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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Clark Bids Farewell to HBS
values will be an important legacy. Do you have a stronger sense of the role and influence of HBS in academia? I believe our deep commitment to teaching as a critical and important professional activity is something that is sorely needed... View Details
- 20 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Misgovernance at the World Bank
capital, shareholder losses, and, in the extreme, financial crises—at the end of the day the investors by their nature have some tolerance for risk. "In an aid organization, however, the costs of misgovernance are borne not by the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Neuroeconomics: Eyes, Brain, Business
four facial features: eye, mouth, nose, and skin. Participants were then asked to gauge how alive the image looked based solely on the one visible facial feature. The results showed that all the nose and skin images received relatively... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
Social and Governance (ESG) issues into every aspect of GPIF’s portfolio. His efforts ranged from constructing new stock market indices based on ESG data, changing the compensation and incentives of active... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
activities cancelled and some teams' facilities closed, there won't be enough time for player physicals, gathering psychological testing, getting further verified information about the players and some teams having to conduct the draft... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
sometimes intense cyclicality that can result in turmoil and hardship for many. And we interfere with that cyclicality at our peril, as pent up economic forces will eventually be unleashed with far greater ferocity. Still, under capitalism, markets and economic View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
The challenge then becomes enabling this alignment, which requires the CEO to prioritize based on the mission of the organization. In practice, we find that many leaders have trouble prioritizing because they're leaning toward the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
high-beta and high-volatility stocks have long underperformed low-beta and low-volatility stocks. This anomaly may be partly explained by the fact that the typical institutional investor's mandate to beat a fixed benchmark discourages arbitrage View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
Authority, and it's locally based in Accra, with a governing board made up of top figures from government, business, and civil society. That, I think, is a very serious advance." "We have enormous respect for a principle we call country... View Details
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
avoidable ways. This article is based on the analysis of hundreds of work diaries from professionals describing everyday events that involved high-level managers in their companies. The analysis uncovered four major types of actions that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- Web
Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020 - Recruiting
project was the capstone project, and I worked with Birchbox (an HBS founded company!) on analyzing their customer churn. Jay Kim (MBA 2020) : I was paired with a beverage start-up based in Miami and helped the company make the pivot from... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
achieved without asking where or how they achieved it. In hiring, we must ask, are we appropriately accounting for a candidate’s situation? Are evaluations of the candidate based on both actions and outcomes?” If that has you feeling... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
be approached from the perspective of competitiveness, and it must be based on business opportunities in the inner city that are genuinely profitable," observes Porter, who was named Bishop William Lawrence University Professor last year,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
instability surrounding world oil supplies, the uncertainty about the reserve base and the depletion rate of U.S. oil and gas reserves, the immobilization of nuclear energy in the United States, the challenge of building up an expanded... View Details
- Web
Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
duties." 7 From the beginning, Doriot connected the worlds of education and business. He believed teaching business administration should be based on the realities of running a company rather than academic theories. He drew from his own... View Details
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
innovation performance such as firm productivity and profitability, (d) mergers, and (e) divestments as providing context or "shocks" to an activity system and their value as an empirical source of exogenous variation.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
cost of capital due to the governmental subsidies accompanying loans. Next, examining the selection process through which BNDES' capital is allocated to firms, we find that BNDES apparently selects firms with good operational performance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
and overly restricting access to credit and consumer choice. Nicolas Retsinas, Eric Belsky, and their colleagues aim to stimulate debate based on analysis of the opportunities and challenges presented by the various components of global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
society in developing altruism? What is it about our current society that drives a large share of the population to be scared of other countries, and to be willing to shut down to the world and not open itself to it? Why is it that people frequently discard facts and... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
faithful classmates who touch base at least once a year with news of the kids, a job change, or exciting vacation exploits. Their summaries enrich the continuing narrative of the Class Notes — Harvard Business School's own version of an... View Details