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- 14 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
Recruiting During Uncertainty: How to Meet Students Where They Are
While there may be changes along the way, the more information students have about the process the more confident they will feel about engaging with your company. Create space for students to share their career goals honestly Transparency...
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Systems for Scaling Ventures (SSV) - Course Catalog
your organization to amplify its impact in today's highly volatile environment. Educational Objectives The goal of this course is to expose you to management systems used by ventures to overcome tradeoffs between scale and agility. By...
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- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Books
and creating a balanced scorecard. Finally, he demonstrates how to achieve profit-oriented goals and strategies by using diagnostic and interactive control systems, aligning performance View Details
- 24 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Upgrading School with a Startup Mentality
lessons and concepts our students learn here can have a tremendous impact on the structure and practice of education," he said. "One of my goals is to see if we can get more Harvard MBAs to take jobs in education, since the...
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- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Responsibility and the Environment: What is the Right Thing To Do?
Responsibility (CSR) and Corporate Social Performance (CSP)? A: Corporate Social Performance is a term used to describe "strategic" behavior by a firm. When a firm engages in environmental or other...
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by Manda Salls
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Katy Lankester
is an excellent way to train the muscles of judgement, because you build pattern recognition, you hear well-reasoned opposing viewpoints, and your thinking is pushed until it is reasoned and consistent. How has your overall HBS experience shaped your View Details
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Health Care
- 13 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 13, 2008
Publication:Financial Analysts Journal (forthcoming) Abstract We compare the earnings forecast performance of analysts at a large buy-side firm to that of sell-side analysts. Our tests show that the buy-side firm analysts make more...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 26
pursuit of emotional support or friendship, and unlike social ties that emerge spontaneously, instrumental networking in pursuit of professional goals can impinge on an individual's moral purity-a psychological state that results from...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
exhibit "The Four Spans" provides a summary.) The span of control. The first span defines the range of resources—not only people but also assets and infrastructure—for which a manager is given decision rights. These are also the resources whose View Details
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by Robert Simons
- 30 May 2016
- Blog Post
Meet the HBS Sound Society
the club now boasts over 150 members. What is the mission of Sound Society? Our mission is simple: enhance the HBS experience through music. Our founding team felt that this could be done in three primary ways. One: give students more opportunities to View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Prima Datarina
were the first company in North America to perform the Mahler, because it requires an extraordinary orchestra and corps of dancers.” It also demands something of the viewer, in a way that more narrative works like The Nutcracker and Swan...
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Julia Hanna
- 27 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 27, 2016
measurement and control systems to implement strategy. Modules 1–4 set out the foundations for strategy implementation. Modules 5–9 teach quantitative tools for performance measurement and control. Modules 10–15 illustrate the use of...
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Sean Silverthorne
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TALK: How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life - Course Catalog
conversational goals: Why do we talk? What does it mean to do it well? How do these goals play out over the short- and long-term? Study the TALK framework to understand conversation as a fundamental part of the human experience—a repeated...
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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Clicks and Mortar
tend to default to thinking about a consumer’s functional goals: I want something quickly and easily at a low price. But consumers buy for many other reasons. They might have social goals or they might want to have an experience that’s...
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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advanced Statistics Are the New Foam Fingers
The Quantified Athlete “Athletes will always look to improve their performance and stay injury-free with technology. But the sports media industry is also starting to explore how to incorporate athlete data into their broadcasts. And as...
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- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
issue high-headline-rate and more complex products in low-rate environments. Finally, we find that high-headline-rate and more complex products are more profitable for banks, and that their ex post performance is lower. Publisher's link:...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
groups such as the Global Business Coalition for Education have been pushing governments to meet the UN's Millennium Development Goals around education." —Ashish Dhawan TAKING BUSINESS BACK TO SCHOOL "I do not see charter schools becoming...
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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
A Wider Net
putting his ideas into action. At a high level, he has led a restructuring of the organization’s all-volunteer board, creating technical and commercial committees to focus on strategy and better involve the board members in the goal of...
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- 23 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick
modernization of the ecosystem, not just one enterprise. This often requires structuring a special purpose vehicle that can manage shared risks and returns. Buy-in. The company must obtain buy-in of regional managers by adjusting View Details
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by Michael Blanding
- 22 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day: Recent Research on Sustainability
Environmental Performance: The Effect of Incentive Provision on Carbon EmissionsResearch has shown that reducing carbon emissions and exhibiting good environmental performance are important for corporations. But how exactly are these...
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