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“It’s like a pie-eating contest” | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
top levels of the hospital’s executive team. Josh started as a Special Assistant to Alastair, who oversaw a hospital-wide strategy team responsible for a wide range of initiatives. “On my first assignment, I used skills I already had to make a View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
relatively low price of $1.1 million, develop it specifically for DMD, and let the VC investors reap the rewards when and if the drug was successfully commercialized. To make that happen, Williams said, the Secklers would have to shift... View Details
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
rebalancing in the financial portfolio of participants. These patterns conceal strong household-level evidence of active rebalancing, which on average offsets about one half of idiosyncratic passive variations in the risky asset share.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
consider applying. For some of those students, the largest barrier in considering HBS may be a financial one. Such was the case for both Solana of Mexico and Ruwende of Zimbabwe. "I think the biggest challenge was to get all the funds... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
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Leading Change and Organizational Renewal | HBS Online
Highlights Defining Culture The LEASH Model Rewards at AGC Show Hide Details Concepts Culture at AGC Aligning Culture with Strategy Personal Case Project Featured Exercises Evaluate a company’s culture through a culture exercise Reflect... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
the MBA Program "with the hope of obtaining the same goals, satisfactions, and rewards as the men." A 1966 article by Judith S. Chadwick (MBA '65) addressed some of the difficulties those first women students encountered, including... View Details
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
propose a general mechanism of partner choice, "screening," that is similar to the economic theory of mechanism design. Imposing the appropriate costs and rewards may induce the informed individuals to screen themselves... View Details
- 02 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 2, 2007
and rewarding more participatory, more sincere, and less directive marketing styles. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-017.pdf The Impact of Shareholder Activism on Financial Reporting... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off
prone to abandon programs that threatened trust and commitment." Similar programs at low-commitment companies might have succeeded where HP failed. Financial rewards in a fast-changing business... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Women at Work
said. "I worked my butt off." And it paid off. Continental hired her as a permanent, full-time financial analyst. She was thrilled; doing a job she found rewarding at the company she had always... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
with the organization as it's building its capacity and figuring out its accountability priorities. But that's still relatively rare. The third issue is the difference between financial and social metrics. We have a system of generally... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
2020 prompted reflection on how we could expand Edwards' active community engagement to provide even more support for our employees and communities, particularly as it relates to social equity and justice," said Scott Ullem (MBA 1994), Edwards’ chief View Details
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
suggest that highlighting the impact of prosocial spending can increase the emotional rewards of giving. Publisher's link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167268113000176 2006 ABA Business Law Today Guidance from ARIN... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
culture, technology, and economy to coevolve in unison under the rubric of an integral polity. Family Inc.: Using Business Principles to Maximize Your Family’s Wealth by Douglas P. McCormick (MBA 1997) (Wiley) This book is a roadmap to View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
Steven B. Belkin (MBA '71) began his highly successful travel and financial services marketing enterprise, Trans National Group, a few years out of HBS. G. Peter Bidstrup (MBA '59) started to put together the Doubletree Hotel chain in the... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
knew his response would set the tone for businesses everywhere that looked to GE—one of America’s biggest and most-heralded corporations—for direction. Over the next sixteen years, Immelt would lead GE through many more dire moments, from the Global View Details
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
it as a chronic condition like cardiovascular disease, rather than as an acute, fatal disease," Maderis concludes. Hitting The Target When human lives are at stake, the urgency involved in turning such predictions into reality goes beyond the wish to reap View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
the bakery's finances." For her part, Nundy, an intern in the HBS Nonprofit and Public Management Summer Fellowship Program, was equally energized by her experiences during her twelve weeks of service in India. She spent the first six weeks performing a View Details
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
that are paying careful attention to the hiring, training, and rewarding of store employees. Our favorite example of a retailer that has used labor successfully is the online retailer Zappos.com. The company pays very careful attention to... View Details
- 06 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 6, 2007
Working PapersUnmasking Manly Men: The Organizational Reconstruction of Men's Identity Authors:Robin J. Ely and Debra E. Meyerson Abstract This paper presents a case study of offshore oil platforms—a workplace that has traditionally View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace