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Publications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

England Journal of Medicine Catalyst The Agenda for the Next Generation of Health Care Information Technology by Thomas W. Feeley, Zachary Landman and Michael E. Porter As the diffusion of value-based health care efforts accelerates... View Details
  • 06 Aug 2020
  • Blog Post

My HBS Financial Aid Story: Why I Chose to Invest in My Future

level, it felt exploitative to use our circumstances as a reason to ask for more funding. In my financial aid application, I shared details about my finances that, at the time, I debated whether to include. To my surprise, my financial aid representative at HBS not... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

Happier-ness at Work

Professor Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey get the good news/bad news out of the way on page 5 of their new book, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier. “If the secret to total happiness existed, we would have all found it by now,” they write.... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 01 Jun 2023
  • News

Curb Appeal

density, the Byzantine nature of its bureaucracy, and the number of entrenched interests at play can frustrate even modest efforts to alter the status quo. Yet none of that appears to faze Tisch any more than did her first snow day. In her previous roles as New York’s... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photography by Vance Jacobs; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government
  • 30 Nov 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Donors Are Turned Off by Overhead Costs. Here’s What Charities Can Do

another contributor, such as a wealthy family or foundation. That made a huge difference, says Keenan. Even when participants were informed that there was 50 percent overhead associated with donations to charity: water, 71.43 percent... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 13 Jun 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Extroverts, Your Colleagues Wish You Would Just Shut Up and Listen

meetings, say the researchers, is a vital art that comes with big rewards. “Whatever you can do to more directly convey that you are listening and are retaining information should be helpful,” says Zlatev. Advice for the workplace The... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
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By: Natalia Rigol
My research focuses primarily on how to design, target, and deliver financial products to the poor, and, in particular, how financial inclusion can improve the socio-economic position of women. My projects have analyzed how the design and delivery of microfinance... View Details
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Sell-Side Analysts and Legacy Spinoffs

This paper investigates how well analysts do at evaluating spinoffs of legacy businesses vis-à-vis other spinoffs.  Analysts appear to be far more conservative in the earnings forecasts they make for legacy businesses and their parents than they are for... View Details

  • 2017
  • Chapter

Are Founder CEOs Good Managers?

By: Victor Manuel Bennett, Megan Lawrence and Raffaella Sadun
We investigate the management practices adopted by firms where the founders are also the CEOs using data from the World Management Survey. We find that founder CEO firms have the lowest management scores of any owner-manager pair type and that this difference is... View Details
Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Performance
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China Gambles on Modernizing Through Urbanization

By: Kristen Looney and Meg Rithmire
Contemporary discussions of urbanization and urban construction in China tend to focus on “ghost towns” on the one hand or urbanization as China’s silver bullet to growth and reform on the other. In this paper, we detail what China calls its “New Urbanization Policy.”... View Details
Keywords: Urban Development; Development Economics; Problems and Challenges; China
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  • July 2014 (Revised October 2014)
  • Supplement

McKinsey & Co. - Protecting its Reputation (B)

By: Jay Lorsch and Emily McTague
On Tuesday March 15, 2011, all 1,200 global Partners of McKinsey & Co. gathered at the Gaylord National Hotel & Convention Center near Washington, DC for their annual Partners' conference. The atmosphere was tense as Partners, in addition to their normal agenda,... View Details
Keywords: Board; McKinsey; CONSULTING Firms; Risk; Risk Assessment; Partnerships; Insider Trading; Confidentiality; Personal Investing; Reputation; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Management Practices and Processes; Risk Management; Construction Industry; United States; California
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  • May 2012
  • Article

To Zap or Not to Zap: How to Insert the Brand in TV Commercials to Minimize Avoidance

By: Thales S. Teixeira, Michel Wedel and Rik Pieters
Huge amounts of money are spent on TV advertising. In an environment of rising per-viewer rates for advertisers and increased skipping past ads by consumers, it is necessary for advertising managers to understand the determinants of commercial avoidance. In order to... View Details
Keywords: Brands and Branding; Television Entertainment; Advertising; Decisions
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  • October 2005 (Revised January 2006)
  • Case

Augusta National Golf Club Controversy, The (A)

By: Herman B. Leonard, Marc J. Epstein and Melissa Tritter
The prestigious Augusta National Golf Club's secret membership is widely believed to exclude women. When feminist advocate Martha Burk receives a mysterious list of "members," she must decide how best to use this information in her efforts to crack the glass ceiling.... View Details
Keywords: Partners and Partnerships; Attitudes; Decision Making; Problems and Challenges; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Gender; Non-Governmental Organizations; Communication Strategy; Sports Industry
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  • 29 Nov 2018
  • News

The gig economy connects the skilled

  • 23 Apr 2014
  • HBS Seminar

David Lazer, Northeastern University

    Brokers and Order Flow Leakage: Evidence from Fire Sales

    Using trade-level data, we study whether brokers play a role in spreading order flow information. We focus on large portfolio liquidations, which result in temporary drops in stock prices, and identify the brokers that intermediate these... View Details

    • 20 Oct 2023
    • News

    Highlights from the Fall 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

    On the evening of Wednesday, October 11, Alumni Board members joined with current HBS students in the Spangler Center for "A Conversation about Life Lessons", which was led by Leslie Perlow, the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership. This October, more than 75... View Details
    • Web

    Women’s Leadership Summit - Alumni

    Circles is an HBS-enabled, alumnae-owned program designed to build and foster genuine relationships among HBS alumnae. 2025 Alumnae Circles applications closed on Sunday, 11/17 . We invite you to bookmark the HBS Alumnae Circles page for general View Details
    • 05 Jul 2012
    • What Do You Think?

    Why Is Trust So Hard to Achieve in Management?

    "transparency, honesty, communication, consistency and predictability are present" in everything we do as managers. Jill Machol noted the importance of keeping employees "informed as information (regarding change) becomes... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 24 Jan 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Rethinking Activity-Based Costing

    Managers can review the cost of the unused capacity and contemplate actions to determine whether and how to reduce the costs of supplying unused resources in subsequent periods; they can then monitor those actions over time. In some cases, the View Details
    Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson