Goal Setting - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

The Office of Strategy Management

though more than 90 percent had detailed strategic plans with much higher targets. Our own work with clients supports the existence of a persistent gap between the strategic goals organizations set for... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Apr 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Making the Move to General Manager

go; they want to do." How It Works New skills, while important, are only a small part of what new general managers must possess. GMP's greater goal is to challenge them with new perspectives and ideas around people and organizations... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Running Jobs - Research Computing Services

Compute Cluster Running Jobs 58ms The most important goal for using the HBSGrid is for running programs and scripts that might consume more resources than are available on your desktop or laptop. These sections will provide information to... View Details

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Business in Global Society - Alumni

new Institute for Business in Global Society , which will accelerate and amplify the School’s work on issues at the intersection of business and society. An Ambitious New Institute Professor Debora Spar explains the goals and initial... View Details

29 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism

Ramanna, who holds appointments as the Henry B. Arthur Fellow, supporting the research and teaching of business ethics, and as a Marvin Bower Fellow, helping faculty launch innovative new business agendas. "Capitalism delivers on certain normative View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

January 2009
Supplement

The Tip of the Iceberg: JP Morgan Chase and Bear Stearns (B2)

By: Clayton S. Rose, Daniel Baird Bergstresser and David Lane

Bear Stearns & Co burned through nearly all of its $18 billion in cash reserves during the week of March 10, 2008, and an unprecedented provision of liquidity support from the Federal Reserve on Friday March 13 was insufficient to reverse the decline in Bear's... View Details

Keywords: Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Capital; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financial Liquidity; Banks and Banking; Governance; Crisis Management; Goals and Objectives; System; Valuation; New York (state, US)

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Considering Retirement - Alumni

like to have? Are you attracted to stability – or adventure? Some people prefer time for family and hobbies; others want an encore career (perhaps in nonprofit service) that applies the skills they acquired in their previous careers to new View Details

18 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Stuck in Commuter Hell? You Can Still Be Productive

certain types of people: People with lower “trait self-control": Workers with high levels of trait self-control have a keen ability to regulate their behavior, thoughts, and emotions. These employees set View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

and practices out of the network of those that have been found to be associated with professions. We use these traits and practices both to set forth our own notion of the essence of professionalism and to enable us to compare management... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

01 Jan 2013
News

Thai Lee, MBA 1985

While her native country was not a friendly environment for a budding female entrepreneur, she made the best of the situation in order to meet her goal of saving enough money to attend business school. Similarly, when Lee applied to HBS,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

09 Jun 2024
Blog Post

The EC Formula: MBA Class of 2024 Looks Back

of these questions. I was also excited to meet like-minded HBS classmates who either had experience working in, or with, the public sector or had an interest in doing so in the future. What did you learn in this class and how will you apply it in the future?My View Details

08 Feb 2021
Book

How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect

productive ways.” Setting achievable goals Philosophers and ethicists talk a lot about what it means to be “good.” The problem, says Bazerman, is that they tend to hold up the ideal rather than the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

14 Sep 2023
Blog Post

MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures

long-term goal of expanding to encompass a comprehensive range of financial solutions. Sophy Wang: MOONWISE is a venture that aims to increase menstrual health literacy in China through digital media and online education. A lack of proper... View Details

16 Dec 2020
Blog Post

My HBS Student Loan Story: Ina Foalea (MBA 2018)

and set an aggressive goal to repay the full balance within 4 years of graduating. I am on-track to reach that goal. Is there any advice you would like to share with prospective or current HBS students... View Details

26 Nov 2001
Op-Ed

Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed

truth. It turns business decisions into elaborate exercises in gaming. It sets colleague against colleague, creating distrust and ill will. And it distorts incentives, motivating people to act in ways that run counter to the best... View Details

Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen

Profile

Melcolm Ruffin

attended not one, but three African American Student Union (AASU) conferences at HBS. "It was a very inspirational experience to see incredible Black leaders speak to the community they've built here. They recharged me professionally. Every time I came, I felt... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment/Media

21 May 2021
Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)

environmental concerns (for example, water treatment and usage) that a company needed to pay more attention to. The goal was to work with portfolio companies to improve their ESG ratings. By doing so we believe they could potentially... View Details

18 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

Learning in Action

never made twice. AT&T's Bell Laboratories conducted reviews of its own software engineers to determine why some were more productive than others with the goal of distilling their techniques into best practices that their less... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin

15 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions

corrective action. Is there any way to find out earlier whether you're on the right track? There is indeed. The trick, we believe, is to periodically assess the decision-making process, even as it is under way. Scholars now have considerable evidence showing that a... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto

01 Jun 2001
News

Monsignor Frederick Dolan Finds a New Calling at HBS Club of Montreal

and that quality is what makes Montreal so enjoyable and attractive.” Working closely with Harry J.F. Bloomfield (MBA 1971) and Robert J. Cajolet (6th OPM), Dolan has already set several goals for the club.... View Details

Keywords: Elena N. Berg; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

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