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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
get. Well, that’s really critical, not only for individuals to do their own planning, but critical to really have any sense of supply-demand gaps that are not being met in the labor market. So this is a place where there’s a role that...
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- 14 Jun 2016
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June 14, 2016
analyzed and compared to a simple deficit rule that limits the maximum amount of deficit per period. Whereas the deficit rule does not perform well, the debt rule yields welfare gains virtually equal to the optimal rule. Download working...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
and private venture funds. Corporate efforts lack the partnership-based organizational structure that many have identified as critical to the success of private equity funds. On the other hand, corporations are able to exploit...
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by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
notion of strategy was put away,” another said. “In the most critical times, it was just next month.” Inflation was a particular problem. Argentina’s annual inflation rate reached 438 per cent in 1976, and 3058 per cent in 1989. “I...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 27
managers and recruiters are questioning conventional business education. Their concerns? Among other things, MBA programs aren't giving students the heightened cultural awareness and global perspectives they need. Newly minted MBAs lack essential leadership skills....
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 16
economic theory of GAAP under the assumption that GAAP's objective is to facilitate efficient capital allocation within an economy. The theory predicts that GAAP, as shaped by the economic forces of demand for and supply of financial information would focus on View Details
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Martha Lagace
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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
investigates how racism disadvantage black colleges by preventing them from gaining critical financial and political resources. Her work appears in academic and popular venues including Social Science History, Research in the Sociology of...
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- 08 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Is That Really Your Best Offer?
toss—and the pressure of real-world negotiations probably makes our actual performance even worse. Sometimes we don't realize we're being conned; other times, we wrongly suspect people who are telling us nothing but the truth....
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by Michael Wheeler
- 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
integrated reporting, and establishing collaborations with other asset owners to drive systems level change. He was convinced that the only way to meet his responsibilities to his beneficiaries was to improve the performance of the entire...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
orders and have them delivered to their tables—a service often performed by managers. “Now when I see a customer talking to a manager, it’s a good thing,” says Karavites, smiling. Traditionally, the bank of cash registers that separates...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
set professionals need to provide investment data, analysis, and advice. We’ll also talk about the social and political pressures influencing perceptions of sustainability and diversity as business metrics. And we’ll consider how workforce strategy stacks up as a View Details
- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
protect their investors? Was this a deliberate move to draw more investment? Does this shed light on today's common one-share, one-vote practices? A: The book is a bit critical of the idea that "one-share, one-vote" is magic for...
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- 01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era
arrival at LC in 1994 that the company had done relatively little consumer research, he immediately launched an intensive survey of customer needs. He also performed an asset inventory of the entire organization, which revealed "a lot of...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
epitome of the Aston Martin Grand Touring car. Comfortable for two, it has few frills and a high level of luxury and yet is capable of heart-stopping performance and superb handling on the racetrack. Candee examines in detail the history...
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- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
the government and the private sector, which is critical in a country run by personal—not transactional—relationships, says Gordon. It’s one of CET’s key differentiators. Built on the foundation of Collin Laverty’s 13 years in Havana,...
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Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Skooter, his wife of sixty years, as she accompanied him on work-related trips to foreign countries. A Profile of the Performing Arts Industry by David H. Gaylin (MBA 1979) (Business Expert Press) At their best, the View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
those faculty are separate from the subject-matter experts who teach the students in the individual courses. And then we have separate faculty who evaluate the performance of students on their exams, their assessments. And then, probably,...
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- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
own way, I’m trying to make up for the failures of the past. Amar Kumar (MBA 2010) SVP, Pearson Do more than deliver In our first semester at HBS we studied a case on relationship building—something about blue lines and red lines, and how it is View Details
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Walt Disney Studios
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
performance data, in their decisions. These decision-making patterns are associated with large and systematic differences in learning rates across business units. Learning is concentrated in business units with "loose...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 5
the waiting time to enter the ED increased by 26 minutes. We do not find any indications of improved performance on clinical metrics, with no statistical change in the number of admissions to the hospital or readmissions to the ED within...
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Sean Silverthorne