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- 03 Jan 2008
- What Do You Think?
Does Judgment Trump Experience?
Summing Up How is good judgment developed? Whether judgment trumps experience quickly gave way in this month's rich exchange of views to other questions about how (and the extent to which) judgment is developed. Most of those addressing...
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by Jim Heskett
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Elsa Sze
“But I also see that the business community has so much potential to do good while achieving business objectives.” With a will to reconcile business and government, and profit motives with social ones, Elsa is pursuing the joint MBA/MPP...
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- 01 Feb 1997
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Ban the Butterfly Rule for Corporate Directors
You're only as good as your job title? Apparently so, if you're the director of a major company. A corporate governance precept currently in vogue calls for outside directors to offer to resign if they change (or lose) their jobs....
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Joseph Hinsey IV
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Massport, Back on Course
there was a good fit between my background and the requirements for leading this agency. In the aftermath of 9/11, I also had a desire to get back into public service. How did you approach the job? I took...
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Session Types | Information Technology
through community gatherings, team events, and more. No session is too big or too small to be considered a good fit, it simply needs to be engaging. Case discussions Executive Education Professional development Speaker series Reunion...
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- 30 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Do Mergers Hurt Product Quality?
reviews throughout the years indicated that overall product quality remained consistent post-merger. "Though goods become more similar, they do not consistently increase or decrease in quality level," Sheen writes in the paper,...
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- 16 Nov 2020
- News
Moderna Announces Promising Vaccine Trial Results
Moderna released promising news on the progress of their coronavirus vaccine this morning, noting that trials showed it to be 94.5% effective. “In this pandemic, what has been awful from a public health standpoint, an economic standpoint,...
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- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
healthcare, and microfinance. In the process, a case is made that these disruptive commercial models are a key component in the response to poverty, and that there is a social role for financial returns. Accordingly, the basic goods and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
- Blog Post
Alumni: Where are they now? Featuring Matt…
Mayor Thomas M. Menino (the first as an HBS Leadership Fellow), I’ve spent the last year and a half on the Government Innovation team at Bloomberg Philanthropies, Michael R. Bloomberg’s charitable foundation. I lead initiatives to promote View Details
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- 27 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Following Best Business Practices Can Improve Health Care
accounting have to do with improving patient outcomes in Haiti? HBS faculty members discuss their research and what it means for patients, providers, and industries. A Good Place to Start Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health CareIn a...
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Funa Maduka
Importance of educating leaders "The biggest weakness I saw in nonprofits," Funa says, "was in management education. I saw many managers with good ideas, but not the skills for executing them." Attracted to HBS'...
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- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business
essential blue-collar positions. Says Harvey, "Firms must respond to these realities with higher wages, which make the goods and services they produce more expensive, which in turn makes the overall economy less competitive in a...
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Transforming Education Through Social Entrepreneurship
support equitable opportunities for all learners. EdTech Magazine - explores technology and education issues that IT leaders and educators face when they’re evaluating and implementing a solution. Includes two publications EdTech:...
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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
financial returns and impact in the business model of investee companies. Quite a few of the large, global PE firms have launched impact funds over the last year. On the public side, I think ESG will become core to any financial analysis,...
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Jen McFarland Flint
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Alice Yang
Alice Yang was born in Taiwan, then lived in the Netherlands before immigrating to the United States. “The experience of attending public schools on three continents gave me a deep sense of gratitude for the opportunities I’ve been...
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Corporate Strategy Course - Project Resources
rgb(51, 122, 183); text-decoration-line: none;">Capital IQ Data on M&A transactions, public and private companies, investment firms, and people. Provides sophisticated retrieval and personalization tools to create numerous...
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Industry overviews
NetAdvantage: useful for industries dominated by public companies. Most reports are US-focused, although there are a few global reports. You can also access the archive of industry reports going back to the late 1990s....
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Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services Public Sector Public-Private...
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- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
also show that the internal control provisions of section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley make royalty arrangements based on self-reporting more attractive. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-100.pdf Toward a Theory of...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation
ordinary citizens have the ability to shift the balance of power in positive ways that can encourage innovative ideas to be developed into practical goods and services. "Washington, DC does not have a monopoly on the best...
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