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- 23 May 2018
- News
Abigail P. Johnson, MBA 1988
mainframe computer, and made the requested transactions. Playing a small role in the front lines of money management was the perfect introduction for her career leading one of the nation’s top investment... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
provide evidence that both target difficulty and monetary incentives motivate managers to a) undertake more carbon reducing projects that generate more carbon savings, and b) invest more money in such... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again
performances—while reaching out to the younger demographic and speaking to them in their own language. "Lincoln Center hadn't been cool for a very long time, but it's cool now," says Grossman, the MBA Class of 1957 Professor of View Details
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
the period from 1996 to 2005 to test the hypothesized relationships. How Managers Use Multiple Media: Discrepant Events, Power and Timing in Redundant Communication Authors:P.M. Leonardi, T.B. Neeley, and E.M. Gerber... View Details
- 03 Jan 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Would the Leadership Style of Girl Scouts' Frances Hesselbein Fare Today?
that the Girl Scouts paid for their operations out of money earned from cookie sales. It was a set of assumptions difficult to change; it mattered a great deal in an organization in which each of the 334 councils and the head office were... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 29 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Bonuses Get Employees to Choose Work Over Family
perks like bonuses, commissions, or stock options tied to hitting certain goals. But managers may not realize that these incentives could contribute to employee dissatisfaction, burnout, and personal problems at home. “The more our... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
running throughout—you have to page back to an earlier chapter of Dixon’s life, in 2017. That’s when the bottom dropped out. That fall, she was raising money for a tech/beauty startup called EverythingDid, designed to help women and girls... View Details
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
investment professionals. Asset Allocation by Institutional Investors after the Recent Financial Crisis Authors:Robert C. Pozen, Betsy Palmer, and Natalie Shapiro Publication:In Growing Old: Paying for Retirement and Institutional Money... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 08 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency
organization off its complacent platform and into a good direction. But it didn't happen. Instead of mobilizing people into action, the crisis led many managers into making fewer decisions because they didn't want to be accused of... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter
- 05 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Anchor Investors Help Impact Funds Succeed
fund.” The group surveyed 13 fund managers about 28 funds, and conducted qualitative interviews with six anchor investors. The paper was written by Shawn Cole, the John G. McLean Professor at Harvard Business School; Rob Zochowski,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
Kennedy Stephen M. Waters James A. Stern William J. Kneisel Donald H. Layton Kevin W. Kennedy A managing director at Goldman Sachs, where he has spent his entire career, Kevin Kennedy has served the firm in a number of positions,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 03 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Why Confronting Racism in AI 'Creates a Better Future for All of Us'
huge understanding of your market and the way the world works. You’re leaving money on the table! You’re not going to make as much money as you could by not considering the experience of racialized “others.”... View Details
Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis
- Web
Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
created its own closed-end investment company, the Lehman Corporation, which traded its own stocks and bonds on the New York Stock Exchange. “The management of someone elses [sic] money is a great... View Details
- 08 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
A Balanced Scorecard Approach To Measure Customer Profitability
The Balanced Scorecard introduced customer metrics into performance management systems. Scorecards feature all manner of wonderful objectives relating to the customer value proposition and customer outcome metrics—for example, market... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
- 09 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Identify Great Customers from Their First Purchase
and which will be most responsive to email campaigns, information that firms can use to improve marketing strategy and return on investment. “Companies are leaving money on the table,” says Ascarza, because they don’t know how to use most... View Details
- 24 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
Dance to the Music: How Noa Torok Found Her Dream Job at SoundCloud
Noa Torok, MBA 2019, came to HBS with a blank slate. “I arrived with zero expectations,” she says. “I had no idea what I wanted to do.” Her prior experience had shown her the opposite – what she did not want to do. After studying both law and business View Details
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Find institutional holdings using Thomson Reuters
title="WRDS">WRDS. Please note: Thomson Reuters institutional data (formerly called Spectrum) is based on the actions of money managers of institutions holding stock. It does not focus on the companies... View Details
- 21 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Are Your Employees Passing Up Incentives? Try Promoting the Programs More
everything from working out at the gym to turning off the lights at home. Yet, despite the brainpower devoted to devising creative rewards and fine-tuning offerings, employees don’t always buy in. “All this money and time and smart people... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 28 Jun 2022
- Book
The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose
How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future
on,” says McDonald, the Thai-Hi T. Lee Associate Professor. “They’re thinking ‘I would rather have money than not have money,’ right? Or ‘We'd rather have a high-status venture capitalist that everybody has heard of versus not.’ But... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne