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  • 15 Jan 2025
  • Blog Post

Building Bridges to Sustainable Infrastructure with Allied Climate Partners

electricity crises (among others) in its history. On top of that, given the pressing need to address the climate crisis, I sought a summer role with a firm focused on sustainable infrastructure investment. This internship allowed me to build my expertise in the field... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • Profile

Margo Cramer

generous with their time, helping me understand their industries, and evaluate internship opportunities." In the short term, Margo anticipates a return to apparel, this time in outdoor and athletic retail. Over the long run, she... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit/Government/Education; Retail/Hospitality
  • Web

Business at the Base of the Pyramid - Course Catalog

population of the world that is near indigence and for whom market solutions are less relevant. Course Evaluation and Grading 50% of the grade will be based on class participation, 10% on an original posting and two responses on the... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2009
  • News

Make the Most of HBS Alumni Resources

raise alumni awareness of continuing education options and proposed recommendations to make those options more accessible and relevant. Online Connections — served as a sounding board and test user group for the new, enhanced alumni directory. Volunteers — developed a... View Details
Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services
  • 20 Dec 2022
  • Blog Post

7 Resolutions for Recruiting in the New Year

either case, use these seven recruiting resolutions to help you rethink, reset, and resolve to make the next 365 days a resounding success. 1. Resolve to Increase EfficiencyOr, put differently, resolve to save your company time and money. View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • Student-Profile

Talia Gillis

Studying law and economics at the Hebrew University exposed me both to the normative way of evaluating the law as well as the theoretical and empirical tools used to assess the impact of those rules. Apart from my studies, a number of... View Details
  • Profile

Ryu Kawano

choose a more challenging pathway. "I wanted to make a mark for myself," says Ryu, "to establish myself as a professional before I considered returning to Indonesia." Ryu took on an analyst position with Lazard Freres & Co. where he,... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2010
  • News

Eight Join HBS Faculty

teaches the first-year course Technology and Operations Management. His research focuses on techniques to evaluate and improve the performance of complex systems in the airline and sports industries. Fearing earned his Ph.D. from MIT in... View Details
  • August 2009
  • Case

Bank of America Sports Sponsorship

By: Stephen A. Greyser and John L. Teopaco
A major sports sponsor must decide on new, renewal, or withdrawal from significant relations with teams/leagues/events, using a distinctive approach to assessment. View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Partners and Partnerships; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Performance Evaluation; Financing and Loans; Marketing Strategy; Sports Industry
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  • 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
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  • 2010
  • Other Unpublished Work

Share Issuance and Factor Timing

By: Robin Greenwood and Samuel Hanson
We show that characteristics of stock issuers can be used to forecast important common factors in stocks returns such as those associated with book-to-market, size, and industry. Specifically, we use differences between the attributes of stock issuers and repurchasers... View Details
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Equity; Stocks; Stock Shares; Investment Return; Investment Portfolio; Price; Performance Evaluation
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  • October 1996 (Revised May 2001)
  • Case

Cantuga Farmworkers Clinic (A)

By: James E. Austin and Catherine Overholt
The board of directors of a rural health clinic fires its executive director. The case elaborates the evolution and progress of the clinic under this director during a period of growth and a changing health care environment. Factors contributing to and questioning the... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Resignation and Termination; Managerial Roles; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Evaluation; Problems and Challenges; Rank and Position; Social Enterprise; Health Industry
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  • 14 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting

not clear what exactly corporate accountability reporting is, or how to evaluate its usefulness to different constituencies such as customers, bondholders, shareholders, employees, and communities. It's not clear how it affects managers'... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting; Energy; Utilities
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

Lesson from the Fall

contrary to human nature to expect total objectivity from a CEO regarding his or her performance. One cannot expect a CEO in the role of chairman to prepare the board to evaluate lapses and failures on his or her part, or on the part of... View Details
Keywords: Malcolm S. Salter; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities
  • 03 Oct 2018
  • What Do You Think?

How Should Managers Deal with the Challenges of Building an Inclusive Workplace?

quotas Instead, I favor an individualized approach where the organization names diversity and inclusion as values and then individuals are evaluated based on their words and behavior rather than on numbers.” Frances Pratt suggested that,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 03 Jun 2024
  • Blog Post

Five Ways to Rethink Your Job Description

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging practices Is this role in-person, remote, or hybrid? Evaluate what qualifications are essential Some roles need a specific degree or require years of experience in a particular function or... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 02 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 3, 2008

evidence that boards appoint overly optimistic analysts who exhibit little skill in evaluating the firm itself, other firms within the firm's industry, or even other firms in general. The magnitude of the optimistic bias is large: 82.0%... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 12, 2006

beings are resourceful and evaluative as they strive to maximize their own interests. An individual's interests can converge or diverge from the interests of the organization. Thus, to bring the resourcefulness of individuals to benefit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Feb 2015
  • Research & Ideas

How to Break the Expert’s Curse

summer) to review and evaluate the advice. As a whole, the young advice recipients gave higher ratings to the advice from the experienced interns who had "rediscovered" their own summer diary accounts. Zhang was not surprised. "The people... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education
  • Web

Online Entrepreneurial Marketing Course | HBS Online

making purchasing decisions Understand the importance of brand-building and the key components of an effective brand Build a media strategy across paid, earned, and owned channels Evaluate and identify growth opportunities Who Will... View Details