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Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services Public Sector Public-Private... View Details

01 Dec 2016
News

How DC is Taxing the Country

performance has been waning since at least the late 1990s. In Problems Unsolved and a Nation Divided, Professors Michael Porter, Jan Rivkin—cochairs of the School’s US Competitiveness Project—and Mihir Desai, with program director Manjari... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs

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Sustainable Investing - Course Catalog

transaction structuring and exits, as well as equity selection and portfolio construction. The course also explores incentives, decision-making, and the crucial problems and opportunities within the industry itself. This course is geared... View Details

01 Oct 2013
First Look

First Look: October 1

problems associated with the profit measures by directing managerial attention to activities that have longer-term consequences on firm performance. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

While Waiting for Japan’s Recovery, Let’s Enhance Supplier Competitiveness at Home

coming off welfare to avert a potentially large national problem (and a political problem for President Clinton). Intermediary organizations such as local and national nonprofits provided training and helped... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

Working PapersGlobal Currency Hedging Authors:John Y. Campbell, Karine Serfaty-de Medeiros, and Luis M. Viceira Abstract This paper considers the risk management problem of an investor who holds a diversified portfolio of global... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick

Many companies follow a tried-and-true approach to pursuing corporate social responsibility practices. They set aside a certain amount per year to fund a CSR office, which then tries to help clean up the environment or improve the quality of life of people in the areas... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

06 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?

is enough interest to go further? Which is the better strategy for young innovators? What are the pros and cons of each? Can the risks be measured and mitigated? “The pitch or spec dilemma touches any independent inventor looking to sell... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Motion Pictures & Video; Entertainment & Recreation; Banking

01 Mar 2023
News

Is AI OK?

Illustrations by Dan Bejar Illustrations by Dan Bejar When she began investigating Airbnb’s smart-pricing algorithm several years ago, Assistant Professor Shunyuan Zhang wasn’t looking for evidence that it generated discriminatory outcomes, a View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

24 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

Is Your iPhone Turning You Into a Wimp?

tell." Next Steps In a related line of work, the researchers are studying whether our behavior is affected by how we sleep - curled up in the fetal position, for example, versus limbs sprawled across the bed. Bos and Cuddy also are planning to conduct a field... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Consumer Products

01 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 1

centers. It uses a transfer-pricing system designed to account for interdependencies between profit centers and to induce coordination. Further, profit center managers are incentivized with own-level residual income measures. The use of the latter View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Jun 2010
Research & Ideas

Improving Brand Recognition in TV Ads

"ideas started popping up," he recalls. "The eye tracker measures attention, and due to its scarcity, attention has become more and more important to understand." No one feels that need more urgently, however, than... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Media & Broadcasting; Entertainment & Recreation

23 Sep 2019
Blog Post

Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training

times more likely to experience work-related problems than employees with chronic physical illnesses like diabetes or heart disease. So why do many companies fail to help their workers battle mental health disorders? “There’s a silence... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

22 Apr 2020
Research Event

How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities

Change,” explored climate change’s profound early effects on portfolio returns and highlighted the growing need for investors to understand how to measure and price climate risk. “We have seen a real shift, with so much more recognition... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

21 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing

mission." The panelists added, though, that success can be difficult to measure in the nonprofit sector, especially compared to the financial gains of a for-profit start-up. "There's a real problem... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

07 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat

one of four topics: different models of consumer-driven health care; the role of consumer-driven health care in supporting innovative solutions to chronic problems in the industry; the new breed of consumer information and support... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Health

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Pepsi's Regeneration, 1990-1993

By: David A. Garvin and Donald N. Sull

Craig Weatherup, the president and CEO of Pepsi Cola, leads a change process that completely transforms his company. It includes a new vision, operating philosophy, strategy, and organizational structure. He also introduces process improvement techniques and builds new... View Details

Keywords: Transformation; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Systems; Standards; Organizational Structure; Outcome or Result; Performance Improvement; Problems and Challenges; Food and Beverage Industry

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01 Sep 2018
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After the Fall

financial stability in countries worldwide—information that researchers hope could help prevent a potential crisis. Regulations have also helped enforce resiliency, including a measure forcing banks to hold at least twice—in some cases... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; illustration by Dan Bejar; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

19 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf

organization strategy to enable the different functions to work together to bring products to market more quickly. As Ludwig grappled with a way to jumpstart change at DIS, he began to suspect that people throughout the unit were talking about the division's innovation... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat & Derek Schrader

01 Mar 2008
News

An American Odyssey

radicalized. A postal worker, he was a union activist and organizer and an active supporter of the NAACP. So there were a lot of conversations about social problems and the politics of race.” Young Richard grew up and went to high school... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Lawrence Fouraker; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance

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