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01 Oct 1996
News

Trading Up — Kenneth D. Brody (MBA 1971)

organization more customer responsive and attuned to the needs of smaller businesses, as well as for shifting the bank's focus away from dealings with foreign governments and toward more private transactions. In 1996, President Clinton... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

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Executive compensation

report reviews key employee compensation practices at charitable nonprofit organizations based on data derived from the GuideStar database of digitized Form IRS 990 and 990-EZ information. View Details

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Research - Health Care

Right Incentives. By: Susanna Gallani and Derek A. Haas Health care organizations have long tried to enlist physicians in their effort to control or reduce costs. One effective means for doing so is to create an incentive system that... View Details

18 Apr 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018

organization among enterprises specializing in overseas ventures, they did not become the dominant form of large enterprises within British economy itself. Business groups View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching

transfer doesn’t quite happen that way, and organizations that practice watch-and-learn vicarious learning run the risk of undertraining their key employees, says Myers. He challenges the theory in a new working paper, Coactive Vicarious... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

07 Apr 2015
News

Warrior Spirit

to qualified students from Boys’ Town Home, a nonprofit organization serving orphans and disadvantaged youth in Singapore. “A lot of the world champions at Evolve began under the exact same circumstances of extreme poverty,” says... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Technical and Trade Schools; Educational Services

24 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural Haiti

Medical records at a healthcare clinic in Lascahobas, Haiti. Ryan McBain A few years ago, the Boston-based nonprofit health care organization Partners in Health (PIH) set out to quantify the cost of primary care for its... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

25 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker

some kind of conspiratorial development that was imposed by manipulative entrepreneurs trying to make women feel a certain way. It was much more organic and part of a huge social transformation." Church And Capital One of the secrets... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Beauty & Cosmetics

11 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

M. Viceira Abstract—Our new model of consumption-based habit formation preferences generates loglinear, homoscedastic macroeconomic dynamics and time-varying risk premia on bonds and stocks. Consumers' first-order condition for the real risk-free interest rate takes... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Research - Race, Gender & Equity

Faculty & Research Research June 2025 Accounting, Organizations and Society Gender Diversity Performance and Voluntary Disclosure: Mind the (Gender Pay) Gap By: June Huang and Shirley Lu We study whether voluntary gender diversity... View Details

07 Aug 2013
What Do You Think?

Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?

and provide accurate feedback . Most situations, especially in the business world, have poor validity, in which case intuition is a poor guide. Vance Kirklin appeared to disagree with this, saying that, "Transformative decisions (strategic decisions that transform... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Jun 2015
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing

research studies by Harvard Business School faculty explore this brave new world of "oversharing" — asking what it means to organizations and to reputation when we decide to buck the trend and keep personal information, well,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

31 May 2004
Research & Ideas

How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not

Steven Kramer) and I were doing an exploratory study of daily diaries we had collected from 238 people in twenty-six teams working on creative projects in seven different companies. The diaries were in the form of answers to a brief daily... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'

said. Graffiti was also a form of escape. In the 1980s and ’90s, gang violence and drugs were rampant in Los Angeles. For young people seeking a different path, graffiti crews offered an identity that was of the streets but not confined... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016

problem-solving that conserves scarce cognitive resources. We then review 142 empirical studies, divided by organizational form into (1) industry studies, (2) firm studies, and (3) studies of open collaborative projects. The industry and... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Modern Capitalism: Mergers and Syndicates - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

transcontinental [railroad] became.” 36 Regulation supported the abilities of companies in other industries to become larger corporations as well, and companies sometimes subsumed other organizations with related functions required for... View Details

19 Jul 2023
Blog Post

A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations

rigor to the institution.” The inspiration arrived at the most opportune time. “NPR was a formative experience in which I learned two things,” says Mizuho. “First, I discovered that I enjoyed working for a mission I believed in and... View Details

10 Nov 2015
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November 10, 2015

share prices prior to turnover are not. A corollary is that a firm with poor stock market performance cannot, or will not, raise new capital unless the current CEO is replaced. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50062 November 2015 Harvard... View Details