Spending Per Year Of Life Gained - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Sep 2023
Blog Post

MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures

startup to tackle product accessibility for the disability community. Many products and websites today are inaccessible to people with disabilities despite over 30 years of the Americans Disabilities Act... View Details

17 Sep 2013
First Look

First Look: September 17

more lucrative, but we find that the effect of performance-based pay rates on dishonesty depends on how readily people can compare their pay rate to that of others. In Experiment 1, participants were paid 5... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Nov 2022
Blog Post

Meet the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association

amazing resource for advice on academics and daily life at HBS. Some of the fellow female veterans were instrumental in helping me prepare for midterms! The AFAA Community Co-President last year, Yung... View Details

08 Mar 2016
Blog Post

6 Discoveries I Made About HBS

students should know about HBS. 1. First year is really hectic RC year is a lot more work than people are willing to admit! There's a ton of new material to cover and... View Details

09 Feb 2021
News

Investing in Entrepreneurship

of innovation.” Crisp grew up on Long Island, earned a BA at Yale University, and served as an intelligence officer in the United States Air Force before coming to HBS. Having earned his pilot’s license at the age View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

portion of the School’s professional services expense is related to spending that a for-profit business would categorize as cost of goods sold. For fiscal View Details

01 Oct 1999
News

Banking on Success

not enthusiastic about spending a lot of time on the Internet. I think that settling for "virtual" anything is a real loss. There's so much texture to life that is lost if you... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

Portrait Project

Srivatsa Krishna

"Honor and Shame From No condition rise Do well thy part Therein all the honor lies." -Alexander Pope. A life has value, only if it adds value to the life of others.... View Details

13 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: Leadership Roles

business systems worldwide, including how leadership affects performance. As an example of very capable leadership of a high performing family enterprise, I introduced Nelson Sirotsky, Chairman View Details

Keywords: by John A. Davis

22 Feb 2021
Book

Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy

last spring, at the height of pandemic lockdowns. And before the pandemic, social media use had been flat for four years as these advertising channels became more cluttered and distrusted, offering marketers... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

18 Dec 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Grooming Next-Generation Leaders

the organization and its world. "If they are not trained the right way, they can spend the next twenty years building deeper and deeper skills in a narrow aspect," Narayandas says. "What they... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink

categories) becomes unproductive due to customers migrating to e-tailers. As entire sections of these stores die from online competition, category killers are being pressed to come up with solutions to keep their overall model afloat. The... View Details

Keywords: by Rajiv Lal & Jose B. Alvarez; Retail

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Negotiation Course Online | HBS Online

Dau Founder & Managing Partner at MAD Perspectives LLC Gain the necessary skills and confidence to grow your career and successfully negotiate at work, on the job hunt, or in day-to-day conversations. As someone that does negotiations as... View Details

24 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

How Much Will Remote Work Continue After the Pandemic?

firms that had employees switch to remote work believe that it will remain more common at their company even after the COVID-19 crisis ends. “These estimates suggest that at least 16 percent of American workers will switch from... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

11 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Budgeting Kills Your Company

The average billion-dollar company spends as many as 25,000 person-days per year putting together the budget. If this all paid off in shareholder return, that would be fine.... View Details

Keywords: by Loren Gary

03 Dec 2014
What Do You Think?

Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?

Huang: "I would talk to them about their behaviors to find out if they are actually aware of it I would also make peer appraisal part of their year end bonus." Gerald... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership

soars GI Bill Influence: Medium-Low 50 1950 s 19 Social conformity McCarthyism Membership in organized religion soars Brown v. Board of Education desegregated public schools> Influence: Medium-High 60 1960 s 19 Civil rights movement View Details

10 Nov 2015
Op-Ed

Authentic Leadership Rediscovered

their purpose Practicing solid values Leading with heart Establishing connected relationships Demonstrating self-discipline The following year the Gallup Institute and Professor Bruce Avolio, a well-known leadership scholar at the... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

24 May 2017
News

John J. Brennan, MBA 1980

Express Chairman Emeritus, The Vanguard Group It’s 6 a.m. on a Sunday and Jack Brennan is making pancakes for his grandson, Jack, taking advantage of an opportunity to spend quality time with his namesake as... View Details