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- 24 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why It's Best to Take Tests Early in the Day
recent initiative that depends largely on student test scores to measure teacher efficacy. “There are all sorts of debates in the United States and, more generally, across the globe about how to improve the quality of students’ life in... View Details
- 26 Jan 2022
- News
Making Peace with Anger
convince an employee that wasn’t performing to measure to get up to the level that we were expecting. And now, all of a sudden, I was confronted with my wife saying, “I want to get separated and divorced,” and all those tools that had always been able to View Details
- 11 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK
likely to be seen “coming from a genuine place because this is something that is now done in this work environment versus if a manager sort of does this out of nowhere.” Ignoring the problem won’t make it go away Of course, a manager... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
higher in the future, then the price is going to start rising today. Although expectations of all sorts are important, one particular set of expectations—about the state of the overall economy and one's own future income—is especially... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
it's supposed to." Bower continues: "Theoretically, when an industry has excess capacity, prices fall and the least efficient producers can't survive." But, Bower adds, that doesn't always happen. "In many countries, for all sorts of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 22 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Lack of Female Scientists Means Fewer Medical Treatments for Women
tackle different sorts of markets or different sorts of problems.” How to boost patents by women In recent years, progress has been made toward gender parity in science, as more women enter STEM fields and... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 09 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Identify Great Customers from Their First Purchase
working paper, Ascarza and coauthor Nicolas Padilla, a doctoral candidate at Columbia Business School, show that a statistical tool known as a deep exponential family model can effectively sort the most relevant variables and account for... View Details
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs
effort, and money to the legal issues? No. That's a good reason to hire a competent lawyer. Excellent legal talent can be retained for relatively little money up front at the early stages. It will cost much less to get it right at the beginning than to try to View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 11 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
A World of Difference: What Keeps Companies from Becoming More Inclusive
inclusively." One of the stories that I included in my book Rebel Talent was about the airline pilot Captain “Sully” Sullenberger, who lost power in both jet engines over the Hudson River shortly after taking off from New York City. He had served in the military, flown... View Details
Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint
- 04 Nov 2009
- What Do You Think?
What is the Role of Government Vis-à-Vis Capitalism?
commits itself to democratic capitalism . Our focus should be on sorting out these tensions rather than clinging to a notion that 'free markets' are efficient (good) and 'government' is inefficient (bad)." Several commented on the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 28 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India
Foreign Policy, July-August 2003], I became so fascinated with China that I began to travel extensively there. In the course of writing this book I spent time with all sorts of people in better and the less well-traversed parts of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Multimedia Martha: Sharon Patrick Cooks Up A Winner
Martha? First, she's a celebrity, and celebrities are often lightning rods. Second, the fact that she is focused on the home and hearth is sort of counterculture. She has the guts and the talent and the insight to take that on. People... View Details
- 23 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation
play As a venture develops, McDonald suggests borrowing from others’ ideas. There are plenty of examples of companies doing this successfully: Uber drew inspiration from the carpool-match service Zimride (which became Lyft). Instagram adapted Snapchat’s stories... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 22 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
10 Reasons to Design a Better Corporate Culture
pool of prospective employees grows. -- The cost of selecting among many applicants is offset by cost savings as prospective employees sort themselves into and out of consideration for jobs. -- This self-selection process reduces the... View Details
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Conversational Leadership
not just that one person is both talking and listening, it means that there is a real sort of back and forth where the act of listening actually changes what you think and say," Slind explains. "As your company gets larger, that gets more... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future
database of startups and investors, to analyze collaboration patterns. The authors also sorted through press releases, news articles, and regulatory filings to augment and verify the data. Of the Crunchbase startups examined, 16... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 16 Jun 2023
- News
On the Move: Adam Laitsas (MBA 2016)
proud of) prize money is equal for men and women. Will you be relocating? We will be staying here in NYC! DUMBO to be exact. What’s your morning routine? I start my day around 5:30 or 6 a.m. by walking our Golden Retriever puppy (Khione). I then try to get a workout of... View Details
- 31 Jul 2023
- News
Striving for Imperfection
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Since he left HBS in 1990, Charles Conn (MBA 1990) has built a full and varied portfolio career. Early on, he was a partner at McKinsey and then a tech executive, founding Ticketmaster-Citysearch. Today,... View Details
- 30 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Future of IT Consulting
in sorting out action plans for their various lines of business. By the end of the decade, more than 60 percent of the computer communications will be computer-to-computer.— Nolan and Bennigson Newness and complexity have been a second... View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley