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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
monitor hydration levels in real time. The disposable patch allowed endurance athletes to avoid the performance or cognitive impairments that dehydration can cause. The initial product was built as an analog system but Cass, who is... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 16 May 2018
- News
ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup
2015) told an audience of 500 that DynamiCare Health uses a digital platform to monitor and reward addicts for active recovery efforts, eliminating degrading methods of drug testing. DynamiCare took the top prize of $75,000. George... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
liquidity and duration. Comparison of the ex-post performance of bonds acquired by insurance companies does not show outperformance, but higher volatility of realized returns. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2065841 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
recommended. One was making naloxone available over the counter. That's the overdose reversal drug. Wanted to give wide availability to that drug. And then the second thing that we recommended was a substantial improvement in what's called the PDMP, that's a... View Details
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Real estate: emerging markets
Where should I begin my research on real estate in frontier and emerging markets? Research Topics Suggested Resources Overviews ABI/ProQuest
Find articles and reports using keywords specific to your market and real estate sector; also a good source for Business... View Details
Find articles and reports using keywords specific to your market and real estate sector; also a good source for Business... View Details
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Hold ourselves accountable to meaningful, measurable progress. - Advancing Racial Equity
actions—to attract talent, develop research, improve educational programs, and engage the business community—come together to form a coherent strategy. They will also help us balance the need for urgent action with the need for sustained long-run effort. Even as we... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Hands-on Simulations Complement the Case Method
Cooper. “It helped me see the value of getting direct input from those on the line in order to put successful process improvements into effect.” First-year MBA students currently participate in eight simulations, and there are more than a dozen in the second-year... View Details
Keywords: Educational Innovation
- 01 Aug 2007
- Op-Ed
Company Town: Fixing Corrupt Governments
Ernst & Young, or McKinsey should all get a shot at becoming candidates to run cities and districts with a history of corruption. Entities that are experts at municipal accounting, consulting to foreign governments, or providing services like procurement support... View Details
Keywords: by Eric Werker
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World
which recruits at-risk youth to work in Ben & Jerry's shops). It monitors employee progress and tries to quantify the costs each represents to society. It then tracks how that cost structure changes due to the nonprofit's intervention.... View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
students to alumni benefits, market the benefits effectively, and improve the overall level of involvement of recent graduates. The Global Alumni Conference Committee continues to play a key role under the guidance of Ellen M. Guidera (MBA '86). In addition to View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charles Stoddard (MBA 1969)
and I gave them independence. You still have to be there every day and monitor what’s going on, but I think people can develop their God-given skills when they’re not shackled by all sorts of bureaucracy. I could have stayed on with the... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 16 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 16, 2007
costs. Whether it encourages looting depends on other institutions, particularly those that create incentives to monitor directors. We examine Mexico's banking system, 1888-1913, in which there was widespread related lending. We find... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Money Connection—Understanding VC Networks
from a distance because they have reliable, local partners to advise and monitor the new venture." In their paper, Stuart and Sorenson posit that these ties are more likely to form between VC firms in the context of certain events,... View Details
- 02 Aug 2004
- What Do You Think?
For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?
an entire group of lower level functions and staff." Rich Lanza pointed out that "(Section 404) is a necessary step ... (but) more continuous controls monitoring is needed that independently analyze company databases daily for... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
perhaps unlikely leader, Edna Gleason, organized California’s retail pharmacists and coordinated trade networks to monitor and enforce Resale Price Maintenance (RPM) contracts, a system of price-fixing, then known as “fair trade.”... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports and (b) how the risk of governmental monitoring affects the extent to which CSR reports are symbolic or substantive. First, we examine how firm characteristics reflecting dependence on the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
question the wisdom of using its own stock to hedge merchant investments rather than contracts with bona fide counterparties. It failed to monitor the conflicts of interest that the board itself had approved involving Andrew Fastow’s dual... View Details
- 19 Sep 2019
- News
Predicting Human Behaviors
front of a faux dashboard. A large monitor simulated the view through a windshield as a car drove on a quiet suburban street. On one side of the road, a woman walked casually down the bike lane. On the other, a young boy with a backpack... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
New Releases
performance, customer knowledge, internal processes, and learning and growth. The balanced scorecard is a practical management tool that marshals the value-added potential of people throughout the organization toward the achievement of long-term goals while providing a... View Details