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- 04 May 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Do Managers Think?
listening to others ." Bill Welter opined that " the basic cycle that all thinking professionals (doctors and managers alike) should use (is): to sense, to make sense, to decide, and to act . Unfortunately, too few of us deem... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
Angst, Awareness, Action by Jay P. Desai (AMP 180, 2011) (Pearson) Accountability, the bedrock of governance, is under siege in India. Widespread unaccountability is preventing the country from unlocking its full economic and social potential.ÃÂ Desai discusses... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Books
clear that innovative accounting and control tools are needed to implement strategy appropriate to the business dynamics of the 21st century. He offers important new techniques such as profit wheel analysis (integrating profit planning,... View Details
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Generative AI for Business Leaders - Course Catalog
a production scale Gen AI application using a no code platform. The HBS digital transformation (DTX) team will assist in the delivery fot he project. Learn about the basic foundations of the technology as well as the latest developments... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?
happiest part of my day is normally in the evening when [I] sit down with my wife as we account for our day’s earnings from our different sources of income.” Since GiveDirectly launched, cash payments have become a growing, though still... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Generation Next
Family-owned companies account for more than two-thirds of all business around the globe. In fact, most of the world's largest and most influential business organizations are family-run. In the United States, for example, firms such as... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Bookshelf: Try As One Might
A professor of management at the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia and a leading expert on design thinking, Jeanne Liedtka (MBA 1981) helps people make better decisions through experimentation. The concept sounds simple enough in the... View Details
- 14 May 2024
- Blog Post
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - How to Build a Culture of Intrapreneurship
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series – How to Build a Culture of Intrapreneurship Today, the concept of “sustainable innovation” seems commonplace and is generally accepted as a viable path balancing business growth with... View Details
- 05 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?
Netscape's initial financiers, the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. While Brooks struggled to interest EG&G in backing his concept (EG&G considered Brooks's idea outside its core business), Kleiner... View Details
Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 25 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Advancing a More Sustainable World with an MBA/MPA-ID
commons where the equilibrium is not a stable one, and incentives to deviate are high for individual actors (profitability strikes again!). Consequently, a lot of the game theory we studied actually comes into action there. Moreover, the core View Details
- 16 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology
Not only has technology entered nearly every area of our personal life, it's the rare industry that isn't computerized, networked, and advertised on Facebook. Except one: education. Outside of the occasional computer lab, basic webpage,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
Business by Leonard C. Green (OPM 18, 1992) (AMACOM) “Big new ideas rarely make great businesses.” “Laboring on a business plan can be a waste of time.” “You are going to need dramatically more start-up money than you think you do.” Counterintuitive View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
losses in June. Will crypto overcome the challenges on the road to mainstream adoption? What’s standing in its way? HBS faculty members Charles C.Y. Wang, who has written about public firms’ investments in, and accounting for,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
point out that the choices women entrepreneurs make often cause investors to classify their ventures as undesirable investments. The book includes chapters on the human capital component, financial savvy and risk propensity in women, the effects of strategic choice of... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs
comprehensive program designed to ensure a basic level of competency throughout the cohort. By all accounts from the students, faculty members, and staff involved in the initial Foundations module, the... View Details
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
reporting, and demonstrating progress toward mission. The article describes how these logics are associated with three basic accountability regimes: coercive, technocratic, and adaptive. It then discusses... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
at least 3 decades. This paper outlines the range of accountability mechanisms currently in place at the World Bank along 4 basic levels: (1) staff, (2) project, (3) policy, and (4) board governance. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia
power in the region. An explanation, rather, lies in nationalism: in the degree to which these countries constructed and embraced their own concepts of national identity and allowed such concepts to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
kidneys, overcoming the barrier faced by living donors deemed incompatible with their intended recipients. This review provides a basic overview of the concepts and challenges faced by KPD as we prepare for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao Advises New MBA Students on Business Values
Dean Kim B. Clark for founding the Leadership and Values Initiative, an effort that for the last two years has sought to more fully integrate the School's community standards of integrity and honesty, respect for others, and personal View Details