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Unintended Consequences of Fundraising Tactics
Charity fundraisers use a variety of methods to increase donations, with three of the most common being matching funds, seed money, and thank you gifts. Field experiments have shown that matching funds (Eckel and Grossman, 2008) and seed money (List and Lucking-Reiley,... View Details
The Money of Invention: How Venture Capital Creates New Wealth
When the economy was booming and dot-coms were flying high, venture capitalists were admired as impresarios of innovation. Then the market tanked, start-ups fizzled, and those same deal-makers were rebuked as predators out for a quick score. So... View Details
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
2000). But it is also politically harder to sustain then, for example, the Thai "dual track" strategy with growth impulses for both exporting and local activities that turned out to generate broad-based public support (Looney,... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 08 Feb 2021
- Book
How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect
sharing examples of lessons he’s learned in his life, Bazerman suggests how readers may apply the same principles to theirs. In a chapter on time management, for example, he describes an assessment he made 15 years ago when he turned 50... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 31 May 2017
- What Do You Think?
Can Amazon Do What Walmart Couldn’t, Stop the 'Wheel of Retailing'?
models to create a further turn of the wheel. Most of this month’s respondents at least implicitly appeared to accept the validity of the concept. However, there was healthy skepticism. For example, Scott Hessell commented, “I think the... View Details
- 25 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?
organization is ready both in terms of the systemic culture and pattern of management that exists.” Too often CEOs turn to HR to create a training program when faced with a problem. The CEO avoids opening a Pandora’s box of larger... View Details
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Enron’s Lessons for Managers
new rules, such as the documentation of internal controls as dictated by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, are turning out to be extremely expensive to implement. The new rules for the corporate governance system highlight three assumptions, he... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Software Tools - Research Computing Services
can turn on 'novice' mode to get more information when using the commands: $ module --novice Note: After using modules for some time, you might be tempted to include module load directives in your ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc login... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Working the Street
destined to succeed his father, William R. Timken Jr. (MBA 1962), at the helm of The Timken Company, the Canton, Ohio–based multinational manufacturing firm. Indeed, Kurt worked at Timken for five years before HBS, followed by three years at Rockwell International.... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly
implantable defibrillators or transcatheter heart valves, the FDA's regulatory approval process appears to delay those approvals, which in turn adds to development costs borne by device manufacturers, according to Innovation under... View Details
- 04 Oct 2022
- What Do You Think?
Have Managers Underestimated the Need for Face-to-Face Contact?
GenZers’ need for “connection” be any less than that of preceding generations? Has the pandemic so affected their outlook and behavior that they in turn will affect the way work is performed and businesses are organized and led? Have... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Bringing Music to the HBS Classroom: My Journey as a Nontraditional Student in the Summer Venture in Management Program - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details
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Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges… and Big Opportunities - Blog: Health Supplement
network connecting patients, scientists, and clinicians, and increased multidisciplinary care at 32 Centers of Excellence at US hospitals. Cure HHT has recently turned $2M in seed grants into $51M in funding from the CDC, FDA, and NIH. It... View Details
- 28 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Can You Buy Creativity in the Gig Economy?
Writers may lament the uncertainties of the digital age, as many turn to online markets to distribute their work with no promises of fame or fortune. But when authors are guaranteed a cut of their own book sales, they tend to work harder... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Very Continental
Ngoyi at the Fund for Export Development in Africa: creating sustainable development at scale. (Courtesy of Marlene Ngoyi) Born in Brussels to Congolese parents and raised in Gabon, Marlene Ngoyi (MBA 2009) has lived and worked in countries including Guatemala, the... View Details
- 31 Jan 2007
- HBS Case
When Good Teams Go Bad
spirals, especially how to turn around a downward spiral. At what point, with what tactics, and how strongly, do you intervene when there's a downslide? I always try to push the students to consider how these questions and possible... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 09 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns
that had left the company in a compromised state. Over the next six years, Cote worked to turn Honeywell around through implementing a series of improvements in the company’s operating systems, forming a single culture from all the merged... View Details
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Social Innovation
My intellectual agenda addresses this question: How to innovate to solve the world’s toughest challenges? Out of the earth’s population, about 2 billion can afford good products whereas the remaining 5 billion are poor and therefore are nonconsumers.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
The Exchange: Where Ethics Meet Economics
my research on platforms, including Airbnb, Facebook, Instagram, Yelp, and Wayfair. There are lots of exciting opportunities beyond platforms as well. For example, one company recently found that increasing pay for lower-wage employees increased productivity and... View Details
- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
the bone marrow transplant. So I'm in a new country that's not my own. I don't have money and I have to raise 150,000 pounds from a standing start, otherwise my daughter would die. And that feeling of desperation, that feeling of, “Who do I View Details