Measurement Of Purpose - Publications - Faculty & Research

31 May 2023
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2023

burger joint all day, so I was very excited. The reality was a little bit different.” Early indicators: “My teachers on Long Island really took to me, and I bonded with them. Mr. Gallo helped with my first research project: measuring the... View Details

Keywords: leadership; management; work-life balance

10 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker

Business is about making money, not measuring macho. The scrap heap of business disasters is littered with managers whose ego drive overwhelmed good business sense. Founder and former chief executive Ray... View Details

Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro

03 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First

Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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Banking System - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Income from trading activities was strongly negative in several years during the financial crisis. Source: Bank Holding Company Y9C Data Accounting Measures of Risk The ratio View Details

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

present over the future in a manner inconsistent with an endowment's fundamental purpose of maintaining intergenerational equity. The University executes on this obligation in determining each year's... View Details

03 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion

from 260 employees to 38 in 10 days,” one CEO shared. “Decisions had to be made swiftly. It was heart-wrenching. My mindset has changed. Priorities have changed, personally and professionally.” Executives have turned to a handful of... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

18 Dec 2019
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6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation

and broaden their leadership and purpose beyond traditional business borders. Takeuchi uses Honda’s founder as an example to explain how each practice can be applied toward the goal of continuous innovation.... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

02 Dec 2010
What Do You Think?

Making Right Choices: Art or Science?

it is both, depending on such things as the level of complexity, stage of the decision-making process, the purpose of the decision, the context... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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Guidelines for Choosing Resources - Research Computing Services

priority score that might limit your work the more you compute, in order to allow others to run theirs as well. Jobs cannot exceed a maximum of 16 cores. long This queue is general purpose queue for all... View Details

12 Oct 2017
News

Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time

multigenerational cycles of poverty. “You can’t expect schools to consistently outperform the health of their neighborhoods,” says Majors, a vice president at Purpose Built... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

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Overview

Having grown up in a developing country, Professor Sikochi’s research focus is driven by a desire to understand how capital flows to firms and entrepreneurs with the ultimate goal to help build capital markets in the developing economies. To this end, he conducts... View Details

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Ian studies extrinsic rewards -- monetary incentives from formal compensation systems, as well as other formal and informal external rewards-- in order to help businesses understand the tensions and tradeoffs inherent in motivating employees. His research takes a... View Details

01 Oct 1997
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L.E. Simmons

of bank teller to become chairman of Zions Bancorporation in Salt Lake City, with teaching him that ethical standards are an intrinsic part of doing business. "He View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Works and Why It’s Everyone’s Business (Simon & Schuster, 2021) with Tiziana Casciaro. Ethan S. Bernstein : Recipient of the 2022 Outstanding Reviewer Award from Organization Science . Ranjay Gulati : Deep View Details

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Research & Development, Project Code SX-70 - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

investigation was scientific and technical, "the aesthetic purpose is to make available a new medium of expression to the numerous individuals who have an artistic interest in the world around them." 59 In... View Details

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Growing on the Job - Alumni

as a destination; set tangible markers for yourself so that you can see and measure your progress along the way. Ongoing obligations Like growth itself, assessment is not static, but a dynamic process that continues throughout a career.... View Details

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Technology & Operations Management Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students 2025 Himabindu Lakkaraju : Recipient of a 2025 Sloan Research Fellowship in Computer Science. 2024 Ryan W. Buell :... View Details

07 May 2024
Blog Post

Opportunity to Offset Travel Emissions with Carbon Credits that Meet HBS Criteria

the Scope 1 and 2 targets, the plan includes objectives to reduce Scope 3 emissions from travel (with an emphasis on air travel) and supply chain. HBS has made significant reductions in our Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions through hundreds of... View Details

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Finance & Investing - Business & Environment

Change in 2020: Implications for Business BlackRock: Linking Purpose to Profit Governing PG&E Indigo Agriculture: Harnessing Nature Shareholder Activism and Firms' Voluntary Disclosure of Climate Change... View Details

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Events - Private Capital Project

Associate Professor, HBS) The Measurement of Impact Investors in an Age of Skepticism May 16, 2023 “The Measurement View Details

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