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- 01 Aug 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?
CEO for a company seems to run on a scale based on size. The ultimate problem with that is the large failure effect. . . ." Responding to the point that hiring from outside an organization is often a more expensive solution, Balaji... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
for the region. HBS's focus on problem solving, its links to real practice, and its broad experience in training managers will also be our "value-added." What effect is the recent financial crisis having on your work and on the work of... View Details
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
Working PapersTesting Strategy with Multiple Performance Measures Evidence from a Balanced Scorecard at Store24 Authors:Dennis Campbell, Srikant M. Datar, Susan L. Kulp, and V.G. Narayanan Abstract We analyze balanced scorecard data... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Tap into Top Talent with the HBS Leadership Fellows Program
Reflecting on his Leadership Fellows experience at Mercy Corps, he notes the significance of the fellowship on his career trajectory. “It was an unbelievable catapult,” he shared. “I was able to take the relationships, experience, and seniority I got out of my first... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
linked to politics, economics, and ecology. Any bit of news, such as an oil tanker spill, a technical problem at a plant, or a political crisis in 1 of their sourcing countries, can send their share prices into a tailspin. Even good news... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
multiple charges of bribery, conspiracy, racketeering, and tax fraud. More recently, there’s the Scranton School Board. In October 2017, a scathing 107-page report from the state auditor general for July 2012 to June 2016 uncovered View Details
- 25 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 25, 2006
Authors:Jakub Wojciech Jurek and Luis M. Viceira Revised Working Paper Author's Abstract We develop an analytical solution to the dynamic portfolio choice problem of an investor with power utility defined over wealth at a finite horizon... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Emerging Art of Negotiation
The first group is more likely to resort to competition and problem solving in the negotiation, while the second prefers more indirect means of arriving at a solution. Less research attention to date has addressed three other important... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
India’s Ambitious National Identification Program
have no identifying documents at all, and yet multiple documents are required to access government services, such as ration cards for subsidized food. Indians without the necessary documents are often denied services or resort to bribing... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick
wider. What the process looks like In their new paper, the writers expand upon the process necessary to put inclusive growth strategies into action. Ideation. “Someone has to see the opportunity for creating an ecosystem that builds a network of relationships among... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Vision: To Go-Go
make a go of it. They raised $500,000 from family and friends in 2019; picked up another $75,000 by winning the alumni track of the HBS New Venture Competition in 2020; and raised $4.5 million in seed funding three months later. Foodology solves the capital, risk, and... View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
founder that I ever felt there was a big difference between men and women. I was asked for more due diligence, for more numbers, and for so much more research on competitors.” Saigal, whose brother launched his own company, was able to compare their efforts and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
experience and performance fails to find a consistent effect of diversity in experience on performance. The problem is that diversity in experience improves a team's information processing capacity and knowledge base but also creates... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Evolving for Success [Part Two]
company. While they needed some independence and autonomy to get started, the problem is that an Arrow customer is just as likely to use the Web one day and a sales rep the next, yet wants to know that he or she is in the same system with... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
restaurants. “There are whole startups focused on that, and it’s a very difficult problem to solve,” Sambvani says. 3. Go wider. They could expand into entirely new markets, such as financial services, travel, or health care. This... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
with dozens of post-docs from diverse fields collaboratively working on big problems, or the Stem Cell Institute’s embrace of multiple labs and hundreds of scientists, or the Broad’s model of a small group of leaders catalyzing a... View Details
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
discounts that are nearly 50% greater than existing customers who are purchasing upgrades of a product. On the product side, one common lock-in strategy—the offering of broad product "suites" which span multiple product... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web
processes that cut across companies and may involve multiple systems. 51 Both of these approaches have proved productive for manufacturing firms. Multi-partner Integration In addition to enabling rich point-to-point links, the Internet is... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- 06 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Circularity in Denmark
to break ground on a massive district cooling system that may pave the way for the complete replacement of natural gas usage with industrial waste heat for the city of Holbæk. Making sustainability accessible and breaking the “chicken and egg” View Details
- 21 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
Accelerating Climate Solutions - Short Intensive Program 2023
entrepreneur in many different environments,” said Laurans. Offering nearly half of the curricular content of a standard semester in just one week, the course acted as a testbed for future climate-focused course offerings across multiple... View Details