Value - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Jun 2009
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Leading Change

What Should Leaders Communicate? Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times As companies batten down the hatches, we need leaders who do not compromise on standards and values that are essential in flush times. Fortunately, such leaders do... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

25 Feb 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Starting a Business

office address that is legitimate in the minds of stakeholders. Firms have to work at maintaining their status in the hierarchy, while legitimacy is a critical issue only in the early stages of firms' lives. For new firms in established industries, there is View Details

15 May 2015
Blog Post

2+2: A "Liberating and Life-Altering" Choice

opportunities by taking professional risks before returning to school. I think 2+2 brings tremendous value to HBS and I am a big proponent of the initiative and the recruitment of new classes of students. I look forward to seeing what new... View Details

01 Jun 2004
News

Social Enterprise Celebrates Tenth Year, Looks Ahead

increase its impact on the world by a factor of ten” — and suggested a focus on developing leaders and adding value to nonprofits by working with other business schools to nurture and strengthen similar initiatives. Noting that we live in... View Details

Keywords: SEI; Social Enterprise Initiative; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

22 Nov 2011
News

A Storybook Beginning

constantly: POM and Service Management,” he states. “Ordering 500 Kindles, shipping them halfway around the world, getting them, intact, through customs and to schools way off the beaten track — that could be a Roy Shapiro case. And from Service Management, I think... View Details

Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

23 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It’s Effective

environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance. The trend of mandatory sustainability reporting picked up steam as consumers, investors, and civil society in general increasingly demonstrated that they value the social... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

17 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Tales of the Newly-minted MBA

that we are—you have to become a whole person, someone who is bigger than a degree or a checking account." The Politics Of Work Gregg Gonsalves (HBS MBA '93) said he values the ability he acquired to assimilate large amounts of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

11 Oct 2017
Blog Post

Designing Internship Projects for Greater Impact

interns. “It’s a benefit to students to learn on the ground, and a benefit to us to get quality talent,” she says. “We’re always thinking about where they can add tangible value over a short period of time.” EquaLife’s most recent intern,... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

24 Jul 2014
Blog Post

Create a Content Marketing Strategy for your Talent Acquisitions Team

creating partnerships with. Your goal should be to create content with values, goals and challenges each persona can relate to. If flexibility is of value to any of your segments, don’t be afraid to share personal stories from employees... View Details

Fast Answer

Stock Pitching: company, industry and market research

news. Print Resource Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies has been put on reserve for the class. Any additional questions? Check Fast... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

Flying High

navigation of long security lines, are asked to arrive 30 minutes prior to their departure times. The company’s motto is “80 percent of the value of private for 20 percent of the cost.” The fare of a roundtrip flight from Los Angeles to... View Details

Keywords: April White; aviation; airlines; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Air Transportation; Transportation

26 Sep 2018
News

Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure

bright ideas through to implementation. Fast emerging is the whole idea of extracting ecological values from land and water and crafting Green Bonds for the capital markets. Close to home, Harvard Forest’s has an initiative to preserve 70... View Details

Keywords: April White

22 Sep 2016
News

Words and Pictures

chance to reflect on what she wrote 14 years ago. “I am shocked to discover how true some of the things are,” she says. “Maybe not the specifics, but the values and overall interests are still the same.” View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Jun 2002
News

Books

Mills shows how capitalism's financial value chain — comprising venture capitalists, bankers, and entrepreneurs and compelled by the lure of potential fortunes to be made — failed in its role to exercise caution in the formation and... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

23 Jan 2019
Blog Post

Leaving an Unhappy Job: How to Look Before You Leap

intentional process consistent with their values and ambitions, including: Time for internal and external reflection Naturally, the search begins with the person – what you want, what you value. "Begin with where you are right... View Details

10 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017

zone is located. In tandem with its value in practice, BATNA has become a wildly successful acronym (with over 17 million Google entries). Yet the initial characterization of this concept in Getting to Yes (Fisher, Ury, and Patton, 1991)... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Aug 2016
First Look

August 30, 2016

economy or aggregation of citizens’ preferences, government preferences are present biased, resulting in an over accumulation of debt. Calibrating this parameter with values in the literature, the model can reproduce debt levels and... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

03 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling

are covered by employers or Medicaid. The healthy people in these insurance pools subsidize the costs of the sick. But many employers, weary of uncontrolled and unpredictable health care costs, will likely soon switch to a pension-like defined contribution system,... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Health

08 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 8

shareholder value in concentrated industries. By contrast, non-delay provisions have an unambiguously negative relation with value, and more so in concentrated industries. Overall, our analysis suggests that there are governance... View Details