Intangibles - Publications - Faculty & Research

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How Sports Impacts The Lives Of Girls And Women Long After Their Playing Days Are Done

17 Jul 2015
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Why Integrated Reporting Makes Sense

18 Jun 2019
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Image by John Ritter The path to a job in the C-suite isn’t what it used to be. For many years, companies could lean on financial expertise and industry connections when recruiting candidates, but HBS professors Raffaella Sadun and Joseph Fuller say that so much has... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

15 Jun 2021
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Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock

toward stakeholder awareness. “ESG got its start with fossil fuels, but now the more intangible aspects—the treatment of employees, contributions to the community, and so on—are becoming an increasing area of focus for investors,” Kramer... View Details

Keywords: April White; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

13 Nov 2020
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Countdown To Remote Learning

intangible qualities that make the HBS classroom such a magical place.” He led additional work over the summer, based on extensive feedback, to further enhance teaching and learning. The School is sharing what it learned with educators... View Details

01 Jun 2013
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Revitalizing America

regions. National and community service is more than a program. It is a mindset and a way to shift the culture. While sporadic service days are more symbolic than sustainable, they still pay tribute to values and call on people's better selves. Let's not forget those... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2018
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In My Humble Opinion: Urban Renewal

aspirations. We serve as psychotherapists to neighborhoods.” Favorite LA building: Los Angeles City Hall. “In a city that is so diverse and dispersed, it’s the symbol of common ground that draws us together and gives tangible expression to an View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 2000
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how individuals can capitalize on the new, equal-opportunity economy and all of its exciting possibilities. Davis and Meyer describe a world in the not-so-distant future in which we will trade everything of value -- including human capital, talent, and other View Details

01 Jun 2022
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Blissful Thinking

salaries and benefits.” Then I’d say, “No, let’s look at the real comp.” Real comp is the tangibles plus the intangibles in a job, and the number-one intangible in a job is social capital—your relationship... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters

01 Apr 2000
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A Place in the Sun

The big challenge is to communicate emotion-based intangibles in a market where consumers are oriented toward material things and getting value for their money. We're a big-ticket item, so we have to convey to the consumer the inherent... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons

01 Sep 2014
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All For One

course before leaving for California in the morning, she arrives carrying a pile of books and papers. She’s considered one of the School’s preeminent management “gurus,” a title that has inevitably attached itself to her ability to channel the View Details

Keywords: Michael Blanding; faculty; research; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services

01 Apr 1999
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Spirit at Work

"Soul." "Spirit." A host of organizations - among them Lucent Technologies, the Boeing Company, and Southwest Airlines - have recently begun to ponder such intangibles in an effort to attract and maintain a motivated, performance-boosting... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

16 Nov 2017
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The Business of Social Justice

leadership role and I was never going to run a bank,” Brooks says of her decision to join the Schott Foundation. “Long-term, intangible work was new to me,” Brooks says, adding the work of the foundation—partnering with teachers’ unions... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

27 Mar 2019
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Life Is a Startup

no-name, for something that doesn’t pass the mom test, all of that is part of the handcuffs that prevent us from being able to go and be able to do it. There’s the financial and tangible, but there’s also the psychic and intangible of the... View Details

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