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Real Estate Private Equity - Course Catalog

2. How to assess the risks and returns in private investments and real estate portfolios 3. How to perform relative value analyses of differing investments 4. How to manage troubled investments (when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em) 5.... View Details
  • 04 Sep 2019
  • News

Advanced Statistics Are the New Foam Fingers

The Quantified Athlete “Athletes will always look to improve their performance and stay injury-free with technology. But the sports media industry is also starting to explore how to incorporate athlete data into their broadcasts. And as... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2010
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Eight Join HBS Faculty

teaches the first-year course Technology and Operations Management. His research focuses on techniques to evaluate and improve the performance of complex systems in the airline and sports industries. Fearing earned his Ph.D. from MIT in... View Details
  • 11 Sep 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices

insurers, a potentially costly process. Stern and her co-authors studied 171 new drugs that Germany’s IQWiG reviewed between 2012 and 2016. They found that manufacturers were 10 times more likely to withdraw products that lacked any evidence of added benefit than ones... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health
  • 05 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories

physical facilities were prepared for. So the team decided to reconfigure the twenty Atlanta branches into three alternative models: Five branches were redesigned as "express centers," efficient, modernistic buildings where consumers could quickly View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke; Banking; Financial Services
  • 01 Apr 1996
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Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World

"That is a big mistake." Predictability allows everyone to know what the rules are, establishing an atmosphere of trust so that people can work together productively in an organization, Stevenson argues. Companies can provide more stable environments by, among other... View Details
  • 16 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 16

innovation performance such as firm productivity and profitability, (d) mergers, and (e) divestments as providing context or "shocks" to an activity system and their value as an empirical source of exogenous variation.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 21, 2006

  Working PapersThe Performance of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts Authors:Jerry Cao and Josh Lerner Abstract Reverse leveraged buyouts (RLBOs) have received increased public scrutiny but attracted little systematic study. We collect a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 12, 2006

legally astute manager can use legal tools to assess opportunities, develop the firm's value proposition, and select and perform the activities in the value chain. Also, explains the social context in which business operates. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Hard Numbers on Social Investments

capital through their network. Results would also help IC members discuss the larger question about the relationship of financial returns and social returns. In short, should capital providers expect some lesser degree of financial View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
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Annabelle Cloutier Archives | Social Enterprise

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results Insights on the Art of Driving Performance and Innovation Annabelle Cloutier 17 Jun... View Details
  • 24 Apr 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Who Sets Your Benchmarks?

Editor's note:When it comes to improving your leadership abilities, Professor Robert Steven Kaplan is a big believer in starting with a look in the mirror. In fact, he wrote a book on that subject: What To Ask The Person In The Mirror: Critical Questions For Becoming A... View Details
  • December 2009
  • Article

Restructuring Within an Academic Health Center to Support Quality and Safety: The Development of the Center for Quality and Safety at the Massachusetts General Hospital

By: Richard Bohmer, Jonathan David Bloom, Elizabeth Mort MD, Akinluwa Demehin and Gregg Meyer MD
Recent focus on the need to improve the quality and safety of health care has created new challenges for academic health centers (AHCs). Whereas previously quality was largely assumed, today it is increasingly quantifiable and requires organized systems for... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Performance Improvement; Quality; Safety; Massachusetts
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  • January 2006 (Revised November 2006)
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Blogs at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (A)

In May 2005, JP Rangaswami, the chief information officer at investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DrKW), wonders how to extend the bank's use of blogs. Corporations are now increasingly using these tools to diffuse news, opinions, and knowledge and improve... View Details
Keywords: Blogs; Information Technology; Performance Productivity; Governance Compliance; Investment Banking; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry
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  • December 2004 (Revised October 2005)
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Intel Research: Exploring the Future

By: Alan D. MacCormack and Kerry Herman
It is 2004 and David Tennenhouse, the director of Intel Research, is reviewing the organization he has built since 2000. Intel Research was charged with exploring new and disruptive technologies that lay off the "silicon roadmap" that drove most of Intel's R&D efforts.... View Details
Keywords: Disruptive Innovation; Technological Innovation; Research and Development; Performance Evaluation; Venture Capital; Technology Networks; Semiconductor Industry; United States
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Strategic Financial Analysis Online Course | HBS Online

Online. What you earn . Overview Syllabus Enrollment Stories FAQs Enroll Now Key Concepts Forecast financial performance in the near and long term to guide strategic decision-making Compare organizations’ View Details
  • 02 Jul 2001
  • What Do You Think?

Built to Last or Bought to Sell?

destruction" research. As Devdip Ganguli put it: "The sphere of influence of companies goes beyond themselves and their investors: their decisions encompass social and environmental consequences too. Therefore to say that the ultimate measure of View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 22 Feb 2022
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The Well-Healed Athlete

careers and team chances of winning championships. The aches, pains, and strains that these professionals endure are also a personal concern for weekend warriors and anyone who works in physically demanding environments: “We are all athletes,” Wu Tsai explains. Yet the... View Details
Keywords: April White; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade
  • 22 Apr 2016
  • Blog Post

Working With Organizations That Recruit at HBS: An Interview with Mary-Kate Johnson

agenda but many don’t realize it. Students want to: 1) perform well in class 2) conduct endless research and create several excel sheets to determine what the next best step is for their career, and 3) work with people that they are... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
  • 01 Mar 2004
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Reforming Company Boards

Solutions for Better Corporate Governance (Bloomberg Press) emphasizes accountability, transparency, performance measurement, and a strong system of checks and balances in its practical approach to reform. Why did you write this book?... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Services