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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
DonorsChoose: Teaming Up with Teachers
their contribution to help cover the organization’s administrative expenses. Praised for its simplicity and effectiveness, the organization has been hailed as an innovative model for citizen philanthropy. Goldman arrived on the scene just... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Learning from the Past
After witnessing the civil war that has ravaged his country for almost three decades, an historian makes this observation about the moral decline of the nation: "The ancient simplicity into which honor so largely entered was laughed down... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 16 Dec 2015
- Blog Post
Unexpected Moments at HBS
simplicity of our upbringing; stories of working summers on a farm and crowded high school basketball gymnasiums. · Sitting next to a young man who worked in manufacturing operations in China, while we listened to General David... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ink: Home Cooking, Secure Retirements, and Restoring Humanity to Finance
“The author is British, and he and his wife went to live in Provence. The French way of doing things differed from theirs, sometimes in surprising ways, but in the end, the larger humanity in people came out. I’m inspired by the View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Books
determines options; customers and profit pools don’t stand still; and simplicity gets results. U.S. Naval Air Superiority: Development of Shipborne Jet Fighters, 1943–1962 by Tommy H. Thomason (MBA ’70) (Specialty Press) Thomason profiles... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Estonia, Incorporated
and can gain access to the European Union market along the way. “On the level of administrative and operational simplicity alone, this is a winner,” says Kumar, an American who had never been to Estonia before this project but is now an... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Turning Point: Coming to Cambodia
face to face with a statue carved in gray stone—a woman, slim, narrow-waisted, wearing just a simple pleated skirt that almost floated down to the floor. The elegance and simplicity captivated me. It could have been a contemporary piece,... View Details
- 28 Nov 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?
agrees, of course. Comparing the simplicity of (especially short-term) responses to the complexity of the pay-for-performance challenge, Ravindra Edirisoorlya went so far as to say that "Current P4P model(s) may lead to another... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 May 2019
- News
HBS Career Coaches Hit the Road to Serve Alumni
partisanship, increasing inequality, and staggering bureaucracy. “But complexity is not in our DNA. The United States Constitution is a perfect example of simplicity,” says Deffarges, who also serves on the Executive Council at the Harvard School of Public Health.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Profile
Henry McCance
scientists, ‘Dare to be great. Bring us the projects that you can’t get funded elsewhere.’ We don’t want safe, incremental science. We’re not looking for a three-yard plunge. We want a 40-yard pass,” said Armour. True to the venture capitalist ideals of View Details
- 13 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought
simplicity of the sign-up process, transparency of eligibility and repayment rules, and speed of accessing cash,” the researchers wrote. To survey small businesses, the research team consulted HBS Senior Fellow Karen Mills, former head of... View Details
- 07 Oct 2014
- News
Network Effect
True to the venture capitalist ideals of simplicity and thrift, the partners created a streamlined application process. Researchers submit three-page proposals and receive answers in a few weeks, rather than months or years. The process... View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
strategy practice leaders, warn that internal complexity is the silent killer of sustainable growth. Successful companies endure by maintaining simplicity at their core. They don’t stray from their business model to pursue radical... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Giving Advice
philanthropic structures Foundations, DAFs, and other vehicles are most often, in my experience, “pass through” entities wherein the donor uses the benefits of tax planning and simplicity of donation to give the money and then, over the... View Details
- 02 Jun 2003
- What Do You Think?
What Can Aspiring Leaders Be Taught?
ethical values, but include preferred behaviors such as treating people with respect, exercising speed in decision-making, insuring transparency and the sharing of information, and emphasizing simplicity in ways of getting things done.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 12
questions. Interactivity entails shunning the simplicity of monologue and embracing the unpredictable vitality of dialogue. Traditional one-way media-print and broadcast, in particular-give way to social media buttressed by social... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Dec 2008
- What Do You Think?
Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?
smaller." John Homan suggested, "... that the Federal Government give a 10 percent tax credit to the purchaser of a house and the purchaser pay it back ... over 20 years in equal installments with no interest." Education in general as well as efforts to... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 03 Nov 2011
- What Do You Think?
The Ultimate Question in Management
management. In their book, Fred Reichheld and Rob Markey remind us of the simplicity of the Net Promoter Score (NPS). It's the product of answers to one question, "How likely is it you would recommend us to a friend?" The NPS... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Jul 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?
profitable and successful companies I know are rigorous about driving simplicity and driving out complexity ." Charles Green continues the discussion by suggesting, "The really interesting question raised is: if profitability is... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers
say—in the way it emphasized the momentum behind global standardization. Its more enduring contribution seems to be that it correctly flagged demand-side preferences and supply-side economies of simplicity and standardization as the two... View Details
Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors