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  • 03 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 3, 2007

target shareholders but are costly to target fund directors. Such mergers are more likely when funds underperform and their boards have a larger percentage of independent trustees, suggesting that more-independent boards tolerate less... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2013
  • News

Your Own Medicine

tolerate it. The night of the first dose, he asked for sushi—not a typical choice for someone feeling nauseated. Halfway into a third order of edamame, he froze. "Oh my God," pointing to a maggot in the food, "I'm going to throw up, and... View Details
Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; biomedicine; biopharmaceutical company; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 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
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook
  • 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
  • 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
  • Web

Dean Srikant Datar’s 2025 Commencement Remarks | About

lives, you will continue to be curious, and engage with new content, new ideas, and new cases. You have learned to be adaptable and tolerate ambiguity, knowing there is no single right answer. You have learned from others whose position... View Details
  • 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
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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