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- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
pricing mechanism, capitalism must have the administrative capability to regulate the behavior of economic actors within those markets and the political capability to redesign their institutions; regulation and the design of market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
generation of players," O'Reilly notes. "There are 10,000 youth football leagues across the country, and our goal is that all coaches be certified and that each league has a designated player-safety coach." JUST SUPER: Patriots owner... View Details
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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
social progress and the ultimate goal: equity. Adia Wingfield Harvey is currently serving as President of Sociologists for Women in Society, a national organization that encourages feminist research and social change, and is a regular... View Details
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
targeting behavior. For managers contemplating the use of performance goals or targets to encourage more volunteer effort, our results suggest careful consideration about the extent to which they may render other incentives less... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
innovation, by encouraging workers to cultivate their individual strengths and to speak up when they have ideas for improvements. And they can develop and empower their employees to solve problems instead of turning automatically to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light
Departments. "The underlying logic of much of decision and control theory was similar to the underlying structure of how we at JPL would design trajectories and track and control a spacecraft," says Light. "So... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
be on the verge of another significant advance. For if the mutual fund first empowered the "little guy" by encouraging him to visit Wall Street, the Internet has captured the Street and placed it at his disposal, inside his... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
don’t do what they were designed to do. It is just that drugs have always been designed around the “average patient,” who doesn’t really exist. In an increasing number of diseases, beginning with cancer and... View Details
- 10 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting
decipher what kind of company they are buying into. The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) is an NGO established in 2011 with designs on cutting through that noise. Much the way the Financial Accounting Standards Board has... View Details
Keywords: Re: George Serafeim
- 24 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Who Sets Your Benchmarks?
of the twentieth century, the first twenty-two years of my life seemed to revolve around an unending series of tests designed to rank me versus my peer group. At the end of each grading period, my mom would ask me if I had made the honor... View Details
- 20 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability
an engineer at Tesla, where I worked in manufacturing and design engineering. I loved my time there and am proud that I played a small role in helping drive the automotive industry towards electrification. Most importantly, I learned... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
and has been operational now for just over a year. The Israeli side is contributing expertise, access to export markets, and design capabilities; the Jordanian side provides production management and manufacturing prowess. The venture... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
recent research: Encourage sick employees to stay home with paid time off Gary Johns, professor of management at Concordia University: Many employees continue to go to work when sick, and a big factor is a lack of paid sick leave.... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- Web
The Route of the Exhibition - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
offered an intensive study of the place and function of advertising in business administration. Designed to “give a viewpoint to those who, as executives, will have to direct the use of advertising in the conduct of business,” 25 the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
director, and emeritus professor at Swarthmore College, with more than thirty years of experience in the theater. Together, they developed the “artful making” concept to encourage managers in today’s knowledge–based, project–focused... View Details
- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
normally talks for five to ten minutes with occasional interruptions by the instructor. Once he is done, instructors typically throw the same issue or question back to the class for further discussion. Throughout the class, a primary goal is to View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
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2025 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
these technological waves, the imperative to reskill—through training programs designed to facilitate the transition from obsolete to in-demand occupations—has gained prominence, particularly in response to the rise of new AI-based... View Details
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
describes a growing experimental literature that suggests how perceived ethics surrounding transactions with multiple partners can encourage misbehavior. It is noted that causing harm indirectly through another can protect harm doers.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
defaults, and tools that tap our desire to help others-it's possible to design simple, inexpensive programs that encourage good health decisions and long-term behavior change. Publisher's link: View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
summer intern Alexandra Horvitz (HBS 2021). Titled “Reimagining Fitness: Designing an Anti-Racist Industry,” the online event was hosted by Aaron Mitchell (MBA 2011), a fitness enthusiast who is director of recruiting at Netflix and an... View Details