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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
will be a safer brand of football than mine was"). "Most important, the CheckLight is an objective measure that takes the judgment call out of the hands of the athlete, trainer, or coach." Kacyvenski took part in the class action suit... 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
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
other policymakers to remove regulatory barriers that entangle Indian start-ups. Worse than government red tape is the lack of risk capital for emerging firms, says HBS professor Tarun Khanna, an expert on the Indian and Chinese economies... View Details
- 28 Oct 2021
- News
Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity
society. Applegate, an entrepreneurship expert, broke down the steps that Pivotal Ventures has taken to “bend the curve” with gender equity, including developing an ecosystem model, managing risks and View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
creative capitalism,” said Gates. “But it’s not just about dollars. It really is about the innovation power” that American businesses could unleash by allowing their most creative and innovative people to spend 5 percent of their time working to solve social problems.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
symptoms of projectitis and how to defeat it; what digitized processes are and the role they play in performance improvement; how to identify key metrics and develop a balanced measurement scorecard; how to sense deep customer and... View Details
- 18 Dec 2019
- News
Thinking Smart About Numbers
G. Tsimerinov, (PLDA 16, 2017) (right) and Anu Dhir (GMP 2018) (middle) “Club members enjoyed hearing about the principal-agent problem, cash flow measures signaling value, and investor capitalism,” says Boris Tsimerinov (PLDA 16, 2017),... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
companies are converting the delivery of their offerings to the as-a-service model. The next disruption will focus less on the delivery model and more on the value delivered. Bernshteyn’s value-as-a-service model is the simple idea that View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
things don't go as planned, remember to look in the mirror, and don't lose the learning. Leave everything better than you found it. Leslie Hale (MBA 2001), CFO and sVP, RLJ Lodging Trust, Bethesda, Maryland Take advantage of the fact that your MBA affords you the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
observes Conforti, who is now Finale’s president. Their HBS credentials, recalls Conforti, were “also very helpful in convincing investors that we were going to manage the inherent risk of running a restaurant better than others might.”... View Details
- 19 May 2015
- News
Getting Ready for Success
social impact, measured by such factors as higher tax contributions and lower health care costs. “Moreover, what people might not quantify,” she says, “is that our alumni’s success stories create positive ripples in their communities and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Breaking Free from Fear of Change
perform perfectly. They focus myopically on success. That drive can lead to tremendous professional achievements. But as careers progress, continued success requires the ability to change and adapt to new conditions, to take the risk of... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
opportunities to sell something at a profit. These opportunities are exploited by adventurous investors who are willing to risk large losses in order to make large gains. A community in which everyone attempted to make a living by getting... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Exchange: Chance Encounters
Assistant Professor Maria Roche and Associate Professor Andy Wu; image by John Ritter Late one day in the fall of 2021, as she was packing up to head home, Assistant Professor Maria Roche bumped into Andy Wu, a colleague in the Strategy Unit whose office is next to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
credential—the challenge with that is, without further nuance, there’s risks that you have, growing underemployment on the one hand, and at the same time, even though more people are getting credentials, there’s a persistent percentage of... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
is executive director of CovidCheck.org, a risk assessment tool based on CDC and WHO guidelines. The tool has been deployed in 9 languages across the globe and is used for daily “back-to work/school” screenings at universities and major... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
staggered boards at all companies (boards traditionally elect one-third of their members each year); requires that all directors receive a majority of votes cast to be elected; mandates the creation of a board risk committee; and forces... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
innovative business units to attack the problem. Others prescribe the more radical and risky measure of throwing out old success formulas in order to remake the company from scratch. Sull favors a third approach. “Managers can... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
at HBS that attracted nearly 300 individual donors in addition to a number of companies and other organizations. “I knew the measure of whether I’d lived up to the chair wouldn’t be how many books I wrote or my scholarly reputation,” says... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
impact as a specialist than as a generalist. One of the themes we talked about a lot at Yahoo! is fast failure. You want to create a culture that encourages taking risks and trying new things. If they don’t work out or fail, which many of... View Details