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- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
documents trends in college and university endowment returns and investments in the United States between 1992 and 2005 using data on more than a thousand schools. Such endowments have generally performed well over this View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jan 2023
- News
‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data
and dispensaries in six states using the new predictive credit-risk model. And as it had in early tests, the model for evaluating the loan application was a success, achieving a remarkable 100 percent repayment rate. “It was clearly View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 11 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t
accepting and educating women. Hence, the country sports a large number of highly educated, highly qualified women with advanced degrees in business, engineering, economics, and foreign languages-all useful in corporate management.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 21 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Tipping Point: Investing in the Women of Kenya’s Coffee Farms
experimenting with using blockchain for transparency in the tipping process. It also is exploring whether cryptocurrency might allow for more efficient tipping in a café setting. The cost of transferring money between currencies makes... View Details
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
good type (someone who is actually providing the contracted service) or a bad type (someone who is using one scam or another in order to get paid despite not actually having done the work or provided the benefit). Q: Which online... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips
what might lead a brand to try to disguise a price hike.—JMF John, can you give us some historical context to explain this phenomenon? John Gourville: The first instance of shrinkflation that I found was in 1988, when Chock full o’ Nuts... View Details
- 16 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Turning a Moment into a Movement: Interview with Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders Kenneth and Kevin Chenault
attention. “People we knew were coming to us wanting to know how they could offer support, where they should donate, and how to make an impact, and we were wondering that ourselves,” said Kenneth. “To provide one answer, we decided to... View Details
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
variation in the use of in-house rather than independent advertising agencies by U.S. advertisers. While the vast majority of large advertisers employ outside agencies, it comes as a surprise to find that when advertisers of all sizes are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 May 2017
- News
Ilene H. Lang, MBA 1973
strategic leader for us,” says retired Ernst & Young CEO Jim Turley, former chair of the Catalyst board. “She thinks big and pushed us to do the same.” At the heart of everything Ilene Lang has accomplished... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 04 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?
Big Five era (1999-2002), and the Big Four era (2003-2006). All but the final consolidation were due to mergers and acquisitions; the last contraction was due to the collapse of Arthur Andersen. The researchers studied how often and in what contexts over View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
not exist previously—a year after the project ended. Today, he is CEO and managing director of Godrej Consumer Products, the group's largest and most profitable company. Godrej consultant Nathani-Menzies calls the hire "revolutionary for... View Details
- 17 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Medical Tourism
there. As the case describes, accreditation is a pretty huge barrier for doctors going abroad. Just as Dr. Reddy had to spend time convincing the Indian government that the idea of medical tourism was a good View Details
- 11 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Perfecting the Project Pitch
Overcoming that obstacle can be a difficult process, especially for entrepreneurs who have a background in a technical, engineering, or another non-sales discipline. They are not used to having to convince anyone of the merits of their... View Details
Keywords: by Dennis Fisher
- 18 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Warning: Scary Warning Labels Work!
sufficiently graphic don’t work. “San Francisco policymakers are devoting lots of time and money to fighting it out in court, and they’re operating on the assumption that text warning labels are going to work,” says HBS Marvin Bower... View Details
- 10 Apr 2023
- News
Leading the Way
me, and I told Michael that before I leave this Earth, I want us to send 100 Arizonans to HBS." In the meantime, Trejo's full-circle story is still unfolding. When he felt it was time to go back to Phoenix,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 11 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Second Life: Reflections on Complementing Success with an Encore Career
mind was working. With so much time available, how best should he use it? “It occurred to me that I didn’t have to concentrate on one thing, but could have a portfolio-like encore career,” says Kloeblen, “I... View Details
- 28 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
Celebrating Socioeconomic Diversity and Inclusion at HBS (Part 1)
in the fact that I have a family who, despite their lack of higher education, raised children who pursued education without hesitation. It could have been easy for them to expect me and my siblings to find jobs right after high school. Instead, they encouraged and... View Details
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
company was still dealing with multiple purported class action and derivative lawsuits that had been filed against it. It was during this time the board started looking for candidates both for the CEO and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
On Campus Logistics - Recruiting
classrooms. We encourage companies to bring the presentation on a flash drive or email it to themselves to utilize the classroom computer and the class remote to advance the slides. If using your laptop, you will need to bring a remote or... View Details
- 02 Aug 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Will Millennials Manage?
losers. As one friend puts it, "They have a closet full of trophies without ever having won anything." Yet others talk about their having observed the way the rest of us have lived our lives (two jobs, too much View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett