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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
development, Adams left in December 1999, taking a year to travel around the world with his wife before returning to Martha’s Vineyard to start building their home. “As HBS students, we used the balanced scorecard as a way of looking beyond the bottom line to measure a... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
in S&E, cumulative GPA strongly and positively predicts long-term patenting; this result is robust to controlling for choices of major and career. In contrast, GPA negatively predicts the probability of taking a first job in finance... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30
defaults, and tools that tap our desire to help others-it's possible to design simple, inexpensive programs that encourage good health decisions and long-term behavior change. Publisher's link: View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
They include some of the country's largest cities, including Boston, Chicago, Memphis, and San Francisco. Based on a rigorous selection process, the Harvard team invited the districts because each had a performance-improvement strategy and a View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
to what Bingham calls “industrial legacy,” or how the choices the world makes now will contribute to long-term pandemic preparedness. There are two things nearly everyone involved in the race for a vaccine seems to agree on. First: There... View Details
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
whoever. Which then allows them to begin to build apps for those platforms, like Android. And it's been excellent, I think we've had ... I think the number is now something around 40,000 people go through that program. We're going to have to figure how to scale it even... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
concurs Myra Hart. “As an educator, my goal is not so much the immediate output as it is the long-term knowledge being built.” Climate Changes At press time, 59 teams had submitted entries for the 2001 contest, including 11 for the Social... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
professor Regina Herzlinger received tenure, the current number of women scholars and teachers at the School has grown to 56. With that increase, women have moved into leadership roles in all areas of the School. Bearing that in mind, the Bulletin asked four View Details
- 05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5
quantity. Overall, athletic success has a significant long-term goodwill effect on future applications and quality. However, students with lower than average SAT scores tend to have a stronger preference for athletic success, while... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009
distribution services (GDSs)—such as SABRE—to reach travel agents. But GDSs held significant tactical advantages. For example, GDSs had signed long-term exclusive contracts with the corporate customers who were American's best customers.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
In the world I see ahead, a world of turbulence and uncertainty where there are opportunities fraught with risk and reward, we need leaders with strong values. We need leaders who place a high value on excellence, on building organizations where people thrive, on... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
- 14 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 14, 2006
Eastern Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Dow Chemical made a major investment in the Halle-Leipzig region, one of the largest chemical industry sites in Europe. The executive in charge of Dow's operations in the region, Bart Groot, increasingly felt that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
regulation are accounted for—must undergird any assessment of the long-term attractiveness of firm strategies. Our proposed framework provides an integrated view of competition and government intervention, two of the principal forces that... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016
and soft—when formulating your algorithms. You also must consider the long-term implications of the data the algorithms incorporate to make sure they're not focusing nearsightedly on short-term outcomes. And choose the right data inputs,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
are probably going to be important to the long-term survival of our species.” Dubinsky is more specific. She sees potential applications in renewable energy and sustainability, for instance. “I think somebody taking this technology and... View Details
- 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008
is a generally insightful portrayal of financial markets, this theory implies that a firm's stock price is the best overall measure of the firm's long-term value. This implies that managerial incentives should be tied to stock market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17
SchmidtHarvard Business School Case 612-082 Merck is known for its commitment to investing in basic R&D. Are Merck's long-term investments justifiable when the firm faces extreme earnings pressure? Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne