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- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Brooke Carter (MBA 2019)
startup, hired an engineer and designer to build an iOS app, and flew out to Silicon Valley to pitch at Y Combinator. We ultimately decided to shut down the venture, but I learned invaluable lessons about grit and ingenuity. And more importantly, I had an absolute... View Details
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
support the change, and evaluating the change implementation). We examine this relationship using data from 89 clinical managers at the United Kingdom National Health Service who implemented change projects between 2003 and 2004. Our... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
elements that executives need to align and strengthen. This article describes how companies have used the matrix to clarify their relationships with daughter brands, retool their identities to support new businesses, revamp their overall image, View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
power. Publisher's link: http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/amy-cuddy/presence/9780316256575/ February 2015 Prentice Hall Managerial Accounting: Making Decisions and Evaluating Performance By: Datar, Srikant M., and Madhav V. Rajan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
from 2022 will help us start to understand the impact of these new technologies and, I hope, allow us to move forward in pursuing a more thoughtful, more evidence-driven vision of the digital future of health care. Ariel D. Stern is the... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
article they describe how to properly design and execute A/B and other controlled tests, ensure their integrity, interpret results, and avoid pitfalls. They argue that if a company sets up the right infrastructure and software, it will be able to View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Build a Better Board
identified should be rolled into that. We believe every board should evaluate its chief executive officer; every board should oversee formulation of strategy, approve the strategic direction of the company, and monitor how well the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
Efforts Pay Off? Dynamic Panel Data Methods Revisited By: Chung, Doug J., Byungyeon Kim, and Byoung Park Abstract—We estimate a sales response model to evaluate the short- and long-term value of pharmaceutical sales representatives'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases
a nuanced understanding of second-generation bias and how it may impact their own career development and the career development of other women in their firms. Create a holding environment to support women's identity work. The programs... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
investigated how an organization’s heightened focus on political ideology impacts employees. We address this gap by exploring how an individual’s political ideological misfit with an organization’s prevailing ideology View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018
shows how they addressed the formidable challenge of the internment of their employees in British camps during both WWI and WWII. We find that internment impacted business relationships in India well beyond its endpoint and that the WWI... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation
become more and more of a relevant problem over the past eight years or so.” US politics are heating up ahead of the November presidential election as voters evaluate candidates Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald J.... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- Web
IFC: Italy; Tradition and Innovation - Course Catalog
country and (5) understand the role of Italy in the birth of modern capitalism, including the history of double accounting, banking and its impact on trade and the arts. While on campus, we will visit Baker Library’s Medici Collection,... View Details
- 11 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Neuroeconomics: Eyes, Brain, Business
higher percentage of human face. In total, they created 220 morphed faces. Sixty college students were asked to evaluate each face on the continuum for two attributes: animacy (on a scale of 1, "definitely alive," to 7, "definitely not... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 03 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?
categories of Health Performance Indicators can offer up objective data about the current status of a building and identify meaningful fluctuations over time. How are these HPIs gathered and interpreted? With a combination of settings, sensors, screening for symptoms,... View Details
- 05 Dec 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?
identify fairly reliable predictions from the guesses." Others identified people as the weak point in the process. Adam Hartung commented that " everyone should be evaluating trends and making forecasts they use to guide... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Mar 2019
- News
Helping Veterans Build Careers
on-site with a potential grantee, using the Endowment’s strict screening protocols to evaluate nonprofits in four areas: financials; performance; background checks on leadership and how the nonprofit takes care of its employees; and... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
to evaluate the link between dismissal costs and productivity. Drawing on establishment-level data from the Annual Survey of Manufacturers and the Longitudinal Business Database, our estimates suggest that wrongful-discharge protections... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
like them, enable faculty to pursue ambitious, multiyear, and often cross-disciplinary research projects. Long term, I hope we can evaluate how our doctoral programs might be leveraged better to address these challenges. Stanford and Yale... View Details
- 28 May 2008
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First Look: May 28, 2008
are large. However, the proposed exchange ration values Mellon at a discount to its last closing price, even though it is the smaller and non-surviving bank. Kelly must consider the various dimensions of the deal—specifically the value of synergies, the form of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace