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- 14 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
think it just produces an enormous amount of stress.” Steps toward gender equality In Glass Half-Broken, Ammerman and Groysberg recommend a series of best practices along seven critical dimensions to organizations that want to work toward parity, not for cosmetic...
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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Hot Tip
something relevant.” In 2000, Nkontchou, a veteran of Andersen Consulting and Merrill Lynch, started LiquidAfrica with $250,000 of his own money and $2.5 million from Modern Africa, a Washington-based private equity fund. Among his goals...
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- 07 Sep 2021
- News
One Degree of Difference
two-thirds of American workers. It’s a particularly expensive practice for employers, who pay up to 30 percent more to hire graduates for middle-skills work even when individuals without degrees perform equally or nearly as well,...
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- 01 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018
combined this bold national goal with an accountability structure (incentive plan) built on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), as more typically done at a company level. A key case protagonist is Ohood Al...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
some $10 billion in annual revenues, the NFL wants more—lots more. Its goal is to boost that number to $25 billion annually by 2027. Getting there may not be easy. The league's focus on expansion relies on gaining ground with new US fan...
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- 25 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
Learning the Language of Business and Science – The MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Program
Children’s Hospital, I went on to study bioengineering at Harvard. I became fascinated with biotech and established a goal of transitioning research into treatments that would make a meaningful difference for patients. After college,...
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- 24 Jul 2018
- News
How Amy Hood Won Back Wall Street and Helped Reboot Microsoft
to the failing performance and then encouraging everyone to focus on making hard decisions quickly," says Microsoft President and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith, whose office shares a small hallway with Hood’s. So what was the plan to...
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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Convening Power
gift from Seth (MBA 1982) and Beth Klarman, will combine the elements of a large-scale conference center, a performance space, and an intimate community forum. Seth Klarman is president and CEO of the Baupost Group, a Boston-based...
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- September 2020 (Revised September 2021)
- Supplement
Student Success at Georgia State University (B)
By: Michael W. Toffel, Robin Mendelson and Julia Kelley
This is a supplement to the Student Success at Georgia State University (A) case. The (B) case includes the results of a randomized control trial that Georgia State conducted to test education technology start-up AdmitHub’s chatbot solution as a strategy for improving...
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Toffel, Michael W., Robin Mendelson, and Julia Kelley. "Student Success at Georgia State University (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 621-039, September 2020. (Revised September 2021.)
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories
physical facilities were prepared for. So the team decided to reconfigure the twenty Atlanta branches into three alternative models: Five branches were redesigned as "express centers," efficient, modernistic buildings where consumers could quickly View Details
- 07 Oct 2021
- News
Bringing Light to the Fight
own businesses and is now director of the Auckland International Airport and chair of Spark, New Zealand’s largest telecommunications and digital services company. “Measuring performance in charity is as important as in a commercial...
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- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Looking for CEOs in All the Wrong Places
him and one of its board members? Understanding the dynamics of the CEO search process, as well as the ways in which chief executive turnover influences corporate performance, has been the goal of recent research by HBS assistant...
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- Profile
Brooke Boyarsky
give me the platform I needed to pursue my career goals, and I have found that to absolutely be the case. I can say confidently that I am a significantly different person, in both skills and leadership ability, than I was coming into HBS. How has your overall HBS...
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- June 2008
- Teaching Note
Amanco: Developing the Sustainability Scorecard (TN)
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Teaching Note for [inse107038].
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- 24 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Who Sets Your Benchmarks?
pursuing your goals accordingly. In this excerpt, he discusses the unfortunate and all-too-common tendency to focus on extrinsic rather than intrinsic motivators. Who Sets Your Benchmarks? From, What You're Really Meant to Do: A Road Map...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
increased expectations for hard, measurable results. Which seems only fair, right? The problem: Nonprofits can lose sight of their mission if a major funder's performance measurement priorities don't align with the necessary actions to...
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- 24 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 24
George Serafeim, and David Wood Abstract—A new generation of corporate reporting-integrated reporting-is emerging that will help investors and other key stakeholders such as employees, customers, suppliers, and NGOs develop a deeper and more comprehensive appreciation...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
4 Ways I've Changed at HBS
few short months. 1. My career goals I never expected that in such a highly driven environment like HBS I would become most attuned to finding balance in my life. As a result of my experience here, I have become more empowered to think...
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- 15 Apr 2021
- News
Bringing Light to the Fight
of Spark, New Zealand’s largest telecommunications and digital services company. That practical experience informed her work on the board of Breast Cancer Foundation NZ, of which she became chair in 2009. “Measuring performance in charity...
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Hold ourselves accountable to meaningful, measurable progress. - Advancing Racial Equity
Action Plan Hold ourselves accountable to meaningful, measurable progress. Like many of the organizations we study, Harvard Business School is at risk of declaring a lot of good intentions and goals and then failing to follow through on...
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