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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?
“This was an idea that probably wasn’t going to be well received by the mainstream philanthropy world but had really big potential,” he recalls. A Princeton University study of GiveDirectly’s efforts is an early measure of that potential.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Waxing Philosophical
(Johnson showed it at his 50th HBS reunion.) Alcoholism afflicts 5 to 10 percent of the general population, a figure that experts say is probably higher among CEOs. That’s attributable to the greater levels of stress and work-related... View Details
- 25 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
Dealing with FOMO at HBS
with friends and exercise) and the sand they’re getting displaced by (spending too much time on cases and checking my email). Now I have a way to prioritize what I need to say yes and no to. I will never say no to dinner with friends because I have to read cases, I’ll... View Details
- 14 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Deflategate and the Sustained Success of the New England Patriots
championship win over the Indianapolis Colts by tampering with the footballs. Accusers, which included the National Football League’s head office, said someone with the team underinflated the balls to make them easier for quarterback Tom Brady to throw. “It was View Details
- 05 Dec 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?
Predictors badly mistake self-confidence for competence in data analysis. He argues for predictions: (1) expressed in terms of probabilities (as in Bayesian statistical methods and weather forecasts), (2) revisited and revised as... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
CEO Succession: The Case at Ford
for the companies [in the] S&P 500, and about 40 percent when the company's had some problems. So you have to say frequently. Q: What are the advantages of doing that? A: The main advantage is that you can probably get a fresh point... View Details
- 21 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 21, 2007
innovating managers will instead segment their markets by the different jobs that customers might use their products for, their probability of success will be much higher. Understanding the job is much more important than understanding... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Breaking the Cycle of Intergenerational Poverty | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
break the cycle of poverty in our urban areas? Not sustain people in poverty but break the cycle. This is a challenge that will probably be lifelong, something that I'll be thinking about and working on all of my life. I hope to be able... View Details
- Profile
Rachel Silverstein
of it. "I had eight years of experience in corporate finance," Rachel says, "a bit on the high side among female students." Upon reflection, she realized both concerns were probably misplaced. "School readiness is... View Details
- 06 May 2008
- News
Small World? Read Nil about It
well-documented. They are the generation that will probably preside over and witness the death of newspapers in their lifetime. So here’s a question, especially for those Bulletin readers with international experience or business... View Details
- 05 Jan 2011
- Op-Ed
Funding Unpredictability Around Stem-Cell Research Inflicts Heavy Cost on Scientific Progress
a new research stream, and there is a low probability you will get funded in a new area. You may be fired. In short, your career is in danger of total meltdown. That is the real cost of our randomized model of research support in the... View Details
- 03 Mar 2003
- What Do You Think?
Are Conditions Right for the Next Accounting Scandal?
to arise periodically in the future than it did in the past? Does it suggest an opportunity for a would-be fifth or sixth entrant to the global elite of accounting firms? Will such an organization, probably already in existence, be able... View Details
- 26 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Video: Students Foster Disability Awareness and Access
Danso-Danquah: I always thought I could just push through. And I think we live in a society that rewards that. And I realized it's OK to say that I'm not OK. To reach out for help and to ask for that. There's so many people that struggle with authenticity and... View Details
- 07 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
Can You Learn Finance through the Case Method?
get. In my RC year, HBS offered an accounting and finance immersion course on campus for people in my position (this has since been replaced by HBX CORe, but the content is interchangeable). Signing up for the course was probably the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
The Sky’s the Limit
of coffee warm at one’s desk. Running the company inspired Hamilton to pursue his MBA at Harvard. “I realized I liked the business aspect of things; I liked selling,” he says. “I’m probably not the best design engineer in the world, so I... View Details
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
place in the private sector, the owners would probably hold the stock until the company was in robust health. The realized price on the stock would then in all likelihood be higher. But the Obama administration has made it clear that as a... View Details
- Portrait Project
Paul Sternhell
School, I probably would have laughed. Maybe it's the inspiration I get from reading cases about HBS alumni who have gone on to found Staples or turn around Sears, but right now I feel that I can do anything. I will start right away, by... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50046 The Probability of Rare Disasters: Estimation and Implications By: Siriwardane, Emil Abstract—I analyze a rare disasters economy that yields a measure of the risk neutral View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
less common as manufacturing loses influence, in the following email Q&A Anteby explains that moral gray zones operate everywhere, at all levels of organizations. What's more, they will probably remain strong in the years to come.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Changing Face of American Innovation
new research based on patent and trademark data by Harvard Business School professor William Kerr drills down to further identify the probable ethnic composition of U.S. inventors, the industries they influence, and the geographies they... View Details