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- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
performance rather than individual or unit performance. Beer and Katz thus suggest that instead of putting energy into designing complicated incentive plans intended to motivate executives, top managers should focus on developing an... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Designing Change
know.” The goal of presenting Muzak as a hip, unified entity is complicated by the firm’s structure as an organization composed of company-owned and independent affiliates, many of which use different, uncoordinated marketing materials.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 31 Jan 2019
- News
A Global Mission
board. But he never gave up his ambition to have an international impact. For the last half century, DeFehr has circled the globe—141 countries by his count—looking for places where his business expertise could reshape response to View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
face, Merton faced rows of reporters, banks of TV cameras, and flurries of firing strobe lights and calmly strove to put his complicated and abstract theory into accessible terms. Merton's research focuses on evaluating the financial risk... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Getting Security Right
and economic priorities. Another factor both business and government leaders struggle with is the media’s tendency to provide the public with oversimplified or just plain inaccurate information about political, economic, or competitive factors in other countries. That... View Details
- 09 Sep 2024
- News
Basket Chase
number of components, some of which are perishable. So, you could have anywhere from five to twenty-two items that go into this gift basket. It needs to look a certain way. It needs to be designed beautifully and have a theme. It’s actually quite View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
for her analytical skills and sound judgment, Erdoes is particularly sought out for her expertise in assessing complicated financial instruments, such as derivatives. The Chicago native and Georgetown University graduate says that during... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
mainstream. In spite of a host of complicating factors, from a basic lack of defined terms to the difficulty of measuring returns, demand is only going up. In response, HBS finance professor Shawn Cole and senior lecturer Vikram Gandhi, a... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Back to School
what would be best for each student. That in itself is a complicated operational challenge. On top of that, you have hiring demands and the need to create a culture in which teachers feel enabled to develop professionally. You also need... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
founders, inventors, investors or lenders—to stabilize, hold, develop, and sell IP assets. In a typical transaction, a special-purpose holding entity is created to remove all liens and other complications that may be attached to the... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
regulatory dynamics were complicated and, after three years of trying to make it happen, it never got off the ground,” he says. Undeterred, Royster, who has three daughters, remained passionate about higher ed, especially for those... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
necessarily the best way to organize an industry. This is a fixed-cost business, and it has some fourteen hundred players. Talent and technology get fragmented, and that hinders cumulative learning. And with discoveries happening in separate firms, a whole series of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Joy of Work
creativity was supposed to take place, but our questions were not overtly focused on creativity. In fact, respondents were told just that we were interested in looking at the kinds of things that can help make complicated projects go... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
Square, set out to answer this question after she started to wonder about her own complicated feelings concerning the changing Square. Diving into Harvard Square’s past and present, Turco explores why we love our local marketplaces and... View Details
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
a talented administrator, died on Monday evening, Jan. 29, at a hospital in Melbourne, FL, near his home in Vero Beach. He was 86 years old. According to his daughter Laura U. Moon, Managing Director of Initiatives at Harvard Business School, the cause of death was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Pilgrimage to the Museum: Man’s Search for God Through Art and Time By Stephen Auth (MBA 1985) Sophia Institute Press In Pilgrimage to the Museum, author-curator Stephen Auth takes you on a colorful journey through the history of... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
still do - the financial resources to write new code. Will the worldwide economic downturn complicate matters? Good question. For companies at the top of their game and well into the process, the Y2K problem may actually prove a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
deeply about each of these aspects of life. The reality is that this book is ornately written, and the complications of life are intricately explicated. Laymon shows—he doesn’t just tell—us what it looks like to be an American, while... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
centered in where their life is and how it's changing," notes Dutch Leonard. "There is a continuous influx of inspiration we get from their work. It comes from the energy they bring and the willingness to keep working on things that are really View Details
- 22 Jul 2021
- News
Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women
quarter ever. She sits on several boards, including at MOUSE, a nonprofit bringing STEM programs to underserved youth, and she sponsors an annual scholarship for high school seniors. Ghiya co-founded FemHealth after experiencing life-threatening View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley