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    • 24 Feb 2021
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    What History's Biggest Wars Teach Us About Leading in Peace

    by Lane Lambert

    Deepak Malhotra shares how critical moments in the Peloponnesian War, both World Wars, and the Cuban Missile Crisis offer lessons for business—and life. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 24 Jul 2019
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?

    by Dina Gerdeman

    In the Harvard Business School course Behavioral Insights, students work in the UK with psychology experts to understand what motivates consumers and workers. What they learn can help businesses of all types, says Michael Luca. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 18 Jul 2019
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    The Internet of Things Needs a Business Model. Here It Is

    by Michael Blanding

    Companies have struggled to find the right opportunities for selling the Internet of Things. Rajiv Lal says that’s all about to change. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 20 Dec 2017
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    How to Design a Better Customer Experience

    by Dina Gerdeman

    With the help of LEGO bricks, Stefan Thomke helps business executives discover how design principles can serve as building blocks to create a great customer experience. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 21 Aug 2017
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively

    by Dina Gerdeman

    Big data is a critical competitive advantage for companies that know how to use it. Harvard Business School faculty share insights that they teach to executives. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 22 May 2017
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    A Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding Business Leaders

    by Carmen Nobel

    Pauline Brown, a former top executive with French luxury goods conglomerate LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, now teaches a Harvard Business School course called The Business of Aesthetics, which culminates in a competition called “Aesthetic Idol.” Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 15 Mar 2017
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business

    by Carmen Nobel

    MBA students participating in Harvard Business School’s Climate Change Challenge offer ideas on how companies can negate impacts from a changing environment. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 08 Aug 2016
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Panic Management: Keep Your Eyes on the Road

    by Dina Gerdeman

    Many of us respond with a knee-jerk reaction when adversity hits, but a more considered approach is better for a successful resolution. Joshua Margolis discusses the resilience regimen. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 13 Jun 2016
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    That's Classic: Modern-Day Business Lessons from Ancient Rome

    by Julia Hanna

    What can MBAs learn from the Roman emperors Tiberius and Claudius? All Roads Lead to Rome, a course taught by HBS professor Frances Frei and Harvard history and classics professor Emma Dench, surfaces insights into the age-old issue of leadership. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 21 Mar 2016
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    When Your Classmate is an NBA Superstar (or Fashion Model, or Movie Actress)

    by Dina Gerdeman

    Industry superstars bring unique perspectives to the Business of Media, Entertainment, and Sports Executive Education program taught by Anita Elberse. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 09 Mar 2016
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    In This Classroom, Beer Can Improve Your Grade

    by Roberta Holland

    The Strategic Brew computer simulation puts MBAs in charge of their own breweries, rising or sinking based on the popularity of their pseudo suds. Ramon Casadesus-Masanell explains lessons learned from a beer game Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 17 Nov 2015
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    How Activist Investors Became Respectable

    by Joseph Fuller

    Once reviled as villains operating on the fringes of the market, activist investors like Carl Icahn are now powerful forces at work in the mainstream of business, says Professor Joseph Fuller. And their influence is only growing. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 17 Jun 2015
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Excellence Comes From Saying No

    by Michael Blanding

    In a new course designed by Frances Frei and Amy Schulman, business and law students help each other define and achieve their own interpretations of success. Lesson one: You can't be great at everything. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 29 Apr 2015
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks

    by Michael Blanding

    In their course Stock Pitching, Lauren Cohen and Christopher Malloy teach students everything from how to pick stocks using their own insights to pitching them to investment colleagues. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 27 Apr 2015
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Leadership Lessons From Outer Space

    by Carmen Nobel

    Beaming in from space via teleconference, International Space Station Commander Terry Virts discusses leadership, technology, and thunderstorms with professors and students at Harvard Business School. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 25 Feb 2015
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution

    by Julia Hanna

    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. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 21 Jan 2015
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Managing the Family Business: Market Basket’s Lessons About Buyouts

    As the Market Basket CEO showdown demonstrated, family businesses can be messy affairs—and buyouts the best solution to conflict. So why don't we see more of them? Family business expert John A. Davis explains when buyouts make sense. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 17 Nov 2014
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    Managing the Family Business: Are Optimists or Pessimists Better Leaders?

    In general, optimists are best suited to lead family-run entrepreneurial organizations. At least until disaster strikes. John A. Davis explains why both perspectives are so valuable. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 27 Aug 2014
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    Learning From Japan’s Remarkable Disaster Recovery

    by Sean Silverthorne

    Harvard Business School students make an annual trek to businesses in the Japanese area wrecked by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Their objectives: learn all they can about human resilience and share their own management knowledge. Closed for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 13 Aug 2014
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Managing the Family Business: Entrepreneurs Needed for Long-Run Success

    by Michael J. Roberts

    Families that want to stay in business for generations don't have a choice but to encourage entrepreneurship in and out of their family company, say Michael Roberts and John Davis. Here's how. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

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