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01 Mar 2006
News

HBS Reverses Policy On Grade Disclosure

In a mid-December letter to all MBA students, Dean Jay Light announced that the School was dropping its seven-year-old policy that prohibited students from revealing their grades to potential employers. The change takes effect with the... View Details

Keywords: grades; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

December 1997
Case

Making the Grade (A)

By: Robert L. Simons

Focuses on the dilemma of a young professor at a graduate school of business. He must decide what final grade to give a student who has worked extremely hard, but he is constrained by the school's "forced curve" grading policy. Designed to explore the multiple purposes... View Details

Keywords: Design; Management Systems; Performance Evaluation; Motivation and Incentives; Education Industry

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1.7 Grading - MBA

1. Academic Information & Policies 1.7 Grading Welcome to HBS Being a Student at HBS 1. Academic Information & Policies 1.1 HBS Community Values 1.2 MBA Honor Code 1.3 Academic Calendar 1.4 Academic Program Specifics 1.5 Attendance 1.6... View Details

September 1986 (Revised June 1988)
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Making the Grade (A)

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16 Aug 2012
News

Grading the Games

September 1986 (Revised June 1988)
Supplement

Making the Grade (B)

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December 1997
Case

Making the Grade (B)

By: Robert L. Simons

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Education Industry

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May 1997
Article

Should Directors Grade Themselves?

By: J. W. Lorsch

Keywords: Management; Performance Evaluation

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November 2006 (Revised March 2007)
Case

Goodyear and the Threat of Government Tire Grading

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Dennis A. Yao and Elizabeth Raabe

In the spring of 1977, Goodyear CEO Charles J. Pilliod Jr. was looking at an internal report on government and legal events relevant to the tire industry. Two items caught his attention. First, he noticed that an industry suit to block the government's proposed system... View Details

Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Lawsuits and Litigation; Auto Industry; Rubber Industry; United States

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24 Mar 2016
News

Grading Yahoo's board

01 Sep 2013
News

The trouble with grade inflation: It works

September 1986 (Revised June 1988)
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Making the Grade (C)

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09 Mar 2016
Lessons from the Classroom

In This Classroom, Beer Can Improve Your Grade

In a large circular classroom called The Hives, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell is roaming the floors this week as he oversees the second running of Strategic Brew, a computerized business simulation designed for first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School. HBS is no... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Education; Food & Beverage

2024
Working Paper

Public Sector SME Grading System in Emerging Markets: A Focus on Nigeria

By: Saveshen Pillay, Anywhere Sikochi, Charles Odii, Zaakirah Ismail, Regina Bamaiyi and Denise Mubaiwa

In this paper, we explore the impact of creating a public sector nano, micro, small and medium enterprise (nMSME) grading system in Nigeria. Using insights from work with the Nigerian government, the first country in Africa to attempt to establish a public sector SME... View Details

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01 Oct 2006
Conference Presentation

Grading and Feedback at HBS: A Developmental Perspective

By: Scott Snook

Keywords: Growth and Development

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23 Mar 2017
News

No Deal, Grading President Trump, Tito Jackson

02 Oct 2019
What Do You Think?

What Grade Would You Give Walmart CEO Doug McMillon?

meeting needs of multiple stakeholders will be met with controversy. Those giving McMillon the lowest grades appeared to be gun owners or supporters. As BobG put it, “Anyone who makes a decision to not support a Constitutional right of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

11 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

How Do You Grade Out as a Negotiator?

did. Most teaching around being a successful negotiator focuses on preparations before discussions start, and on strategies during the talks. The problem: We don't spend nearly enough time after the negotiations to grade our performance... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding