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- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
both cases I never had a chance to say goodbye. And I think it really is how you touch people every day. None of us knows how long we have to live. And so we've got to make every day be really meaningful and show up and care about people... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
with HBS professor William Kirby and Regina Abrami (PMD 76, 2001) of the Wharton School. In addition to teaching in several HBS Executive Education programs, McFarlan has been a guest professor at Tsinghua University’s School of Economics and View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
edge. READ MORE The World at a Click A stay at Turtle Island is an eagerly anticipated experience, and those expectations create management challenges for Evanson and the resort's 130-person staff. "One thing my HBS professors would love... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
Tencent to Scandinavian digital trailblazer Schibsted, from The New York Times to The Economist, and from talent management to the future of education. Synthesizing what these stories have in common, and drawing on the latest research in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
Tracking Performance Indicators By: Beveridge, Christiana, Sofia Warner, Greg Leya, and Thomas W. Feeley Abstract—Given that accountable care organizations (ACOs) have not achieved the degree of cost reductions and quality improvements... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 15
quality rating is more likely. So we find evidence that World Bank project quality suffers as a consequence of political influence only when the recipient country is economically vulnerable in the first place. Publisher's link: http://ftp.iza.org/dp4820.pdf August 2013... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
Retirement, education, and medical care are focal in the minds of voters, so setting up tax-deferred savings programs around these issues is a political winner. Also, given the political power of universities, doctors, and asset View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 26 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Great Ideas Get Stuck in Universities
Roche and Boudou considered several explanations for their findings: whether the technology driving the startup was too new or not good enough, and whether the founders took too central a role in controlling or managing the company.... View Details
- 02 May 2023
- Blog Post
Sustainability Career Advice from the Career & Professional Development Office
a position within the nonprofit space and specifically for an organization that had mission and purpose in their DNA. I was fortunate to find a position in the marketing department for HBS’s Career Professional Development team. I spent more than a decade on the team... View Details
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
encouraged to stay in the system. Far from it. Stewardship involves careful construction and management of channel relationships so that the valuable members are suitably rewarded and the less valuable... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
world of the future Teaching tomorrow's leaders Who's Number One? In selecting the "most influential business leader" of the last 75 years, HBS alumni, graduates of America's best-known school of management, chose a college dropout with no formal business or View Details
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
partisanship will continue to cloud economic judgment around the 2024 election. For managers and finance professionals, these insights highlight two important aspects of operating a business today: In a polarized political environment,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 23 May 2011
- Op-Ed
Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society
Reporting Advances Integrated reporting is an emerging management practice that involves the integration of a company's required financial report with its voluntary (except for a few countries) corporate social responsibility or... View Details
Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & George Serafeim
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
getting out of it. And there's this enormous line that's snaking by the pool side entrance to the club. The club is the first two, three floors of the hotel. It's just varying levels of exclusivity. Who do you know? Is the doorman going to let you in? A lot of times,... View Details
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
looking to hire. Holding contests to seek advice from the crowd may help companies fill the need for innovative answers more cheaply and quickly. “Contests create incentives and drive parallel search,” Lakhani said. “What you want when you View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 06 Jan 2021
- News
A Message from Dean Srikant Datar
and my other co-author, Patrick Cullen, on rethinking the MBA, and the impact it has had on management education. Although, I would add that most of the credit for that work should go to the many innovators whose work we describe in the... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
overachievement bonuses) to keep high performers, low performers, and average performers engaged throughout the year. Managers should be careful in setting and adjusting quotas. For instance, studies show... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Vincent Dessain
Vincent (HBS MBA’87) draws on more than 25 years of experience as a higher education senior executive at HBS and INSEAD and in the corporate world both in the US and in Europe to counsel students and alumni as they evaluate, prepare for and pursue their career options.... View Details
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- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
important and contentious subjects where intellectual breakthroughs are possible. 1. Entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship is an area in which business historians have made important contributions, but in which most of the recent conceptual work has been done by... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
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A Message from Dean Srikant Datar | About
others became deans of major business schools. I’m also proud of the work that I did with our beloved late colleague, David Garvin, and my other co-author, Patrick Cullen, on rethinking the MBA, and the impact it has had on management... View Details