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HBS Working Knowledge February 22, 2011 Sean Silverthorne |
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade Here's a look back to the most-read articles and working papers in the last decade. |
HBS Working Knowledge January 4, 2010 |
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009 Here are the Top 10 articles and Top 5 working papers that appeared in HBS Working Knowledge in 2009. |
HBS Working Knowledge February 1, 2010 Sarah Jane Gilbert |
The 'Luxury Prime': How Luxury Changes People What effect does luxury have on human cognition and decision making? |
HBS Working Knowledge May 3, 2010 Martha Lagace |
What Is the Future of MBA Education? Why get an MBA degree? Transformations in business and society make this question increasingly urgent for executives, business school deans, students, faculty, and the public. |
HBS Working Knowledge October 18, 2006 Roger Thompson |
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light Harvard Business School Dean Jay Light discusses the opportunities brought by globalism, challenges in recruiting and developing faculty, and program innovation needed to meet the needs of 21st-century business leaders. |
HBS Working Knowledge November 24, 2008 |
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA Critics claim MBA programs put too much emphasis on theory and not enough on leadership in a global environment. |
HBS Working Knowledge January 2, 2008 Sean Silverthorne |
Most Popular Stories 2007 Here are the 20 most popular business stories from 2007. |
HBS Working Knowledge June 14, 2010 Julia Hanna |
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact Donors are placing nonprofits on the hot seat to measure social performance. Problem is, there is little agreement on what those metrics should be. |
HBS Working Knowledge January 2, 2007 Sean Silverthorne |
Most Popular Articles of 2006 Open source, innovation, and networks were three business issues that busted out in research and reader popularity in 2006. Here's a recap of twenty-five most popular stories from last year. |
HBS Working Knowledge March 6, 2013 Carmen Nobel |
HBS Cases: Women MBAs at Harvard Business School Professor Boris Groysberg discusses his new case, "Women MBAs at Harvard Business School: 1962-2012," which delves into the experiences of the School's alumnae over the past 50 years. |
HBS Working Knowledge December 20, 2010 Roger Thompson |
New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS Harvard Business School's new Dean Nitin Nohria outlines five priorities that will shape the agenda for the School during his tenure: curriculum innovation, intellectual ambition, internationalization, inclusion, and closer ties to the University. |
HBS Working Knowledge December 31, 2012 |
Most Popular Stories of 2012 This year readers' favorite articles examined topics such as breaking the smartphone addiction, CEO's and their strategies, and how to brand a next-generation product. |
HBS Working Knowledge May 10, 2010 Martha Lagace |
What the Brightest Scholars Say about Leadership Leadership as a phenomenon for research is experiencing a rebirth due to developments in the academy and the urgency for improving leadership globally. |
HBS Working Knowledge January 2, 2012 |
Most Popular Articles of 2011 Our most-read articles of 2011 focused on how leaders can become better -- and what can lead to their downfalls. |
HBS Working Knowledge February 25, 2015 Julia Hanna |
Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution Harvard Business School's Digital Initiative, led by professors Marco Iansiti and Karim Lakhani, brings an interdisciplinary approach to studying how digital technology has transformed business and innovation. |
HBS Working Knowledge March 29, 2004 Manda Salls |
HBS Celebrates Social Enterprise Initiative On the eve of the Social Enterprise Initiative's 10th anniversary, Harvard professor James E. Austin talks about bringing social enterprise to the forefront of business education. |
HBS Working Knowledge December 30, 2013 |
Most Popular Articles of 2013 What topics intrigued Harvard Business School Working Knowledge readers in 2013? Read our Top 10 list of most-read stories. |
HBS Working Knowledge May 30, 2007 Sean Silverthorne |
Health Care Under a Research Microscope The $2 trillion American health care system has grown bloated and overly expensive, and it delivers poor service to many patients. Harvard Business School faculty are looking at the system through a business management perspective to recommend changes. |
HBS Working Knowledge April 26, 2004 Manda Salls |
The Next Ten Years of Social Enterprise Harvard Business School hears suggestions on how to direct the efforts of its Social Enterprise Initiative over the next ten years. |
HBS Working Knowledge April 16, 2008 Deborah Blagg |
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom He was honored for his pioneering work at Harvard Business School in corporate strategy and case-method teaching. |
HBS Working Knowledge March 2, 2009 Sean Silverthorne |
When Goal Setting Goes Bad Despite the mantra that goals are good, the process of setting beneficial goals is harder than it looks. |
HBS Working Knowledge April 2, 2007 Martha Lagace |
Making the Move to General Manager The first big challenge for general managers with newly acquired or significantly expanded responsibilities is learning to see linkages and interconnections across the organization. |
HBS Working Knowledge July 11, 2012 Julia Hanna |
The Future of Boards In "The Future of Boards: Meeting the Governance Challenges of the Twenty-First Century," Professor Jay Lorsch brings together experts to examine the state of boards today, what lies ahead, and what needs to change. |
HBS Working Knowledge June 1, 2010 |
Sharpening Your Skills: Social Reporting The most difficult task for socially responsible companies is how to report the value of their work to a diverse group of stakeholders. Here's a starting place. |
HBS Working Knowledge May 7, 2008 Richard S. Tedlow |
The Intellectual History of Harvard Business School The highlights of a colloquium held at Harvard looks at key developments in the areas of entrepreneurship, organizational behavior, accounting, and strategy, among others. |
HBS Working Knowledge June 25, 2014 Michael Blanding |
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing Forget what you remember about school field trips. Harvard Business School is in its fourth year of a bold innovation that ships all first-year students on global excursions. |
HBS Working Knowledge October 8, 2007 Martha Lagace |
Management Education's Unanswered Questions Is management a profession? After more than a century of business education, it remains an open question. |
HBS Working Knowledge February 22, 2011 Sean Silverthorne |
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century Harvard faculty look backward and forward at the most important business trends of the young twenty-first century. |
HBS Working Knowledge November 30, 2011 Maggie Starvish |
Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism Business leaders themselves can made a difference, say Harvard Business School Professors Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard, and Lynn S. Paine, authors of Capitalism at Risk: Rethinking the Role of Business. |
HBS Working Knowledge November 19, 2007 Sarah Jane Gilbert |
Teaching The Moral Leader Some of the hardest leadership decisions are the ones with moral or ethical stakes. |
BusinessWeek April 1, 2010 Lavelle & Gloeckler |
With MBA Value in Doubt, B-Schools Pursue New Deans Kellogg just named a new dean, while Chicago and Harvard are still looking. All three leaders will face difficult challenges. |
HBS Working Knowledge June 23, 2014 Carmen Nobel |
In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together A recent study finds that venture capitalists have a strong tendency to team up with other VCs whose ethnic and educational backgrounds are similar to their own. |
HBS Working Knowledge August 13, 2008 Sean Silverthorne |
The Inner Life of Leaders "Even when leaders try to hide and disguise their character, their traits are recognizable to others," says HBS professor emeritus Abraham Zaleznik in his new book. |
HBS Working Knowledge January 19, 2010 |
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing the Economic Crisis The economic crisis is tapping the inner reserves of experienced leaders. This article explores leadership, the role of the Board, the emotional needs of managers, and the risk to corporate giving programs. |
HBS Working Knowledge August 27, 2008 Garry Emmons |
Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses The unique challenges of managing and leading science-based businesses -- certain to be a driver of this century's new economy -- demand new management paradigms and new educational ones as well |
HBS Working Knowledge January 10, 2005 Martha Lagace |
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading Should money be the sole measure for evaluating and rewarding the effectiveness of a leader? Maybe not. When research on leadership pays more attention to financial results than a person's ability to give the company a sense of purpose, something crucial is lost. |
HBS Working Knowledge November 10, 2003 Martha Lagace |
A Fast Start on Your New Job Your first ninety days in a new leadership position are fraught with peril -- and loaded with opportunity. Harvard professor Michael Watkins explains how to get a running start. A Q&A and book excerpt. |
HBS Working Knowledge March 20, 2013 Dina Gerdeman |
How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals At a recent Harvard Business School conference, dozens of CEOs committed to the idea of working toward "higher-ambition" goals that go beyond just short-term shareholder value. |
HBS Working Knowledge October 20, 2008 Michael E. Porter et al. |
The Seven Things That Surprise New CEOs Excerpts from On Competition, a newly released book that offers advice for new CEOs. |
HBS Working Knowledge September 28, 2009 Alnoor Ebrahim |
Improving Accountability at the World Bank Its legitimacy and effectiveness on the line, the World Bank faces criticism from its constituents and the civil society organizations that serve them. |
HBS Working Knowledge December 14, 2011 Julia Hanna |
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance Alnoor S. Ebrahim and philanthropist Mario Marino discuss the differences and similarities between performance measurement in the for-profit and nonprofit sectors. |
HBS Working Knowledge January 16, 2006 |
Readers Resond: Should More Transparency Extend to Education for Management? Yikes, what an awful idea!... Disclosing grades would place a greater weight on grades than is necessary in some cases... Too much importance is already attached to grades... Disclosure of grades to recruiters and others is indeed a good practice... etc. |
HBS Working Knowledge September 20, 2010 Julia Hanna |
Power Posing: Fake It Until You Make It People often are more influenced by how they feel about you than by what you're saying. It's not about the content of the message, but how you're communicating it. |
HBS Working Knowledge December 17, 2008 Julia Hanna |
'Ted Levitt Changed My Life' Students say legendary Harvard Business School marketing professor Ted Levitt changed their lives inside his classroom and out. |
HBS Working Knowledge December 5, 2011 Carmen Nobel |
It's Alive!: Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research Researchers use field and lab experiments to better understand the logic of real-world decisions, which sometimes fly in the face of established economic theory. |
HBS Working Knowledge May 21, 2014 Michael Blanding |
CORe: HBS Powers Up Online Program on Business Fundamentals Harvard Business School's new online primer on the fundamentals of business aims to translate some of the School's unique classroom teaching methods to the Web. |
HBS Working Knowledge July 11, 2005 |
Readers Respond: How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant? Don't you think that part of the problem is in how business schools are selecting their students?... I was shocked recently to discover what appears to be a rampant disconnect among key professors... etc. |
Information Today November 21, 2013 Marydee Ojala |
Libraries and the Harvard Business Review 500 The American Library Association issued a statement criticizing Harvard Business Publishing's policy of making "read only" 500 of the Harvard Business Review's articles that are online through EBSCOhost as of Aug. 1, 2013. |
HBS Working Knowledge May 9, 2005 Martha Lagace |
The Zen of Management Maintenance: Leadership Starts with Self-Discovery Are you successful or a "success fool"? The most effective leaders realize they must first learn the skill of leading themselves. |
HBS Working Knowledge February 2, 2009 Sarah Jane Gilbert |
The Success of Persistent Entrepreneurs When it comes to entrepreneurship, nothing says success like a track record of previous wins. |