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- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
trying to form a culture." Explains Wallace, "This job reinforces the need to have a general management focus. You have to understand the totality of the entity, not just a piece of the operation. If I only thought about finance, I'd lose... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
facility by converting pier terminals and passenger ships. FPH has committed to provide $2 million to this effort. Finally, in collaboration with the Philippine General Hospital, FPH is set to increase their laboratory capacity from 150... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
But they didn’t turn them off, and because that data had been stored in the memory of the computer—not necessarily on it—it was on the hard drives, but wiped. Seeing their memory, hot and live, the malware finds it and says, “Oh, this... View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
objective criteria or on subjectivity unrelated to the stated criteria. On average, the tournament incentive plan was associated with improved store sales. We also find that such plans can be more beneficial for geographically isolated... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
view. This stand-alone book tells the inspiring story of a new generation of mice who begin to reexamine what others have taken for granted and to ask the important questions. Rather than simply accepting their fate and dutifully chasing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
of this ratchet effect, we simulate the U.S. housing market with and without equity extractions, and estimate the losses absorbed by mortgage lenders by valuing the embedded put-option in non-recourse mortgages. Our simulations generate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
also serve more in general as a test for the theory of culture as homogeneity of beliefs. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-003.pdf PublicationsHow to Manage Outside Innovation Authors:Karim R. Lakhani and Kevin J.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
fallen prey to skyrocketing rates of opioid abuse. “Every single one of my staff members has been affected in one way or another,” Marietta says of the opioid epidemic. “It’s wiped out an entire generation of people aged 20 to 45.” By... View Details
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
costs,” Whillans says. “It will help you feel more in control.” It’s also OK to request more time to get work projects done if necessary, since studies show managers are generally willing to extend deadlines when employees ask. “It’s... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
leading apparel maker Liz Claiborne Inc. (LC) were coming off a sixteen-year high that had begun to wane in 1992. A combination of factors — the national recession, weak spending on women's apparel, increased competition, department View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
Lieutenant Commander Kristen B. Fabry (MBA ’02) L. Paul (“Jerry”) Bremer III (MBA ’66) David J. Horgan (MBA ’86) Ali Abdul-Amir Allawi (MBA ’71) Dileep Nair (AMP 114, 1994) HBS professor Benjamin C. Esty (MBA ’91) U.S. President George W. Bush (MBA ’75) Brigadier View Details
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
Dishonest Self-Reports Authors:Lisa L. Shu, Nina Mazar, Francesca Gino, Dan Ariely, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract Many business and governmental interactions are based upon trust with the assumption that all actors generally comply with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
beauty care routines, using fewer plastic items in our own beauty care routines or buying more from farmer's markets or local stores that don't use as much plastic. It's basically for us meant a shift in how we think about helping people... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
he’s hosting a tour of the space—and assigning McKenna a key card. Ten months in as CEO of the humanitarian aid organization, it’s finally her first day in the office. One by one, a few other senior leaders assemble in the lobby for the 1 p.m. tour, including the new... View Details
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
approaches on the subject in terms of longitudinal and geographical scope. We suggest that the straightforward association of the general environmental settings of market immaturities and institutional voids with the existence of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
on what you need to achieve as a company, you're toast." Daniel Gulati and Vivian Weng (both MBA '11) were semifinalists in the 2010 contest with FashionStake, a "community-curated marketplace for independent fashion" that circumvents the traditional department View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
MBA 2011) were semifinalists in the 2010 contest with FashionStake, a “community-curated marketplace for independent fashion” that circumvents the traditional department store model by giving consumers a voting voice to determine which... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Esty's book, Green to Gold), such as General Electric's push into wind and solar power. JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, and Bank of America are among those adding environmental criteria to loan analyses. Venture capitalists like Kleiner... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
workers and laid out an expansion of the private sector that granted operating licenses for 201 jobs—everything from the highly specific “flower wreath arranger” and “Benny Moré Dance Team” to the more general “artisan” and... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
on the enormous success of the event, last summer the Dean's Office invited Dobron to work full-time to refine and implement suggestions for improving campus life that were generated during the case discussions. "Our efforts were mainly... View Details