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- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Stephen Covey's Successful Habits
principles we espouse for taking control of one's life - steps such as being proactive, putting first things first, and establishing clearly what you want to achieve. The universality of these principles resonates with people. Which habit... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
it much easier to leave." Mothers of Invention With one child and a full-time job as managing director of Random House Children's Books in the U.K., Deborah J. Sandford (MBA '90) and her husband had an "action-packed schedule." When their... View Details
- 10 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley
large, but we have not made progress in measuring it. That is a future question for research." Despite the difficulty of assessing the effects of regulation, Srinivasan stresses the importance of continuing to look for ways to do so, citing the possibility of... View Details
- 10 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy
Entrepreneurship," a working paper coauthored with Jesper B. Sørensen of Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, Nanda examines the question of whether a person is more likely to pursue an entrepreneurial activity if some of his or her coworkers have... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 14 Apr 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Mike Gandy Auzenne (MBA 2016)
I don’t have as much control of my calendar as some of our other board members. Fortunately, the team has been accommodating by scheduling board meetings on Saturday mornings or waiting until the evening to receive a response on my end.”... View Details
- 30 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2013
alleviate congestion, and can actually increase it. Research by Jillian Berry Jaeker, Anita L. Tucker, and Michael H. Lee. Applying Random Coefficient Models to Strategy Research: Testing For Firm Heterogeneity, Predicting Firm-Specific... View Details
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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
women. Baker Library exhibit on Women, Enterprise & Society Catalyzing: Visit Ilene Lang’s blog A New Path: This weeklong leadership development course is designed for women with significant professional experience who are seeking to... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Former HBS Dean Fouraker Dies at 74
Dean Kim B. Clark. "He paved the way for the kind of international point of view that we regard as so essential today in educating leaders for the 21st century." Former HBS Dean John H. McArthur praised Fouraker's successful efforts to manage and View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
impact of changes to an experience or product. Once an esoteric tool for academic research, the randomized controlled trial has gone mainstream—and is becoming an important... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
It’s All in a Name: Reputable Investors Help Startups Shine
startups because of Sequoia specifically? To test if the name of a top investor makes a difference in luring applicants, the researchers collaborated with AngelList Talent, an online recruitment platform, to conduct a randomized View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 26 Sep 2018
- News
Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure
opportunities with environmental benefits. With decades of experience in investment banking with Dillon Read in New York City—but little experience with environmental work—Cody joined the World Bank as its... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 11 Jun 2021
- News
The Power of Resilience
felt comfortable moving on and knowing that the organization was going to be in a good place, and I realized I wanted to move into more mission-driven work, and that this cancer experience that I had gone through had truly changed my... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
John Dearden Remembered
and opportunities it would pose,” said McFarlan, a student in the first class Dearden taught at the School. Dearden chaired the Control faculty from 1968 to 1970 and served three times as head of the required first-year MBA course in that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
as a pressing issue. What sparked your interest? Originally I came to the DBA Program to study finance, but I switched to control, primarily because of the pathbreaking work that Bob Anthony was doing on control in nonprofits. Bob was... View Details
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
institutional appropriateness was the stronger requirement; the lack of it prevented an otherwise informationally relevant risk control system from prevailing as an interactive control system. Download the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
3 Minute Briefing: Y Combinator’s Qasar Younis
(photo by Leah Fasten) My impetus to start my own company was so somebody else couldn’t control my destiny. My first company was Cameesa, an apparel company with a Kickstarter model. There were many failures: We didn’t know what we were... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
apparent, however, is her passion and drive, whether she’s describing a recent IPO, her work with the Food Bank for New York City, or her relationship with God. Whatever the topic, her words come thick and fast, demonstrating the impressive power of breath View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
The Future of Books
Traditionally, publishing has been a business-to-business industry, selling books to retailers. At Penguin Random House, our greatest priority now is marketing our books directly to readers and getting to know their habits and... View Details
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
Policy Experiment By: Alfaro, Laura, Anusha Chari, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—Emerging-market governments adopted capital control taxes to manage the massive surge in foreign capital inflows in the aftermath... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
A Hollywood Backstory
Illustration by Alex Nabaum, theispot.com Every Sunday night when I was a kid, I'd sneak out of bed to watch the late movie on TV, film classics like Patton or A Man for All Seasons. I may very well have been the only fourth grader to have a profound, life-altering... View Details