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- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work
the list until you run out of either time or money." But Tucker and Singer's findings diverge from previous research and theory. About half the hospitals that participated in their study chose to do some kind of prioritization—the View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
- 20 Dec 2024
- News
Clubs Open HBS Doors for Local Leaders; Meet the Club Leaders: HBS PRIDE; Favorite Reads of 2024
To Boost Communities, Alumni Clubs Send Nonprofit Leaders to HBS For one week every summer, nonprofit leaders from across the globe convene on the HBS campus to sharpen their leadership skills and expand their impact through the Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
need for management experience in nonprofits, and I decided to try to combine my business skills with my commitment to the environment," says Kendall. He embarked on a "classic business school analysis of the industry," talking to the... View Details
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Preface - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
overtones, but they all have direct antecedents in the allegories and emblematic representations of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. There is a striking similarity between Goltzius's Marriage... View Details
- 27 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 27
Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA)? Empirical analysis shows that developing countries serving on the board can expect more than double the funding from the IBRD as countries not on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Katie Laidlaw
Why was getting a degree from HBS important to you? HBS attracts people similar to me, yet different from me in every way. I was particularly drawn to challenging myself in this learning environment and meeting new people from around the... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
The difference of 0.6 percent is hardly anything to get excited about, especially given the wide variation in forecasted growth levels overall (e.g., 3 percent to 40 percent). We found similar evidence when we partitioned our analysts on... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
each time we added seats, average attendance and contributions increased. I made a cash-flow analysis and revenue projections that helped lenders understand our business model. We’re now able to negotiate and secure reasonable financial... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Faculty Books
Questions of Character by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. (HBS Press) Professor Badaracco argues that serious fiction provides us with memorable characters facing challenges similar to those that confront business leaders. Through View Details
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
legislators in India influences development outcomes, both for citizens of their religious group and for the population as a whole. Using an instrumental variables approach derived from a regression discontinuity, we find that increasing the political View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Black Excellence: AASU’s 2019 Fall Retreat in Review
long-term impact will bear fruit for those who come after us." Alexxis Isaac (MBA '20) echoed similar sentiments. "It was beautiful to hear how - despite having different specific dreams - we were united in a hope to elevate... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why Evolutionary Software Development Works
industry experts to rate the comparative quality of each product relative to other products that targeted similar customer needs at the time the act was launched. Product quality was defined as a combination of reliability, technical... View Details
- 22 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 22
the modern theory and practice of contingent claims analysis (CCA), which is successfully used today at the level of individual banks by managers, investors, and regulators. The basic analytical tool is the risk-adjusted balance sheet,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
companies with such plans do not perform better financially. Further analysis prompted Beer and Katz to conclude that the real role of bonuses is simply to attract highly qualified executives to a corporation. "Companies are forced into... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
prescriptive suggestions for candidates to approach job negotiations as a two-level game and to minimize disadvantageous effects of gender on job negotiation outcomes. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-095.pdf Optimal Life-Cycle Investing with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise - Intensive - Course Catalog
course. It will have a series of shorter written analysis exercises instead of a full research paper. Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice Willy Shih Spring; Q4; 1.5 credits 13 sessions Paper This short version of BSSE will... View Details
- 23 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
One More Way the Startup World Hampers Women Entrepreneurs
men,” Koning says. That phenomenon, known as “sampling bias,” is likely less a result of active discrimination against women, Koning says, than it is a lack of representation in the sample of people giving feedback. Nevertheless, it could... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) leads to capital market benefits through enhanced financial statement comparability. UK domestic standards are considered very similar to IFRS (Bae et al., 2008), suggesting any... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation
billion in fiscal 2012.) "Over the course of the 2000s the representation of executives [in standards-setting organizations] has gotten larger," Lerner says. "Standards bodies move slower and are more politicized than they... View Details
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
networks such as BitTorrent and eMule affect the types of content that are likely to be found in these networks and the average life of that content. This will allows us to finesse our analysis of optimal pricing of profit maximizing... View Details