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- 23 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Are Great Teams Less Productive?
their desires to help make their organizations more effective and responsive. I met many individuals with great ideas and insights working in large organizations that seemed to be enacting policies or producing products that didn't View Details
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
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Africa - Global Activities 2021
reflects on how another devastating health-related crisis—the Ebola outbreak that ravaged West Africa from 2014 to 2016—influenced her decision to pursue economic development to make a lasting impact on the African continent, which...
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- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
was especially strong when stars were concentrated in a small number of sectors, likely reflecting suboptimal integration among analysts with similar areas of expertise. Control variables ensured that these View Details
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Martha Lagace
- Profile
Leo Markel
My Harvard Business School experience has shaped my goals in three different ways. First, HBS has allowed me to effectively reflect on the life I want to live and the impact I want to make. Without...
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Inessa Lurye
homelessness by fifteen percent; in two years, we housed 1,000 individuals and 250 families.” Creative approaches to intractable challenges At Harvard, Inessa is pursuing the joint MBA/MPP because she wants to “learn how to lead more View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
New Fellowship Program Encourages Young MBAs to Work for Nonprofits
the private sector. The one- or two-year postgraduate fellowships are indicative of the “growing desire on the part of our students to be involved in the public and social sectors,” said Professor W. Carl Kester, senior associate dean and MBA Program chair. “They also...
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- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Remembering John Whitehead (MBA 1947)
held up as exemplifying the competence and character we associate with true leadership,” said Dean Nitin Nohria. “It is with deep sadness, as a community, that we mourn his passing. At the same time, we can reflect with admiration on a...
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- 31 Jan 2018
- Blog Post
Tiffany Nida’s Amazon Journey: “I Continue to Grow Because They Keep Giving Me Responsibility.”
Reflections on the right fit Surveying her career at Amazon to date, Tiffany believes she has found “a special place” that’s particularly suited to her ambitions. “They encourage people to move around a lot, both functionally and across...
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Technology
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Fall Reunions
ranging from lessons of the Columbia space shuttle disaster and Enron’s downfall, to the revolution in retailing and elements of effective negotiation. In between sessions, old friends gathered on the Spangler Center lawn for coffee,...
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- 17 Nov 2015
- News
Carbon Neutral
implement a “cap-and-trade” framework—capping the total amount of emissions and allowing companies to trade permits to pollute on the open market—fell apart in the midst of partisan bickering. As Washington fiddles, the world suffers under the increasingly undeniable...
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Michael Blanding
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
How the Ron Brown Award Was Born
firm, be part of its business strategy, and include the involvement of top management. Programs have to be innovative and effective and have a measurable impact on the people they are designed to serve. "Nearly five hundred nominations,...
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Underwater Options May Not Sink Incentives
motivated when payoff requires such a daunting climb? A clear temptation, and a path pursued by many firms, is to reduce strike prices or award new options reflecting lower stock values. But, as HBS associate professor Lisa Meulbroek...
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- 26 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 26
may be less effective at motivating employees than the literature suggests. Our quasi-experimental setting shows that two types of unintended consequences limit gains from the reward program. First, employees strategically game the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
model to establish these interrelationships at a firm level. Using publicly available financial data we estimate the six causal effects among sales, inventory, and gross margin. Our results show that sales, inventory, and gross margin are...
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’
"Boardroom Challenges," The Future of Boards Why so many directors were reflecting on the board's role is difficult to pinpoint. A partial answer undoubtedly rests in the fact that regulations and laws offer little guidance about what...
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by Jay Lorsch
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
A Modest Tax Proposal
corporate profits earned in countries with effective corporate tax rates, on average, of 20 percent or higher. These countries include England, France, and Japan. (This exemption would be subject to two exceptions: passive income like...
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Kim Chen
experiences that enable me to be effective leader in pursuit of these goals. As part of this, I accept that my career trajectory may have a few bends in it, but the end goal is clearer, brighter, and more aspirational than it used to be....
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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: Cents and Sensibilities
rates or the minimum wage, reflect the public’s efforts to find the right balance between these competing arguments. That may not be pretty, but it makes me hopeful. How do people make decisions about these big economic questions?...
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- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
positive motivational value, how employees at lower levels viewed the fairness of incentive plans, and whether incentives had an effect on corporate performance. The results were surprising. Most noteworthy: making pay contingent on...
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Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
measurement and disclosure of important metrics and information. In this chapter, we examine the effect of sustainability disclosure regulations on firms’ disclosure practices and valuations. Specifically, we explore the implications of...
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