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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Eight Join HBS Faculty
teaches the first-year course Technology and Operations Management. His research focuses on techniques to evaluate and improve the performance of complex systems in the airline and sports industries. Fearing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
HBS Clubs and Associations
completed phase one of a three-part impact evaluation study and as a result, are making critical decisions around some sacred cows.” Such an impact is just what HBS alumni clubs hope for when they select local nonprofit leaders to receive... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
national study on the efficacy of charter schools, and the results were jarring: Just 17 percent of charter schools outperformed their traditional public-school peers, while 37 percent performed significantly worse. And while charter... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: How to Build a More Diverse Board
Recent studies have found that gender diversity in the corporate boardroom can enhance dialogue, curb excessive risk-taking, and boost both performance and share price. And yet, women still hold only about 19 percent of S&P 500 company... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
performed significantly better than others when evaluated for “presence” and were more likely to be hired. Their secret? Striking expansive poses for two minutes before the interview. The study builds on... View Details
- 13 May 2025
- News
If I Knew Then
have to get there. And there actually is a very clear framework that senior management teams and the executive search firms that advise them and help them with talent, that they use to evaluate candidates relative to that hiring and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Faculty Research Online
HBS Working Knowledge is an online forum for innovation in business practice, offering a first look at new thinking from HBS faculty. Read the complete articles summarized below by visiting their Web links. What’s to Be Done about View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
When No News Isn’t Good News
If you’ve been waiting for your annual performance review to receive feedback from your boss, you may be doing yourself — and your company — a big disservice. Christine McKay (MBA ’98), a career coach who works with students through MBA... View Details
- 17 Feb 2022
- News
A Big Bet
person’s social capital,” Chertavian told the New York Times. Palandjian’s Social Finance hopes to add more training partners this year; an independent research firm, MDRC, will evaluate the performance of... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Duo Offers Personalized Career Assessment
Business. Written by Timothy Butler and James Waldroop, director and associate director, respectively, of the School's MBA Career Development Programs, the book presents a business-focused, step-by-step approach to evaluating one's career... View Details
Keywords: Bob Binstock
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Short Takes
from company performance as critics imply? Not at all, according to HBS professor Jay W. Lorsch, whose 1998 working paper, "Compensating Corporate CEOs: A Process View," examines the procedures and forces that drive CEO pay packages.... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
New Releases
measuring and evaluating performance in the firm; and a system for rewarding and punishing individuals for their performance. The theory presented in this work, Jensen believes, promises a major competitive... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
and attention, generosity and fairness. She cofounded pymetrics to capitalize on those existing tools. Polli and her partners developed a collection of gamified assessments and used them to evaluate top View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Jennifer L. Scott
curriculum. Participating students developed their business plans in elective courses and field studies, honing their ideas with the help of some 25 HBS alumni who also evaluated the plans based on their commercial viability. Nearly 20... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 11 Oct 2022
- News
Righting the Ship
to execute work came from a host of problems, including the inability of contractors to perform or finish projects in any given fiscal year. And when the work doesn’t get done, there’s a lot of deferred maintenance on buildings and old... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
On The Case: The Base Factor
In her research as a marketing modeler, Professor Eva Ascarza focuses on understanding customers—and predicting, in particular, who will be a good one and how best to retain them. Without customers, obviously, there is no business. That could also be the tagline for... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
50 Years & Counting
the Bias Trap Max Bazerman "The project...taps into earlier work I've done on how joint evaluation leads to better and more ethical decisions." - MAX BAZERMAN In a research project conducted with colleagues at the Harvard Kennedy School,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
company; evaluate the performance of senior managers; set executive compensation; approve key strategic and financial decisions; nominate candidates for shareholders to elect as directors; and ensure the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
borrowing DeWitt’s uniform for Eddie Gaedel, a 3-foot, 7-inch circus performer added to the lineup as a pinch hitter. League officials changed the rules to prevent a repeat of the stunt — Gaedel walked on four pitches — but DeWitt’s... View Details