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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Transforming the IRS
For decades, the IRS judged employees’ performance by using narrow, unbalanced, and frequently perverse — but easily gathered — statistics that focused almost entirely on revenue coming from audit assessments and property seizures....
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- 08 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018
Medicare cannot directly monitor HAI rates and instead relies on providers accurately self-reporting HAIs in claims to correctly assess penalties. Consequently, the incentives for providers to improve service quality may disappear if...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 8, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608080 Bidding on Martha's Vineyard (A) Harvard Business School Case 908-044 To buy a desirable Martha's Vineyard property, Robert and Sally Franklin must craft a bidding strategy informed by their View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Oct 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Motivate Me, Please
when goals can go off the rails. Research Paper Is Overconfidence a Motivated Bias? Experimental Evidence People are most at risk of making overly positive self-assessments when their assessment criteria are not clearly defined. Yet, even...
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by Sean Silverthorne
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Statement of Activity & Cash Flows - Financial Report 2015
30... 2015 2014 2013 Salaries & Benefits $ 294 $ 276 $ 255 Publishing & Printing 65 66 62 Space & Occupancy 68 66 56 Supplies & Equipment 7 4 5 Professional Services 52 57 40 Fellowships 44 43 40 University Assessments 20 19 18 Debt...
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Corporate Governance and Boards of Directors - Course Catalog
a board of directors as you create and grow your company. Others will join private equity or venture capital firms where you will serve on the boards of the firm’s portfolio companies. Still others will be consultants or advisors to boards, or investment professionals...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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Jennifer Myers
- 13 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 13, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=508023 Identifying and Exploiting the Right Entrepreneurial Opportunity...For You Harvard Business School Case 808-043 This note provides an analytical framework for assessing...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Jan 2007
- What Do You Think?
Neuro Economics: Science or Science Fiction?
assess the impact of this work. Dick Meza said that "it will have to run the gauntlet of peer reviews and further research ." Lorenzo Ferlazzo observed that "the current lack of standardized insights into behavioral stimuli...
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by Jim Heskett
- 25 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments
Should companies let employees keep working remotely after the COVID-19 pandemic ends? Assessing the impact of remote work has involved a lot of guesswork for business leaders, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Consider the Chinese...
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by Danielle Kost
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system...
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- 27 Oct 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits
to whom the nonprofit is accountable to understand the organization's intentions, so that they can determine in advance whether they want to offer their support, and then assess after the fact whether the organization is making progress...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
strategies at different geographic levels. Assessing the level—global, continental, subcontinental, national, intranational, or local—at which scale is most tightly tied to profitability is often a helpful guide to determining what...
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by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
strong—there’s always the next project, the next deadline. Research by Assistant Professor Anat Keinan may help prevent those feelings of regret. In a study of present-day college students and of alumni returning for their 40th reunion, Keinan asked the two groups to...
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- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
let our emotions dictate our decision. We had to objectively assess whether we were the right people for that role,” David observes. And so began a conversation about the best path forward—a running dialogue that stretched from their...
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