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  • 03 Jan 2017
  • First Look

January 3, 2017

Performance Goals and Incentives This module explains how managers use performance goals and incentives to ensure that employee actions align with the strategy of the organization. We demonstrate how to use goals to communicate business... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Apr 2016
  • First Look

April 12, 2016

available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/416032-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 416-034 Difficult Conversations and Dealing with Challenging Situations at Work: Managing Communication No abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 14

Gap? Government Subsidized Lending and Access to Capital By: Lerner, Josh, and Kristle Romero-Cortes Abstract—The consequences of providing public funds to financial institutions remain controversial. We examine the Community Development... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 20

lines in order to illuminate the ways that U.S. states take advantage of federal ambiguity and are able to shape corporate practices to their benefit. We specifically examine how patterns of bank acquisitions are shaped by the crucial relationship between the federal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 18, 2009

active firm leadership in these courses, and establishing multiple channels of communication for employees to raise concerns with an explicit "no retaliation" policy. In January 2007, 86% of the employees were proud to work for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook

literature and a community of scholars, has a narrow and a broad definition. The narrower definition includes researchers such as myself who do primary archival research on the history of business, who belong to the societies, and who... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007

River, the Chilean government, and international conservation groups results. The conflict threatens the completion of the project and the longstanding culture and community of the Penhuenche, the indigenous people of the Upper Biobio.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Nov 2024
  • News

How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms

be an early warning sign: I f you can't get insurance in a particular locale, it probably is a place you shouldn't build, right? Should you build on stilts in coastal communities where we know hurricanes are going to get more intense... View Details
  • 20 Jul 2022
  • News

Wired to be Inspired

thinking about your employees, you’re thinking about your communities and you’re thinking about the planet. It’s palpable. You can see how they talk about themselves. You can see how they envision their strategy. You can see how employees... View Details
Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 01 Feb 1997
  • News

Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

are many communities that must be satisfied." Venture Capital and Private Equity The pool of U.S. private-equity funds has grown on the order of 2,500 percent in the past decade-and-a-half. Venture Capital and Private Equity (VCPE), a... View Details
  • 31 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

considerations clearly meet ethical ones. The executive order is not only unrelated to reality, but it also presents us with a toxic society project, one that opposes communities to each other instead of bringing them closer. From a... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 03 Nov 2015
  • First Look

November 3, 2015

at facilitating communication and collaboration between practitioners and academics by introducing key vocabulary and concepts used in rigorous impact evaluation methods, starting with randomized controlled trials and comparing them with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 11

ambitious 20-year growth plan to transform her family's one-branch community bank into an institution with a substantial presence in southeastern Alabama. Harris Johnson was pleased, so far, with the results. Strategically they had... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 1996
  • News

1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"

the explosive growth of the Internet." Detailing how the Internet is revolutionizing the communications industry, Taffel spoke of the "paradigm shifts" that new technology can bring and how they are frequently ignored by industry leaders.... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
  • 23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

forecasts: how they are aggregated, evaluated, and communicated to stakeholders. We expect to see greater use and aggregation of probability forecasts, especially given developments in statistical modeling, machine learning, and expert... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 27 Aug 2013
  • First Look

First Look: August 27

and to sell media time. A second objective of the case is to understand the implications of social TV viewing, the audience engagement that results when people watch television with a smartphone or tablet in hand, participating in a virtual View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 3, 2009

would intrude ever more deeply and more precisely into consumer lives than broadcast media had been able to. Instead, the transformation is unfolding on a model of consumer empowerment, in which consumers use digital media to communicate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 8, 2016

this module by illustrating how to use a profit plan to test a strategy’s viability. This module shows how the profit plan plays a critical role in every business: setting performance goals for employees, communicating expectations to the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 15

shifting workforce demographics, and changing reimbursement models—threaten to disrupt NWH's organizational model. Similar to other U.S. community hospitals, NWH has historically been staffed primarily with private practitioners; however,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jun 2018
  • News

Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life

to commune with someone else. We can look for these moments where we have to rely on others. Those actually make the experience more meaningful. And to go back to what I sort of opened with, these happiness studies tend to focus on... View Details