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- 26 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
to financial results, to behave according to the organization’s long term values and goals. Surprisingly, we find that the intervention drove even higher effort on performance associated with pre-existing monetary incentives but, on... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
but rather HD Moore, Metasploit’s founder, chief contributor, and in 2009 one of the most well-known hackers on the planet. The groundwork that had been laid to convince Moore to come to Boston for the discussions would all be for naught if Thomas couldn’t come to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
foreign investor would be wise to proceed very cautiously into businesses that are likely to become political footballs. And those investments are even riskier if the deals were secured through influence and corruption. The presence of corruption, by the way, should... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
require frequent redirection. What are the things that will help those redirections occur, both in large company settings as well as in new start-up settings? There are very interesting interactions in terms of how resources are... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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HBS - Financials | From the CFO
and reunion classes. The School budgets the use of endowment distributions to support operations based on the intentions of the donors and the terms of individual gifts. While the endowment is the School's largest financial asset, HBS is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
chief content and programming officer, Elizabeth Frank (MBA 1994) works closely with Lopez to determine the movies that AMC shows, in addition to negotiating terms with the studios. (Formerly at Time Warner, Frank has also sat on the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
between the manufacturing analysis we learned and making a movie,” he says. “With a movie, you take a dream — like somebody’s script — and break it into tiny pieces, or individual shots. A film typically contains hundreds of shots, and each one has specific... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
together before the season," O'Reilly says. Guided by its extensive customer research, fan polling, and tracking of fan-engagement data across all its platforms, the NFL "gets smarter every day in terms of what our different fan segments... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
terms of direct practical benefits.” But report-writing courses were dogged over the years by confusion about what they should accomplish and how; shifting standards of evaluation and grading; faculty ambivalence about the courses’ role... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
identified and classified in terms of specifying, allocating, and utilizing capacity. The first two categories reflect challenges faced by infrastructure providers; the last category, challenges faced by airlines. Building Effective... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
measures, comparing a city that adopted a LEED policy to another city that looked very similar to it, in terms of demographics and inherent greenness," Toffel says. Spillover Results Overall, the researchers found that cities that adopted... View Details
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Unlocking Your Investment Capital
rated, and the nature of any collateralization of the obligation. Shocks can hit the credit markets as they do other financial markets and cause a drying up of liquidity and large price dislocations for credit-sensitive assets. I, however, take the View Details
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
viewing everyone as a customer, you fundamentally change the nature of the value proposition that exists between you and the entities with whom you interact."2 This theme is echoed in another recent book, Everyone Is a Customer: "Today, the View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 02 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Research and Prospects
TQM, which have worked in other sectors of the economy, without thinking about what's different about health care in terms of the knowledge base. Amy Edmondson, Richard Bohmer, and I did a study looking at learning curves in health care.... View Details
- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It
probe beneath customer preferences and behaviors to uncover the attitudes that provide a more solid understanding of customer loyalty. Why You Need Both Individual And Aggregated Data One-to-one marketing, a term coined by Don Peppers and... View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything
write their own terms and strike their own deals without having to pay any heed to bureaucratic whim or regulation. This, after all, is the political thrill of the Net. Yet this is also where history suggests a certain amount of prudence.... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
- 17 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #14: Bonita Stewart (MBA 1983) – A Career Devoted to Creating the Future
does give her pause. “Unfortunately, the term sustainable is ambiguous and not well defined, which has led to a lot of confusion in the marketplace. At Deckers, we believe in a holistic approach to sustainability, meaning you have to not... View Details
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Impact Stories - Business & Environment
Charting a Path, Point by Point "I spend my days working with a small, entrepreneurial team helping to build companies that are working to solve some of the most pressing challenges we face in terms of energy and the environment." David... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
known as ‘reparations,’ ” he explains. “But I approach this with realistic expectations as policy analysis, not a cause. I’m attempting to correctly understand chronic racial inequality by putting it in a historical context and quantifying what I View Details
- 14 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 14, 2007
time in terms of bond market size, creditor protections, and court enforcement of bond contracts to assume that the adoption of a legal system can constrain future financial development. The paper examines in detail the evolution of bond... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace