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  • 01 Mar 2006
  • News

HBS Reverses Policy On Grade Disclosure

In a mid-December letter to all MBA students, Dean Jay Light announced that the School was dropping its seven-year-old policy that prohibited students from revealing their grades to potential employers. The change takes effect with the... View Details
Keywords: grades; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • December 1997
  • Case

Making the Grade (A)

By: Robert L. Simons
Focuses on the dilemma of a young professor at a graduate school of business. He must decide what final grade to give a student who has worked extremely hard, but he is constrained by the school's "forced curve" grading policy. Designed to explore the multiple purposes... View Details
Keywords: Design; Management Systems; Performance Evaluation; Motivation and Incentives; Education Industry
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  • September 1986 (Revised June 1988)
  • Case

Making the Grade (A)

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  • September 1986 (Revised June 1988)
  • Supplement

Making the Grade (B)

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1.7 Grading | MBA

1.7 Grading 1.0 Academic Information & Policies At the conclusion of each course, instructors give students one of four grades designated as Category I, II, III, and IV. These View Details
  • 16 Aug 2012
  • News

Grading the Games

  • December 1997
  • Case

Making the Grade (B)

By: Robert L. Simons
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Education Industry
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  • November 2006 (Revised March 2007)
  • Case

Goodyear and the Threat of Government Tire Grading

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Dennis A. Yao and Elizabeth Raabe
In the spring of 1977, Goodyear CEO Charles J. Pilliod Jr. was looking at an internal report on government and legal events relevant to the tire industry. Two items caught his attention. First, he noticed that an industry suit to block the government's proposed system... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Lawsuits and Litigation; Auto Industry; Rubber Industry; United States
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  • May 1997
  • Article

Should Directors Grade Themselves?

By: J. W. Lorsch
Keywords: Management; Performance Evaluation
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  • 24 Mar 2016
  • News

Grading Yahoo's board

  • September 1986 (Revised June 1988)
  • Supplement

Making the Grade (C)

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  • 09 Mar 2016
  • Lessons from the Classroom

In This Classroom, Beer Can Improve Your Grade

In a large circular classroom called The Hives, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell is roaming the floors this week as he oversees the second running of Strategic Brew, a computerized business simulation designed for first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School. HBS is no... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Education; Food & Beverage
  • 01 Sep 2013
  • News

The trouble with grade inflation: It works

  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Public Sector SME Grading System in Emerging Markets: A Focus on Nigeria

By: Saveshen Pillay, Anywhere Sikochi, Charles Odii, Zaakirah Ismail, Regina Bamaiyi and Denise Mubaiwa
In this paper, we explore the impact of creating a public sector nano, micro, small and medium enterprise (nMSME) grading system in Nigeria. Using insights from work with the Nigerian government, the first country in Africa to attempt to establish a public sector SME... View Details
Keywords: Small Business; Economic Growth; Emerging Markets; Economic Sectors; Africa; Nigeria
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  • 01 Oct 2006
  • Conference Presentation

Grading and Feedback at HBS: A Developmental Perspective

By: Scott Snook
Keywords: Growth and Development
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  • 23 Mar 2017
  • News

No Deal, Grading President Trump, Tito Jackson

  • 02 Oct 2019
  • What Do You Think?

What Grade Would You Give Walmart CEO Doug McMillon?

meeting needs of multiple stakeholders will be met with controversy. Those giving McMillon the lowest grades appeared to be gun owners or supporters. As BobG put it, “Anyone who makes a decision to not support a Constitutional right of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail
  • March 2007 (Revised April 2013)
  • Teaching Note

Goodyear and the Threat of Government Tire Grading (TN)

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Dennis Yao
Teaching note to 707494. View Details
Keywords: Rubber Industry; United States
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  • 11 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

How Do You Grade Out as a Negotiator?

did. Most teaching around being a successful negotiator focuses on preparations before discussions start, and on strategies during the talks. The problem: We don't spend nearly enough time after the negotiations to grade our performance... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • April 2011
  • Case

Kay Sunderland: Making the Grade at Attain Learning

By: Linda A. Hill and Heather Beckham
Kay Sunderland is an account director at Attain Learning Inc., a business training solutions company. In January 2011, one of Attain's most important clients, Juan Nunez of Gramen Equipment Company, contacts Sunderland with a request: Nunez would like Attain content... View Details
Keywords: Communication; Interpersonal Relations; Personal Strategy ＆ Style; Creativity; Conflict; Interdepartmental Relations; Talent Management; Management Style; Interpersonal Communication; Talent and Talent Management; Relationships; Conflict and Resolution; Communication Strategy; Power and Influence; Service Industry
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