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  • Web

Hiring International Students

Participation in on-campus recruiting events ( HBS campus presentations and/or interviews ) Posting with trade or professional organizations Having an established employee referral program with incentives Posting job announcements with... View Details
  • November 1999
  • Case

Long-Term Capital Management, L.P. (C)

By: Andre F. Perold
Long-Term Capital Management, L.P. (LTCM) was in the business of engaging in trading strategies to exploit market pricing discrepancies. Because the firm employed strategies designed to make money over long horizons--from six months to two years or more--it adopted a... View Details
Keywords: Fluctuation; Capital; Financial Liquidity; Financing and Loans; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Corporate Governance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Management; Risk Management; Markets; Motivation and Incentives; Financial Services Industry
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  • 26 Jul 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Burgers with Bugs? What Happens When Restaurants Ignore Online Reviews

thoughtful about displaying reviews by trustworthy users. Farronato and Zervas’ research takes into account whether a restaurant had received recent reviews and reviewers’ history throughout Yelp to ward off... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Retail
  • 11 May 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

the writing of popular film scripts like The Matrix or Star Wars. Character behaviors, actions, and motivations hook the interest of readers at all levels, regardless of their professional experience with... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 02 Nov 2023
  • News

Seeding Startups

Shirish Nadkarni (MBA 1987) was the director of product planning for Microsoft’s MSN when he decided he was ready to become an entrepreneur. He had recently led the growing internet portal’s 1997 acquisition of Hotmail, the first free, web-based email solution, and the... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 10 May 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Being Your Own Boss Can Pay Off, but Not Always with Big Pay

Besides, prior studies have shown that other factors motivate self-employed people more than salary. Their bottom lines are not entirely measured in dollars, Kerr says. “It’s about being your own boss, spending more time with your family,... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 12 May 2023
  • Blog Post

Independent Project: The Rise of Electric Heat Pumps

most viable to meet a home’s holistic heating and cooling needs. Here are the most important components of TCO and how they may drive meaningful cost differences: Government incentives: the Inflation... View Details
  • November 2024
  • Case

Group AMANA: Built to Last

By: Hise Gibson and Fares Khrais
The case chronicles the Bsaibes brothers’ journey in founding and operating Group AMANA; a contracting business founded in 1993, based in the United Arab Emirates with operations across the Middle East. Over the years, the business found itself grappling with major... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Family Business; Transformation; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Succession; Business Strategy; Construction Industry; Middle East; Saudi Arabia; United Arab Emirates
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  • 03 May 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Why Confronting Racism in AI 'Creates a Better Future for All of Us'

choices, they may still end up in racially segregated schools because racism has created a different motivation structure. Black parents, more than White parents, seek the highest-rated schools and are... View Details
Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis
  • 12 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Why Investors Often Lose When They Sue Their Financial Adviser

[by the disputing parties] tend to be more industry friendly. This also incents arbitrators to slant their decisions in favor of the industry to increase their chance of being selected in the future.” Building on his 2018 research of... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services
  • Web

Team - Case Method Project

Chaderjian is a member of the teacher support team who partners with educators as they train in and utilize the case method in high school classrooms. Motivated by the conviction that immersive engagement... View Details
  • 1996
  • Book

Creativity in Context

By: T. M. Amabile
Keywords: Creativity; Theory; Research; Motivation and Incentives; Situation or Environment; Organizational Culture; Measurement and Metrics; Personal Characteristics; Cognition and Thinking; Performance; Performance Evaluation; Social Psychology
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  • 13 Dec 2021
  • Research & Ideas

The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams

diversity.” For some post-M&A executives, however, the main motivation for promoting women and people of color is to avoid discrimination lawsuits. As one executive told Zhang: “We do not want to be on... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 08 Feb 2017
  • HBS Seminar

Andrew Mao, Microsoft Research

  • Web

Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Bridges Fund Management - Recruiting

make a positive impact on the world, one exciting path forward is investing in mission-centered businesses. Areas like healthcare, education, energy, and the environment attract innovative and... View Details
  • 12 Aug 2019
  • Research & Ideas

How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

I've experienced first-hand the excitement and pain that come as companies with a few founders scale to hundreds or thousands of employees. At somewhere around 75 to 100 employees, running a business becomes more complicated, demanding... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
  • April 2023
  • Article

Performance on Patient Experience Measures of Former Chief Medical Residents as Physician Exemplars Chosen by the Profession

By: Lucy Chen and J. Michael McWilliams
OBJECTIVE To compare care for patients of primary care physicians (PCPs) who were former chiefs with care for patients of nonchief PCPs.

DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Using 2010 to 2018 Medicare Fee-For-Service Consumer Assessment of Healthcare... View Details
Keywords: Performance Evaluation; Forecasting and Prediction; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Competency and Skills; Surveys; Health Industry
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  • 10 Aug 2009
  • Research & Ideas

High Commitment, High Performance Management

motivate people. The top team ideally spends time discussing the legacy they want to leave: This develops the sense of long term purpose required for a successful journey to HCHP. Engage key people below the leadership team. Ask them if... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 2021
  • Chapter

Multinationals' Need for State Protection: The Creation of the Swiss Investment Risk Guarantee in the 1960s

By: Sabine Pitteloud
This chapter focuses on the role of Industrie-Holding, the Federation of Swiss Industrial Multinational Companies, in the introduction of an investment risk guarantee during the 1960s. The chapter therefore contributes to a) the growing body of literature on how... View Details
Keywords: Investments; Multinational Companies; Political Risk; Business ＆ Government Relations; Investment; Multinational Firms and Management; Risk and Uncertainty; Business and Government Relations; Switzerland
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  • 01 Jun 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing

On Facebook and a myriad of other social media platforms, you can find out who your friends are dating, see pictures of their last vacation, and even know what they had for lunch yesterday. It is now... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding