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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
reality and the way they think things should be,” he explains, “we have an opening—we can ask them whether they support policies that promote the outcomes they have just told us they most desire.” Norton, a member of the Marketing Unit,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
Harvard Business School Guide to Finding Your Next Job by Robert S. Gardella (Harvard Business School Press) As fast as the business world is changing, so too are the techniques for searching for the right job. Yet regardless of the reason for a job change -- the View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
world’s GDP and as the home to 62 out of the 100 most valuable brands in the world, it’s not surprising that America is in the driver’s seat,” Quelch notes. He characterizes the U.S. model of management as focused on immediate outcomes... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
digital divide brought to light by the rapid transformation of the classroom experience from in-person to remote learning. ASHISH DHAWAN (MBA 1997) Founder and chairperson of Central Square Foundation, a nonprofit working to transform India’s education system by... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
brokers closed upon execution of the loan, not whether the loan performed. Lenders were paid for originating the loan, not, again, whether the loan performed. The incentives that were in place encouraged behavior that led to extremes, and the View Details
- 23 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method
Clubs News Clubs News HBS Club of Dallas Explores Election Reform and Political Innovation in Virtual Talk As the presidential election nears, the potential for an unusual outcome that could spark a Constitutional crisis seems to grow... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 28 May 2019
- News
What I Do: Gordon Medenica (MBA 1979)
Millions tickets, when in reality they’re taking bets on the outcome of our game. So we’re fighting trademark battles, even as we have efforts well under way to develop the game internationally.” “When I started as director of the New... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Faculty Books
activities? How does one evaluate the reasonableness of a manager’s performance on large projects where traditional outcome methods don’t seem to apply? HBS emeritus professor Fox and his coauthor answer these questions based on records... View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
Fieldhouse to develop a workable concept for a launch of the program. Fieldhouse connected with Specialisterne to help build Dandelion, and formed an external pro bono advisory board that included fellow HBS alumnus Kerry Clarke (AMP 167, 2004), to assist in defining... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
just those who are mini-Toms. While it sounds comforting to have ninety reflections of myself all focused on me, I can’t do my work as a teacher if the outcome is a reproduction of me. The class works when each student makes a choice to... View Details
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963) grew up in Rego Park, Queens, the son of Spanish immigrants. As a boy in the 1940s, he would watch the airplanes fly over his backyard and into LaGuardia Airport,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
Some folks would like to choose locations based on climate or their hobbies, right? And there could be second-order effects in terms of climate outcomes and traffic outcomes. So, I think if this becomes a phenomenon there could be a lot... View Details
- 02 Mar 2017
- News
Such Great Heights
the mountains, and being in snow, and eventually climbing glaciers was something that was just sort of a natural outcome for me. White: So you were climbing for years before you turned your hobby into a job. Tell me about your career... View Details
- 19 Jan 2021
- News
Managing the Unintended Consequences of Your Innovations
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
roundtables, workshops, awards, and fireside chats. Culture Shift aims to solve relevant problems in diversity, like how tech can improve health outcomes or financial disparities with the input of diverse leaders across industries. During... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
President Obama has said many times he supports the Employee Free Choice Act. It passed the House in March 2007, and I believe a majority of senators in this Congress have indicated their support. But I’m not foolish enough to predict the View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
and the moral hazard associated with that. Or the additional capital and regulatory requirements will put these firms at a disadvantage relative to their competitors, and you will have weakened the firms that you believe to be systemically significant. Neither is a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
some point you have to decide if you want to be a business leader or a life leader. A business leader might be able to achieve business outcomes. But that’s only a subset of what you aspire to as a life leader, who ensures that how you get to the business View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 01 Jun 2011
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New Program Helps Restless Alums Answer the Question, ‘What’s Next?’
he recalls. Within months, Wyman exited the firm, but several years passed before he found his new calling, what he regards as the transformational outcome of his HBS experience. Building on their previous experiences in Rwanda, the... View Details
- 31 Mar 2017
- News
Turning Teachers into Leaders
achievement gap, to improve outcomes for students, particularly those of low-income neighborhoods and families, so they have a better chance of life and career success. We work towards that mission by helping state agencies of education,... View Details