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- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
for-profit institution. In terms of health-care delivery, the absence of a profit motive doesn't mean that people should tolerate poorly designed processes and systems—especially when organizational performance is a necessary component of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
direct lesson about economic policy from that period for a couple of reasons. For one thing, as the country has grown richer and our capacity to deal with some of these problems has increased, our tolerance for loss of life is lower—as it... View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
room. I raised my hand and said, “Hang it from the ceiling!” The class found that remark funny and not much else, but to his everlasting credit, Professor Salmon replied, “That is creative and inspiring!” He had very good tolerance for... View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
when cities can tolerate risk and when there is enough labor with low opportunity costs. We also report on an inexpensive Boston-based restaurant tournament, which yielded algorithms that proved reasonably accurate when tested... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
Streamline approvals. A complicated decision process can burden the fund with too many goals and lead to ineffective investing patterns. Provide powerful incentives. Companies that don't offer adequate compensation to their venture capitalists will face a steady stream... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
grateful. —Nique Fajors (MBA 1993) I arrived at HBS in 1969, one year after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Frankly, I arrived with doubts regarding whether, as an African American, I would be welcomed or merely tolerated... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
businesses are shut out of the Paycheck Protection Program. How long do you expect people to tolerate such consistent failure to uphold a semblance of equity? The movements also represent a refusal to continue accepting a fallacious and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
sometimes be skirted, frauds sometimes perpetrated, society’s resources misallocated, and the environment sometimes damaged. Managements are sometimes tolerated or even embraced who should not be—managements preoccupied with... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
weakening its capacity to achieve espoused goals and eroding public trust. In the private sector, institutional corruption typically entails gaming society's laws and regulations, tolerating conflicts of interest, persistently violating... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
everywhere, those in small towns and rural communities must be nimble and have a high tolerance for failure. HBS senior fellow Allen Grossman, who worked with Marietta at PELP, sees social enterprises like Pine Mountain as laboratories... View Details
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
in defined-contribution pension plans, such as stable value funds, balanced funds, and life-cycle (or target date) funds. We find that life-cycle funds designed to match the risk tolerance and investment horizon of investors have small... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55514 January–February 2019 Harvard Business Review The Hard Truth About Innovative Cultures By: Pisano, Gary P. Abstract— Innovative cultures are generally depicted as pretty fun. They’re characterized... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
the need for leaders to cultivate a tolerance for ambiguity. Most challenges that feature moral issues are not that clear-cut, and the situations they are embedded in can go on for quite a long time without resolution. Kay Graham, whose... View Details
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
considering such a path, the authors offer practical advice for each stage of the process. Think it through. Do you have the right qualities for the job (managerial skills, confidence, persuasiveness, persistence, a thirst for learning, and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
leadership, unsure of its direction. By the early afternoon of May Day, with the noise of the parade starting to die down, Gordon sits in the courtyard of a casa particular—a private-home-turned-hotel—and traces her tolerance for... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
low-process-conformance stores, managers tolerate deviations from these standards. We find that increasing turnover does not have a negative effect on store performance at high-process-conformance stores; at low-process-conformance... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace