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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: In the Deal
of all sorts—black, Latino, Muslim,” she says. “We won’t make the returns we want unless our firms and our portfolio companies’ makeup are in line with the world’s makeup.” Good deal: Zylo, an Indianapolis-based company that helps businesses track and View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Social Innovation Goes Mainstream
using capital as a source of leverage for social benefit,” he said. Acknowledging his optimism about the future, Greenblatt declared, “Young people are looking for ways to engage. Service is the new greed.” 2009 Leadership fellows:... View Details
- 08 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Everything Must Go: A Strategy for Store Liquidation
working paper, doctoral student Nathan Craig and professor Ananth Raman introduce a dynamic approach for optimizing the profitability of store liquidation that increases net recovery on cost by 2 to 7 percent of assets on hand, an... View Details
- 13 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought
of respondents reported optimism about their chances of surviving the crisis. However, only 70 percent of them expressed interest in pursuing such government subsidies. Cullen, an assistant professor at HBS who researches labor market... View Details
- 13 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 13, 2016
behavior should be considered a critical leadership skill. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50320 Summer 2016 California Management Review Dynamic Capabilities at Samsung: Optimizing Internal Co-opetition... View Details
- 03 Aug 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?
directors concentrating their attention on leadership behaviors that, at least in theory, should provide the basis for long-term performance rather than the behaviors exhibited by many leaders who are short-term optimizers and well... View Details
- 15 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Health is Wealth | The Path to Creating a Venture
levels. Collectively, Rachel and Wallerstofer saw an opportunity to build a precision nutrition brand that was more data driven, science backed, and truly personalized. “We came together on this mission to empower individuals to leverage their data to achieve View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
In emerging economies, business opportunities provide lessons in leadership
habits of young, upscale consumers. He says his team was struck by "the incredible contrast between emerging-market mayhem and tech-savvy efficiency" in a country where energy and optimism coexist with persistent poverty and corruption.... View Details
- 08 Feb 2018
- Op-Ed
What’s Missing From the Debate About Trump’s Tax Plan
Republicans can make their case that this tax plan represents progress based not on unrealistic optimism but on sincere beliefs about the proper role of government. Democrats can challenge them not by issuing doomsday projections or... View Details
Keywords: by Matthew Weinzierl
- Profile
Tiffany Pham
kind-hearted nature and candor.” How do you use what you learned at HBS today? “At HBS, I learned to think on my feet and make optimal decisions, with limited information, while overcoming complex problems. In the media and technology... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
7 Resolutions for Recruiting in the New Year
questions do candidates consistently bring to your recruiters? How successful are your new hires?Answers to these questions will help reveal where you can implement technology and/or an optimized process to achieve improved results in... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
a knowledge management system to optimally leverage employee-generated know-how. In particular, we consider the following practical strategic questions for the manager of a knowledge-intensive firm: should her firm develop a formal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
demand for auditing by the licensor. We characterize the optimal royalty contract, accounting system choice by the licensee, and audit strategy choice by the licensor. We show when the owner prefers to license the property in exchange for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
oversees a transparent award. Fourth, projects can be planned and sequenced to optimize cumulative benefit. While it’s tempting to spread infrastructure spending around for political reasons, that can lead to disconnected and unrelated... View Details
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
Sustainable cost reduction is best achieved by optimizing the quantity and mix of all the resources needed to produce excellent outcomes for a patient's medical condition, not by across-the-board reductions in line-item expenses.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
forming a more fully dedicated team, developing facilities that allow for better optimization of specialized care, greater leverage in purchasing based on focus and volume, greater capacity for sub-specialization, and eventually, an... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
entrepreneurship flourish in many sectors, expanding beyond just the software, high-tech type of startup, into financial services and the future of blockchain, for example. We want to support people going into many different spaces during the course of their careers... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
mechanism, which we refer to as the "clamped second price auction mechanism," into the laboratory to determine whether it helps human subjects learn to play their optimal strategy faster than the standard second price auction... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
price information to maximize their consumption-based utility. Emotionally, prices can induce regret and anger among consumers. The optimal responses of firm's prices to these reactions can explain why firms charge prices below marginal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
form of corporate social responsibility (CSR) through a sustainable business model that also generates superior financial performance. Read the paper: http://www.europeanbusinessreview.com/?p=4538 An Exploration of Optimal Stabilization... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne