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- 02 Feb 2016
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February 2, 2016
quality of accounting information. Overall, a tractable accounting-based valuation model provides a unifying framework for obtaining reliable proxies of expected returns worldwide. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49238 Design of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
successive missions, but there are also many challenges to the development and exchange of experience-based knowledge. The main case decision point focuses on one such challenge in particular: how to instill in junior engineers the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
startup that has just successfully deployed software for its first customer, the Washington DC Metropolitan Police Department. On the other hand, pursuing the LAPD RFP could consume most of Mark43’s engineering resources for the coming... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
engineering (SE) employment and patenting by inventors with Indian and Chinese names in cities and firms dependent upon the program relative to their peers. Most specifications find limited effects for native SE employment or patenting.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
utilities to review their established capacity-based strategies. "My predecessor, Guy Nichols, became persuaded by the arguments of a number of engineers and environmentalists who contended that the incremental cost of building new power... View Details
- 30 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?
Benioff completed a BS in Business Administration from the University of Southern California, paying his way through college with royalties he earned as a teen-age game developer. Nadella studied engineering in India and was awarded an... View Details
- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
force must be hired and trained every four years or so,” says Cespedes. “Any talk about talent management that ignores this aspect of the business is probably just talk.” The challenge is compounded because in contrast to hiring for View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 20 Mar 2017
- Book
Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies
convinced Lakhani to drop his engineering aspirations and become a scholar of innovation. Lakhani has devoted much of his research at HBS exploring how communities and contests can be designed to achieve innovative outcomes. Last year, he... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
especially the efficient functioning of the courts. Greece has excellent human capital, as evidenced by the supply of qualified engineers and the availability of skilled labor. It lacks the institutions and the governance system that... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 22 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs
wants to hire and then applies to the US government to obtain the visa. Young workers account for a large portion of skilled immigrants, with 90 percent of H-1B workers under the age of 40. The visa is used especially for occupations in science, technology, View Details
- 10 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook
example, in a February 2012 survey by the Pew Research Center, 73 percent of 2,253 adult respondents answered they would not be OK with a search engine (such as Google) keeping track of their searches and using the results to personalize... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 28 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 28
company, called Cardio-Metric, in 2002, it consisted of seven young engineers (including its two 25-year-old founders) working from a one-bedroom Minneapolis apartment. By 2008, when the venture capital-backed company recorded $110... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
David A. Frankel
engine startup, and not a full-time founder of Founder Collective). Frankel’s ability to juggle his HBS course load while indulging his emerging venture capital career was impressive. He also remained on the board of Dimension Data and... View Details
- 18 Sep 2008
- News
HBS Olympians
Albertville, France—but I was sure there were more. Who were they? When I saw a list of about 200 Harvard College Olympians, my zeal to compile a list of HBS Olympians was awakened. I turned to the marvelous search engine on the HBS Web... View Details
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
B2C and B2B methods. But in seeking to grow and scale the business, they now must make decisions about the relative emphasis on building their consumer brand or its B2B partnerships as well as the implications for product offerings and marketing methods ranging from... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
Relations Department at HBS. Our audio engineer is Craig McDonald. It is available on Apple, Spotify, and wherever you get your favorite podcasts. And if you could take a moment to rate and review us, we’d be grateful. For more... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
engineers should consider for implementing practical, optimized and reliable ethernet/IP control networks on the factory floor. In this unique book, you’ll find the 12 specific strategies Gary Workman used at GM, and a no-holds barred,... View Details
- 29 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas
ideas." With a level in the middle, R&D teams will both forced to look at current ideas and able to take them in new directions. Finally, says Ahuja, it's essential to put a knowledge management system in place that provides incentives for new designers to... View Details
- 24 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes
discovered that many of these problem contracts were not very profitable," says Healy. The results were more stark for Montreal-based engineering and construction firm SNC-Lavalin, which Healy is researching for an upcoming case study. In... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 14 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Polluters, Encouraging Protectors
continue to rapidly develop, mapping can bring together specialists in fields as diverse as environmental engineering and graphics. As Toffel concludes, "The notion of how to display environmental information geographically is... View Details