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Minal Mehta

challenging. I have found that giving team members a real sense of ownership and being invested in their personal well-being has allowed me and my team to build a strong community." Can you finish this statement? "A great... View Details

Keywords: Services; Services

15 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

what products or services to offer by first looking inside. Contrary to most companies that begin by looking at markets and competition, these CEOs looked inside to define "who" the company was—where was the most powerful intersection... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

11 Feb 2015
Research & Ideas

Politicians Benefited From Using Toxic Loans

power for more than 20 years). Vallée and Pérignon analyzed how the politicians used the loans—whether they had invested the money in equipment or services for the city, or used the cash to lower taxes for their constituents, or both. It... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

13 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Reinvigorating America

to act as "citizen diplomats," spreading greater understanding of our values and helping countries that empower their people and build their economies. Develops an ethos of a community that cares about others and a program of national View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

26 Feb 2008
Working Paper Summaries

Long-Run Stockholder Consumption Risk and Asset Returns

Keywords: by Christopher J. Malloy, Tobias J. Moskowitz & Annette Vissing-Jørgensen; Financial Services

21 Jul 2011
News

Social Investing’s Time Has Come

How would you like to invest in a project that simultaneously provides a needed social service and generates a financial return? Nice idea, but not possible? Not exactly. Social impact bonds (SIBs) do just that. The concept is simple and... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Personal Services; Personal Services

13 May 2010
Working Paper Summaries

Just Say No to Wall Street: Putting A Stop to the Earnings Game

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller & Michael C. Jensen; Financial Services

01 Jun 2001
News

Leng Lim: The Spiritual Face of Business

glasnost. The experience was mind-blowing and heart-opening.” After fulfilling a two-year military service requirement in Singapore, Lim studied international relations as an undergraduate at Princeton University, where Professor Cornel... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Personal Services; Personal Services

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Brittani Rettig

serving my blog readers. Living a life of service is one thing that keeps me very motivated. I succeed when those I serve succeed. "The differences are countless. My consulting role allows me to drive formal project management and... View Details

Keywords: Services; Services; Services

19 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Do I Dare Say Something?

that lead people to feel more or less safe speaking up: individual differences and contextual factors. Individual differences include personality dispositions such as one's level of extraversion or proactivity, or one's developed skills... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

27 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Customer Loyalty Programs That Work

motor vehicles registries. In the digital era, retailers have myriad ways to collect, store, and slice-and-dice customer data. "The more information you can get and the better you can deal with it, the better you can become at providing View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Retail

30 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men

personal persuasion. Kearney, her twin sister, is an entrepreneur and scholar whose research is fueled by both a frustration with and curiosity about the dearth of venture capital for women. (In the first half of 2013, companies with at... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

01 Jun 2008
News

Where Are They Now?

Publishing. In the nonprofit realm, his commitments encompass his interests in health-care delivery and initiatives to improve education in disadvantaged communities. The rest of his time is spent in service on corporate boards. He’s... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services

17 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep

mutual funds will adopt our approach. We'd love to work with such a service to help make this information available to investors at large. Q: In your analysis you relied rather heavily on Spectrum and other computer-generated data tools.... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

November 1993
Case

George Halas: Estate Planning and the Chicago Bears

By: Henry B. Reiling

Keywords: Sports; Personal Finance; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Chicago

Citation

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01 Dec 2003
News

DonorsChoose: Teaming Up with Teachers

primarily for public schools serving low-income families. It has created an online marketplace connecting teachers with “citizen philanthropists,” who buy supplies or services the schools can’t afford. At www.DonorsChoose.org, teachers... View Details

Keywords: Personal Services; Personal Services

04 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

How Female Stars Succeed in New Jobs

If a successful analyst is hired by another organization, chances are both his work performance and the market value of his new company will not reap the expected benefits; they might even lose altitude. So discovered HBS professor Boris Groysberg and colleagues Ashish... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

06 Jun 2012
What Do You Think?

Is Something Wrong with the Way We Work?

"leverage" that technology can provide, commenting that "who says that if I want to service my client I have to be at my desk in my office?" Tom Dolembo, who has "no choice but to be 24/7 and technologically... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Consulting