Assessment - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Sep 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics

taking a hint from the reinsurance industry, which runs on risk assessment and which faces financial hits in the wake of any climate-related event. Frank Nutter, president of the Reinsurance Association of America, in his testimony before... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Mar 2008
News

Where Have All the Leaders Gone?

voting public. They cast their votes not on ideology and old loyalties, but on a more pragmatic assessment of their own — and their community’s — interests. The last election saw incumbents lose in dozens of congressional districts that... View Details

Keywords: Government

19 Dec 2016
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016

situations that are not amenable to quantitative risk modeling. They argue that firms can avoid the artificial choice between quantitative and qualitative risk management, allowing both to play important roles in surfacing and assessing... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

12 May 2015
Research & Ideas

How Crowds and Experts Kickstart the Arts

Philosophers have talked by turns about both the "wisdom" and "madness" of crowds. But when it comes to assessing and funding the arts, just how wise are crowds—and how does their wisdom compare to that of art experts? HBS Associate... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ramana Nanda; Entertainment & Recreation

19 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”

investment team, and the rewards can be scaled down accordingly. "One frequent manifestation of these confused objectives is a difficulty in killing projects” But in most programs, the demands on the corporate venturing team are considerable. These investors are... View Details

Keywords: by Josh Lerner; Financial Services

22 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

When Protestors Knock at Your Door

LaMure (HBS MBA '02), is that targeted corporate executives who decide to ignore NGO protests do so at their own peril. Spar and LaMure recently detailed the rising power of NGOs and corporate responses in "The Power of Activism: View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

08 Dec 2020
Blog Post

2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Brooke Carter (MBA 2019)

had the opportunity to work closely with product marketing, finance, engineering, the leadership team, and many other stakeholders. We set out to validate our hypotheses before committing to such a big endeavor while assessing the... View Details

29 Feb 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: JSW Steel and Cement and the Quest to Capture Carbon in Hard to Abate Sectors

our main topic, we’ve learned that the company currently is testing the CCU technology at a steel DRI facility, capturing around 100 tons per day. However, the overall assessment from the Chief Sustainability Officer, Prabodha Acharya, is... View Details

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Diversity & Entrepreneurship: Race & Gender Gaps Persist - Race, Gender & Equity

years, we’ll be able to assess whether this data represents a life stage effect—if so, we would expect the share of tech founders who are Millennials to increase as they age. Working Alumni Alumni Founders Founders’ family status does not... View Details

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IFC: Italy; Tradition and Innovation - Course Catalog

Course Fee & Financial Aid . Visit IFC Financial Aid for a quick assessment to determine your eligibility and process or contact finaid@hbs.edu for more information. Enrollment: Limited to 45 MBA students (due to the nature of IFCs,... View Details

01 Apr 1999
News

Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong

markets that don't yet exist. How then can managers identify and assess market potential? The simple answer is that you must "sense" a market's potential by actually being where the technology is emerging. More traditional market research... View Details

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... View Details

Keywords: 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... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation; Air Transportation; Auto

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... View Details

Keywords: 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... View Details

Keywords: 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... View Details

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... View Details

Keywords: 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... View Details

10 Apr 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

later and if so, how? The friendship formation of students at a large Canadian university was assessed during their first term. These data were used to predict self-reported health and health behaviors (physical exercise, diet, tobacco,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 30

perceive the quality of others' decisions to be greater when other individuals engage in the right amount of thinking for the situation. These assessments then affect observers' own decisions and openness to influence. Publisher's link: View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

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