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- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
in education, starting with early childhood, expand the talent pool and reduce otherwise-costly social problems. The nation will become both more global and more local. Biden will direct a return to global cooperation, a welcoming of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
one reward from one category and another reward from another category than they were to obtain two rewards from a pool that included all items from either reward category. As a result, they worked longer when potential rewards for their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
entrepreneurial venture. Both programs offered equal levels of financial reimbursement for transportation and cremation costs. The study shows that although the programs procured from a somewhat similar pool of donors, they also... View Details
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
University Endowment (2006) Harvard Business School Case 207-062 As with many modern-day large pools of capital, the Vanderbilt University endowment is significantly invested in alternative assets such as hedge funds, private equity, real... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
base. The companies provide free office space where iTrust “relationship managers” meet with employees. The arrangement gives iTrust, starting with zero brand recognition, “instant credibility in the eyes of company employees and a ready-made View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
to expand aggressively, focusing on a full-service model, often including swimming pools and racquetball courts, at moderate prices. Rumors of an IPO had circulated for over a decade, triggered by the fact that several private-equity... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
travelers the flexibility and convenience of flying private aircraft for their personal and business needs at an outstanding and unparalleled value. Sentient functioned differently and more efficiently than traditional charter companies: it used an open fleet model,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
each of which pooled the investment capital that its general partners and limited partners committed for finite lifetimes. Greylock was established against a long historical tradition of New England financial innovation going back to at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
tax shelters. These changes included a common compensation bonus pool for the entire firm and rewarding people for professionalism as much as for business development; strengthening governance by adding a lead director to the board,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Management Education’s Unanswered Questions
Bill after World War II, which created a huge pool of potential new students. What were other crucial turning points? A: The Great Depression of the 1930s reinvigorated the discourse and questions about what a profession is and what end... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
are many communities that must be satisfied." Venture Capital and Private Equity The pool of U.S. private-equity funds has grown on the order of 2,500 percent in the past decade-and-a-half. Venture Capital and Private Equity (VCPE), a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
Michael Ward (MBA ’76) grew up in blue-collar Baltimore. As a kid, he racked balls and collected customers’ money at Club Ritchie Billiards, his father’s pool hall; when he was older, he took summer jobs in an asphalt factory to pay for... View Details
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
War II when the issue became a particular concern. Policy makers considered that existing financial institutions could neither provide the necessary due diligence nor the pool of risk capital that was necessary to spur entrepreneurial... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
Periodical:Forethought. Harvard Business Review 85, no. 5 (May 2007) Abstract Often times solutions to difficult problems can arrive from surprising sources. We describe a method of problem solving that entails an open broadcast of problem information to a large View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
districts is that effective leadership and management is correlated with high-performance. However, there's been scant attention to creating useful knowledge for practitioners about the managerial aspects of large public school districts. While the View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
infirmary, like her peers, Margaret emerged from the war as a fully certified truck and airplane mechanic. “She always encouraged us to do things and figure it out, and I think it’s enabled me to jump into the deep end of a swimming pool... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
Dan. I actually did take the test. And what was very interesting is that at the beginning of pymetrics we didn't have any career matches. The way we develop a career match is we have lots of other people play the games, and then from the entire View Details
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
809-073 The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is one of the largest and fastest-growing pools of investment capital in the world and follows an unusually active program of investment management. In the market turmoil of late 2008, Mark... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
tap into the talent pool of young Chinese scientists. Strategic and operational integration of Sym-Bio into PerkinElmer is explored through the lens of the founder and CEO of Sym-Bio and that of the acquiring company. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Supplemental Financial Information | Annual Report 2024
operating costs in fiscal 2024, consistent with fiscal 2023. Debt Service Three pools of funding—gifts, unrestricted reserves of internally generated cash, and the strategic use of debt financed through the University—finance the School’s... View Details