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- 30 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers
compared to staff in units with low managerial engagement? "Interestingly, we only saw a meaningful increase in offering solutions by employees in units with low managerial engagement," says Adler-Milstein. "In a sense, the units with... View Details
- 13 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 13, 2008
Publication:Financial Analysts Journal (forthcoming) Abstract We compare the earnings forecast performance of analysts at a large buy-side firm to that of sell-side analysts. Our tests show that the buy-side firm analysts make more... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is Less Becoming More?
findings, he concludes that consumers increasingly are beset with worries associated with the inability to choose among increasing options, the increasing difficulty of comparing options, a sense of "missed opportunity" in the... View Details
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Reality of Web Services
equally well within and between companies. Cross-company implementations, however, are still comparatively rare. We see them between large and technically sophisticated organizations who have longstanding ties, and we're also starting to... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant
- 29 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services
colleague out of the partnership if he doesn't accept. Comparable limits circumscribe other organizational choices. If the CEO wants to add a new management position, he has to convince his colleagues. If he thinks a change in the firm's... View Details
Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments
shifted his research to project finance, one of the hottest applications of leveraged finance today. "The projects I study are financed with 65 to 90 percent debt, compared with 25 to 35 percent for the typical industrial firm,"... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 03 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
HBS Pilots First Impact Investing Fund
Reserve Bank of Boston found the average net worth of a white family was $250,000, compared with $2,700 for "Other Hispanic" and $8 for Black (source: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, The Color of Wealth, 2015). To address growing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
risks associated with outsourcing; and using “shadow pricing” to compare public- and private-sector costs for services. Us + Them: Tapping the Positive Power of Difference by Todd L. Pittinsky (PhDOB 2001) (Harvard Business Review Press)... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
John Read
team. It’s amazing what getting out of the office and onto a ropes course can do for a group. How does running Outward Bound compare with running a truck-parts company? It is similar in that you need to marshal support for an idea and... View Details
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Amanda Pratt
Analysis and Valuation. "It builds on the finance and strategy classes you have in your RC year," she explains. "But now you look at how companies' financial structures and business strategies work together, and how they View Details
Keywords: Healthcare/Biotech
- Web
Real Property - Course Catalog
select public infrastructure (e.g., power, water, and transit), highlighting how they compare with core Real Estate asset classes in terms of risk, opportunity, and investor interest. Module 3: Capital Markets Focuses on sources of real... View Details
- 31 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Niche Content in an Ad-Driven World
writers who allowed the site to run ads on their blog pages received 50 percent of the revenue generated. The researchers analyzed blog posts by 4,200 participants in the program both before and after the program took effect (between May 2007 and January 2009), View Details
- 27 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Researchers Cheat (Just a Little)
Serum, that compared their own admission rates to their estimates of how likely they thought other researchers were to engage in and admit to the same practices. Higher scores were given to the admissions that were surprisingly common,... View Details
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The Prescription for Lowering Health Care Costs? Look at What Doctors Do | Working Knowledge
socioeconomic factors, the researchers compared ED use by physicians and their family members to a specific Medicare population of attorneys and their families who also earned high salaries between 2006 and 2017. They also View Details
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
According to a report from the University of California Berkeley, “Current carbon sequestration in US cropland soils is only 8.4 million metric tons CO2 Eq. per year, compared to an annual potential of 100 million.” Practices like organic... View Details
- 24 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 24
and magnitude of their capital flows in and out of the funds. We use dollar-weighted returns (a form of IRR) to assess the properties of actual investor returns on hedge funds and compare them to buy-and-hold fund returns. Our main... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model
poor." His ambition is to cure the poor of the world for one dollar a day. Shetty's model is based on staffing doctors who are extremely well-trained and dedicated, yet are willing to take a 50 percent pay cut compared to what they... View Details
- 11 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Four Ways to Create Lasting Change
identified—chartering, learning, mobilizing, and realigning—in the successful change effort. A: By conducting an in-depth comparison of these two generations of the CSE initiative, and by comparing this experience to initiatives that we... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem
information about products rather than to make direct purchases. It is not surprising that apparel led the list: For every dollar spent on apparel online, consumers who visited online apparel sites spent $2.92 purchasing apparel from catalogs or bricks and mortar... View Details
- 24 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Brexit is a Big Deal
camp offered nothing except the status quo. Anyone watching the national UK television debate on Tuesday could compare the hope and passion of the Leave campaign, led by former London mayor Boris Johnson, with the plodding, half-hearted... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch