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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
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the characteristics of distinct types of property - apartment, office, hotel, industrial, and retail. Noting that this book is designed to help people spot risks, develop strategies for coping with risks, and assess whether those... View Details
- 21 Mar 2019
- News
Helping Veterans Build Careers
Goldenberg reflects. “We want to be warmhearted in helping veterans, but it’s done through tough-minded assessments so that we can maximize our impact,” which includes placing more than 50,000 vets into high-quality jobs at one-sixth the... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Turning Point: Makeover
assessment came back as “highly effective.” Confused, I asked why. Their lawyer replied, “If your ego is so big you need to hold onto the CEO title, and you’d be willing to hurt the company to do so—we can have that conversation.” It felt... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Marking 10-Year Connection with Japanese Earthquake Region
Takeuchi’s decision to embark on the inaugural Japan trip involved a realistic assessment of both the logistical challenges and educational opportunities of the experience. But taking students to a disaster area entailed unprecedented... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World
they can assess their ROI. He will also research how others across the country are trying to develop and advance such metrics. "For decades, people have said there is just no way to measure nonprofit value creation. How can you value a... View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
School Ties
important barriers to greater engagement, including significant differences between education and business leaders in their assessments of America's schools. Notes Rivkin, "Compared to the typical superintendent, HBS alumni are far more... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Alumni Books
Thomas J. Bolam (MBA ’64) (McFarland & Co.) The Bolams examine 407 commercial films that include an American president as a character. They summarize each president’s administration and discuss its films, giving plot summaries, credits, descriptions of the president’s... View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
11 trainees, chosen through the Specialisterne Assessment process, in Adelaide. During the assessment, candidates completed individual and team projects using Lego Mindstorms, as well as undergoing psychometric testing for... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Speak English, Please!
assess their reading and listening comprehension of business English, and to continue to take the test until they pass. A second phase involved bringing in lecturers to discuss how to study English and manage learning the language. The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Staying the Course
helps school districts—many of which cancelled assessment testing—predict year-end math proficiency and better plan for post-pandemic instruction. Woolley-Wilson believes that ed tech products that prove to be useful during the pandemic... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Theory & Practice
has collected the best of her wit and wisdom on management thinking and practice. Looking back across the changing landscape of business, Kanter helps reveal what has worked, what has not, and what businesses still need to learn. She also offers her View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Courting the Poor
the questions posed by the case is the classic conundrum of where and how Magazine Luiza should expand while preserving its identity and culture. The case describes a large acquisition of another Brazilian retailer with a very different culture. The students are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Books
strategy for effective transitions, giving practical guidelines on how to assess individual strengths and weaknesses, diagnose specific corporate situations and recognize challenges and opportunities, establish credibility, create... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
that can greatly improve local governmental services without costing taxpayers more. They discuss incorporating outcome indicators into strategic planning and budgeting; building a local government’s budget with cost drivers; expanding the concept of “enterprise... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Ink
strategy and assessing your place in the competitive landscape. Tool 15, “Taming Co-opetition,” helps one determine the risks and rewards of sleeping with the enemy. Essentially, the advice is, don’t. “With few exceptions, being in... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Class Day and Commencement 2001
small, with everybody around you. That's a hell of a lot more important than some finite strategy." Asked about how he assesses people, Welch replied that he insists on integrity and then asks four "E" questions: "Do they have the Energy... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
South Florida and Minnesota Launch Community Programs
for alumni to use their business skills,” says Sanchez, noting that the group will assess and refine its strategies before entering the next project cycle. Richard Gehrman (MBA ’76) and Tony Levy (MBA ’88) serve as cochairs of the... View Details
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
people's imagination. So after acknowledgement, because I think acknowledgement is key, but then the next thing you got to do is assessment. You got to be willing to do an honest assessment inside your organization, like you would be... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
management. The authors provide first-hand accounts of M&A transactions that they led or were involved in, assessing each from an insider perspective and outlining the key success factors and pitfalls. The book concludes with practical... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
markets that don't yet exist. How then can managers identify and assess market potential? The simple answer is that you must "sense" a market's potential by actually being where the technology is emerging. More traditional market research... View Details