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- 07 Sep 2007
- What Do You Think?
Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?
body," and establishes an "objective means to assess competence." As a result, business schools provide the business world, in his view, with no more than an "effective, albeit expensive, recruiting service." In...
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by Jim Heskett
- 10 Jan 2007
- HBS Case
The Challenge of Managing National Security
only beginning to learn about these matters. And by the way, we don't have security clearances. The case is based on publicly available documents and information. The role of this case is not to assess how well the intelligence community...
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- 07 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence
of society depends on trust. So the zone of sustainable action for a business should be the overlap between ethics and economics. The role of the organization is to ensure that all activity occurs within that overlap; the role of leadership is to expand the overlap. Q:...
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by Harvard Management Update
- 17 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom
As investor pressure mounts on companies to show their environmental impacts, leaders are encountering an unwieldy tangle of terms and approaches. Climate accounting basics and a dictionary of sorts can help demystify the calculations and voluntary targets that...
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by Rachel Layne
- 04 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #10: Amanda Li (MBA 2018): Speeding Climate Change Solutions Through Project Finance Efficiencies
where there is a lot of market growth and more developers looking for capital.” To do that, project finance experts need to better standardize the metrics of each transaction, increase transparency and thereby reduce risks. “A thousand distributed solar projects will...
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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
suitable education, and in the spring of 1921, Doriot enrolled at HBS. His first job the next year was at the New York & Foreign Development Corporation (an affiliate of the investment bank Kuhn, Loeb & Company), where he assessed...
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Core Readings - U.S. Competitiveness
leaders to assess the state and trajectory of U.S. competitiveness and to evaluate elements of the business environment that drive national competitiveness. In each survey, we have also taken deep dives into particular, timely topics:...
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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
From Das’s Desk
digitally, remotely, and effectively with our alumni. Just like a classic HBS business case, the School assessed a sudden, unanticipated challenge, sought out the opportunities in the crisis, and moved forward decisively and with no small...
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- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
Abstract—Objective: Assess whether a commitment contract informed by behavioral economics leads to persistent virologic suppression among HIV-positive patients with poor antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence. Design: Single-center pilot...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
York City School Chancellor Joel Klein and his attempt to create a Leadership Academy in order to better train principals to lead New York City public schools. Assesses what leadership skills and strategies are necessary for Klein to...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
traits. To better determine when a firm will be attracted to agglomeration economies, we develop a three-layer framework. The first layer assesses the relative importance of skilled labor, suppliers, and knowledge spillovers. The second...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes
assessments of corruption such as enforcement actions, independent directors, and more rigorous auditing. Furthermore, relative to firms with high anticorruption rankings, firms with low rankings had higher sales growth in regions...
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by Michael Blanding
- 13 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?
first time a wide range of top industry CEOs, government leaders, and customers of transportation services, was designed to help provide that purpose by assessing the state of the industry, identifying innovations both in technology and...
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- 14 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 14
facing the firm as they rollout the program over the coming years. These include how to organize the network of schools that deliver the educational services, how to determine the best outside partners to provide additional services for the women entrepreneurs, how to...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them
Fleet management is expensive; so is wireless technology. But in the end Immediate Response is a cost saver for Progressive. The staffer may write the customer a check on the spot and such quick assessments end up reducing lawyer fees. It...
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by Martha Lagace
- 04 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #16: Tim Murdoch, HBS MBA 1990 – Learning about Climate Change and Water
new-found education to advise two young start-up companies, both based in Montreal, Quebec in Canada, one focusing on natural capital asset management, and an emerging global water-risk assessment consultancy. “It is too early for either...
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- 16 May 2018
- News
ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup
block-size markets.” Nancy Weinstein (MBA 2000) took the runner-up spot with Mindprint Learning, a service that provides educators with assessment tools and resources to harness individual learning styles. Sergio Rattner (MBA 2001), won...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues
his assessment in large measure on the mutual dependency of the two entities, Cheng said, "Hong Kong has benefited enormously from the economic opening of China. At the same time, Hong Kong has helped China build a successful market...
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- 05 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital Goes Boomor Bust?
particular entrepreneurial project can identify key phases of uncertainty, yield a list of potential outcomes of each phase, and provide an assessment of the likelihood of those various outcomes. This kind of thoughtful review constitutes...
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by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research
HBS established the Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS) to serve as a research-based platform that brings together a community of scholars, students, alumni, and other practitioners to find solutions to some of society’s biggest challenges. A...
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Jennifer Gillespie