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Value Explore the three pillars of value creation, why capital is costly, and how to use this information to benefit your organization. Highlights Three Sources of Value Weighted Average Cost of Capital Beta Show Hide Details Concepts How... View Details
- 13 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Company Reviews on Glassdoor: Petty Complaints or Signs of Potential Misconduct?
negative evaluations, such as "discrimination," "trouble," "favoritism," and "unethical." Within the results, the researchers found they could clearly distinguish between firms with high and low numbers of violations by the weighted... View Details
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Inside the Learning: Wellness on Campus
and weight room Squash and racquetball courts Locker rooms Exercise studios Sauna and steam rooms If you will be on campus for a longer program, you can also take advantage of scheduled classes, as well as fitness evaluations and personal... View Details
- 23 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Arla Foods: How Sustainable Can A Dairy Company Be?
of emissions on a farm-by-farm basis. Arla has developed a sustainability incentive model to incorporate the carbon footprint of each farmer’s milk production as a factor in their compensation. By allocating points across a variety of sustainability categories View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
important, as I was not yet in a major leadership position. I now have to manage a team of creatives and business professionals, and often their motivations and goals are misaligned. How to balance out their weightings in the company, and... View Details
- 26 Oct 2018
- Blog Post
Making the Switch from Finance to Fitness
go to an indoor cycling class with her. I didn’t understand. The bikes didn’t move – why would I do this? Nevertheless, I went to a class at Flywheel Sports and left feeling better, physically and mentally. While I grew up playing sports, I was not the person in the... View Details
- 07 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Better Way to Forecast the Future
are broader. When Grushka-Cockayne refers to averaging the forecasts, she is not necessarily referring to a mathematical average but any number of ways to combine them. Various methods can include weighting certain ones or trimming... View Details
- 23 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming Nervous Nelly
Again inducing participants by playing scary music or video clips, she found that anxious individuals were much more likely to seek out advice from others when they were asked to estimate the body weights of random people in photographs.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 27 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets
the median developing country than in the median developed country. Resilience responds to this ambient situation of uncertainty. Silverthorne: In developed economies with stable institutions, does reputation carry the same weight in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Stakeholder Management Facing New Headwinds?
"One difference between shareholder and stakeholder management may be in the identification of those carrying the greatest weight in a decision." In fact, the late management professor H. Jeff Smith, in his classic article, questioned... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Nov 2022
- What Do You Think?
Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?
gets lost in this conversation is the extent to which the US needs immigrants. We need their youth, their willingness to work at any job, their productivity, their contributions to a social security system being weighted down by the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Dec 2010
- What Do You Think?
Making Right Choices: Art or Science?
this way: Decisions on personal matters carry a greater weight of art; those that relate to work have more of science. Frances Pratt commented, "It is often the art that allows us to imagine that we are indeed making a controlled,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 07 Aug 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?
is far more valuable in decisions regarding people " However, intuition lags reality. "Use it to consider if the new idea makes sense, but don't give it more weight than it deserves." B. Graham equated judgment with a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Half the Firms, Double the Profits: Public Firms' Transformation, 1996–2022
By: Mark J. Roe and Charles C.Y. Wang
The number of public firms in the United States has halved since the beginning of the twenty-first century, causing consternation among corporate and securities law regulators. The dominant explanations, often advanced by Securities and Exchange commissioners when... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Law; Securities Regulation; Sarbanes-Oxley Act; Concentration Levels; Antitrust; Initial Public Offering; Public Ownership; Private Equity; Venture Capital; Mergers and Acquisitions; Monopoly; United States
Roe, Mark J., and Charles C.Y. Wang. "Half the Firms, Double the Profits: Public Firms' Transformation, 1996–2022." Journal of Law, Finance, and Accounting (forthcoming).
- 07 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
7 Coming Out Stories from the HBS PRIDE Club
experiences. The weight we all carried allows us to work harder, love stronger, and live more vibrantly. Being gay isn’t a community it’s a family. When you’re ready to come out, you won’t be alone.” Charlotte Lawson MD (she/her), Class... View Details
- 05 May 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Ethical Can We Be?
practices that place a great deal of weight on "attitude" and "listening skills." Trust is a cornerstone of an efficient and effective system. Bad things happen when it is undermined by unmet expectations or ethical... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 06 Nov 2018
- Research & Ideas
8 Ways to Make Olympic Stadiums Useful After the Games End
presence of a nearby competing venue had a negative effect on an Olympic site’s viability, not surprisingly, as did the weight of a past or ongoing financial burden and the general public malaise surrounding a site’s disuse. Montreal, for... View Details
- 18 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
Relocating to Boston with Your Partner
bonds. 6) Get a Shad (gym) membership If Shad is conveniently located for you, there are excellent weight room, cardio room, gym, basketball court, squash courts, free classes (spin, yoga, Pilates, etc.). Try to pick a few classes each... View Details
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Celebrating Socioeconomic Diversity and Inclusion at HBS (Part 1) - MBA
Luu , Class of 2024 To me, being FGLI means breaking down barriers and adding rungs to help others climb the socioeconomic ladder behind me. It means carrying the weight of my family’s hopes and dreams, often alone and behind a mask of... View Details
- 16 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making
lot more weight than inexperienced outsiders, potentially outweighing the other defects in the list’s construction. To find out, Luo and her co-authors took the list of approximately 700 films listed between 2007 and 2014, and examined... View Details