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- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
to monitor TARP expenditures and recommend regulatory reforms. Led by Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Warren, the panel recruited Moss, an expert in risk management, to provide historical context to the financial crisis and a... View Details
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
analysts, to consumers—need to know about how new products and services are expected to perform in the marketplace. The book develops a compelling framework that connects the rich academic knowledge on innovation diffusion with that on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
examining performance over time, comparing adopters to non-adopters, and incorporating strategies to overcome selection bias. Evaluations that meet the highest methodological standards are critical to inform the debates about this new... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
for any teaching apprenticeship—and use that to build out real-time data analytics for states, so that they can see, "If we've identified we still have these gaps in the labor market, what interventions should we put in place?" And then to View Details
- 04 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 4
monitoring of psycho-physiological measures. We find that participants are more likely to make utilitarian decisions when asked to suppress their emotions rather than when they do not regulate their affect. In Study 4, we show that one's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
opacity and agility. Clients find it very difficult to judge a firm's performance in advance, because they are usually hiring it for specialized knowledge and capability that they themselves lack. Price becomes a proxy for quality. And... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
York, Baer had closely monitored the Giants’ plummeting finances and their unsuccessful attempts to get San Francisco voters to approve funds for a new stadium. After East Coast business hours and with Tisch’s blessing, he began... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
1986 to a New York-based public company, Benton was able to become more involved in nonprofit activities, such as Leadership Washington, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and Washington Performing Arts Society, and to spend more time with her... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
antagonists in a tug-of-war. They tend to focus on regulating workers’ behavior, often putting a damper on commitment, innovation, and performance without realizing it. But freedom and control aren’t zero sum, argues the author. By giving... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
Grossman Periodical:Harvard Business Review 84, no. 11 (November 2006) Abstract One of the biggest management challenges anywhere is how to improve student performance in urban public schools in the United States. There has been no... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
integrated reporting, and establishing collaborations with other asset owners to drive systems level change. He was convinced that the only way to meet his responsibilities to his beneficiaries was to improve the performance of the entire... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
interactive control systems. The module discusses how top managers use the levers of control to inspire commitment to the organization’s purpose, stake out the territory for experimentation and competition, coordinate and monitor the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition
Venture Competition Runner-Up, Alumni Track: FastLine FastLine is the first device to allow central venous catheters to be placed with continuous ultrasound guidance and to automatically perform gold-standard safety checks to prevent the... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
cross-sector partnerships in order to improve market positioning. The companies started off with the following question: what are the obstacles hindering corporate performance and how can cross-sector collaborations contribute to... View Details
- 10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
improves financial performance on measures such as profitable investments at the individual portfolio-company level and overall fund returns. And even though associating with similar people can have social benefits for those people, it... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
performance. We measure close ties using the education network between fund managers and managers of the investee firms. We find that having close ties to an investee leads to more timely investments only when the funds are closely monitored. For poorly View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
services organization cofounded by Tierney and Jeff Bradach, then a member of the HBS faculty and now Bridgespan’s managing partner. The organization works to boost the performance of nonprofits and foundations, thereby improving their... View Details
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one simple overarching criterion for assessing performance in all three areas: Are you “all in”? Are you deeply engaged in this different kind of work? Are you giving this your best shot? Course Premise In its simplest form, here is the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
executed the action plan, and monitored progress—with enthusiasm, charm (I hope), and fervor. Result: We beat the goal and tripled the number of women in high-level jobs in the first year. Mamongae Mahlare (MBA 2004), marketing manager,... View Details
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
community influences on organizations; sheds new light on the temporal dynamics of both endogenous and exogenous punctuating events; and provides more nuanced understanding of corporate-community relations. When Power Makes Others Speechless: The Negative Impact of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel