Evaluations - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2024
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Game On

for the pickleball but stay for everything else. It takes a staff of 30 to provide this level of service, and they’re just six months into operations by this point in November. Like every startup, the team has been busily evaluating what... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Edward Linsmier; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

23 Jun 2022
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The C-Suite Skills That Matter Most

28 Mar 2024
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Rooms with a View

understaffed. Mirza estimates it could take more than a decade to rebuild a skilled talent pool. Mogul Recruiter—part of Mogul Hospitality, of which Mirza is founder and CEO—is an HR platform that uses data to evaluate employee skills and... View Details

Keywords: April White; photos by Christina Gandolfo; Hospitality

01 Jun 2000
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Going Public: Margaret M. Crotty

year after graduating from Princeton with a degree in history. As a consultant, she evaluated community development programs throughout Indonesia and helped rural women build microenterprises. The resourcefulness of the women impressed... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

31 Mar 2020
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The Case for Cryptocurrencies as a New Category of Regulated Non-Sovereign Fiat Currency

01 Sep 2023
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Research Brief: Making Way for Moonshots

next big breakthrough, the traditional R&D process is more likely to produce incremental measures than something radical. In an effort to understand what role the R&D evaluation process plays in that, Assistant Professor Josh Krieger and... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

09 Nov 2023
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From the Brink

Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994), Adam Chepenik (MBA 2010), Sebastián Negrón-Reichard (JD/MBA 2024) As the senior top official in the US Treasury Department on domestic finance issues, Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994) could see Puerto Rico’s financial meltdown coming, like watching a... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

15 Feb 2024
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Startup Shepherds

surprise came early in his entrepreneurial journey. There is no lightbulb moment, Joffe explains in retrospect. “I don’t believe a coconut falls out of the tree, hits you on the head and you have an aha,” he told the authors. He evaluated... View Details

Keywords: April White

22 Sep 2023
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Capital Connection

Vernon Beckford (MBA 2013) saw the gap almost immediately. From the beginning of his career in commercial real estate finance—first at Credit Suisse and then later at CW Capital and Global Atlantic Financial Group—Beckford observed Wall Street’s obsession with... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Real Estate

01 Dec 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The World’s Littlest Book on Climate: Ten Facts in Ten Minutes About CO2 By Mike Nelson, Pieter Tans, and Michael Banks (MBA 1983) Independently Published In this updated edition of the world’s smallest book on the world’s biggest... View Details

Keywords: podcasts

01 Feb 2001
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What Makes a Good Leader

as one observer puts it — while leaders are the charismatic, big-picture visionaries, the ones who change the whole ant farm. But such a construction, those interviewed for this article agree, erroneously leads to a bimodal way of looking at something that should... View Details

Keywords: Management

12 Jan 2023
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‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data

weren’t evaluating merely what was written on paper. “They were looking at him and applying subjective character tests. Do you look trustworthy? Do you fit the image in my mind of a successful businessperson?” The solution, Ballard... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

01 Mar 2023
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Toward a Life Well Lived

the data collected, including demographic information, is protected and confidential; and there is no human interaction, as analysis is done using algorithms and artificial intelligence. To date, Perlow and her team have collected anonymized data on more than 2,000... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

29 Aug 2023
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Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details

01 Feb 2001
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Advisory Boards Help HBS Assess and Attain Its Goals

efforts, business leadership in the United States and around the world will be strengthened." Moving HBS in a focused direction through the process of evaluation is a great advantage. The committee, consisting of some 47 HBS alumni and... View Details

Keywords: Elena N. Berg; boards; alumni; planning; leadership; advice; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

24 Jan 2020
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Clayton M. Christensen Dies at 67

and taught for many years the MBA elective curriculum offering, Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise, which uses a general manager's lens to evaluate theories about strategy, innovation, and management to predict which tools,... View Details

01 Mar 2014
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Generation Next

Nisa Godrej Illustration by Anita Kunz In the summer of 2007, Mark Kahn (MBA 2006) received an unusual call from Mumbai. A former HBS classmate had a problem. She wanted him to look over strategic and financial documents for a diversified agribusiness subsidiary of the... View Details

Keywords: Mark Bergen; Godrej Group; Management

01 Mar 2018
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Every Trick in the Book

conversation; “Nature and Our Planet” spans everything from climate change to gardening. The adult fiction section features authors from a diverse array of backgrounds, and half of the store is dedicated to children’s books, something that many parents find difficult... View Details