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Statement of Activity & Cash Flows - Annual Report 2019

Reserves Balance $ 118 $ 145 $ 103 Ending Reserves Balance $ 129 $ 118 $ 145 * In pursuit of greater comparability across the Harvard schools, the University has asked all the schools to report their net... View Details

18 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance

Whereas the for-profit capital markets provide transparent objective criteria for making early- and later-stage investment decisions, balance risks with return, and create a "performance-driving cycle" by rewarding improvements in the top... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

Portrait Project

Nick Gerry-Bullard

next to the vastness of the world. But contact with absolutes – high mountains, large oceans, and wild creatures – also brought tranquility, a sense of balance from grasping my true scale. Observing our unabated exploitation of natural... View Details

31 May 2021
News

Stop Being So Hard on Yourself

08 Nov 2013
News

Women in Business: Sarah Bryar, CEO of Rivet & Sway

Keywords: Fashion; Rivet & Sway; e-commerce; online shopping; Retail Trade

August 13, 2024
Editorial

Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?

By: Susanna Gallani, Lidia Moura and Katie Sonnefeldt

Keywords: Well-being; AI and Machine Learning; Work-Life Balance; Health Industry

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2024
White Paper

Healthy Outcomes: How Employers' Support for Employees with Caregiving Responsibilities Can Benefit the Organization

By: Joseph B. Fuller

Keywords: Work-Life Balance; Performance Productivity; Employees; Human Capital

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1997
Book

Finding Time: How Corporations, Individuals, and Families Can Benefit from New Work Practices

By: Leslie Perlow

Why do Americans work so hard? Are the long hours spent at work really necessary to increase organizational productivity? Perlow documents the work life of employees who assume that for their own success and the success of their organization they must put in extended... View Details

Keywords: Time Management; Working Conditions; Work-Life Balance; Performance Productivity

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November 2010
Teaching Note

Saudi Arabia: Modern Reform, Enduring Stability. Dubai: Global Economy (TN)

By: Richard H.K. Vietor

Teaching Note for 709042 and 709043. View Details

Keywords: Economy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Globalization; Balance and Stability; Saudi Arabia; Dubai

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11 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 11, 2008

Working PapersTesting Strategy with Multiple Performance Measures Evidence from a Balanced Scorecard at Store24 Authors:Dennis Campbell, Srikant M. Datar, Susan L. Kulp, and V.G. Narayanan Abstract We analyze View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Robert N. Burt

Burt took the helm of FMC Corporation in 1991 just after it had completed a major recapitalization of the business, severely impacting the balance sheet. He divested of non-core businesses, streamlined operations, and focused on new... View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

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Statement of Activity & Cash Flows - Annual Report 2017

Balance $ 103 $ 125 $ 99 Ending Reserves Balance $ 145 $ 103 $ 125 * In pursuit of greater comparability across the Harvard schools, the University has asked all the schools to report their net results in... View Details

01 Dec 2019
News

3-Minute Briefing: Leslie Hale (MBA 2001)

a statistic. I was determined not to be a statistic. I fell in love with finance. I fell in love with the concept of being able to take a dollar and make it into two. You can have a great vision, but if you don’t have your balance sheet... View Details

Keywords: April White; real estate; leadership; diversity; African American; career paths; women in business; Real Estate

01 Dec 2010
News

Ilene Lang

since women control or influence a lion’s share of household buying decisions. That includes cars, vacations, electronics, health care, and more. We also see a lot in the media about work-life balance and the difficulties working mothers... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; interview; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

02 Dec 2015
What Do You Think?

What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?

Are Investors the Ultimate Antidote to Gender Inequality in Leadership? Once respondents came to terms with my use of “gender equality” in the title of this month’s column they described several ways in which it might be achieved in our discussion of gender inequality... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

2011
Working Paper

The Three Foundations of a Great Life, Great Leadership, and a Great Organization

By: Michael C. Jensen

I argue here that the three factors my co-authors and I identify as constituting the foundation for being a leader and the effective exercise of leadership can also be seen as the foundations not only for great leadership, but also for a high quality personal life and... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Organizations; Performance Effectiveness; Work-Life Balance; Strategy; Value

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