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- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
two clear, easy-to-read pie charts—one dedicated to human capital and professional services, the other to programs, supplies, and vendor services. Nothing remarkable. But they demonstrated a level of rigor and detail that had been missing... View Details
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
Comunale Abstract— This article highlights the benefits that rigorous use of oral history can offer to research on the contemporary business history of emerging markets. Oral history can help fill some of the major information voids... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
leave the fighting, and Sri Lanka, behind. And he did, enrolling at Hampton University, a historically black school in Virginia that he picked for the rigor and selectiveness of its architecture program. “I’d be asked why I was there,” he... View Details
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
ideas about improvement opportunities. However, the hypothesized link between WalkRounds -based programs and performance has not been rigorously examined in a set of randomly selected hospitals. Objective: To fill this research gap, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
of HBS students over nearly twenty years. Through the close study of literature—novels, plays, and historical accounts—followed by rigorous classroom discussion, this innovative course encourages students to confront fundamental moral... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
teamwork and patient outcomes remain empirical questions in need of rigorous study. Objective: To identify and review survey instruments used to assess dimensions of teamwork, so as to facilitate high quality research on this topic.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
vision," they say, "is to be the preferred provider of food for West Africans." Ndidi and Mezuo, both children of university professors, approach the ambitious challenge with a combination of academic rigor and devotion to social justice.... View Details
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
importance of an informed and rigorous historical understanding for practitioners. He visited my office later to say that he felt Chilean policymakers and business leaders lacked such an understanding, and he would like to do something... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 9
a fresh look at one of the most rigorous extant methodologies for detecting "tunneling," or efforts by firms' controlling owner-managers to take money for themselves at the expense of minority shareholders. We show that efforts... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
treatments of identity in the social sciences, the concept has remained too analytically loose to be as useful a tool as the literature's early promise had suggested. We propose to solve this longstanding problem by developing the analytical View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
Set for publication next spring, the book draws on a decade of experience and years of research to frame a series of questions that, if rigorously addressed, will guide donors to better results with their philanthropy. Bridgespan also... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
forward-thinking companies that have adopted radical new approaches to talent, this book shows leaders how to bring the rigor they apply to financial capital to their human capital, elevating HR to the same level as finance in their... View Details
- 27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27
"lean startups." Entrepreneurs in these startups translate their vision into falsifiable business model hypotheses, then test the hypotheses using a series of "minimum viable products," each of which represents the smallest set of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
future at the same time. It is like changing the engine of a plane while it is flying. Based on almost ten years of research, this book provides a framework for companies to reimagine their business. Using rich case studies and rigorous... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
to compare rigorously which offers the better path to sustainability, but a case can be made that the application of entrepreneurial talents to activities beyond for-profit business (of which conservation is one example) might be a more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
understanding of war’s complexities to tell the story of CST-2, a unit of women handpicked from the Army to serve in this highly specialized and challenging role. Reading Reconsidered: A Practical Guide to Rigorous Literacy Instruction... View Details
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
L., and Sara J. Singer Abstract—Management-By-Walking-Around (MBWA) is a widely adopted technique in hospitals that involves senior managers directly observing frontline work. However, few studies have rigorously examined its impact on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008
differences in study methods and assumptions and resulting biomass quantities are elucidated. We differentiate between inventory studies, in which quantities of biomass potentially available are estimated without rigorous consideration of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
follow we present 6 of the 788 students who personify the remarkable qualities and achievements typical of the class as a whole. Al Dobron, Raj Kapoor, J.B. Lyon, Melissa Ma, Emma Minto, and Tarrus Richardson are talented individuals who gracefully juggled the View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
overseeing the safety and efficiency of UP's track structure in some of the 23 states where the railroad hauls freight. "And it has a physical aspect that I like. We do real, rigorous work. If a train derails, we'll work 24 hours a day... View Details