for abuses in personal and mortgage loans to low-income and high-risk borrowers. In June, Citigroup suspended two executives in China, citing them for presenting false financial information to Chinese regulators and to the bank itself. In August, British regulators began an investigation of a $13.5 billion bond trade that was executed by Citigroup. Then, in September, Japan ordered Citigroup to close its private banking unit there for, among other things, failing to guard against money laundering. That was apparently the last straw for CEO Charles Prince. After a very public apology to the Japanese people, Prince set about on a daunting task -- changing the corporate culture of the financial giant. "Is it possible? Yes," said HBS associate professor Rakesh Khurana, who studies corporate governance issues. "But it's not probable. There's very little meaningful change that can go on in an organization because of past investments, taken-for-granted assumptions, vested interests in the status quo, inertia and other deeply rooted factors."
THE ECONOMIST
Passing on the Crown
November 4, 2004
There's an old adage about never doing business with a family friend -- a less-than-satisfactory experience could be costly in more ways than one. But what about being in business with brothers, sisters, and other family members? According to HBS senior lecturer John Davis, author of a forthcoming book on seven remarkably long-lived family businesses, the passing of the torch is a two-step process -- first management, then ownership -- "But they tend not to pass at the same time." In fact, a founder may hang on to ownership to death and beyond, in a sense, if ownership is vested in family trusts.
FORTUNE
The Real Secrets of Entrepreneurs
By Joshua Hyatt
November 2, 2004
Inspiration and perspiration, necessity, a stroke of luck, a big idea. For entrepreneurs, all, some, or none of the above figure prominently into their success. But among the few who attained "critical mass," HBS professor Nancy Koehn has drawn some conclusions about what works, and what doesn't. "The most successful entrepreneurs think of their companies as a separate entity from themselves," she said. "It's incongruous, but they have a sense that if they have done their work well, the proof will be in their companies outgrowing, outpacing -- and even outliving -- them." Indeed, HBS professor Clayton Christenson calls planning for a company's everlasting life is "a key element of the long-range strategic planning process inside any company. "The (founders)," he said, "have to create a system by which they rhythmically mandate the launch of new businesses, and they have to invest in that system before they need the growth."
NEWSWEEK ONLINE
October 13, 2004
Patent Problems
By Brad Stone
The U.S. patent process is broken. Some companies, in fact, are trolling the gray area of intellectual property law to stake dubious claims on existing high technology — a boom for lawyers rather than inventors. In a new book, Innovation and Its Discontents (Princeton University Press: 2004), HBS professor and co-author Josh Lerner offers up some recommendations for reforming the resource-starved U.S. Patent Office. Among them: Replace the anachronistic patent examiner with a peer-review patent application.
CBS NEWS: 60 MINUTES
October 10, 2004
Staying At Home
Reported by Lesley Stahl
It wasn't too long ago when women were denied equal opportunity in the workplace, the professions, and in higher education. But all that changed during a very visible struggle during the '60s and '70s. Now, more and more high-achieving women are opting out of the "fast track" (at least for awhile) to focus on family. HBS dean Kim Clark believes this development presents an opportunity for organizations to rethink their perceptions and practices. Flexible schedules, he says in an interview with 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl, allow workers — both women and men — to take care of both business and family. And by maintaining the right kind of relationship over the years, companies should be able to guarantee that a job is waiting when employees are ready to return to the work force full time.
NEWSWEEK
October 4, 2004
Is This Any Way to Run An Airline?
By Daniel McGinn
America has its airline success stories such as Southwest and JetBlue. In Europe, Ireland's Ryanair has been delivering similar frill-free service since 1986. HBS associate professor Jan Rivkin, who has written a case study on Ryanair, points out how founder Michael O'Leary cut costs the old fashioned way -- no snacks, no pillows or blankets, quick turnaround time between flights so that planes spend most of their time in the air, not hanging around on the ground. Other European carriers have taken note, lowering their fares to compete.
THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
September 30, 2004
Revolution In Funding Health: You
By Gregory M. Lamb
Ready or not, consumer-driven health plans are coming. Born out of both necessity and the economy, they offer up-front lower costs to policy holders because they are no as all-encompassing as traditional health insurance programs. They also have higher deductibles. The difference is made up through joint employee-employer Health Savings Accounts. All these are steps in the right direction, says HBS professor Regina Herzlinger, who in a recent article in The Journal of the American Medical Association urged the U.S. to consider the way Switzerland handles health insurance. "The Swiss have an excellent health care system and excellent outcomes with patients, but with one-third lower costs," she says. "It shows what a consumer-driven health care system can do."
THE McKINSEY QUARTERLY
September 16, 2004
India's Entrepreneurial Advantage
By Tarun Khanna
China is bigger, has more people, and manufactures more merchandise than India. China also has been in the throes of economic reform - arguably its second Great Leap Forward -- ten years longer than India. But India's new economic order is a grassroots effort, and Bombay's Stock Exchange is a model of the rough-and-tumble of the marketplace. According to HBS professor Tarun Khanna, "As India opens up further to foreign direct investment, we might well discover that the country's more laissez-faire approach has nurtured the conditions that will enable free enterprise and economic growth to flourish more easily in the long run.
ESPN.com
September 14, 2004
The Art of Negotiations
By Darren Rowell
Nearly three-quarters of the revenue of the National Hockey League goes toward paying the salaries of the players on the NHL's 30 teams. Owners from both sides of the U.S.- Canadian border have now issued the non-negotiable demand that players submit to a salary cap, and they have locked them out of training camps to prove they mean business. According to HBS professor Michael Wheeler, author of the forthcoming Wild Negotiation: Mastering Chaos and Winning Agreement, the brinkmanship and bluster will continue until someone blinks. "It's very hard for either side to take a half-loaf solution back to their constituents until it comes to what they perceive is the 11th hour and the 59th minute," he said. "If anyone in management or the union comes back with a deal before that point, they'll be criticized for not having courage."
THE BOSTON GLOBE
September 12, 2004
Against Types
By Drake Bennett
Before your next job interview, you may be required to take a test. Although tests for special skills such as copy editing or business math are considered fairly routine in some companies, these tests, which attempt to quantify personality, psychology, or even mental pathology, are growing in popularity among corporations. Although controversial, the tests' popularity stems from the basic belief that "personality influences how you interact with other people, so having a detailed understanding of personality allows you to adjust for individual differences," says HBS professor David Thomas, who has studied their use in corporate America.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
Consumer-Driven Health Care: Lessons from Switzerland
By Regina Herzlinger
September 8, 2004
The U.S. health care system is ailing. The solution, according to HBS professor Regina Herzlinger, is a universal, consumer-driven, private-sector system - similar to one currently in use in Switzerland -- that enables enrollees to tailor insurance plans to their needs in terms of prices, benefits, and coverage. The result is a competitive environment that both moderates costs and improves quality. "Switzerland's-- system achieves universal insurance and high quality of care at significantly lower costs than the-- U.S. system and without the constrained resources that can characterize government-controlled systems," she writes.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
September 6, 2004
When This Book Argued for Shift in Antitrust Policy, Its Subject Smiled
By Stephen Lohr
The Keystone Advantage (Harvard Business School Press: 2004) by HBS professor Marco Iansiti and technology consultant Roy Levien, examines the biotech and computer-tech companies that have grown to be masters of their domains. The authors see parallels between "keystone" companies like Microsoft and Wal-Mart that are the hubs of our economic system and keystone species in biological ecosystems. Using this framework, the authors make a provocative argument for rethinking antitrust policy. "Keystone companies," they say, "are powerful yet benevolent. They never dominate industries, but enable larger economic ecosystems to thrive."
FAST COMPANY
September 1, 2004
The New World-Changer
By Cheryl Dahle
MBA students at Harvard and elsewhere are well aware that the elements of business can be used for social well-being. One tangible example can be found in HBS's Social Enterprise Club, which boasts some 300 members. "The growth rate of new nonprofits now exceeds that of private business formation and government expansion," said HBS professor James Austin, adding, "Entrepreneurs go where the action is."
USA TODAY
August 31, 2004
More Companies Tap Location, Location, Location of Inner Cities
By Del Jones
The Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC), founded by University Professor Michael Porter, says that companies that put down roots in some of the poorest urban areas in the country are realizing phenomenal growth-an average of 866 percent in the five years ending in 2002. So much for the inner city's image as a business badlands. "Inner cites are sitting in the center of the most prosperous parts of the world," notes Porter. Inner city companies disproportionately offer a wide array of benefits--including health care, retirement, life insurance, home ownership incentives, and education and training-to their workers, about a third of whom are minority (versus 11 percent nationally). Thus, these firms can offer the leg up that public schools have so far failed to do.
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
August 31, 2004
Manager's Journal: Toys 'R' History
By Clayton Christensen and Scott Anthony
For nearly two decades, Toys 'R' Us had a great run. But the retailer recently announced it will abandon its core toy business to concentrate on its booming Babies 'R' Us spin-off, which sells clothing and furniture for infants and toddlers. Geoffrey the Giraffe just couldn't win against Sam Walton's Wal-Mart. Ironically, TRU was once the scrappy, dominating player in the marketplace. "Toys 'R' Us emerged as a disruptive 'category killer' by offering consumers a place where they could be sure to find the precise toys they wanted at a reasonable price. Department stores and small specialists fell by the wayside because they couldn't match the selection and price provided by Toy 'R' Us," HBS professor Clayton Christensen points out. But then came Wal-Mart, with its everyday low prices,super-efficient supply chains, and an inventory so broad that toys can be offered simply as loss leaders. Toys 'R' Us, however, followed the right strategy by laying the foundation for another line of business before the day of reckoning was actually upon them.
ATLANTA BUSINESS JOURNAL
August 27, 2004
Success Is About More Than Being the Best
By Connie Glaser
Your parents were right when they used to tell you "everything in moderation." In their new book, Just Enough: Tools for Creating Success in Your Work and Life (Wiley: 2004), HBS professor Howard Stevenson and senior lecturer Laura Nash make clear that too many people today push themselves too hard in too many areas of life-from jobs and sports to hobbies and parenthood. Given these unrealistic yardsticks, the best you can be is no longer good enough. The result is plenty of stress and strain. A better goal, say the authors, is to be content with what you have and what you do rather than to feel that superstardom is the sine qua non of a well-lived life.
THE ECONOMIST
August 26, 2004
Against the Grain
Holland's Rabobank has quietly and methodically become a player in the niche business of farm financing. However, the silence recently ended when it agreed to purchase Farm Credit Services of America (FCSA). Part of a network of government-sponsored entitites (GSEs) that includes Freddie Mac and Freddie Mae, FCSA is comprised of financial institutions in four states in the Midwest and Rockies with assets of almost $8 billion. However, regulations limit FCSA's activities, preventing it from taking deposits, assisting farms beyond its four-state territory, or even helping farms that have operations in adjacent states. But those constraints are over if the bank's acquisition goes through. All this begs the question whether it is time to scrap the GSE system completely. According to HBS professor emeritus Ray Goldberg, one of the world's leading experts in agribusiness, "The reason the farm-credit system came into existence is that no one else would provide credit. Now someone else will."
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
August 24, 2004
Manager's Journal: Betting on Google's Future
By Thomas Eisenmann
In his commentary in The Wall Street Journal on Google's much anticipated IPO, HBS associate professor Thomas Eisenmann cites research indicating that managers of high-tech companies with dual-class securities (heavily-weighted Class A shares for management and common Class B shares for everyone else) take bigger risks, make major innovations, and create greater value and wealth because, more times than not, their high-stakes strategy works. "An investment in Google is a long-term bet on its management," Eisenmann writes.
THE STAR-LEDGER (Newark, N.J.)
July 4, 2004
British Retail Icon Looks To Restore Its Spark Of Old
By Rebecca Goldsmith
Started in the late 1800s by Michael Marks, a Russian Jew fleeing pogroms, and Tom Spencer, a wholesale warehouse cashier, legendary retailer Marks & Spencer evolved into Britain's best-known and most respected brand for clothing, food and housewares. According to HBS professor Joseph Bower, they established a modern company that kept central control of merchandise to adjust to consumer demand.
THE HARVARD CRIMSON
July 2, 2004
Working Toward Globalization, HBS Expands Recruiting in China
By Evan M. Vittor
HBS dean Kim Clark announced during the School's Global Research Forum in Shanghai that it will expand recruitment in China its ongoing effort at globalization. Professor Richard Vietor, who is the director of the five-year-old HBS research center in Hong Kong, said the forum went extraordinarily well.
THE MIAMI HERALD
July 1, 2004
'Consumer China' Is Our Best Hope
By Rosabeth Moss Kanter
While visiting China, Kanter observes: "I came in search of the 4,000 U.S. jobs recently lost to offshoring. After prowling Shanghai streets, visiting a premier industrial park, going backstage at a retail chain and dialoguing with participants at Harvard Business School's Global Leadership Forum, I found those lost jobs -- but I can't bring them home. They've been snared by Producer China. The hope for American domestic jobs lies elsewhere -- in Consumer China."
THE WASHINGTON POST
June 27, 2004
License To Steal?
By Richard Morin
Downloading music has no appreciable impact on CD sales, assert HBS associate professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman S. Strumpf of the University of North Carolina in a paper presented in May at a conference in Cambridge, Mass., sponsored by the National Bureau of Economic Research. It may be the only scholarly paper that formally acknowledges "aural support" from the music groups Massive Attack, Sigur Ros and the Mountain Goats. "Of course, we bought the CDs" and didn't swipe them off the Net, Oberholzer said.
NPR NEWS: ALL THINGS CONSIDERED
June 24, 2004
Marketing Milk As A Diet Aid
Reported by Snigdha Prakash
The dairy industry's new public relations campaign is a bid to reposition milk as a weight-loss aid. After years of emphasizing milk's role in strengthening bones, marketers are now touting research that suggests those who consume more calcium also tend to weigh less. HBS marketing professor >Nancy Koehn talks with NPR's Snigdha Prakash.
NPR NEWS: MORNING EDITION
June 23, 2004
Nonprofit Hospitals' Care For Uninsured Scrutinized
Reported by Julie Rovner
Several congressional committees are investigating pricing practices at nonprofit hospitals, which critics say overcharge and do not properly care for the uninsured. Some lawmakers say nonprofits operate too much like for-profit hospitals and don't deserve their tax-preferred status. But the hospital industry argues the special tax status lets nonprofits do more charitable work for the community. NPR's Julie Rovner speaks with HBS professor Regina Herzlinger.
See also: House Panel Reviewing Whether Hospitals Should Disclose Prices
See also: House Probes Tax Breaks For Charity Hospitals Amid Criticism
FINANCIAL TIMES
June 21, 2004
The Insidious Charms Of Shell's Dual Votes
By John Plender
Royal Dutch Shell is to scrap its priority shares, which carry voting rights controlled by the management. Could this dual voting structure have contributed significantly to the problems that culminated in its cooking the books? A new study of U.S. dual-class companies co-authored HBS professor Paul Gompers throws interesting light on this question.
THE MIAMI HERALD
June 17, 2004
Let Us Now Praise Good Companies
By Rosabeth Moss Kanter
HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter writes: "If New York's fiery Attorney General Eliot Spitzer feels that the corner has been turned on corporate misconduct, then it's time to highlight good conduct." She adds: Americans need examples of how business can make a positive difference. One source of role models is the Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership, given by the White House after a review of scope, impact and sustainability." Kanter is a judge.
FINANCIAL TIMES
May 17, 2004
2004 FT Executive Education Rankings
Harvard Business School retained its position as number one in the open enrolment section of the rankings, a position it has now held for three years. Its Advanced Management Programme is arguably the most prestigious business school programme in the world, according to the FT.
FINANCIAL TIMES
May 14, 2004
It Does Not Always Pay To Follow The Stars
By Kate Burgess
Some mutual fund managers possess their own cult of personality. These rainmakers are able to command star salaries and perks, especially when they're lured away to manage a competitor's fund. But HBS professor Nitin Nohria, Associate Professor Ashish Nanda, and Assistant Professor Boris Groysberg write in The Risky Business of Hiring Stars (Harvard Business Review, May 2004) that many of the 1,000 fund managers they tracked weren't able to repeat past performance after they went to another investment bank.
NPR: TALK OF THE NATION
May 10, 2004
Birth Of A Salesman
Reported By Joe Palca
The sales pitch has become a familiar part of American life, but its relationship to American capitalism has often been overlooked and misunderstood. Many experts say "salesmen" not only fed American consumerism, they shaped it. So why does this occupation always seem to get a bad rap? HBS lecturer Walter Friedman, author of Birth of a Salesman (Harvard University Press: 2004), offers his insight.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
May 9, 2004
What An Old Sears Catalog Could Teach eBay Today
By Randall Stross
"eBay's business has evolved well beyond the neighborhood rummage sale," said HBS professor Nancy Koehn. From its humble beginnings as an online swap-meet, eBay has become its own, $2 billion-a-year, retail force of nature. But as its business model evolves from chatchkis to Chanel, the online marketplace of the 21st century could learn a few lessons from the mail-order marketplace of the 19th century, Sears. As eBay sells more new goods, the brand's lack of a money-back guarantee will become a hindrance. "History suggests that in order to remain competitive, retailers must match the offerings of others," Koehn said. "eBay is unlikely to be an exception."
THE NEW YORK TIMES
May 9, 2004
Looking In The Mirror, And Finding The New Boss
By William J. Holstein
Despite all the discussion about encouraging diversity among corporate leaders, the overwhelming majority of chief executives are white men. HBS assistant professor Rakesh Khurana, author of Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic C.E.O.'s (Princeton University Press: 2002), argues that executive search firms and corporate boards all limit the diversity of candidates for chief executive.
THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS
May 7, 2004
Abuse Of Iraqi Prisoners Raises Tough Moral Questions
By Jeffrey Weiss
Amid reports that dozens of Iraqi prisoners have been beaten and humiliated by American soldiers or intelligence workers in Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, American officials, including the president, have apologized even as they asserted that the abuses were limited to a few rogue soldiers. But what would compel even a small group of soldiers to act this way? High-minded ideals seldom control what happens in a war zone, said HBS assistant professor Scott Snook, a former Army colonel who helped design the leadership development program at West Point. "People don't fight for patriotism or mom's apple pie. They may join for that, but they don't get out of a foxhole and drag someone out of a burning Humvee for any of that," he said. "It's personal relationships." And the same close-knit relationships that inspire heroism can carry a group of soldiers in the wrong direction, he said.
THE BOSTON GLOBE
May 7, 2004
Inequality Among Women Explored
By Diane Lewis
The gender gap in employee pay and benefits is a well documented fact. But conferees at Simmons College say there's a race gap within the gender gap, with white women benefiting in higher salaries and advancement compared to women of color. "White men benefit most in the system because they are the dominant group in power positions," said HBS professor David Thomas, co-author of Breaking Through: The Making of Minority Executives in Corporate America (HBS Press: 1999). "But who are white men most familiar with? They are most familiar with white females, and they are more likely to feel more empathy for white women when it comes to disadvantages in the system," he said. Although Thomas contends that white women have benefitted more from affirmative action than any other group, most no longer see themselves as beneficiaries of affirmative action policies. For that reason, he said, "There is tension between white women and women of color."
THE GLOBE AND MAIL
May 7, 2004
Work And Family: Six Steps To Having Both
By D. Quinn Mills
No one ever said that raising a family and pursuing a career would be easy, even if you're a Harvard MBA. HBS professor D. Quinn Mills writes that many of his business friends regret shortchanging their family life for work. What's more, he hears his students apprehensively contemplate the difficult work-life choices ahead. "People struggle so much with giving each their due, said Mills, co-author of the six-step program in Having It All... And Making It Work: Six Steps for Putting Both Your Career and Your Family First (Financial Times Prentice Hall: 2004).
THE BOSTON GLOBE
May 6, 2004
Harvard To Offer Joint MD-MBA Degree
By Ross Kerber
Harvard Business School and Harvard Medical School announced they plan to offer a joint, fully-ntegrated, five-year MD/MBA program beginning in 2005. HBS senior associate dean and MBA program chair W. Carl Kester said role models for its students might be physicians like Dr. Peter L. Slavin (MBA 1990/H), the president of Massachusetts General Hospital, or Dr. Daniel Vasella (PMD 57/1989), chief executive of drug-maker Novartis. "These are the kinds of people we're starting to see rise to the top of major healthcare companies, and it shows the virtues of blending leadership and healthcare management," Kester said.
THE MIAMI HERALD
May 6, 2004
Save AmeriCorps From Budget Cuts
By Rosabeth Moss Kanter
HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter writes in her biweekly column that Americans should "spare a worry for another army of young people -- the ones engaged in civilian service in America. Their ability to serve is in danger." AmeriCorps, with 60,000 members, enjoys bipartisan support on Capitol Hill and, compared to its international sister program -- the Peace Corps -- is a relative bargain. It provides volunteers a living allowance, health care, child-care benefits and, at the end, an education award. But Kanter balks at the suggestion that funding for these modest benefits should be cut. "That could make national service a luxury for the affluent -- not an expression of democracy," Kanter said.
FINANCIAL TIMES
April 30, 2004
CEO's Death Spotlights Succession
By Elizabeth Wine
The sudden death of McDonald's CEO Jim Cantalupo served as a potent reminder of the extent to which a company's fortunes can rest on one person. Fortunately for McDonald's, it had a succession plan in place. But HBS assistant professor Rakesh Khurana, author of Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs (Princeton University Press: 2002) says the art of grooming the next generation of leaders has been largely forgotten. HBS professor and corporate governance expert Jay Lorsch suggests that medical information on corporate officers is so important that boards should pay for regular medical examinations. Lorsch is author of Back to the Drawing Board: Designing Corporate Boards for a Complex World (Harvard Business School Press: 2004).
ASIA TIMES
April 30, 2004
China, India: Difference In The Details
By Lynette Ong
China and India are among the fastest growing economies in the world, with growth rates much admired by developing countries desperately struggling to crawl out of the poverty trap. Taken together, China is seen to be ahead of India; but there is much speculation on their respective growth trajectories. In an article in last August's Foreign Policy magazine, HBS professor Tarun Khanna and former HBS assistant professor Yasheng Huang -- now of the MIT Sloan School of Management -- write, "China's export-led manufacturing boom is largely a creation of foreign direct investment, which effectively serves as a substitute for domestic entrepreneurship," while India "is making fuller use of its resources and has chosen a path that may well deliver more sustainable progress than China's FDI-driven approach."
FINANCIAL TIMES
April 29, 2004
Wringing The Changes
By Simon London
Some firms spend millions on their IT resources; others -- like Spain's Inditex -- spend a fraction of that. Yet, according to HBS assistant professor Andrew McAfee, the Madrid-based clothing manufacturer and retailer squeezes value out of what they have for what they do. The lesson here is that spending on IT is not like buying a certificate of deposit. There are no guarantees that computers for computers' sake will make a business more efficient. McAffee saw Inditex making the most of "bare-bones" system of DOS-based sales terminals and 56K telephone modems.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
April 29, 2004
Companies Owned By Women Set The Pace In Small Business
By Elizabeth Olson
Companies owned by women are growing at double the rate of all small businesses in the nation, spending $550 billion a year on payroll and benefits, according to figures released by the Center for Women's Business Research. "We estimate that women-owned firms are growing at close to twice the rate of all privately held firms, 17 percent versus 9 percent," said HBS professor Myra Hart, who is also chair of the center. "These businesses are a critical component of the economy," she said, "not only in terms of their influence but also in terms of their economic impact."
THE NEW YORK TIMES
April 15, 2004
Mexican Cement Maker With a Worldview
By John Moody
Mexico's Cemex grew to be the world's third-largest cement company by cost-cutting, innovating, and borrowing lots of cash. At one point, the company's debt service was just as large as its revenues. But the money was used to acquire smaller companies elsewhere around the globe and create critical mass. According to HBS professor James Heskett, Cemex's search for an edge has kept it ahead of competitors. For example, he said, the company studied the 911 dispatcher's office in Houston and then set up a similar system to provide more flexible delivery. The result was less wasted cement and better service to customers, enabling Cemex to charge them more.
THE BOSTON GLOBE
April 15, 2004
Making The Case For China And India
By Charles Stein
Granted, "offshoring" has sent American service jobs to India and American manufacturing jobs to China. But the bigger picture is more promising. The double-digit growth of both countries' economies will do more to politically stabilize the region, lift people out of poverty and, as a result, improve human rights, public health and literacy, and promote democracy than any ideology could. As a result, observes HBS business historian Richard Tedlow, everyone wins. "The world is not a seesaw," he said. "If it were, it is hard to see how there ever would be progress."
THE MIAMI HERALD
April 14, 2004
Consumer Demands May Change The Face Of Capitalism
By Richard Pachter
HBS professor Shoshana Zuboff's 2002 book, The Support Economy (Viking Penguin: 2002) (co-authored with husband James Maxmin), has been reissued in paperback. The duo argue that consumers ultimately will insist they be treated as individuals by corporations and institutions, rather than as a herds of sheep. "But the authors are thinking big -- very big -- as they make a case for nothing less than the refocusing, if not the reinvention, of capitalism, and are compelled to present their persuasive argument based on facts, not intuition or politics," writes Pachter.
ADWEEK
April 14, 2004
Heinz In A Pickle Over Politics
The race for the White House has become so intense that some Bush supporters are boycotting such all-American products as Heinz ketchup,Ore-Ida french fries, and Wyler's soup mix. Teresa Heinz Kerry is the heiress to the Heinz family's $500-million fortune. And many Bush supporters are refusing to buy Heinz products because, they reason, it amounts to indirect support of Heinz Kerry's husband, Sen. John Kerry. The senator's wife is not involved in the company's management, and she owns less than four percent of Heinz stock. "It's wise for [Heinz] to make crystal clear that while it might share a name, it has no political ambitions," said HBS senior lecturer John Davis. "What choice do they have? Feelings are running so high in this election."
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
April 12, 2004
Kraft's Silence About Sick CEO Poses Dilemma
By Sarah Ellison
It sounds like the plot to a mystery novel, except it's all too real in the executive suite at Kraft Foods. Kraft's new CEO is hospitalized with an unspecified illness and the firm's chairman and majority shareholder is mum on details. The lack of communication has created some frustration among employees and investors. It also raised questions among corporate governance and crisis-management experts. "We don't see this too often, with a dominant shareholder with unequal information," said HBS professor Jay Lorsh, a corporate governance expert. The privacy of an individual is important, Lorsch said. But with uncertainty among investors and employees, "it would seem to me you need more clarity than this."
THE NEW YORK TIMES
April 11, 2004
Turning Success Into Fulfillment
By Paul B. Brown
There are more than a few How to be [fill in the blank] in 30 Days or Less self-help books in circulation. But Paul Brown of The Times writes "the best of the crop" is HBS senior research fellow Laura Nash and professor Howard Stevenson's Just Enough (John Wiley & Sons: 2004). In a world full of 12-step programs, the authors have come up with a four-part definition of personal success that forms the subtitle: "happiness, significance, achievement and legacy." By happiness, they mean "feelings of pleasure or contentment in and about your life." They define achievement as accomplishments "that compare favorably against similar goals others have strived for." Significance? "A positive impact on people you care about." And legacy is "establishing your values or accomplishments in ways that help others find future success."
STRATEGY + BUSINESS
April 2004
The Post-9/11 Resilience Of American Brands
By Professor John Quelch and Assistant Professor Douglas Holt
In the global marketplace, hegemony is bunk. HBS professor John Quelch and assistant professor Douglas Holt's research on American brands in the Islamic world surprisingly shows that the big names are as popular as ever. "An American global brand �- whether it is Coke, Pepsi, Nike, Motorola, Ford, or Kraft �- is understood foremost as global, not American. Even brands that use American values as part of their symbolism don't seem to positively or negatively sway consumers' opinions of the brand," they write. In fact, the strongest anti-global sentiment came from Britain and China, and not from Islamic countries. "American multinationals should wear their global success proudly, rather than try to hide it."
NATIONAL JOURNAL
April 2004
Blazing The Consumer-Driven Trail
By Regina Herzlinger
HBS professor Regina Herzlinger, visiting Washington, D.C. recently to give a Congressional briefing on health-care issues, asked the ultimate question: why can't the industry be made to behave like the automobile or the computer or even the financial services industries? "Cars are safer, more reliable and ever cheaper," she argued. "Shouldn't health care be the same?" All health care really needs, she said, is visionaries like Henry Ford and Alfred P. Sloan. Ford managed to create the mass production techniques that enabled cars to be transformed from toys for the very rich into transportation for the masses. The key contribution made by Sloan, the legendary CEO who turned General Motors into the industry leader, was that "he understood that people want choice," she said.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
March 17, 2004
Thou Shalt Not Call in Sick?
By John Leland
Corporate scandal has disturbed many, sickened some, but prompted others to seek safe harbor in their religious faith. One Connecticut-based church group holds a Sunday school for adults that many consider to be part of a growing trend of religion in the workplace. HBS senior research fellow Laura Nash says business and religious leaders want to foster an ethical business climate. At the same time, workers who put in long hours want meaning in their jobs. And religious organizations want to extend their influence beyond weekly services. "This is about self-improvement, good behavior, good conscience and networking," said Nash, coauthor of Just Enough: Tools for Creating Success in Your Work and Life (J Wiley & Sons: 2004).
FINANCIAL TIMES
March 16, 2004
MBA Course Focuses On Leaders Led Astray
By Dan Roberts
Leadership and Corporate Accountability (LCA), Harvard Business School's new semester-long ethics course, was added to the required first-year curriculum in January to help "ensure that the next generation of business leaders does not succumb to the temptation that humbled so many of its predecessors." According to the course director, HBS professor Lynn Paine, LCA cases focus mainly on subtle issues. "We work in the grey areas," she explained, "because these are most interesting. Even the big scandals are not always black and white." In answer to the eternal question of whether ethics can, in fact, be taught to graduate students, HBS professors respond with a resounding "yes." "We have a point of view that your professional identity is not fully formed when you get here," observed Dean Kim Clark.
THE MIAMI HERALD
March 10, 2004
Women who veer too far from soft images get harsh treatment
By Rosabeth Moss Kanter
"The Martha Stewart trial makes clear how far women have risen in the business world. America can be proud of our equal-opportunity prosecution and conviction," writes HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter in an op-ed. Noting that boards of directors and top management teams are incomplete these days without a woman or two, she says that the lineup of business wrongdoers must now have its token woman as well. "My goal is not to question whether [Stewart's] prosecution was justified," says Kanter, but "I am concerned-- that women are more easily accused of the social 'crime' of over-reaching. The Stewart epic threatens to be a warning that women should avoid ambition."
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
March 10, 2004
Business Leaders Face a Grassroots Demand For a Lot Less Hubris
By Carol Hymowitz
The historic shareholder protest vote against Walt Disney's Michael Eisner last week heralds a new era for CEOs -- one in which arrogance is out of fashion in the executive suite and power-sharing with board members and other shareholders is a prerequisite. "Boards know they have their own reputations to uphold," says HBS professor Jay Lorsch. "And in waging Vote No campaigns, investors have discovered a very powerful and less expensive way than waging proxy fights to assert themselves. Unless they want to be embarrassed publicly, CEOs better be alert to what investors want."
FORBES
March 15, 2004
Edifice Complex
By David Whelan
Three years ago Time Warner broke ground on a massive new headquarters in Manhattan. Since then its stock has plunged 65 percent. That's no surprise to Harvard Business School assistant professor Donald Sull. In his book, Revival of the Fittest (HBS Press: 2003), he argues that business' pride -- in the form of big corporate buildings -- can come before the fall.
FINANCIAL TIMES
March 4, 2004
Rise of the corporate crusaders
By Elizabeth Wine
The shareholder revolt against Walt Disney's Michael Eisner poses the question of whether the era of acquiescent shareholders is over. Corporate governance advocates certainly believe the evidence points that way. In the past, large blocks of institutional shareholders often voted with management, "rubber stamping" decisions. The Disney revolt suggests this may be changing. "The big change would be these guys are suddenly saying we're not just going to buy and sell stock, we're going to exert our influence," said HBS professor Jay Lorsch.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
March 3, 2004
Hubris and the Fall of a Telecommunications Empire
By Simon Romero and Seth Schiesel
No one has reflected the tumultuous ups and downs of the telecommunications business in recent decades more clearly than Bernie Ebbers. Since he resigned in disgrace as WorldCom's chief executive in 2002, the one-time high school basketball coach-turned-telecommunications magnate has been indicted on the same kinds of charges that brought down Enron, Tyco, and Adelphia. "This is a significant step in tearing down the folk-hero myth that had surrounded Bernie Ebbers and prevented many from focusing on WorldCom's business instead of his story," said HBS assistant professor Rakesh Khurana. "His biography almost rang too true to what American investors wanted to believe in during the late 1990's."
FAST COMPANY
March 1, 2004
Wealth Creation, 21st-Century Style
By Shoshana Zuboff
Zuboff writes that consumers' needs have evolved from necessities such as food and clothing to the abstract -- insurance policies, health care, and travel. "Consumption is now becoming even more abstract, as people seek control over the quality of their lives, not just the quantity of their stuff," she writes. Creating wealth in the new millennium requires an inversion of traditional corporate practice. Take eBay, for example, the eighth fastest-growing company in the country. "[It] makes money," says Zuboff, "when it listens to and supports the dynamic needs of its users, building bonds of trust and commitment. It stumbles when it foists unpopular decisions on its members."
THE NEWS YORK TIMES
February 17, 2004
A Store Made for Right Now: You
By Cathy Horyn
When the fashion house Comme des Gar�ons opened its newest boutique in Berlin recently, its customers didn't enter a glittering, glamorous palace of couture. In fact, the company spent a grand total of just $2,500 to fix up a former bookshop, and it intends to close the store in a year, no matter what. Welcome to a retailing concept that reflects the ephemeral nature of fashion - and the fact that many customers these days want a different kind of shopping experience as they look for the clothes they hear about from their friends - what's known in the trade as guerilla marketing. "Accessibility has really been redefined for consumers," said HBS professor Nancy Koehn. "Young people are taking the cues from their friends and less and less from established channels like fashion magazines and mass advertising."
US NEWS
February 16, 2004
Give me a C-O-A-C-H!
By Marci Mcdonald
Over the past five years, executive coaching has mushroomed from a sideline on the motivational and consulting circuits to an expected perk in virtually every executive suite. Most coaches are now called in to smooth a CEO's rough, my-way-or-the-highway edges that may be driving top talent to rivals. "Companies used to be able to function with autocratic bosses," says HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter. "We don't live in that world anymore."
THE BOSTON GLOBE
February 15, 2004
A New Business Model, Driven by Consumer Needs
By Robert Weisman
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, managerial capitalism has been the name of the economic game in this country, creating and satisfying America's mass-market demands. But in an age of individualized consumption and digital technologies, that well-worn approach, with its emphasis on high volume and low cost, is in need of replacement. According to HBS professor Shoshana Zuboff, couthor of The Support Economy: Why Corporations Are Failing Individuals and the Next Episode of Capitalism (Viking: 2002), consumers will be the new source of value in this century and companies will have to adapt to the reality that they no longer view themselves, or want to be treated, as a mass market.
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
February 11, 2004
Washington's Tilt to Business Stirs a Backlash in Indonesia
By Peter Waldman
Why has Indonesia, a nation that was once avidly pro-American, become such a hot bed of anti-U.S. hostility. The way many Indonesians see it, although the U.S. government denounced corruption and crony capitalism after the fall of the Suharto dictatorship, when push came to shove, it threw its weight behind American business interests in the country, not democratic or corporate reform. In one case, for example, the U.S. Justice Department refused to investigate possible violations of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which bars U.S. companies from paying foreign officials for business favors. According to HBS professor Lou Wells, some U.S. companies did an end run around the Act simply by helping friends and relatives of officials rather than the officials themselves.
ARAB NEWS
February 7, 2004
Sales Unaffected by 9/11: Survey
By Roger Harrison
The result of a survey on customer loyalty to global brands carried out by HBS professor John Quelch and assistant professor Douglas Holt has yielded unexpected results. There seems to have been almost no long-term impact on consumer purchase preferences or brands as a result of 9/11 and what followed. "This is the complete opposite of what people are saying in the popular media and op-ed pieces," said Quelch, who surveyed consumer buying in 12 countries, including three Muslim ones.
THE MIAMI HERALD
February 4, 2004
Women entrepreneurs create jobs
By Rosabeth Moss Kanter
"Consumer confidence is increasing, and the stock market is flourishing, but the U.S. economy lags in job creation. It is time to mobilize a new group of people to create jobs: women entrepreneurs," writes HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter. Indeed, mergers in banking and retail have reduced the number of local jobs, manufacturing jobs have gone to China, and software development jobs have gone offshore. "Rarely discussed are home-grown solutions that capitalize on our classic strength as the land of opportunity: entrepreneurship. Small businesses in the aggregate create more jobs than large ones, especially as startups find the resources, customers and ambition to grow."
THE DAILY NEWS (New York, N.Y.)
February 3, 2004
Martha mag mess
By Nanci Dillon
Ad pages in the January and February issues of Martha Stewart Living were off 30 percent compared to ad levels during the same period last year, the Media Industry Newsletter reported. That drop is on top of a 34.6 percent ad page decline Living posted for all of 2003. "Stewart's reputation is muddled right now," said HBS marketing professor emeritus Stephen Greyser. "And even though she's no longer CEO of her company, her name is on the building."
CFO
February 2004
New Terrain
By Scott Leibs
As former Enron CFO Andrew Fastow negotiated the plea bargain that has landed him a 10-year prison sentence, many finance chiefs were quietly hoping that some stern justice would help restore investor confidence. Experts say communication has certainly become a bigger part of most CFOs' jobs lately. "A CFO now needs to be fully engaged with the board," said HBS professor Jay Lorsch, co-author of Back to the Drawing Board: Designing Corporate Boards for a Complex World (Harvard Business School Press: 2003). He sees a broader role for CFOs, in which they do far more than simply recap the numbers. "CFOs who are explicit about financial objectives; risk factors; and one-, two-, and three-year targets perform a critical service," he said, particularly in an environment in which there is continued pressure for short-term results.
ENTREPRENEUR
February 2004
Beyond Basic Training
By Dale Buss
Immersion training for company chiefs is rapidly gaining currency. Leading business schools, executive-education programs, single-industry trade associations, and other entities are developing and operating their own vehicles with a common aim: Give entrepreneurs a dose of battlefield training in leadership, and deliver it in the exclusive fellowship of company-heading peers who are the most likely to appreciate and enhance the experience. According to HBS professor Howard Stevenson, "Many entrepreneurs have other degrees, but beyond the specific or technical skills that got them started, they haven't learned about really running and leading the company," he said.
THE TIMES OF INDIA
January 30, 2004
Porter Mania
During a visit to Mumbai, University Professor Michael Porter reflected on the depth and the breadth of India's economic growth since 1991. His take on reforms is they're going in the right direction, but the rate is, at best, modest. "India is still stuck in the old model of being government-driven," he says. "The push should be for more private participation in policy," he said.
HARVARD GAZETTE
January 29, 2004
By Beth Potier
Shackleton in business school
He was an Antarctic explorer who never got near the South Pole. Yet Ernest Shackleton and his ill-fated Antarctic expedition have much to teach modern business leaders, says HBS professor and historian Nancy Koehn. She has created and taught a case study called Leadership in Crisis: Ernest Shackleton and the Epic Voyage of the Endurance. "How he did what he did is very instructive," says Koehn of the now celebrated leader of a heroic expedition that saw all 28 members survive despite several years of harsh conditions and devastating, potentially deadly, setbacks.
LA STAMPA
January 10, 2004
Intervista al Rettore Kim Clark
By Maurizio Molinari
In an interview with La Stampa's Molinari, HBS dean Kim Clark emphasizes the unique aspects of HBS that make the two-year MBA program -- what many alumni consider -- a life-changing experience. Especially in an era marked by a crisis in corporate confidence, Clark has put added focus on an initiative called Corporate Responsibility, Ethics and Values, which dovetails off of the school's own Community Standards -- integrity, personality accountability, and respect. "Whoever takes upon himself responsibility needs those three values," Clark said. "Integrity and personal character distingish the leader. The role of the school is to shape students around these values in order to create their professional identity."
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Principal Christian Ketels
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William Sahlman
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For the Dream Home, a New Blueprint
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Josh Lerner
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Tim Butler, Director of Career Development Programs
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Michael Norton
What Do Dreams Mean? Less Than We Think
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Nicolas P. Retsinas
Renters Lose Edge on Homeowners
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Dean Jay Light
MBA Student Hiring Steady
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William Kirby
Beijing Office Plans Delayed
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Samuel Hayes
Wall Street's allure may be gone for good
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Niall Ferguson
'There will be blood'
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Twitter takes off
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Clayton Christensen
A Disruptive Solution for Health Care
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Tom Nicholas
Startups in a Downturn
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Max Bazerman
What's in the journals, February 2009
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Regina Herzlinger
Obama pursues universal health care
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Nicolas Retsinas
Homeowners anxious for details
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Bharat N. Anand
Turning the Page: The News on Europe's Newspapers
TIME Online (2/19/2009)
William Kirby
Pakistan and China: A Fraying Friendship?
TIME Online (2/19/2009)
Michael Norton
Do Dreams Reveal Hidden Truths?
WebMD (2/19/2009)
Sharon Katz
Shareholder files lawsuit in effort to stop ANL sale to Green Courte
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Jay Lorsch
Bonus Cuts Hurting More Than Top Wall Streeters
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Regina Herzlinger
Creating a real healthcare market
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David S. Scharfstein
The Bailout Is Robbing the Banks
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John Quelch
Can instant coffee give Starbucks a boost?
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Nicolas Retsinas
Obama heads west to sign stimulus bill
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Josh Lerner
LBO-Owned Companies Raise Productivity Faster, Report Concludes
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Samuel Hayes
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Brian Kenny, Chief Marketing & Communications Officer
To respond or not to bloggers' sniping?
Boston Globe (2/16/2009)
Shawn Cole
Financial education leaving Americans behind
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John Quelch
Eco firm Seventh Generation is riding high in Obama revolution
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Rakesh Khurana
Are Executives Worth Their Compensation?
National Public Radio (2/14/2009)
Principal Christian Ketels, Michael Porter
The Regional Force
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Nicolas Retsinas
No one home: 1 in 9 housing units vacant
USA Today (2/13/2009)
Rakesh Khurana
A Puritan View Of The Crash
National Public Radio-Online (2/13/2009)
Clayton Christensen
After The Stimulus: It's Time for a New Foundation
The Huffington Post (2/12/2009)
Luis Viceira
Growth Vs.Value Re-Examined
Forbes.com (2/12/2009)
Boris Groysberg
The Shifting Power Balance: Is Gender the Issue?
The Huffington Post (2/12/2009)
William R. Kerr
Don't Blame H-1B Workers for Woes
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Sachin H. Jain, Research Fellow
Rethinking our rules of organ donations
The Record (2/10/2009)
John T. Gourville
Bet Your Bottom Dollar on 99 Cents
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Rakesh Khurana
You Can Cap The Pay, But The Greed Will Go On
Washington Post (2/08/2009)
Teresa Amabile
Will the Blackberry Sink the Presidency?
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David Garvin
Three Keys To Staying Ethical In The Age Of Madoff
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Michael Porter
Obama stimulus package questioned
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Niall Ferguson
Keynes can't help us now
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Samuel Hayes
Government hopes bank aid helps recession recovery
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Ranjay Gulati; Nitin Nohria
Tasting the fruits of effective innovation
Financial Times (2/06/2009)
Victoria Ivashina; David S. Scharfstein
The big freeze
Financial Times (2/06/2009)
Research Katherine E. Jocz, John A. Quelch
Keeping a keen eye on consumer behaviour
Financial Times (2/06/2009)
Stephen Greyser
Bailout spotlights banks
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Malcolm Salter
Jeffrey Skilling's Latest Lesson For Us All
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David Moss
Financial regulation shaping up as a political battleground
Los Angeles Times (2/03/2009)
Bill Sahlman
What's On The Job Frontier? Experts Weigh In
National Public Radio (2/03/2009)
Bill George
How Business Can Help Untangle the Mess
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Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Surviving the Recession With Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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Niall Ferguson
Stimulus Package: If You Jump Halfway Across a Chasm You Fall Into the Abyss
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Abraham Zaleznik
Leadership
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Peter Tufano
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Niall Ferguson
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Karim Lakhani
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Boston Globe Online (2/01/2009)
Niall Ferguson
30 Years Of Tragedies And Triumphs
CBS Sunday Morning (2/01/2009)
George Baker
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Human Resource Executive Online (2/01/2009)
Clayton Christensen
Disruptive Innovation, Applied to Health Care
New York Times (2/01/2009)
Tarun Khanna
China and India: The power of complementary cultures
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Josh Lerner
KKR's Kravis Says Buyout Firms Face More Regulation
Bloomberg News (1/30/2009)
Michael Porter
Rebuilding America's Job Machine
BusinessWeek Online (1/29/2009)
Heidi Gardner
Swinging the axe
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Clayton Christensen
Christensen on disruption in health care
EE Times (1/29/2009)
Niall Ferguson
Global Worries Over U.S. Stimulus Spending
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Michael Porter
Economic Productivity
Squawk Box - CNBC (1/29/2009)
Deepak Malhotra
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Samuel Hayes
Nervous investing experts wait out cheap bank stocks
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Gary Pisano
Not What the Doctor Ordered
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Thomas DeLong
Finding Anchors in the Storm: Mentors
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Clayton Christensen
How Can Web Tech Help Enterprises with Innovation Management?
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Boris Groysberg
Portable Skills Lessons From The Gridiron
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Gary Pisano
Pfizer in Talks to Buy Wyeth
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Samuel Hayes
How to play chicken and lose
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Robert Merton
In Plato's Cave
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Jay Lorsch
Bank of America and JPMorgan CEOs buy shares
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Arthur Daemmrich
Forecast 2009: Up in the Air
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Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Obama's address draws mixed reviews
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Harvard Business School
For Professional Women, Programs of Their Own
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Obama: Politician, pop icon -- or both?
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Corporate America sells Obama, message of change
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MBA Programs Go Green
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Sour stock market stalls initial public offerings
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Amy Edmondson
Making the Most of Your Workplace Mistakes
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Still in the Game
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A Long Winter
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Blockbuster or Bust
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Seth Klarman
HBS Alumni Bulletin (12/2008)
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Deirdre Leopold, Managing Director MBA Admissions and Financial Aid
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Acribe (10/31/2008)
Summer Nemeth (MBA 2009)
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Rahul Bajaj (MBA '64)
In time of crisis, US Inc talks of inclusive growth
Economic Times (India) (10/20/2008)
Anand Mahindra (MBA '81)
Harvard Business School confers alumni award to Anand Mahindra
The Hindu (10/16/2008)
John Doerr (MBA '76), Jeffrey R. Immelt (MBA '82), Anand Mahindra (MBA '81), Meg Whitman (MBA '79), James D. Wolfensohn (MBA '59)
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JPMorgan Chase chief attacks Washington for prolonging banking crisis
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At Harvard summit, most back US move
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Jana Kierstead, Director of MBA Career Services
B-school: nervous students and case studies
Marketwatch (10/08/2008)
Hansjoerg Wyss (MBA '65)
In largest gift, Harvard gets $125m for biological institute
Boston Globe (10/08/2008)
Jana Kierstead, Director, MBA Career Services
Artful Dodging Trumps Open Evasion, Studies Show
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Christine Sullivan, Director, Alumni Career Services
In Wall St. chaos, Wharton reaches out to alums
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Hard Lesson
Boston Globe (09/29/2008)
Harvard Business School
Campuses adjust to being green
Boston Globe (09/29/2008)
Jana Kierstead,Managing Director, MBA Career Services
College Students Drop Dreams Amid Wall Street Woes
ABCS News.com (09/25/2008)
Harvard Business School
Do Caps on Executive Compensation Really Work?
TIME.com (09/25/2008)
Spence Miller (MBA '09), Maureen Miller (MBA '09)
Business Schools Aim To Change Attitudes
WBZ (09/22/2008)
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My Hometown: Boston
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Shibani Joshi (MBA '04)
Take a Harvard Business Class
Fox Business.com (09/18/2008)
Peter Bynoe (MBA '72), Charles Wiggin (MBA '72)
HAA recognizes outstanding alumni
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Deirdre C. Leopold, Director of MBA Admissions
Seniors Get HBS '2+2' Decisions
The Harvard Crimson (09/17/2008)
Abby Falik (MBA '08)
Pop!Tech Boot Camp for Innovators
The New York Times (09/17/2008)
Tim Butler, Director of Career Development Programs
On-Rampers: Time to Head Back to School?
The Wall Street Journal Online (09/15/2008)
Meghan Duggan, Assistant Director of Sustainability and MEP Projects
Building Green Classrooms
BusinessWeek (09/09/2008)
Harvard Business School
Full-Tuition Fellowships from Top B-Schools
BusinessWeek (09/04/2008)
Thomas D. Dretler (MBA '96)
HBS helped Dretler determine his professional path
Boston Business Journal (08/29/2008)
Andrea Kimmel, Assistant Director, MBA Admissions
Ah, Here are the Women M.B.A.s
The Wall Street Journal (08/20/2008)
Harvard Business School
News from the schools, August 2008
The Economist.com (08/19/2008)
Jim Aisner, Director of Media Relations
Orientation Is Getting Longer
BusinessWeek (08/18/2008)
Deirdre C. Leopold, Managing Director MBA Admissions and Financial Aid
No job, no prospects? More flock to biz school
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Programming Coordinator Carolyn Gould
Yoga Makes Headway in Business Schools
BusinessWeek (07/15/2008)
Jonathan Metrick (MBA '09)
Six Boston-Area Students Receive Point Foundation Scholarships
New England Blade (06/18/2008)
Executive Director, Latin American Research Center Gustavo A. Herrero
Harvard Business School: Peru, good place to do business in Latin America
Living in Peru.com (06/18/2008)
Kelly Diamond, Associate Director, MBA Student and Academic Services
Moore Delivers Advice to Business School Grads
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Stephen Laster, Chief Information Officer
Harvard Business School CIO's hiring process
CIO Asia (05/16/2008)
Executive Director Ralph James
Course design: Students learn best through experience
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Zachary Morello (MBA '09)
'Island Fellows' Appointed For FSM
Pacific Magazine (05/04/2008)
Deirdre Leopold, Managing Director of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid
Welcome Admits!
The Harbus (04/22/2008)
Steven R. Nelson, Executive Director, MBA Program
UChicago Law Bans In-Class Internet Use
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Managing Director MBA Admissions and Financial Aid Deirdre C. Leopold
Riding the College-to-Business School Express
The Harvard Crimson (04/21/2008)
Harvard Business School
More than a helping hand for charities
The Boston Globe (04/12/2008)
HBS Centennial
Happy Birthday, HBS
Economist.com (04/8/2008)
Harvard Business School
'To whom much is given ...'
The Harvard Gazette (04/04/2008)
Dhruv Agarwala (MBA '02), Kartik Varma (MBA '02)
Eight mistakes to avoid while investing
The Economic Times (03/26/2008)
Harvard Business School
'GoCrossCampus,' 'Turf' Draw College Students Into Virtual Battles, Corporate World To Follow
MTV News (03/26/2008)
Tim Nicolette (MBA '08)
Bringing his new business savvy to the public sector
Boston Business Journal (03/21/2008)
Harvard Business School
Happy Birthday, HBS!
Fortune (03/20/2008)
Hannah Goldie Mestel (MBA '09)
Sleeping Less and Eating More
The Wall Street Journal (03/14/2008)
Abhay Saboo (MBA '09)
HBS To Host Weekend Conference on India
The Harvard Crimson (03/14/2008)
Karen Ong (MBA '08)
Social networking for language lovers
The Boston Globe (03/11/2008)
March 6, 2008
The New York Times
Harvard Business School
Goldman To Give $100 Million to Teach Women in Third World
March 6, 2008
The Wall Street Journal
Harvard Business School
If It's Good for Goldman Sachs, It's Good for the World
March 5, 2008
ESPN
Harvard Business School
These NFL players know football is a business
February 22, 2008
The Harvard Crimson
Centennial Institutional Memory Project Leader Melissa Shaffer
New Web site Launched This Week Rings In One Hundred Years of Harvard Business School
February 15, 2008
FinChannel
Harvard University President Drew Faust, Dean Jay Light, Senior Associate Dean John Quelch
Harvard Business School Sets Out Centennial Activities
February 7, 2008
The Wall Street Journal
Hannah Goldie Mestel (MBA 2009)
'Interviews Make Me Feel Like I'm On Stage'
February 6, 2008
Harvard Crimson
Managing Director MBA Admissions and Financial Aid
Deirdre C. Leopold
HBS Puts Money Behind Life Sciences
January 28, 2008
The New York Times
Henry M. Paulson Jr. (MBA '70)
Paulson's Deal-Making Revives Treasury's Relevance
January 26, 2008
The New York Times
Richard Gordon Garman (MBA '67)
Richard G. Darman, 64, Aide for 5 Presidents, Dies
January 28, 2008
The Wall Street Journal
Margaret C. Whitman (MBA '79)
EBay Chief Whitman, Web Pioneer, Plans to Retire
January 25, 2008
Forbes.com
Aileen Lee (MBA '97)
Growing up Green
January 18, 2008
The Wall Street Journal
John Thain (MBA '79)
Merrill's Risk Manager
January 16, 2008
The New York Times
Mark Fields (MBA '89)
Interest Fades in the Once-Mighty V-8
January 14, 2008
The Financial Times
Robin W. T. Buchanan (MBA '79)
Polished manager sails inclusive ship
January 7, 2008
The New York Times
Victoria R. Brown (MBA '03)
Ex-Harvard President Meets a Former Student, and Intellectual Sparks Fly
January 4, 2008
The New York Times
Ratan Naval Tata (AMP '75)
Tata Pulls Ford Units Into Its Orbit
January 3, 2008
The New York Times
Frank Batten (MBA '52)
Chain Said To Seek Bids For Weather Channel
December 27, 2007
The New York Times
Sarah E. Endline (MBA '01)
Blogging as a Low-Cost, High-Return Marketing Tool
December 27, 2007
The New York Times
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Blogging as a Low-Cost, High-Return Marketing Tool
November 30, 2007
Fortune Magazine
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25 most powerful people in business
November 26, 2007
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'Homework Doesn't Feel the Same'
October 24, 2007
NPR: All Things Considered
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Commitment to Iraqi People Drives Trio of Marines
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Trigger-Happy Journalists
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William Donaldson (MBA '58)
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The 'Great Love' of a Collector of Old Mansions
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Avichai Kremer (MBA '07)
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William S. Weil (MBA '95)
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Hank Paulson (MBA '70)
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Robert Kraft (MBA '65)
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John Teeling (DBA '75)
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Jim Balsillie (MBA '89)
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Jim McNerney (MBA '75)
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Shares of Salary.com Surge 19% in 1st Day
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Mitt Romney (MBA '74)
Invoking American Dream, Romney Begins Run
La Tercera
Gustavo Herrero
Director, Latin American Research Center
India, El Nuevo Territorio Favorito de las Universidades de Elite
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Forbes
L. John Doerr (MBA '76)
Bruce Evans (MBA '86)
Technology's Top Dealmakers
Nikkei Weekly
Masako Egawa
Executive Director, Japan Research Office
Investment Banker Turns to Harvard Business School
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Jeffrey Immelt (MBA '82)
Less Than the Sum of Its Parts?
The Harvard University Gazette
HBS
HBS Models Look for New Markets While Serving the Global Poor
The Harvard University Gazette
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Innovative HBS 'Immersion' Programs Flourish
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Ratan Tata (AMP 71 1975)
Business Hero Returns with Historic Trophy
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Thierry Porte (MBA '82)
New Chief Puts US Course to Good Account
BostonWorks
Timothy Butler
Director of Career Development Programs
Flex for Success
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Daniel Vasella (PMD 57 1989)
Billion Dollar Pills
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Stephen Schwarzman (MBA '72)
More Rumors about His Party than His Deals
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Richard Holbrook (MBA '80)
Richard Holbrook: Man in Motion
CNBC: Power Lunch
Paul Hemp
Senior Editor, HBR
Harvard Knows Best
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Nikos Mourkogiannis (MBA '93)
Behind the Moral DNA of a Great Company
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Harvard Course for Chinese Academics
CNN International
HBS
Marketing Your Business School
Fortune
Jonathan Bush (MBA '97)
The Bush Who Pays the Bills
The Boston Globe
Steve Belkin (MBA '71)
For Belkin, A Career Built on Risk, Vision
The New York Times
Ann Moore (MBA '78)
As Time Inc. Cuts Jobs, One Writer on Britney May Have to Do
The Economist
Ratan Tata (AMP 71 1975)
The Shy Architect
Are Fund Advisors Worth It?
By James Daw
June 29, 2006
A work-in-progress study conducted by HBS professor Peter Tufano, HBS assistant professor Daniel Bergstresser, and John Chalmers of the University of Oregon suggests that most mutual fund buyers do not gain financial benefit from professional advice. They examined how well investors did after buying units from 4,541 mutual funds between 1996 and 2002. "The prominence of funds sold through brokers implies that brokers provide consumers with valued services," they write, but "Our study identified few, if any, of these benefits."
Global Capital On the Run
By Robert J. Samuelson
June 14, 2006
Recent declines in global stock markets are sparking concern worldwide, but a few decades ago, massive global money movements didn't exist. Most countries employed "capital controls" that restricted how much their citizens could invest abroad, as well as the ability or level of foreign investment. HBS associate professor Rawi Abdelal notes that "a turning point was France's decision in the early 1980s to relax controls;" since they were so widely evaded by the wealthy, they were deemed impractical. Once France changed, the rest of Europe and many other countries did likewise to maintain a presence in the worldwide investment fund chase.
Calculating Compensation
By Sudhakar Balacharandran
May 26, 2006
In the wake of growing concerns about corporate governance, Balacharandran examines the relationship between executive pay and incentives and overall company performance. Noting that shareholders typically face a series of legal and structural hurdles if they try to influence compensation policies, he cites work by HBS assistant professor Fabrizio Ferri and others, examining proxy statement proposals made by union fund shareholders at various companies in 2003-2004. "The study found that shareholders could be strategic and effective," by picking "a topic of interest to a broad set of constituencies (accounting for stock options)" and selecting "large companies (to obtain media attention) with large employee stock option plans and potential dilution (that is, where the cost to shareholders was likely to be high)."
As Nissan Sales Hit a Pothole, CEO Starts Shifting Gears
By Jathon Sapsford
May 26, 2006
HBS professor emeritus Michael Yoshino examines the recent change in Nissan's business model. In 2002, the company set an ambitious three-year goal of forging full-speed ahead, boosting sales to 3.6 billion cars from the 2.6 recorded the year before the plan was started. But things have recently taken a turn for the worse. Sales are down in major markets such as Europe, North America, and even Japan. Now, says Yoshino, the company is making the move to a "less frenetic" pace. "The transition from sprint to marathon isn't an easy one," he points out.
Author with the Golden Touch 'Just a Guy That Tells Stories'
By Brian Skoloff
May 13, 2006
Former advertising firm chairman James Patterson has become such a successful author, earning $40 million last year alone, that HBS professor John Deighton wrote a case study on his business practices. "Marketing James Patterson" came about after Deighton heard the author speak at a business meeting and "realized Peterson is a marketer who happens to be his own product."
The Return of the MBA Mom
By Janie Ho
May 11, 2006
In a story about business school programs for mothers with MBA degrees, HBS professor Myra Hart, chair of Harvard's Center for Women's Business Research, says that "the fundamental issue is that more women are going to business school and leaving the workforce in the prime of their careers after accumulating great experience." But according to her research, almost all of them want to return eventually. She notes that this is why HBS offers two programs "so moms who already have MBAs can sharpen their skills and speak with counselors about the transition."
The Endangered Land of Renter-World
By Nicolas P. Retsinas
May 5, 2006
Writing about the home rental market in The Boston Globe-HBS lecturer Nicolas Retsinas notes that the lack of new "affordable" housing may prevent a large percentage of renters from progressing towards home ownership. He calls upon the government for reform, as "the promise of America, the dream for millions of Americans is to leave Renter-World."
Wal-Mart Demotes Price-Slashing 'Smiley' in New Ads
By Kris Hudson and Ann Zimmerman
April 18, 2006
In overhauling its advertising campaign, Wal-Mart has replaced its familiar smiley-faced logo with actors and celebrities making pitches for the giant retailer. While many marketing experts question the benefits of replacing the advertising icon, HBS professor Rajiv Lal thinks otherwise: "In my judgment, [the old logo] has run its course," he says.
Kinder and Gentler
By Jeff Archer
April 12, 2006
San Francisco public schools have boosted overall student performance over the past year with the help of a restructuring program called Students and Teachers Achieving Results (STAR). HBS lecturer Stacey Childress, a co-founder of the Public Education Leadership Project, a joint program of HBS and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, studied the program and found that its success stems, in part, from the fact that STAR allows San Francisco "to have a district-wide strategy that nonetheless can be tailored to each school's needs."
Giving Life Despite Limits
By Scott Allen
March 14, 2006
Massachusetts General Hospital performed its first kidney transplant from a system matching strangers in early March. HBS professor Alvin Roth helped design the New England Kidney Exchange, a computer system that matches kidney disease patients with compatible organ donors. Roth describes this first match as "a great accomplishment," but notes that potential legal issues may prevent such pairings from becoming commonplace.
The Marketplace of Perceptions
By Craig Lambert
March 1, 2006
HBS assistant professor Nava Ashraf applied principles of behavioral economics to develop a savings technique in the Philippines called SEED ("Save, Earn, Enjoy Deposits"). Under the program, banks give clients a locked box, retain the key, and establish a contractual agreement prohibiting them from withdrawing money before reaching a certain date or sum. SEED is "practical, and very important in development, for anybody who wants to help people reach their goals," says Ashraf.
Super Bowl Ad Watchers Make a Run for the Web
By Bruce Horovitz
February 7, 2006
Super Bowl ads have clearly found a home in cyberspace, as millions of fans visited sites hosting game spots both during and after the big game. The popularity of commercials on the Web contributes to brand enhancement, advertisement shelf life, and sales potential. "Driving Web hits is like driving traffic to an auto-dealer," says HBS professor emeritus Stephen Greyser. "It leads to the test drive — or even the sale."
Selling Livedoor
By Robin Greenwood
February 6, 2006
In an op-ed article, HBS assistant professor Robin Greenwood comments on Japanese internet company Livedoor's recent fall from grace. While many are likening its transgressions to the Enron scandal, Greenwood urges caution. Though the company is now accused of hiding operating losses with its acquisitions, "that's yet to be proven," he writes.. "And even if Livedoor may turn out to be a fraud, it showed that the stock market is a powerful disciplining device for firms. As for Livedoor investors, they should have known better."
Know Thy Worth
By C.J. Prince
February 6, 2006
HBS associate professor Mark Bradshaw has some advice for small business owners trying to determine the value of their company. Above all, they need to findan appraiser who specializes in their particular business or industry. "You have to understand the business to be able to value it — it's not just a spreadsheet exercise," he says. Furthermore, he adds, a specialty in small business valuation certainly helps.
How Apple Could Mess Up, Again
By Peter Burrows
January 9, 2006
After a half decade of steady profit and solid success, few are willing to question Apple's long-term potential. HBS professor Clayton Christensen however, believes the company's strategy is destined to fail again soon. "Apple may think the proprietary iPod is their competitive advantage, but it's temporary," he says. "In the future, what will matter will be the software inside that lets users find exactly the kind of music they want to listen to, when and where they want to, with minimal effort."
The Crowd Knows Best
By Serena Altschul
January 8, 2006
Contrary to popular belief, an expert's opinion is not always as correct as a group's. Research shows that this phenomenon holds true in everything from game shows to stock trades to gambling. HBS assistant professor Anita Elberse notes that popular opinion websites such as the Hollywood Stock Exchange (www.hsx.com), where movie executives monitor activity on a virtual stock exchange that enables users to predict the success or failure of forthcoming motion pictures, provide further proof of what author James Surowiecki describes as "the wisdom of crowds.".
The Baby Millionaires
By Sophie Goodchild and Jonathan Owen
January 8, 2006
Fertility experts are becoming some of the highest paid players in the medical game today. Couples desperate to conceive are seeking miracles and paying top dollar to start a family. In her new book The Baby Business, to be published by the Harvard Business School Press in February, HBS professor Debora Spar notes that more safeguards must be put in place as a response to the huge potential for exploitation: "You have a large number of potential customers, each of whom is willing to do whatever it takes and pay whatever they can to purchase the product at hand."
Flying South
By Mac Margolis
December 26, 2005
Cash flows between developing nations have more than doubled over the past decade. Cross-border contracts between companies in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe have become common. HBS professor Tarun Khanna Tarun Khanna notes the dangers inherent in such deals: "Many of these companies share an information set with the countries they do business in," he says. "What's important is not the absolute amount of risk but your ability to bear it better than anyone else. Greater familiarity means you can take more risks."
Mining the Vein of Great Ideas
By Christopher Farrell
December 26, 2005
Novel products and inventive services are key to a company's success in
today's competitive economy. How often a company's existing patents are
cited in future patent applications is a key indicator of a genuinely
innovative idea. Putting that in historical perspective,HBS assistant
professor Thomas Nicholas notes that "32% of Thomas Edison's patents
granted between 1910 and 1930 were cited in patents awarded from 1976 to
2002."
The Talk of the Town
By James Surowiecki
December 19, 2005
The BlackBerry, the popular wireless e-mail device, may soon be forced to end its service in the United States pending the outcome of a patent-infringement case. The lawsuit could serve as a symbol of a patent system gone amuck: overworked examiners, too little research, too many patents granted, a plethora of firms known as "patent trolls" that thrive simply by suing other companies. Ironically, the view that stronger patents are better has a downside, since rewarding some inventors at the expense of others can limit innovation. In a study of 150 years of patent protection, for example, HBS professor Josh Lerner found that "countries that introduced stronger protections for patents saw no increase in innovation by their citizens."
When PayPal Becomes the Back Office, Too
By Julie Bick
December 18, 2005
Seven years after its inception, Paypal now accounts for over $25 billion in transactions and has a customer base of 80 million users. The online money transfer service helps small business internet sales and online auctions, but it also suffers from frequent claims of fraud and other online schemes. HBS associate professor Frances Frei says Paypal "is bound to make mistakes, thanks to the sheer volume and heterogeneity of its customer base, [but] The way they treat people they've mistakenly inconvenienced will be key to retaining their brand value."
The Education of Andy Grove
By Richard S. Tedlow
December 12, 2005
Andy Grove has left an indelible mark on computers and business management as we know them today. In this essay, HBS professor and business historian Richard Tedlow takes a closer look at Intel's legendary leader. "Grove's output as a teacher of management has been prodigious," writes Tedlow, "Yet it is one thing to search for truth in the ivory tower and quite another to take those lessons, however wrenching, and apply them to a living, breathing business like Intel. Grove's most powerful lessons have been in the doing."
It's the Purpose Brand, Stupid
By Clayton M. Christensen, Scott Cook, and Taddy Hall
November 29, 2005
HBS professor Clayton Christensen, along with Intuit chairman Scott Cook and Taddy Hall, chief strategy officer of the Advertising Research Foundation, argue in a piece adapted from their December Harvard Business Review article that "prevailing models of segmentation and brand building are to blame" for the incredible failure rates associated with product innovation today. They suggest marketing strategies that utilize "purpose brands" as a remedy: "the marketer's fundamental task is not so much to understand the customer as it is to understand what jobs customers need to do -- and build products that serve those specific purposes."
Business Students Follow the Case
By Ian Grayson
November 13, 2005
Pioneered by Harvard Business School as a tool for management education, the case method is growing in popularity as an alternative to traditional lectures. HBS senior lecturer Mike Roberts lends his perspective: "It's an approach that teaches [students] how to think, present their ideas, listen to others, defend their point of view, and use their judgment to make a decision, even if the information in the case is incomplete," he says. "That, after all, is a reflection of real life in the business world."
Does Spirituality Mix with Commerce?
By Jerry Cobb
October 25, 2005
Starbucks is brewing controversy with its reported plans to include a spiritual quotation on its coffee cups beginning next spring. The coffee company is the latest player on the corporate scene to narrow the separation between church and office. HBS senior lecturer Laura Nash notes, "Companies must ask how far down the path of spirituality they are willing to venture without just turning it into one more way of making an extra dollar."
KSG Faculty Examine Katrina Response
By Alvin Powell
September 27, 2005
Experts from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government say that the mishandling of the Hurricane Katrina response could have been avoided if a management system originally created to fight forest fires had been fully implemented nationally. Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard, who holds professorships at both Harvard Business School and the Kennedy School, agreed that the Forest Service's Incident Management System was designed to react to such emergencies. "This was not a failure to anticipate conditions, it was a failure to react to conditions that people had predicted perfectly," said Leonard.
Out to Change the World of Work
By Sarah Murray
September 25, 2005
HBS professor Leslie Perlow is profiled as "a woman with a mission to shift working practices and improve work-life balance." According to the article, she aspires to "go beyond [her] academic role in just writing about it and really help people see that change is possible." Her current research examines long working hours and lack of job flexibility in service companies.
Federated Tosses Recognized Brand Names
By Brett Arends
September 21, 2005
Federated Department Stores has drawn the attention of marketing experts in light of its decision to abolish the Filene's and Marshall Fields chains in favor of Macy's or Bloomingdale's. Some see the move as financially wise, since consolidation will help maximize advertising potential. Others note that brand value is being sacrificed. HBS professor David Bell suggests that Federated operate under a single name: "The cost savings are huge, and the advertising's better."
Letting Users Lead the Way to New Ideas
By Elizabeth Biddlecombe
September 19, 2005
Innovations based on user input have played a role in the development of a number of products, including personal computers and open-source software. But while many see so-called user development as the basis for a strong business model, HBS professor Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole of the University of Toulouse argue in "The Economics of Technology Sharing: Open Source and Beyond," a working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, that "user development can only be taken so far." "It is easy, for example, for the computer programmer to test the integrity of a software application...whereas testing drugs requires an expensive and extensive infrastructure."
Theory & Practice: Rethinking the Quality-Improvement Program
By Erin White
September 19, 2005
Some academics and consultants are now questioning once wildly popular programs designed to reduce error and improve quality by standardizing processes. HBS professor Michael Tushman joins critics in arguing that process management helps improve existing standards, but can hinder innovation. In a study with Wharton School professor Mary Benner, Tushman found that "quality-improvement or process-management programs can hamper a company's ability to respond to technological change by effectively forcing employees to focus on honing routine tasks associated with the older technology."
Rebuilding a Lost City
By Robin Peguero
September 12, 2005
After the destruction of the Gulf Coast wrought by Hurrican Katrina, many are left to ponder the future of the region and offer suggestions for the rebirth of New Orleans. HBS professor of management practice Arthur Segel says, "It is imperative that the government dedicate much of its finances to attracting capital to the beleaguered city." He suggests that the city rebuild "miles from its original location, keeping the region's economic advantages as a trade hub...while doing away with its rampant crime and corruption."
A Network Wherever He Looks
By Sarah Murray
September 5, 2005
At the heart of HBS visiting professor Toby Stuart's investigations lies one dominant theme — networks. "I consider myself to be a networks person," he says. "There's a network in every paper I've written." Stuart's research on "interconnection in the business world" has covered a wide range of topics, from venture capital firms' syndication networks to intercorporte alliances in the biotech and pharmaceuticals industries. Stuart was profiled in the FT's "Gurus of the Future," series, focusing on prominent business school faculty members under the age of 40.
Why FEMA Was Missing in Action
By Peter G. Gosselin and Alan C. Miller
September 5, 2005
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina's rampage through the Gulf Coast, many wonder why FEMA — the government agency created to respond to national disasters — had very little presence. Budget cuts, elimination and reduction of key programs and staff, and a shift of focus to Homeland Security are to blame. HBS professor David Moss, author of When All Else Fails: Government as the Ultimate Risk Manager puts the government's efforts into historical perspective: "A century ago, no one would have expected a massive federal response. Most people viewed natural disasters mainly as things to be endured on their own or with the help of their neighbors and communities." He adds that the government has "dramatically increased its role in absorbing disaster losses after [9/11]. Until recently, many may have assumed we'd made similar strides in disaster prevention."
The Three Ways of Great Leaders
By Bill Breen
September 2005
In a new book, In Their Time: The Greatest Business Leaders of the 20th Century, HBS lecturer Anthony J. Mayo and Professor Nitin Nohria compile a list of the top 100 U.S. business leaders of all time. Their research reveals that all such business giants share a common trait: contextual intelligence, or "acute sensitivity to the social, political, technological, and demographic contexts that came to define their eras." The pair further identify three leadership prototypes — the entrepreneurial leader, leader as manager, and charismatic leader — and show how each employed contextual intelligence to build success. "Leaders and those who aspire to lead benefit from having a sense of history" but not because history repeats itself, says Nohria. "History's real value is that it allows you to imagine what's possible."
Leaders Go To School on Business Practices
By Sarah Schafer
August 31, 2005
Harvard's Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), a joint effort among Harvard Business School, the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and school districts throughout the United States, aims to create an understanding among participants about redesigning districts to achieve large-scale improvement in student learning. HBS professor Allen Grossman, one of the faculty leaders of the Project, argues that knowledge concerning how to attain such improvements is still missing. Central to PELP is the notion of congruence — aligning all of an organization's parts to drive its mission. HBS lecturer Stacey Childress adds that such a goal is "not easy in school districts, where the various constituents so often are at odds."
Help Wanted
By Sarah Schafer
August 29, 2005
While China may boast a raging economy and surplus of factories, its critical shortage of skilled and experienced managers is its most staggering economic characteristic. Many reasons are cited, ranging from the effects of governmental change to ingrained cultural differences. One solution to the problem is higher education. In that regard, Harvard Business School recently hosted 70 Chinese business school professors, initiating them to ways of the case method. HBS professor F. Warren McFarlan, who has extensive experience working with professors from China's top b-schools, comments on the trend: "Everything is in the process of changing, and these schools feel very much like the American schools were in 1975. I'm actually just struck by the extraordinary progress that's been made in the last 20 years."
Investment Firms Buy Stakes in New Boston Stock Exchange Venture
By Mark Jewell
August 24, 2005
In an effort to compete with the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq, the Boston Stock Exchange has partnered with four Wall Street firms to create a new electronic trading network. While many see this venture as a solution to the Boston Exchange's recent hard times, others, including HBS assistant professor Pai-Ling Yin note that the emergence of many new regional exchanges and the greater scope of the two dominant national exchanges will still make it hard for Boston to compete. "Once everyone coordinates on one exchange platform, it's very hard for them to move to another one," Yin said.
Family Ties That Can Strangle Heirs
By Stefan Stern
August 22, 2005
On the heels of a second potential Murdoch heir leaving the News Corporation, many in the business world have weighed in on the inherent pitfalls that come with family members filling the boardrooms of big business. Most subscribe to the notion that families working together will eventually produce profound management problems and tension within the ranks. HBS professor John Davis however, faculty chair of the School's "Families in Business Program," cites the intrinsic benefits in family business: "The big advantage family businesses have is stability," he says. "The owners aren't going away. This gives management more room to operate: they can think patiently but act aggressively."
Investors Want Firms to Boost Dividends
By Ellen Simon
August 19, 2005
Today's investors are growing weary of the current trend that finds companies buying back their stock while cutting their dividend. HBS associate professor Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler of NYU's Stern School of Business examined this trend in a 2002 paper titled "Why are dividends disappearing? An Empirical Analysis" (later published in the Journal of Financial Economics). They found that investor behavior could alter corporate behavior, since "dividend payments grow when investors are willing to pay more for stocks with strong dividends and shrink when investors aren't willing to pay more for stocks with strong dividends."
Insurer Reveals What Doctors Really Charge
By Vanessa Fuhrmans
August 18, 2005
Aetna Inc. became the first major health insurer to publicly disclose the fees it negotiates with physicians. Posted online, these fees will help subscribers comparison shop for many medical procedures. HBS professor Regina Herzlinger, a leading consumer-directed health-care advocate, sees believes that this decision will leadas leading to price competition between doctors. "That, in turn, may prod physicians to publish or share data on the quality of the care they provide," she says, "even though some have resisted attempts at doctor quality ratings until now."
A Nimble Approach to Innovation
By Robert Weisman
August 7, 2005
Though many innovations have emerged in the course of economic history, it has been difficult, if not impossible, to predict which would be accepted by large numbers of consumers and when. In an article titled "In Search of the 'Next Killer App'", in this summer's edition of the MIT Sloan Management Review, HBS associate professor Robert Austin and HBS professor emeritus Richard L. Nolan (now of the University of Washington as well) explain that they have created a Biz-Apps group at Harvard Business School "to study the difficulties companies encounter in accommodating new technologies and to shorten the gestation period." One problem the authors have identified is the "poor communication" between those who come up with an innovative idea and the managers who are charged with turning it into a reality. The former just want to go for the gold; the latter feel responsible to the shareholders and the money they've invested.
Insiders Prosper Despite SEC Rule
By Tony Cooke and Serena Ng
August 5, 2005
The SEC's implementation of Rule 10b5-1 in 2000 was meant to address ambiguity over when an insider could legally trade. In short, insiders are required to establish a plan — at a time when they do not possess material nonpublic information - for buying or selling their company's stock. But this rule has some leeway that could benefit insiders, who are still allowed to cancel their plans while in possession of material information. HBS associate professor Constance Bagley regards this as a major - and unnecessary — loophole. Insiders "can get rid of the bad trades and keep what look like the good trades," she says.
Merger Presents Challenges in Keeping Adidas, Reebok Brands Distinct
By Mark Jewell
August 3, 2005
Industry watchers say that the recent merger of German-based Adidas and the USA's Reebok will produce few changes for consumers and ease competition between the two former rivals. HBS professor and former Reebok board member John A. Quelch cites some of the brand distinctions: "The Reebok name and product line is still slightly positioned toward fashion versus performance shoes, and toward women versus men, whereas Adidas' strength is in soccer shoes, and I think it's still regarded as a more male-oriented and performance-oriented brand." Quelch also notes that the merger will produce a greater market presence for the combined brands "that will probably present Nike with more formidable competition than Adidas or Reebok--as individual companies."
The Price is Right
By Pankaj Ghemawat and Ken A. Mark
August 3, 2005
In the midst of all the negative issues facing Wal-Mart, HBS Professor Pankaj Ghemawat and business consultant Ken A. Mark argue that there is something positive to report about the retailer's impact on consumers. "To chalk up Wal-Mart's success simply to the exploitation of its work force, as many of the company's most ferocious critics do, is simply wrong," they say. Rather, Wal-Mart has increased the size of the economic pie and created valued that can be pocketed by the customer. "Wal-Mart saves its consumers something like $16 billion a year," they write. "And because Wal-Mart's presence forces the store's competitors to charge lower prices as well, this...figure understates the company's real impact by at least half."
Medicine for Medicaid
By Regina Herzlinger and Tom Nerney
August 2, 2005
HBS Professor Regina Herzlinger and Tom Nerney commend some "visionary governors" for what they propose as a cure for Medicaid's staggering costs: consumer-driven programs that fundamentally alter Medicaid's power equation by allowing "consumers to allocate their own health care, instead of bureaucrats doing so on their behalf." Citing models put forth by governors in Florida, South Carolina and Vermont, among others, the authors note common characteristics based on freedom, innovation, and choice among both enrollees and providers. "The best cure for Medicaid's budget woes," they argue, "and the best medicine for its beneficiaries are market-based innovations by prescient governors."
The Elephant at the Gate
August 2005
China continues to be an economic force to be reckoned with, but after years of reform and growth, India seems to be making considerable headway. In a 2003 Foreign Policy article co-authored with MIT's Yasheng Huang, HBS Professor Tarun Khanna predicted that India would eventually eclipse CHina on the financial stage. Evidence of India's threat to China is still inconclusive, however, since a number of liabilities exist, including a budget deficit, a caste system, that wastes human talent, and rival political factions. Adds Khanna: "The inefficient side of India remains — democracy needs consensus and bureaucracy slows things down — those things won't change."
The Ones that Get Away
July 28, 2005
This corporate earnings season, many are wary of the the numbers being bandied about, as the use of estimates in company accounts increases. A recent study by Assistant Professor Daniel Bergstreser and Associate Professor Mihir Desai, both of HBS, along with Joshua Rauh of the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business, found ample evidence of tampering at opportune moments: "Before acquisitions and equity offerings and exercising stock options, for example, some bosses inflated the assumed rate of return on pension-fund assets, thus flattering profits."
A Big Year
By Janet Guyon
July 25, 2005
The numbers needed to be ranked among the world's largest corporations give new meaning to the "big" in big business. If a company didn't have revenues of at least $12.4 billion, it didn't make the cut. HBS professors David Garvin and Rosabeth Moss Kanter provide some insights regarding these economic giants. Garvin notes that CEOs of such successful enterprises are people who "can articulate a vision, develop systems and policies to implement that vision, and operate on the ground to steer those systems." Technology can also an important part of the mix. Citing Wal-Mart as an example, Kanter notes: "The fact that they can ask their suppliers to conform to certain standards and can replenish stores quickly is a big part of their success."
Smart Companies Take on "Intrapreneurial" Spirit
By Paul Tyrell
July 25, 2005
Innovative companies such as Apple Computer and Lockheed Martin are described as having an "intrapreneurial" culture, where innovative ideas are discovered, rewarded, and cultivated. HBS assistant professor Clark Gilbert advises that established companies should try to generate "disruptive" ideas on a regular basis. But they should be "opportunity-based rather than resource-based," he says, noting that most big businesses rely too heavily on internal resources as opposed to looking outside for ideas. "The problem in so many existing markets is that product lines have already overshot what most consumers can absorb" he adds.
Safety Consciousness
By Pamela Babcock
July 2005
Safety is an iportant concern in workplaces today, with employee injuries accounting for big expenses. HBS Professor Amy Edmondson says that "creating a culture of safety is a long and challenging journey—but it actually can be done." She advocates implementing workplace safety programs at every level and reporting unsafe workplace conditions and worker behaviors, regardless of scale. "Organizations are pretty good at learning from major mishaps" she says, "but what we don't do a good job learning from are small failures — the little things that go wrong that we recover from."
Why the Best New Ideas Often Come from People on the Ground
By Stefan Stern
July 7, 2005
According to conventional wisdom, business strategy is something that comes down, fully formed, from the highest ranks of an organization. Wrong, says HBS professor Joseph Bower, who has studied corporate strategy for decades. "What actually happens is determined at a lower level. It's a rare company where the people at the top really have the detailed knowledge to second guess what the people on the ground are recommending." Bower is a contributor and coauthor, with Assistant Professor Clark Gilbert, of the forthcoming book From Resource Allocation to Strategy (Oxford University Press, October).
Managers Who Dispense Bad News Also Feel the Pain
By Robert Weisman
June 12, 2005
Research abounds on the psychological effects on employees who have been downsized or fired, but what about the employer who has to break the bad news? In order to act in the company's best interest, this "necessary evil" "lies at the heart of business responsibility," says HBS assistant professor Joshua Margolis, who has been studying this issue with Andrew Molinsky, an assistant professor at Brandeis University's International Business School. In these situations, many professionals experience emotional distress, the researchers report, and "a fair number of [them]...seek to reach out and have some kind of relationship with the person they're about to harm."
Is it Time to Raise Prices?
By Alison Stein Wellner
June 2005
When setting prices, entrepreneurs often "go by their gut." But this method may lead to inappropriate prices and missed profits. HBS associate professor John Gourville explains that "The price you get for a product is a function of what the product is truly worth -- and how good a job you do communicating that value to the end user," an idea that can be overlooked by entrepreneurs. No need to fear losing customers because of heftier price tags, either. "People are actually very sensitive to what they think something costs to make," he adds.
Upping The Ante At GM
May 16, 2005
Financier Kirk Kerkorian's hefty investment in General Motors may make him an ally of the CEO instead of a dreaded corporate raider, as the company pushes for unpleasant changes such as forcing unionized employees to pay for more of their medical care and breaking down internal fiefdoms. "It's external ammunition for the changes GM has to make but that others have resisted," says HBS professor David Garvin. "The Kerkorian bid could be a very good thing for the company."
Harvard Professor Sees IT Entering Transformative Era
May 3, 2005
Information technology is entering a transformative era driven by massive investments in fiber optics and other technologies, according to HBS professor F. Warren McFarlan. "Of the nearly 50 years I've been in IT, 2005 is probably the most exciting, transforming time for business applications," he said at a recent conference. Although other participants observed that the ability of many companies to leverage new business opportunities and engage in new IT projects would be hampered by systems repairs and compliance requirements, McFarlan contended that the "technology friendliness" of a company's CEO goes a long way toward moving an organization in the right direction.
Learning From Reputational Crises
April 2005
No brands -- even the most well known -- are safe from the danger of a reputational crisis. Think Martha Stewart and Arthur Andersen, to mention just a recent few. So what's an organization to do? According to HBS professor emeritus Stephen Greyser, there are three precepts to keep in mind: "Understand your brand, and its essence, based on a study of attitudes held by interested publics; recognize that threats...are legion and anticipate what could cause a brand crisis;" and when bad things do happen, "focus on forthrightness and a truly substantive response."
Ignorance Isn't Bliss for Execs on Trial
By Greg Farrell and Del Jones
March 16, 2005
In the future, CEOs who go on trial for accounting fraud and plead complete ignorance of company finances will most likely face unsympathetic and skeptical jurors. Former Worldcom CEO Bernie Ebbers was found guilty of securities fraud, conspiracy, and filing false documents; yet he denied knowledge of any wrongdoing. In exposures of fabricated earnings involving millions, even billions, of dollars,"It's implausible that a CEO doesn't know what's going on," says former Medtronic CEO Bill George, now a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School.
When a Company's Success Breeds Failure
By Gary Rivlin
March 14, 2005
The absence of dissent is one of many factors that can contribute to the failure of once-successful companies. When high-level managers are in charge, junior employees often lack the confidence to point out problems that may lead to catastrophe, according to Michael Roberto, HBS assistant professor of business administration, who has written cases about the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Challenger disaster. "Many groups and organizations shy away from vigorous conflict and debate," he points out.
Fliers Find That Mileage Points Go Only So Far
By Micheleine Maynard and Eric Dash
March 13, 2005
Mileage points earned by frequent fliers no longer have the trading power they had in the past several years due to tightened restrictions by airlines. As fliers have racked up millions of miles to redeem, airlines in turn have imposed higher requirements for redemption. "What the airlines have done," says HBS professor Max H. Bazerman, "is devalue miles." As a result, fliers contend with more blackout dates and a steep downturn in available seats on popular routes. According to Bazerman, "miles today are worth half of what they were five years ago. And they will be worth half again some day."
Power Switch: In Electronics, U.S. Companies Seize Momentum From Japan
By Gary McWilliams
March 10, 2005
U.S. companies have taken the lead in consumer electronics, eclipsing Japan. Software design and low manufacturing costs give U.S. companies the edge. "Software is an area where the U.S. has a strong advantage going back two or three decades," says HBS professor David B. Yoffie. "It's no surprise that most of the interesting consumer-electronics products -- the iPod, TiVo and Treo -- are coming out of Silicon Valley. It has to do with being close to leading-edge technology."
Hewlett's Board Forces Chief Out After Rocky Stay
By Morgen Witzel
February 10, 2005
Although the board of Hewlett-Packard dismissed former CEO Carly Fiorina, the company maintains that it will continue to execute its strategy essentially the same way it did before the ouster. However, some observers are skeptical. "I have trouble believing that the new management team at H.P. is going to stay the course they're on and just try and execute better on it," said HBS associate professor Andrew P. McAfee. "It's hard enough to compete in one line of business but when you do it in several, it's an extremely tough act to pull off."
A Sector Where 'Merger' Can Mean the Start of Something Ugly
By Andrew Ross Sorkin and Barnaby Feder
February 10, 2005
The success rate of large-scale mergers and acquisitions among technology companies is abysmal. Nevertheless, companies continue to press ahead with big deals. According to HBS professor and senior associate dean Krishna G. Palepu, the problem facing big technology deals like Hewlett-Packard and Compaq is that they often combine two struggling businesses rather than thriving ones. "Putting two businesses that aren't doing well together doesn't help in any industry unless there are economies of scale to produce savings." But the savings in that deal were not big enough to go toe-to-toe with the competition. "Getting as big as Dell doesn't help if you aren't as good as Dell."
Why Top Performers Hit Rock Bottom When They Change Jobs
By Michael Skapinker
February 9, 2005
Star employees who thrive in one company often fail to duplicate their stellar performance when they jump ship and join a rival. They not only lose the support of the team that helped them rise to the top but fall short in rapidly learning how a new organization works because they think they are above cultivating such knowledge. "The informal systems through which executives find information and get work done are unique to each company," said HBS assistant professer Boris Groysberg, associate professor Ashish Nanda, and professor Nitin Nohria in a May 2004 Harvard Business Review article. "When stars join new organisations, they must learn about the informal networks and build trust with other people before the systems will work for them."
Training Tomorrow's Lecturers
By Linda Anderson
January 24, 2005
HBS pioneered the case method and sells more than 6 million cases a year in this country and around the world. However, according HBS professor Thomas Piper, many people do not understand what is involved in teaching a case. As a result, the School has taken a leading role in training professors from emerging economies how to do it. For the past five years, business school faculty from developing regions have attended the HBS Colloquium on Participant-Centered Learning (CPCL). "We do some careful assessment of the learning and development needs of the participants in each school," says Piper. The program, he adds, is about teaching teachers that there is no right or wrong answer for a case but a right thought process about business.
Pension Tension
By Kim Clark
January 24, 2005
Because of troubles in the pension system, workers can no longer count on company-funded retirements. Less than 20 percent of working Americans have pension plans compared to more than 35 percent in 1980. Since many firms estimated big future investment gains during the market run-up of the 1990s, they put little or no extra cash in their pension funds to keep up with rising liabilities. According to a recent study of more than 1,000 companies coauthored by HBS assistant professor Daniel Bergstresser and associate professor Mihir Desai, organizations that had poor independent oversight and executives who were on the verge of exercising their stock options tended to use higher estimates of future pension fund returns than did other companies. When the stock market bubble burst, a pension free fall ensued, resulting in the current crisis.
Drug Firms Seek Profit in Giveaways, Marketing Targets Consumer Loyalty
By Christopher Rowland
January 17, 2005
Prescription drug manufacturers are using aggressive marketing techniques to entice consumers. Since 1997, when the FDA removed many regulations on drug advertising, free trial offers, coupons, and loyalty programs have surged. Besides gaining an edge on competitors with these promotions, another side benefit is coveted market data, according to HBS assistant professor Marta Wosinska. Many offers require consumers to part with valuable personal information. ''Pharmaceutical companies cannot buy any third-party data about who is using their drugs, because of medical privacy laws," she said. ''This way, they get medical marketing information."
Branded for Life; What if a Familiar Name Becomes a Different Animal?
By Griff Witte
January 23, 2005
Businesses spend billions creating brand recognition for their products. However, with the acceleration of technological change in recent years, more and more companies with successful brands are being forced to break the bond between their name and their product. IBM smoothly evolved its brand as its business changed, but AT&T's transition was marked by several false starts that have damaged the brand, according to HBS professor John A. Quelch. "The AT&T brand has been messed with repeatedly in the last 15 years," says Quelch. "As a result, I don't think it commands much respect, except among a very small, aging, loyal segment of the marketplace." The branding challenge is even harder for companies with names that literally say what a company sells. "It's terrific to have a brand that says very clearly what your business is all about. But if you want to expand or diversify or get out of the business, it makes it almost impossible to do the migration."
Goodbye to Your Golf Partner
By Sundeep Tucker
January 19, 2005
Corporate scandals have led to changes in the selection process and roles of independent directors. Gone are the days of chief executives tapping their golfing buddies and loyal colleagues to sit on boards. According to HBS professor Jay Lorsch, author of Back to the Drawing Board: Designing Corporate Boards for a Complex World, CEOs should never be involved in recruiting outside executives. "CEOs, especially in the US, have for too long been able to pick their own cronies to sit on the board," he says. "They should have nothing to do with the process - although, of course, they should be comfortable with whoever is appointed." The process should involve only those on a company's nominations committee.
Spotlight Shines on Black Lawyer in Vioxx Drama
By Monica Lewis
January 5, 2005
Merck & Co.'s defense strategy now rests in the hands of senior vice president and general counsel Kenneth Frazier. A graduate of Harvard Law School, he is one of only a handful of blacks in such positions with a Fortune 100 company. "[Merck] did the right thing by taking [Vioxx] off the market when they did," said HBS professor David Thomas, co-author of Breaking Through: The Making of Minority Executives in Corporate America (HBS Press: 1999) commenting on Frazier's role in managing the Vioxx fallout. "His job was to immediately do the risk assessment, and he was definitely at the table when the decision to pull the drug was made."
When Not to Outsource
By Penelope Patsuris
January 5, 2005
Outsourcing is often viewed as a boon for corporate America and a bust for U.S. workers. But in the opinion of HBS professor Rajiv Lal, that's not quite right. Companies are beginning to realize that there are plenty of cases in which outsourcing is not the best business strategy. "The issue isn't that less will be outsourced," said Lal. "It's just going to be a matter of what is outsourced."
America Becomes Global Marketplace
By Jeffrey Sparshott
December 29, 2004
Granted, the United States imports more than it exports and the trade gap is growing with each passing month. However, U.S. businesses spend more money expanding into international markets than any other country in the world. Of the world's 100 most valuable brands, 62 are American, according to Interbrand, a consulting group that annually evaluates products. That's a significant accomplishment for a country that produces less than one-third of the world's economic output. "It's testimony to the superior marketing and business acumen of American companies. We punch 200 percent of our business weight," said HBS professor John Quelch, who has studied and written extensively about global brands.
Could Yukos be a Blessing in Disguise?
By James Arnold
December 21, 2004
In a report for the Center for Economic Policy Research, the authors, including HBS associate professor Mihir Desai, praise Russia's crack down on corporate tax cheats—a reform, they say, that has several benefits. "An increase in tax enforcement can increase the amount [of dividends and other income] outside shareholders will receive, even accounting for increased levels of taxation," they write. In addition, companies' financial positions have become much more transparent.
The Quiet CEOs
By Karen Lowry Miller
December 20, 2004
Amid the ashes of corporate corruption, a new kind of leader is emerging. Old-fashioned traits like integrity and character are trumping a knack for getting headlines. HBS professor William George calls it "authentic leadership," or a quiet kind of charisma that puts a sense of values and purpose ahead of backslapping and magazine covers. Reuben Mark (MBA 1963), who has delivered excellent growth and returns at Colgate-Palmolive for two decades, falls into this category. A.G. Lafley (MBA 1977), who has led the turnaround of Procter & Gamble since taking over in 2000,is a model for humble, down-to-earth leadership. And Dr. Daniel Vasella (PMD 57/1989) runs Novartis with an eye on the needs of patients and a rare knack for finding new drugs. The 1990s-bred celebrity CEOs have now given way to "the service generation."
U.S. Political Divide Similar to Familiar Aesopian Fable
By Rosabeth Moss Kanter
December 16, 2004
Forget the red and blue patchwork of the election-night map. HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter likens the political agendas of the Democrats and Republicans to the fable of the City Mouse and the Country Mouse. Each comfortable with their own level of sophistication and values, neither finds common ground between the "complex and contradictory" life in town and the utopia of the country. But, Kanter writes, this sociological tug-of-war is at least as old as America itself. "By learning to give rather than take and to engage rather than escape, they can leave both city and countryside in better shape."
Devoured by the Dragon
By David Smith and Dominic Rushe
December 12, 2004
In a stunning deal loaded with symbolism, IBM sold a controlling stake in its personal-computer business to Lenovo, China's biggest PC manufacturer. While Beijing-based Lenovo has a quarter of the Chinese market, its annual sales are a third of IBM's. "Lenovo could be the first global Chinese brand," said HBS professor John Quelch. "The Chinese have only to look at what Samsung achieved in Korea. They came from practically nowhere to rival Sony and are now the 23rd-most valuable brand in the world. This IBM deal is a huge step forward for Lenovo but also for Chinese business," Quelch said.
Cool Products
Reported by Geoff Colvin
December 10, 2004
Fortune magazine's 25 best new products of 2004 are valued for their substance as well as their style. HBS professor Marco Iansiti, a judge on the Fortune panel, commented on such form-and-function concepts as sunglasses with a built-in MP3 player; or bio-degradable, one-time-use bamboo plates; or an insulated coffee cup that is elegant in its simplicity. "Everybody knows about Apple and what they've managed to do with design. It's good business when you solve design problems in an elegant way -- in a way that's still exciting to consumers. It makes for a great business model, and the evidence speaks for itself."
The Six Myths of Creativity
By Bill Breen
December 1, 2004
HBS professor Teresa Amabile has spent almost 30 years studying the creative process in the corporate world. Her latest research project has turned up some surprises and debunked some long-held myths about what drives creativity in organizations. Contrary to conventional wisdom, monetary reward, competition, and pressure do not make people more creative. "Over the past five years, organizations have paid more attention to creativity and innovation than at any other time in my career. But I believe most people aren't anywhere near to realizing their creative potential, in part because they're laboring in environments that impede intrinsic motivation," she said.
Retail Sales
Reported by Jeffrey Brown
November 26, 2004
'Tis the season, and this year, according to HBS professor Nancy Koehn, many stores were ready for Christmas "as soon as the Halloween candy came off the shelves." True, $5,000 plasma-screen TVs are not flying off the shelves, but Koehn — an authority in retailing, branding, and business history — sees a trend in shoppers looking for "cheap chic" -- "-- the phenomenon of affordable luxuries in which consumers of lower income levels have access to goods that they once deemed very scarce or very rare--everything from a double tall latte with a hazelnut shot to a Tiffany's bracelet to a Coach key bob to a beautiful shimmering scarf from Saks Fifth Avenue."
Wall Street Said to Overreact to Recall
By Theresa Agovina
November 17, 2004
Wall Street overreacted to Merck's withdrawal of its pain reliever Vioxx, according to HBS professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee and co-author Noorein Inamdar, writing in The New England Journal of Medicine. They believe the Vioxx episode will actually cost Merck $14 billion -- $9 billion in lost profits and as much as $5 billion in legal costs. Yet the pharma's market value plummeted by more than $28 billion. "In part," say the authors, "investors reacted to growing concerns about Merck's business strategy," which shuns mergers and joint ventures with biotechnology firms. As defensible as that approach may be, investors weren't buying it.
The Cost of Ideas
By Steve Marlin
November 11, 2004
Intellectual property is the cornerstone of the modern knowledge economy. But one of the main incentives for and protectors of intellectual property, the patent, is increasingly being found wanting, as the number of applications soars at patent offices around the world. America's patent system, in fact, has "become sand rather than lubricant in the wheels of American progress," HBS professor Josh Lerner and co-author Adam Jaffe conclude in Innovation and Its Discontents: How Our Broken Patent System Is Endangering Innovation and Progress and What To Do about It (Princeton University Press: 2004).
Double Duty
By Steve Marlin
November 8, 2004
Giving Chief Information Officers dual executive jobs isn't unusual. In fact, it's becoming more of a trend as business processes become more tightly knit with the IT infrastructure. This new wave in multitasking may be aseem like a "win-win" situation for companies and individuals, but HBS associate professor Robert Austin disagrees. Giving line-of-business responsibilities to the CIO effectively reins in the previously untouchable stand-alone IT organization, he said. "The fact is that a lot of CEOs are uncomfortable with IT and are seeking ways to control it," Austin said.
GE, Dow, Caterpillar Find Pricing Power in Raw-Materials Surge
By Rachel Layne
November 8, 2004
After years of market constraints, manufacturers of products ranging from earthmoving equipment to plastic resins are increasing prices to reflect their increased cost of raw materials. For longer than anyone cares to rememberyears, sales were made and deals were closed on price point. "You'll see the Wal-Marts of the world keeping prices down," according to HBS associate professor John Gourville, who studies pricing trends. However, demand has increased to the point where manufacturers now feel confident enough to raise prices and increase margins, which have been heretofore virtually nonexistent.
The Enlightened M.B.A.
By Pagan Kennedy
November 7, 2004
HBS recently celebrated the 10th anniversary of its Social Enterprise Initiative -- a program that aims to prepare MBA students to manage nonprofit enterprises, oversee philanthropic activities or start scrappy companies that attack social ills. As it is defined today, social enterprise can have wide-ranging meaning mean just about anything. "At one end of the spectrum, you could have a soup kitchen in the basement of a church, where all the labor is volunteer and all the materials are donated -- pure charity," says HBS professor James Austin, former faculty chairman of the Initiative. "At the other end of the spectrum, you have a for-profit company that is engaged in an undertaking that has some embedded social purpose."
It's Cleanup Time at Citi
By Timothy L. O'Brien and Landon Thomas Jr.
November 7, 2004
To say that Citibank has had more than its share of problems would be an understatement. In May, for instance, the bank agreed on a $2.65 billion settlement with investors who bought stock and bonds in WorldCom before it filed for bankruptcy. Later that month, the Federal Reserve fined the bank $70 million for abuses in personal and mortgage loans to low-income and high-risk borrowers. In June, Citigroup suspended two executives in China, citing them for presenting false financial information to Chinese regulators and to the bank itself. In August, British regulators began an investigation of a $13.5 billion bond trade that was executed by Citigroup. Then, in September, Japan ordered Citigroup to close its private banking unit there for, among other things, failing to guard against money laundering. That was apparently the last straw for CEO Charles Prince. After a very public apology to the Japanese people, Prince set about on a daunting task -- changing the corporate culture of the financial giant. "Is it possible? Yes," said HBS associate professor Rakesh Khurana, who studies corporate governance issues. "But it's not probable. There's very little meaningful change that can go on in an organization because of past investments, taken-for-granted assumptions, vested interests in the status quo, inertia and other deeply rooted factors."
Passing on the Crown
November 4, 2004
There's an old adage about never doing business with a family friend -- a less-than-satisfactory experience could be costly in more ways than one. But what about being in business with brothers, sisters, and other family members? According to HBS senior lecturer John Davis, author of a forthcoming book on seven remarkably long-lived family businesses, the passing of the torch is a two-step process -- first management, then ownership -- "But they tend not to pass at the same time." In fact, a founder may hang on to ownership to death and beyond, in a sense, if ownership is vested in family trusts.
The Real Secrets of Entrepreneurs
By Joshua Hyatt
November 2, 2004
Inspiration and perspiration, necessity, a stroke of luck, a big idea. For entrepreneurs, all, some, or none of the above figure prominently into their success. But among the few who attained "critical mass," HBS professor Nancy Koehn has drawn some conclusions about what works, and what doesn't. "The most successful entrepreneurs think of their companies as a separate entity from themselves," she said. "It's incongruous, but they have a sense that if they have done their work well, the proof will be in their companies outgrowing, outpacing -- and even outliving -- them." Indeed, HBS professor Clayton Christenson calls planning for a company's everlasting life is "a key element of the long-range strategic planning process inside any company. "The (founders)," he said, "have to create a system by which they rhythmically mandate the launch of new businesses, and they have to invest in that system before they need the growth."
October 13, 2004
Patent Problems
By Brad Stone
The U.S. patent process is broken. Some companies, in fact, are trolling the gray area of intellectual property law to stake dubious claims on existing high technology — a boom for lawyers rather than inventors. In a new book, Innovation and Its Discontents (Princeton University Press: 2004), HBS professor and co-author Josh Lerner offers up some recommendations for reforming the resource-starved U.S. Patent Office. Among them: Replace the anachronistic patent examiner with a peer-review patent application.
October 10, 2004
Staying At Home
Reported by Lesley Stahl
It wasn't too long ago when women were denied equal opportunity in the workplace, the professions, and in higher education. But all that changed during a very visible struggle during the '60s and '70s. Now, more and more high-achieving women are opting out of the "fast track" (at least for awhile) to focus on family. HBS dean Kim Clark believes this development presents an opportunity for organizations to rethink their perceptions and practices. Flexible schedules, he says in an interview with 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl, allow workers — both women and men — to take care of both business and family. And by maintaining the right kind of relationship over the years, companies should be able to guarantee that a job is waiting when employees are ready to return to the work force full time.
October 4, 2004
Is This Any Way to Run An Airline?
By Daniel McGinn
America has its airline success stories such as Southwest and JetBlue. In Europe, Ireland's Ryanair has been delivering similar frill-free service since 1986. HBS associate professor Jan Rivkin, who has written a case study on Ryanair, points out how founder Michael O'Leary cut costs the old fashioned way -- no snacks, no pillows or blankets, quick turnaround time between flights so that planes spend most of their time in the air, not hanging around on the ground. Other European carriers have taken note, lowering their fares to compete.
September 30, 2004
Revolution In Funding Health: You
By Gregory M. Lamb
Ready or not, consumer-driven health plans are coming. Born out of both necessity and the economy, they offer up-front lower costs to policy holders because they are no as all-encompassing as traditional health insurance programs. They also have higher deductibles. The difference is made up through joint employee-employer Health Savings Accounts. All these are steps in the right direction, says HBS professor Regina Herzlinger, who in a recent article in The Journal of the American Medical Association urged the U.S. to consider the way Switzerland handles health insurance. "The Swiss have an excellent health care system and excellent outcomes with patients, but with one-third lower costs," she says. "It shows what a consumer-driven health care system can do."
September 16, 2004
India's Entrepreneurial Advantage
By Tarun Khanna
China is bigger, has more people, and manufactures more merchandise than India. China also has been in the throes of economic reform - arguably its second Great Leap Forward -- ten years longer than India. But India's new economic order is a grassroots effort, and Bombay's Stock Exchange is a model of the rough-and-tumble of the marketplace. According to HBS professor Tarun Khanna, "As India opens up further to foreign direct investment, we might well discover that the country's more laissez-faire approach has nurtured the conditions that will enable free enterprise and economic growth to flourish more easily in the long run.
September 14, 2004
The Art of Negotiations
By Darren Rowell
Nearly three-quarters of the revenue of the National Hockey League goes toward paying the salaries of the players on the NHL's 30 teams. Owners from both sides of the U.S.- Canadian border have now issued the non-negotiable demand that players submit to a salary cap, and they have locked them out of training camps to prove they mean business. According to HBS professor Michael Wheeler, author of the forthcoming Wild Negotiation: Mastering Chaos and Winning Agreement, the brinkmanship and bluster will continue until someone blinks. "It's very hard for either side to take a half-loaf solution back to their constituents until it comes to what they perceive is the 11th hour and the 59th minute," he said. "If anyone in management or the union comes back with a deal before that point, they'll be criticized for not having courage."
September 12, 2004
Against Types
By Drake Bennett
Before your next job interview, you may be required to take a test. Although tests for special skills such as copy editing or business math are considered fairly routine in some companies, these tests, which attempt to quantify personality, psychology, or even mental pathology, are growing in popularity among corporations. Although controversial, the tests' popularity stems from the basic belief that "personality influences how you interact with other people, so having a detailed understanding of personality allows you to adjust for individual differences," says HBS professor David Thomas, who has studied their use in corporate America.
Consumer-Driven Health Care: Lessons from Switzerland
By Regina Herzlinger
September 8, 2004
The U.S. health care system is ailing. The solution, according to HBS professor Regina Herzlinger, is a universal, consumer-driven, private-sector system - similar to one currently in use in Switzerland -- that enables enrollees to tailor insurance plans to their needs in terms of prices, benefits, and coverage. The result is a competitive environment that both moderates costs and improves quality. "Switzerland's-- system achieves universal insurance and high quality of care at significantly lower costs than the-- U.S. system and without the constrained resources that can characterize government-controlled systems," she writes.
September 6, 2004
When This Book Argued for Shift in Antitrust Policy, Its Subject Smiled
By Stephen Lohr
The Keystone Advantage (Harvard Business School Press: 2004) by HBS professor Marco Iansiti and technology consultant Roy Levien, examines the biotech and computer-tech companies that have grown to be masters of their domains. The authors see parallels between "keystone" companies like Microsoft and Wal-Mart that are the hubs of our economic system and keystone species in biological ecosystems. Using this framework, the authors make a provocative argument for rethinking antitrust policy. "Keystone companies," they say, "are powerful yet benevolent. They never dominate industries, but enable larger economic ecosystems to thrive."
September 1, 2004
The New World-Changer
By Cheryl Dahle
MBA students at Harvard and elsewhere are well aware that the elements of business can be used for social well-being. One tangible example can be found in HBS's Social Enterprise Club, which boasts some 300 members. "The growth rate of new nonprofits now exceeds that of private business formation and government expansion," said HBS professor James Austin, adding, "Entrepreneurs go where the action is."
August 31, 2004
More Companies Tap Location, Location, Location of Inner Cities
By Del Jones
The Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC), founded by University Professor Michael Porter, says that companies that put down roots in some of the poorest urban areas in the country are realizing phenomenal growth-an average of 866 percent in the five years ending in 2002. So much for the inner city's image as a business badlands. "Inner cites are sitting in the center of the most prosperous parts of the world," notes Porter. Inner city companies disproportionately offer a wide array of benefits--including health care, retirement, life insurance, home ownership incentives, and education and training-to their workers, about a third of whom are minority (versus 11 percent nationally). Thus, these firms can offer the leg up that public schools have so far failed to do.
August 31, 2004
Manager's Journal: Toys 'R' History
By Clayton Christensen and Scott Anthony
For nearly two decades, Toys 'R' Us had a great run. But the retailer recently announced it will abandon its core toy business to concentrate on its booming Babies 'R' Us spin-off, which sells clothing and furniture for infants and toddlers. Geoffrey the Giraffe just couldn't win against Sam Walton's Wal-Mart. Ironically, TRU was once the scrappy, dominating player in the marketplace. "Toys 'R' Us emerged as a disruptive 'category killer' by offering consumers a place where they could be sure to find the precise toys they wanted at a reasonable price. Department stores and small specialists fell by the wayside because they couldn't match the selection and price provided by Toy 'R' Us," HBS professor Clayton Christensen points out. But then came Wal-Mart, with its everyday low prices,super-efficient supply chains, and an inventory so broad that toys can be offered simply as loss leaders. Toys 'R' Us, however, followed the right strategy by laying the foundation for another line of business before the day of reckoning was actually upon them.
August 27, 2004
Success Is About More Than Being the Best
By Connie Glaser
Your parents were right when they used to tell you "everything in moderation." In their new book, Just Enough: Tools for Creating Success in Your Work and Life (Wiley: 2004), HBS professor Howard Stevenson and senior lecturer Laura Nash make clear that too many people today push themselves too hard in too many areas of life-from jobs and sports to hobbies and parenthood. Given these unrealistic yardsticks, the best you can be is no longer good enough. The result is plenty of stress and strain. A better goal, say the authors, is to be content with what you have and what you do rather than to feel that superstardom is the sine qua non of a well-lived life.
August 26, 2004
Against the Grain
Holland's Rabobank has quietly and methodically become a player in the niche business of farm financing. However, the silence recently ended when it agreed to purchase Farm Credit Services of America (FCSA). Part of a network of government-sponsored entitites (GSEs) that includes Freddie Mac and Freddie Mae, FCSA is comprised of financial institutions in four states in the Midwest and Rockies with assets of almost $8 billion. However, regulations limit FCSA's activities, preventing it from taking deposits, assisting farms beyond its four-state territory, or even helping farms that have operations in adjacent states. But those constraints are over if the bank's acquisition goes through. All this begs the question whether it is time to scrap the GSE system completely. According to HBS professor emeritus Ray Goldberg, one of the world's leading experts in agribusiness, "The reason the farm-credit system came into existence is that no one else would provide credit. Now someone else will."
August 24, 2004
Manager's Journal: Betting on Google's Future
By Thomas Eisenmann
In his commentary in The Wall Street Journal on Google's much anticipated IPO, HBS associate professor Thomas Eisenmann cites research indicating that managers of high-tech companies with dual-class securities (heavily-weighted Class A shares for management and common Class B shares for everyone else) take bigger risks, make major innovations, and create greater value and wealth because, more times than not, their high-stakes strategy works. "An investment in Google is a long-term bet on its management," Eisenmann writes.
July 4, 2004
British Retail Icon Looks To Restore Its Spark Of Old
By Rebecca Goldsmith
Started in the late 1800s by Michael Marks, a Russian Jew fleeing pogroms, and Tom Spencer, a wholesale warehouse cashier, legendary retailer Marks & Spencer evolved into Britain's best-known and most respected brand for clothing, food and housewares. According to HBS professor Joseph Bower, they established a modern company that kept central control of merchandise to adjust to consumer demand.
July 2, 2004
Working Toward Globalization, HBS Expands Recruiting in China
By Evan M. Vittor
HBS dean Kim Clark announced during the School's Global Research Forum in Shanghai that it will expand recruitment in China its ongoing effort at globalization. Professor Richard Vietor, who is the director of the five-year-old HBS research center in Hong Kong, said the forum went extraordinarily well.
July 1, 2004
'Consumer China' Is Our Best Hope
By Rosabeth Moss Kanter
While visiting China, Kanter observes: "I came in search of the 4,000 U.S. jobs recently lost to offshoring. After prowling Shanghai streets, visiting a premier industrial park, going backstage at a retail chain and dialoguing with participants at Harvard Business School's Global Leadership Forum, I found those lost jobs -- but I can't bring them home. They've been snared by Producer China. The hope for American domestic jobs lies elsewhere -- in Consumer China."
June 27, 2004
License To Steal?
By Richard Morin
Downloading music has no appreciable impact on CD sales, assert HBS associate professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman S. Strumpf of the University of North Carolina in a paper presented in May at a conference in Cambridge, Mass., sponsored by the National Bureau of Economic Research. It may be the only scholarly paper that formally acknowledges "aural support" from the music groups Massive Attack, Sigur Ros and the Mountain Goats. "Of course, we bought the CDs" and didn't swipe them off the Net, Oberholzer said.
June 24, 2004
Marketing Milk As A Diet Aid
Reported by Snigdha Prakash
The dairy industry's new public relations campaign is a bid to reposition milk as a weight-loss aid. After years of emphasizing milk's role in strengthening bones, marketers are now touting research that suggests those who consume more calcium also tend to weigh less. HBS marketing professor >Nancy Koehn talks with NPR's Snigdha Prakash.
June 23, 2004
Nonprofit Hospitals' Care For Uninsured Scrutinized
Reported by Julie Rovner
Several congressional committees are investigating pricing practices at nonprofit hospitals, which critics say overcharge and do not properly care for the uninsured. Some lawmakers say nonprofits operate too much like for-profit hospitals and don't deserve their tax-preferred status. But the hospital industry argues the special tax status lets nonprofits do more charitable work for the community. NPR's Julie Rovner speaks with HBS professor Regina Herzlinger.
See also: House Panel Reviewing Whether Hospitals Should Disclose Prices
See also: House Probes Tax Breaks For Charity Hospitals Amid Criticism
June 21, 2004
The Insidious Charms Of Shell's Dual Votes
By John Plender
Royal Dutch Shell is to scrap its priority shares, which carry voting rights controlled by the management. Could this dual voting structure have contributed significantly to the problems that culminated in its cooking the books? A new study of U.S. dual-class companies co-authored HBS professor Paul Gompers throws interesting light on this question.
June 17, 2004
Let Us Now Praise Good Companies
By Rosabeth Moss Kanter
HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter writes: "If New York's fiery Attorney General Eliot Spitzer feels that the corner has been turned on corporate misconduct, then it's time to highlight good conduct." She adds: Americans need examples of how business can make a positive difference. One source of role models is the Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership, given by the White House after a review of scope, impact and sustainability." Kanter is a judge.
May 17, 2004
2004 FT Executive Education Rankings
Harvard Business School retained its position as number one in the open enrolment section of the rankings, a position it has now held for three years. Its Advanced Management Programme is arguably the most prestigious business school programme in the world, according to the FT.
May 14, 2004
It Does Not Always Pay To Follow The Stars
By Kate Burgess
Some mutual fund managers possess their own cult of personality. These rainmakers are able to command star salaries and perks, especially when they're lured away to manage a competitor's fund. But HBS professor Nitin Nohria, Associate Professor Ashish Nanda, and Assistant Professor Boris Groysberg write in The Risky Business of Hiring Stars (Harvard Business Review, May 2004) that many of the 1,000 fund managers they tracked weren't able to repeat past performance after they went to another investment bank.
May 10, 2004
Birth Of A Salesman
Reported By Joe Palca
The sales pitch has become a familiar part of American life, but its relationship to American capitalism has often been overlooked and misunderstood. Many experts say "salesmen" not only fed American consumerism, they shaped it. So why does this occupation always seem to get a bad rap? HBS lecturer Walter Friedman, author of Birth of a Salesman (Harvard University Press: 2004), offers his insight.
May 9, 2004
What An Old Sears Catalog Could Teach eBay Today
By Randall Stross
"eBay's business has evolved well beyond the neighborhood rummage sale," said HBS professor Nancy Koehn. From its humble beginnings as an online swap-meet, eBay has become its own, $2 billion-a-year, retail force of nature. But as its business model evolves from chatchkis to Chanel, the online marketplace of the 21st century could learn a few lessons from the mail-order marketplace of the 19th century, Sears. As eBay sells more new goods, the brand's lack of a money-back guarantee will become a hindrance. "History suggests that in order to remain competitive, retailers must match the offerings of others," Koehn said. "eBay is unlikely to be an exception."
May 9, 2004
Looking In The Mirror, And Finding The New Boss
By William J. Holstein
Despite all the discussion about encouraging diversity among corporate leaders, the overwhelming majority of chief executives are white men. HBS assistant professor Rakesh Khurana, author of Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic C.E.O.'s (Princeton University Press: 2002), argues that executive search firms and corporate boards all limit the diversity of candidates for chief executive.
May 7, 2004
Abuse Of Iraqi Prisoners Raises Tough Moral Questions
By Jeffrey Weiss
Amid reports that dozens of Iraqi prisoners have been beaten and humiliated by American soldiers or intelligence workers in Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, American officials, including the president, have apologized even as they asserted that the abuses were limited to a few rogue soldiers. But what would compel even a small group of soldiers to act this way? High-minded ideals seldom control what happens in a war zone, said HBS assistant professor Scott Snook, a former Army colonel who helped design the leadership development program at West Point. "People don't fight for patriotism or mom's apple pie. They may join for that, but they don't get out of a foxhole and drag someone out of a burning Humvee for any of that," he said. "It's personal relationships." And the same close-knit relationships that inspire heroism can carry a group of soldiers in the wrong direction, he said.
May 7, 2004
Inequality Among Women Explored
By Diane Lewis
The gender gap in employee pay and benefits is a well documented fact. But conferees at Simmons College say there's a race gap within the gender gap, with white women benefiting in higher salaries and advancement compared to women of color. "White men benefit most in the system because they are the dominant group in power positions," said HBS professor David Thomas, co-author of Breaking Through: The Making of Minority Executives in Corporate America (HBS Press: 1999). "But who are white men most familiar with? They are most familiar with white females, and they are more likely to feel more empathy for white women when it comes to disadvantages in the system," he said. Although Thomas contends that white women have benefitted more from affirmative action than any other group, most no longer see themselves as beneficiaries of affirmative action policies. For that reason, he said, "There is tension between white women and women of color."
May 7, 2004
Work And Family: Six Steps To Having Both
By D. Quinn Mills
No one ever said that raising a family and pursuing a career would be easy, even if you're a Harvard MBA. HBS professor D. Quinn Mills writes that many of his business friends regret shortchanging their family life for work. What's more, he hears his students apprehensively contemplate the difficult work-life choices ahead. "People struggle so much with giving each their due, said Mills, co-author of the six-step program in Having It All... And Making It Work: Six Steps for Putting Both Your Career and Your Family First (Financial Times Prentice Hall: 2004).
May 6, 2004
Harvard To Offer Joint MD-MBA Degree
By Ross Kerber
Harvard Business School and Harvard Medical School announced they plan to offer a joint, fully-ntegrated, five-year MD/MBA program beginning in 2005. HBS senior associate dean and MBA program chair W. Carl Kester said role models for its students might be physicians like Dr. Peter L. Slavin (MBA 1990/H), the president of Massachusetts General Hospital, or Dr. Daniel Vasella (PMD 57/1989), chief executive of drug-maker Novartis. "These are the kinds of people we're starting to see rise to the top of major healthcare companies, and it shows the virtues of blending leadership and healthcare management," Kester said.
May 6, 2004
Save AmeriCorps From Budget Cuts
By Rosabeth Moss Kanter
HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter writes in her biweekly column that Americans should "spare a worry for another army of young people -- the ones engaged in civilian service in America. Their ability to serve is in danger." AmeriCorps, with 60,000 members, enjoys bipartisan support on Capitol Hill and, compared to its international sister program -- the Peace Corps -- is a relative bargain. It provides volunteers a living allowance, health care, child-care benefits and, at the end, an education award. But Kanter balks at the suggestion that funding for these modest benefits should be cut. "That could make national service a luxury for the affluent -- not an expression of democracy," Kanter said.
April 30, 2004
CEO's Death Spotlights Succession
By Elizabeth Wine
The sudden death of McDonald's CEO Jim Cantalupo served as a potent reminder of the extent to which a company's fortunes can rest on one person. Fortunately for McDonald's, it had a succession plan in place. But HBS assistant professor Rakesh Khurana, author of Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs (Princeton University Press: 2002) says the art of grooming the next generation of leaders has been largely forgotten. HBS professor and corporate governance expert Jay Lorsch suggests that medical information on corporate officers is so important that boards should pay for regular medical examinations. Lorsch is author of Back to the Drawing Board: Designing Corporate Boards for a Complex World (Harvard Business School Press: 2004).
April 30, 2004
China, India: Difference In The Details
By Lynette Ong
China and India are among the fastest growing economies in the world, with growth rates much admired by developing countries desperately struggling to crawl out of the poverty trap. Taken together, China is seen to be ahead of India; but there is much speculation on their respective growth trajectories. In an article in last August's Foreign Policy magazine, HBS professor Tarun Khanna and former HBS assistant professor Yasheng Huang -- now of the MIT Sloan School of Management -- write, "China's export-led manufacturing boom is largely a creation of foreign direct investment, which effectively serves as a substitute for domestic entrepreneurship," while India "is making fuller use of its resources and has chosen a path that may well deliver more sustainable progress than China's FDI-driven approach."
April 29, 2004
Wringing The Changes
By Simon London
Some firms spend millions on their IT resources; others -- like Spain's Inditex -- spend a fraction of that. Yet, according to HBS assistant professor Andrew McAfee, the Madrid-based clothing manufacturer and retailer squeezes value out of what they have for what they do. The lesson here is that spending on IT is not like buying a certificate of deposit. There are no guarantees that computers for computers' sake will make a business more efficient. McAffee saw Inditex making the most of "bare-bones" system of DOS-based sales terminals and 56K telephone modems.
April 29, 2004
Companies Owned By Women Set The Pace In Small Business
By Elizabeth Olson
Companies owned by women are growing at double the rate of all small businesses in the nation, spending $550 billion a year on payroll and benefits, according to figures released by the Center for Women's Business Research. "We estimate that women-owned firms are growing at close to twice the rate of all privately held firms, 17 percent versus 9 percent," said HBS professor Myra Hart, who is also chair of the center. "These businesses are a critical component of the economy," she said, "not only in terms of their influence but also in terms of their economic impact."
April 15, 2004
Mexican Cement Maker With a Worldview
By John Moody
Mexico's Cemex grew to be the world's third-largest cement company by cost-cutting, innovating, and borrowing lots of cash. At one point, the company's debt service was just as large as its revenues. But the money was used to acquire smaller companies elsewhere around the globe and create critical mass. According to HBS professor James Heskett, Cemex's search for an edge has kept it ahead of competitors. For example, he said, the company studied the 911 dispatcher's office in Houston and then set up a similar system to provide more flexible delivery. The result was less wasted cement and better service to customers, enabling Cemex to charge them more.
April 15, 2004
Making The Case For China And India
By Charles Stein
Granted, "offshoring" has sent American service jobs to India and American manufacturing jobs to China. But the bigger picture is more promising. The double-digit growth of both countries' economies will do more to politically stabilize the region, lift people out of poverty and, as a result, improve human rights, public health and literacy, and promote democracy than any ideology could. As a result, observes HBS business historian Richard Tedlow, everyone wins. "The world is not a seesaw," he said. "If it were, it is hard to see how there ever would be progress."
April 14, 2004
Consumer Demands May Change The Face Of Capitalism
By Richard Pachter
HBS professor Shoshana Zuboff's 2002 book, The Support Economy (Viking Penguin: 2002) (co-authored with husband James Maxmin), has been reissued in paperback. The duo argue that consumers ultimately will insist they be treated as individuals by corporations and institutions, rather than as a herds of sheep. "But the authors are thinking big -- very big -- as they make a case for nothing less than the refocusing, if not the reinvention, of capitalism, and are compelled to present their persuasive argument based on facts, not intuition or politics," writes Pachter.
April 14, 2004
Heinz In A Pickle Over Politics
The race for the White House has become so intense that some Bush supporters are boycotting such all-American products as Heinz ketchup,Ore-Ida french fries, and Wyler's soup mix. Teresa Heinz Kerry is the heiress to the Heinz family's $500-million fortune. And many Bush supporters are refusing to buy Heinz products because, they reason, it amounts to indirect support of Heinz Kerry's husband, Sen. John Kerry. The senator's wife is not involved in the company's management, and she owns less than four percent of Heinz stock. "It's wise for [Heinz] to make crystal clear that while it might share a name, it has no political ambitions," said HBS senior lecturer John Davis. "What choice do they have? Feelings are running so high in this election."
April 12, 2004
Kraft's Silence About Sick CEO Poses Dilemma
By Sarah Ellison
It sounds like the plot to a mystery novel, except it's all too real in the executive suite at Kraft Foods. Kraft's new CEO is hospitalized with an unspecified illness and the firm's chairman and majority shareholder is mum on details. The lack of communication has created some frustration among employees and investors. It also raised questions among corporate governance and crisis-management experts. "We don't see this too often, with a dominant shareholder with unequal information," said HBS professor Jay Lorsh, a corporate governance expert. The privacy of an individual is important, Lorsch said. But with uncertainty among investors and employees, "it would seem to me you need more clarity than this."
April 11, 2004
Turning Success Into Fulfillment
By Paul B. Brown
There are more than a few How to be [fill in the blank] in 30 Days or Less self-help books in circulation. But Paul Brown of The Times writes "the best of the crop" is HBS senior research fellow Laura Nash and professor Howard Stevenson's Just Enough (John Wiley & Sons: 2004). In a world full of 12-step programs, the authors have come up with a four-part definition of personal success that forms the subtitle: "happiness, significance, achievement and legacy." By happiness, they mean "feelings of pleasure or contentment in and about your life." They define achievement as accomplishments "that compare favorably against similar goals others have strived for." Significance? "A positive impact on people you care about." And legacy is "establishing your values or accomplishments in ways that help others find future success."
April 2004
The Post-9/11 Resilience Of American Brands
By Professor John Quelch and Assistant Professor Douglas Holt
In the global marketplace, hegemony is bunk. HBS professor John Quelch and assistant professor Douglas Holt's research on American brands in the Islamic world surprisingly shows that the big names are as popular as ever. "An American global brand �- whether it is Coke, Pepsi, Nike, Motorola, Ford, or Kraft �- is understood foremost as global, not American. Even brands that use American values as part of their symbolism don't seem to positively or negatively sway consumers' opinions of the brand," they write. In fact, the strongest anti-global sentiment came from Britain and China, and not from Islamic countries. "American multinationals should wear their global success proudly, rather than try to hide it."
April 2004
Blazing The Consumer-Driven Trail
By Regina Herzlinger
HBS professor Regina Herzlinger, visiting Washington, D.C. recently to give a Congressional briefing on health-care issues, asked the ultimate question: why can't the industry be made to behave like the automobile or the computer or even the financial services industries? "Cars are safer, more reliable and ever cheaper," she argued. "Shouldn't health care be the same?" All health care really needs, she said, is visionaries like Henry Ford and Alfred P. Sloan. Ford managed to create the mass production techniques that enabled cars to be transformed from toys for the very rich into transportation for the masses. The key contribution made by Sloan, the legendary CEO who turned General Motors into the industry leader, was that "he understood that people want choice," she said.
March 17, 2004
Thou Shalt Not Call in Sick?
By John Leland
Corporate scandal has disturbed many, sickened some, but prompted others to seek safe harbor in their religious faith. One Connecticut-based church group holds a Sunday school for adults that many consider to be part of a growing trend of religion in the workplace. HBS senior research fellow Laura Nash says business and religious leaders want to foster an ethical business climate. At the same time, workers who put in long hours want meaning in their jobs. And religious organizations want to extend their influence beyond weekly services. "This is about self-improvement, good behavior, good conscience and networking," said Nash, coauthor of Just Enough: Tools for Creating Success in Your Work and Life (J Wiley & Sons: 2004).
March 16, 2004
MBA Course Focuses On Leaders Led Astray
By Dan Roberts
Leadership and Corporate Accountability (LCA), Harvard Business School's new semester-long ethics course, was added to the required first-year curriculum in January to help "ensure that the next generation of business leaders does not succumb to the temptation that humbled so many of its predecessors." According to the course director, HBS professor Lynn Paine, LCA cases focus mainly on subtle issues. "We work in the grey areas," she explained, "because these are most interesting. Even the big scandals are not always black and white." In answer to the eternal question of whether ethics can, in fact, be taught to graduate students, HBS professors respond with a resounding "yes." "We have a point of view that your professional identity is not fully formed when you get here," observed Dean Kim Clark.
March 10, 2004
Women who veer too far from soft images get harsh treatment
By Rosabeth Moss Kanter
"The Martha Stewart trial makes clear how far women have risen in the business world. America can be proud of our equal-opportunity prosecution and conviction," writes HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter in an op-ed. Noting that boards of directors and top management teams are incomplete these days without a woman or two, she says that the lineup of business wrongdoers must now have its token woman as well. "My goal is not to question whether [Stewart's] prosecution was justified," says Kanter, but "I am concerned-- that women are more easily accused of the social 'crime' of over-reaching. The Stewart epic threatens to be a warning that women should avoid ambition."
March 10, 2004
Business Leaders Face a Grassroots Demand For a Lot Less Hubris
By Carol Hymowitz
The historic shareholder protest vote against Walt Disney's Michael Eisner last week heralds a new era for CEOs -- one in which arrogance is out of fashion in the executive suite and power-sharing with board members and other shareholders is a prerequisite. "Boards know they have their own reputations to uphold," says HBS professor Jay Lorsch. "And in waging Vote No campaigns, investors have discovered a very powerful and less expensive way than waging proxy fights to assert themselves. Unless they want to be embarrassed publicly, CEOs better be alert to what investors want."
March 15, 2004
Edifice Complex
By David Whelan
Three years ago Time Warner broke ground on a massive new headquarters in Manhattan. Since then its stock has plunged 65 percent. That's no surprise to Harvard Business School assistant professor Donald Sull. In his book, Revival of the Fittest (HBS Press: 2003), he argues that business' pride -- in the form of big corporate buildings -- can come before the fall.
March 4, 2004
Rise of the corporate crusaders
By Elizabeth Wine
The shareholder revolt against Walt Disney's Michael Eisner poses the question of whether the era of acquiescent shareholders is over. Corporate governance advocates certainly believe the evidence points that way. In the past, large blocks of institutional shareholders often voted with management, "rubber stamping" decisions. The Disney revolt suggests this may be changing. "The big change would be these guys are suddenly saying we're not just going to buy and sell stock, we're going to exert our influence," said HBS professor Jay Lorsch.
March 3, 2004
Hubris and the Fall of a Telecommunications Empire
By Simon Romero and Seth Schiesel
No one has reflected the tumultuous ups and downs of the telecommunications business in recent decades more clearly than Bernie Ebbers. Since he resigned in disgrace as WorldCom's chief executive in 2002, the one-time high school basketball coach-turned-telecommunications magnate has been indicted on the same kinds of charges that brought down Enron, Tyco, and Adelphia. "This is a significant step in tearing down the folk-hero myth that had surrounded Bernie Ebbers and prevented many from focusing on WorldCom's business instead of his story," said HBS assistant professor Rakesh Khurana. "His biography almost rang too true to what American investors wanted to believe in during the late 1990's."
March 1, 2004
Wealth Creation, 21st-Century Style
By Shoshana Zuboff
Zuboff writes that consumers' needs have evolved from necessities such as food and clothing to the abstract -- insurance policies, health care, and travel. "Consumption is now becoming even more abstract, as people seek control over the quality of their lives, not just the quantity of their stuff," she writes. Creating wealth in the new millennium requires an inversion of traditional corporate practice. Take eBay, for example, the eighth fastest-growing company in the country. "[It] makes money," says Zuboff, "when it listens to and supports the dynamic needs of its users, building bonds of trust and commitment. It stumbles when it foists unpopular decisions on its members."
February 17, 2004
A Store Made for Right Now: You
By Cathy Horyn
When the fashion house Comme des Gar�ons opened its newest boutique in Berlin recently, its customers didn't enter a glittering, glamorous palace of couture. In fact, the company spent a grand total of just $2,500 to fix up a former bookshop, and it intends to close the store in a year, no matter what. Welcome to a retailing concept that reflects the ephemeral nature of fashion - and the fact that many customers these days want a different kind of shopping experience as they look for the clothes they hear about from their friends - what's known in the trade as guerilla marketing. "Accessibility has really been redefined for consumers," said HBS professor Nancy Koehn. "Young people are taking the cues from their friends and less and less from established channels like fashion magazines and mass advertising."
February 16, 2004
Give me a C-O-A-C-H!
By Marci Mcdonald
Over the past five years, executive coaching has mushroomed from a sideline on the motivational and consulting circuits to an expected perk in virtually every executive suite. Most coaches are now called in to smooth a CEO's rough, my-way-or-the-highway edges that may be driving top talent to rivals. "Companies used to be able to function with autocratic bosses," says HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter. "We don't live in that world anymore."
February 15, 2004
A New Business Model, Driven by Consumer Needs
By Robert Weisman
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, managerial capitalism has been the name of the economic game in this country, creating and satisfying America's mass-market demands. But in an age of individualized consumption and digital technologies, that well-worn approach, with its emphasis on high volume and low cost, is in need of replacement. According to HBS professor Shoshana Zuboff, couthor of The Support Economy: Why Corporations Are Failing Individuals and the Next Episode of Capitalism (Viking: 2002), consumers will be the new source of value in this century and companies will have to adapt to the reality that they no longer view themselves, or want to be treated, as a mass market.
February 11, 2004
Washington's Tilt to Business Stirs a Backlash in Indonesia
By Peter Waldman
Why has Indonesia, a nation that was once avidly pro-American, become such a hot bed of anti-U.S. hostility. The way many Indonesians see it, although the U.S. government denounced corruption and crony capitalism after the fall of the Suharto dictatorship, when push came to shove, it threw its weight behind American business interests in the country, not democratic or corporate reform. In one case, for example, the U.S. Justice Department refused to investigate possible violations of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which bars U.S. companies from paying foreign officials for business favors. According to HBS professor Lou Wells, some U.S. companies did an end run around the Act simply by helping friends and relatives of officials rather than the officials themselves.
February 7, 2004
Sales Unaffected by 9/11: Survey
By Roger Harrison
The result of a survey on customer loyalty to global brands carried out by HBS professor John Quelch and assistant professor Douglas Holt has yielded unexpected results. There seems to have been almost no long-term impact on consumer purchase preferences or brands as a result of 9/11 and what followed. "This is the complete opposite of what people are saying in the popular media and op-ed pieces," said Quelch, who surveyed consumer buying in 12 countries, including three Muslim ones.
February 4, 2004
Women entrepreneurs create jobs
By Rosabeth Moss Kanter
"Consumer confidence is increasing, and the stock market is flourishing, but the U.S. economy lags in job creation. It is time to mobilize a new group of people to create jobs: women entrepreneurs," writes HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter. Indeed, mergers in banking and retail have reduced the number of local jobs, manufacturing jobs have gone to China, and software development jobs have gone offshore. "Rarely discussed are home-grown solutions that capitalize on our classic strength as the land of opportunity: entrepreneurship. Small businesses in the aggregate create more jobs than large ones, especially as startups find the resources, customers and ambition to grow."
February 3, 2004
Martha mag mess
By Nanci Dillon
Ad pages in the January and February issues of Martha Stewart Living were off 30 percent compared to ad levels during the same period last year, the Media Industry Newsletter reported. That drop is on top of a 34.6 percent ad page decline Living posted for all of 2003. "Stewart's reputation is muddled right now," said HBS marketing professor emeritus Stephen Greyser. "And even though she's no longer CEO of her company, her name is on the building."
February 2004
New Terrain
By Scott Leibs
As former Enron CFO Andrew Fastow negotiated the plea bargain that has landed him a 10-year prison sentence, many finance chiefs were quietly hoping that some stern justice would help restore investor confidence. Experts say communication has certainly become a bigger part of most CFOs' jobs lately. "A CFO now needs to be fully engaged with the board," said HBS professor Jay Lorsch, co-author of Back to the Drawing Board: Designing Corporate Boards for a Complex World (Harvard Business School Press: 2003). He sees a broader role for CFOs, in which they do far more than simply recap the numbers. "CFOs who are explicit about financial objectives; risk factors; and one-, two-, and three-year targets perform a critical service," he said, particularly in an environment in which there is continued pressure for short-term results.
February 2004
Beyond Basic Training
By Dale Buss
Immersion training for company chiefs is rapidly gaining currency. Leading business schools, executive-education programs, single-industry trade associations, and other entities are developing and operating their own vehicles with a common aim: Give entrepreneurs a dose of battlefield training in leadership, and deliver it in the exclusive fellowship of company-heading peers who are the most likely to appreciate and enhance the experience. According to HBS professor Howard Stevenson, "Many entrepreneurs have other degrees, but beyond the specific or technical skills that got them started, they haven't learned about really running and leading the company," he said.
January 30, 2004
Porter Mania
During a visit to Mumbai, University Professor Michael Porter reflected on the depth and the breadth of India's economic growth since 1991. His take on reforms is they're going in the right direction, but the rate is, at best, modest. "India is still stuck in the old model of being government-driven," he says. "The push should be for more private participation in policy," he said.
January 29, 2004
By Beth Potier
Shackleton in business school
He was an Antarctic explorer who never got near the South Pole. Yet Ernest Shackleton and his ill-fated Antarctic expedition have much to teach modern business leaders, says HBS professor and historian Nancy Koehn. She has created and taught a case study called Leadership in Crisis: Ernest Shackleton and the Epic Voyage of the Endurance. "How he did what he did is very instructive," says Koehn of the now celebrated leader of a heroic expedition that saw all 28 members survive despite several years of harsh conditions and devastating, potentially deadly, setbacks.
January 10, 2004
Intervista al Rettore Kim Clark
By Maurizio Molinari
In an interview with La Stampa's Molinari, HBS dean Kim Clark emphasizes the unique aspects of HBS that make the two-year MBA program -- what many alumni consider -- a life-changing experience. Especially in an era marked by a crisis in corporate confidence, Clark has put added focus on an initiative called Corporate Responsibility, Ethics and Values, which dovetails off of the school's own Community Standards -- integrity, personality accountability, and respect. "Whoever takes upon himself responsibility needs those three values," Clark said. "Integrity and personal character distingish the leader. The role of the school is to shape students around these values in order to create their professional identity."
