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- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Short Takes
No Mistake About It: Trust Is Key in Learning It's a real Catch-22: Learning is more critical than ever to firm success, yet the process often requires making mistakes. And many people believe mistakes lead to failure and thus avoid...
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
to emphasize a point. “His hands perform a rapid-fire ballet of encouragement: palms outstretched to reassure the uncertain student, wrists moving in quick circles to urge onward the confident,” noted a 1976 article in the Harvard...
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup
might make the employer wonder whether your product(s) will in fact do a better job. —Teg Rood (MBA 1976) I would recommend building some detailed customer use cases to solidify your value proposition. If you can establish some new View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
HBS Clubs and Associations
completed phase one of a three-part impact evaluation study and as a result, are making critical decisions around some sacred cows.” Such an impact is just what HBS alumni clubs hope for when they select local nonprofit leaders to receive...
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- 01 Dec 1997
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Banking on HBS
took the Bank's helm, both the institution's image and the morale of its employees were poor. Critics contended that Bank projects often brought more harm than help to client-country populations and ecosystems and that the Bank was...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Hopping to It
represented the full spectrum of pop music genres and featured a stable of veteran, big–time artists, including Aretha Franklin, Carlos Santana, and Bruce Springsteen. As the New York Times (March 2, 2003) reported, Reid has “silenced his View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
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The Third Force: Indispensable to Society, Nonprofits Should Redirect Oversight Efforts
professor Regina E. Herzlinger contended at a fall reunion presentation titled "The Four by Four Report: Effective Oversight of Nonprofit Organizations." An expert in health care and nonprofit management control, Herzlinger made the case that nonprofits fulfill five...
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Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
GE's Jeff Immelt
performance, the ability to focus on the future, and a commitment to its people, culture, and values. “We need companies that perform with integrity,” he said. “Performance is the only thing that will turn the stock market around; it's...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Case Study: Sweat the Technique
Science Entrepreneurship at HBS, cites studies showing that even mild dehydration can compromise performance by as much as 29 percent. Nix has garnered interest from both endurance athletes—which include about 30 million dedicated runners...
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Dan Morrell
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Research Brief: Paying the Price for Remote Work
The pandemic dramatically accelerated the global marketplace’s appetite for remote work, which had already become a $50 billion industry by 2020. But wages for the same remote jobs varied greatly, depending on where the worker lived. That’s one of the View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
"That is a big mistake." Predictability allows everyone to know what the rules are, establishing an atmosphere of trust so that people can work together productively in an organization, Stevenson argues. Companies can provide more stable environments by, among other...
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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
a production chain, that maximized output.” Klug admires the way Aoki took command of a key variable in restaurant management: table turnover, or “turns.” “Rocky made the restaurant a theater, with the chef as the star of the show,” Klug...
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- 18 Aug 2014
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Closing the Education Gap
performance test scores. By June that number had jumped to 53 percent. “In nine months, we can effectively close the gap between poor and average performance on pre-K tests,” says Dias Griffin, “and we can...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2013
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Leaning In to Gender Equity
Sheryl Sandberg (MBA 1995) In Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead (Knopf), Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg (MBA 1995) recalls her first performance review with CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Stop trying to please everyone, he counseled. "If you...
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- 01 Apr 2002
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Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms
investment banking, law, and management consulting firms — are unique in that they have no products, manufacturing plants, or distribution systems. Their financial success depends entirely upon the capability and performance of their...
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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
What HBS Learned from West Point
something more holistic. They respond to character—who you are, your values, and your identity.” The parallels for business educators are striking. Business schools have been criticized for relying too heavily on teaching disciplinary...
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- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
used software to launch their attacks. “Under the press of business and getting a product to market, some commercial software manufacturers have indulged in a ‘good–enough’ standard,” says Langstaff. “They reason that they can always fix problems in the next version....
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- 01 Dec 1998
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New Releases
self-interest rather than in the interests of the whole. Thus, the decentralized organization must also develop new control systems. Jensen asserts that there are three main elements in an organization's total strategy: competitive, organizational, and human. "It is...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
pay for poor performance wasn’t just an AIG phenomenon. On Wall Street, it was endemic. Bankers gave themselves nearly $20 billion in 2008 bonuses, even as the economy was spiraling downward and the government was spending billions on...
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- 01 Oct 1996
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Creating Miracles — Charles A. Coverdale (MBA 1971)
is raising funds for a $9-million "Family Community Life Center," to be built on church grounds, that will house a 24-hour daycare program, an extensive sports and exercise facility, performance and rehearsal spaces, arts-and-crafts...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso