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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?
work. “There is some visceral discomfort with simply giving poor people money,” says Faye, now chairman of the board. “But the evidence, overwhelmingly, is that cash is one of the most effective ways of alleviating poverty.” In its... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
institutions worldwide. Recently named one of the 50 fastest-growing consulting firms in the U.S. by Consulting magazine, Cicero also made Vault.com’s 2019 list of the 50 best consulting firms in North America. Aligning Services with Needs Shumway’s interest in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Working with a Giver’s Spirit
Manny Ayala (MBA 1992) is managing director of Endeavor Philippines, a branch of the global Endeavor organization, which fights poverty by finding and supporting high-impact entrepreneurs. “Our mission statement is to create an economic multiplier View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
information and financial and other intermediaries. How will the Asia-Pacific region benefit from the presence of the HBS research office? The intellectual capital created by the exchange of ideas and the study of Asian business practices will contribute toward the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
NYC Club Hosts Nonprofits
accountability and governance, and development and marketing. Professor Kash Rangan, who cochairs the School’s Social Enterprise Initiative, reviewed his research on nonprofit trends. Professor John Quelch, a marketing expert, focused on View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
Measuring the Financial Results of Nonprofit Organizations and is designing an MBA course based on this material. Her latest research examines the factors that make for effective nonprofit management. The... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
brilliant, effective innovators have forced sluggish U.S. industries to become more productive. Sam Walton’s exquisitely detailed supply chain management, coupled with his daring decision to locate Wal-Marts in rural areas, kick-started... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Right Stuff: Getting the Word from MBA Admissions
leads client teams in the effective delivery of solid, useful information and analysis. We also look for a record of leadership or, in the absence of concrete experience, leadership potential as indicated by certain personal qualities.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
the number of temporary housing units an organization has created in post-earthquake Haiti. But how does one measure the effectiveness of a training program in boosting farmer incomes in Ghana? This was the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
“Where can we find such a person?”
through a host of issues including dealing effectively with all the pieces of the Harvard puzzle, from the president to the provost to the people who run the hospitals,” Melton noted. “He or she would have to know how to tackle the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Short Takes
can be an inflationary influence if a committee feels pressured to raise its own top executive's pay in order to keep up with the competition. In addition, the sample companies favored the inclusion of stock options in CEO pay packages as an View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
year. Writ large, Barared’s effects could be considerable: There are an estimated 800,000 locally owned stores like this in Mexico, meaning potential revenue increases for what is, collectively, one of the largest employers in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Ads Improve Consumer Decisions
measures to be “right” for them. Anand notes that, despite the wide availability of TV schedule listings, this study showed that promotions do play a significant role in informing viewer choices. A novel aspect of the research was the... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ink
Jobs were not born as great strategists: Jobs almost bankrupted the company during his first stint with Apple .It was their ability to learn—about strategy, execution, and new domains within their own businesses—that made them such View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Tony Sanchez - Team Builder
classmate Martin Gonzalez or Lance Armstrong, who have achieved so much in the face of adversity. I have a long way to go before I can measure up to their accomplishments.” “To be an effective team leader,... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
that offer them. Hall's research is focused on the optimal design and incentive effects of compensation plans built around equity-based pay and especially stock options, the instruments most responsible for the huge numbers associated... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
measurement tool, the Total Motivation Factor, enables managers to measure the strength of the company culture and track improvements over time. They explore their original research into how Total Motivation... View Details
- 20 Aug 2014
- News
With No Time to Lose
an effective biomarker—a kind of test that could measure the progression of ALS over a short period of time—did not yet exist. Without it, drug trials relied on longer, more costly observations of disease... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Books
Competitive Advantage by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton (DBA ’73) (HBS Press) Building on their previous works on strategy-focused organizations, the authors describe a multistage system enabling a manager to gain measurable... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Research Brief: Ahead of the Game
As a lifelong runner who spent countless hours training and competing his way up to the national level, Professor Paul Gompers has always believed that his athletic experiences were critical to shaping who he is, both as a competitor and in the professional sphere. Now... View Details