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Jonathon Bunt

internship through an HBS soccer teammate who led him to an energy-drink start-up in San Francisco. “It opened my eyes to the beverage industry,” Jonathon says. “When I came back to HBS for my Elective Curriculum year, I used my independent study to View Details

01 Sep 2012
News

HBS Is Committed to Increasing Alumni Engagement

engagement. Alumni focus groups and interviews have been conducted around the world to better understand the motivators and barriers to alumni engagement and to further evaluate current and proposed communication channels. There were... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Skeete Tatum; engagement; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Dec 2017
News

Research Brief: Better Brainstorming

aspiring entrepreneurs who were taking part in a three-week startup bootcamp. Participants underwent personality evaluation to determine their level of openness (defined as having greater curiosity, questioning convention, and... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

12 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them

then could be tested experimentally. Studying doctors and patients The research team devised two experiments, one involving primary care doctors, the other, patients. In the first experiment, the researchers asked physicians to evaluate... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Pharmaceutical; Health

30 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers

seven years, large teams of affiliated WMS analysts have interviewed managers at some 10,000 organizations in 20 countries, setting out to determine how and why management practices differ vastly in style and quality. Best Practices The researchers used an View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

16 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Creating a Candidate-Centered Recruiting Process

Help people understand what is going to happen, who they'll meet, what you’re looking for, and how you’re evaluating candidates. This creates an environment where people can understand what is expected and potentially ask for... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

A Perfect Fit: Aligning Organization & Strategy

change to reach optimum alignment. Top management later reviews their proposed changes with the task force, which then evaluates the proposals on its own. "Not only does this give high-performing employees a chance to contribute to... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

2006
Article

Capital Budgeting: The Role of Cost Allocations

By: Ian D. Gow and Stefan Reichelstein

A common issue for firms is how to allocate capital resources to various investment alternatives. An extensive and long-standing literature in finance has examined various aspects of capital budgeting, including capital constraints, the determination of discount rates,... View Details

Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Resource Allocation; Performance Evaluation; Cost Management; Research; Investment; Cash Flow; Risk Management; Performance Capacity

Citation

Purchase

16 Aug 2016
Blog Post

Health Care Club: Summer Spotlight

finance, commercial, who each weigh in with their evaluation of an asset. But subject matter experts from clinical, regulatory, quality, legal, manufacturing - you name it - also all assess the effects of a deal on their part of the... View Details

Keywords: Health Care

Profile

Mariama Keita

four different schools to evaluate her MBA options. "I felt completely at home at HBS," she says. One of the things that impressed her was an article in the school paper, The Harbus, that reported on the efforts of HBS students... View Details

26 Nov 2019
News

Predicting Financial Market Bubbles and Crises in Real-time

among the first to develop comprehensive historical data on the incidence and length of financial and banking crises. KEY THEMES Greenwood conducted research into financial bubbles, called “Bubbles for Fama,” with colleagues Andrei Shleifer and Yang You. They sought to... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

14 Mar 2023
Blog Post

How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations

panels, and evaluate candidates as a group against a set of defined criteria. Integration. Create opportunities for people to work toward shared goals with people who are different from them. Discourage exclusionary social activities, and... View Details

01 Jun 2012
News

Plan B: The Brick Bank

Habitat for Humanity International to evaluate the viability of a new partnership with a microsavings institution in the Mekong Delta. “The intent of the program was to encourage poor and near-poor households to save for future... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 2001
News

Platforms and Collaborations

platform from Art Technology Group, then in its infancy. This inherent flexibility has helped the platform age gracefully. Even after five years in use, a student team’s evaluation in the fall of 2000 recommended navigational improvements... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

February 2011 (Revised April 2012)
Teaching Note

Braddock Industries, Inc. (TN)

By: William E. Fruhan

Teaching Note for 211061. View Details

Keywords: Value Creation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Motivation and Incentives; Compensation and Benefits; Economics; Business Units; Performance Evaluation

Citation

Purchase

December 2000 (Revised February 2007)
Case

Achieving Customer Satisfaction at Pizza Hut (A)

By: V.G. Narayanan and Preeti Choudhary

Describes how Pizza Hut measures and monitors customer satisfaction, customer complaints, and the quality of its retail locations. View Details

Keywords: Customer Satisfaction; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Management Systems; Risk Management; Franchise Ownership; Performance Evaluation; Problems and Challenges; Quality; Food and Beverage Industry; Service Industry

Citation

Educators

01 Sep 2010
News

Faculty Research Online

The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact Donors are placing nonprofits on the hot seat to measure social performance. Problem is, there is little agreement on what those metrics should be. Associate Professor Alnoor Ebrahim discusses how nonprofit managers should... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

05 Apr 2016
First Look

April 5, 2016

for your acquisition, find and evaluate the right prospects, avoid the pitfalls that could derail your search, understand why a "dull" business might be the best investment, negotiate a potential deal with the seller, and avoid... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

01 Jun 2025
News

Navigating Uncertainty: Dean Datar on HBS’s Path Forward

other resources like HBS Online both to offer in-person learning experiences and to build community. Similarly, in the Doctoral Programs (and in conjunction with the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences), we’ll evaluate how best to... View Details