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- 02 Jan 2014
- Blog Post
Preparing for a career in investment banking
their experiences in banking. My section mates were offering help even before I asked. (SECTION F!!!!) Also, the second years were amazing. I asked for nitty-gritty details about what they did to get an interview, how they liked/disliked it, how many people they talked... View Details
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
seven years, large teams of affiliated WMS analysts have interviewed managers at some 10,000 organizations in 20 countries, setting out to determine how and why management practices differ vastly in style and quality. Best Practices The researchers used an View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action
by using or wearing them in the field, noting comfort, fit, functionality, and limitations. Back at L.L. Bean's corporate offices, staff members then evaluate these observations, writing significant phrases on Post-its and using this... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- 14 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
Development. Assess how managers assign training and development opportunities, and ensure they use objective criteria. Increase women’s access to mentors and sponsors. Performance assessment. Educate managers about gender biases that can influence View Details
- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
specific assumptions about fairness principles or priority criteria, our method offers the designer the flexibility to select his desired criteria and fairness constraints from a broad class of allowable constraints. The method then... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
priority criteria, e.g., waiting time, medical urgency, etc., or a combination thereof. Rather than making specific assumptions about fairness principles or priority criteria, our method offers the designer the flexibility to select his desired View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
central path to job creation, economic growth, and prosperity. In the earliest stages of start-up business creation, the matching of entrepreneurial ventures to investors is critically important. The entrepreneur's business proposition and previous experience are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Latin America - Global Activities 2020
needs—everybody benefits. Ben Roth: Another stream of work is thinking about new kinds of credit products Fondo could offer and evaluating both the new products and some existing ones to understand their impact on borrowers. For example,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
contrary to human nature to expect total objectivity from a CEO regarding his or her performance. One cannot expect a CEO in the role of chairman to prepare the board to evaluate lapses and failures on his or her part, or on the part of... View Details
- Web
Loan Assistance Programs - Alumni
2022, a student may apply for, and receive, a Private Sector Employees Loan Reduction or a Rock Center Loan Reduction for Entrepreneurs and subsequently apply to the Social Enterprise Loan Repayment Assistance Program in the same calendar year (the student must meet... View Details
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
criteria with which, as extensive evidence has shown, most people evaluate policy. In particular, if the classic principle of Equal Sacrifice augments the standard Utilitarian criterion, optimal tagging is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Launching Tech Ventures - Course Catalog
innovative model and drive adoption in the context of a network effect-based business opportunity? How does one evaluate the quality of the startup business model and appreciate the relative pros and cons of business model choices? 4. The... View Details
- 25 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
4 Challenges All Early-Stage Startups Face
skill-set to create a competitive advantage while others try to round out as many weaknesses as possible. Some form around friend groups, while others form around shared interests and commitment levels. Each of these formation criteria... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
history. Sensitivity to ambiguity was lower in individuals who met diagnostic criteria for Antisocial Personality Disorder. Lower ambiguity sensitivity was also associated with higher externalizing (but not psychopathy) scores and with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Build a Better Board
fundamentally understand the business. And that means a fundamental rethinking of how boards operate. This going back to the drawing board, Lorsch and Carter conclude, includes reviewing the roles boards serve, how the work is structured, the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
signal and infer quality of difficult-to-observe management practices. Prior evaluations of voluntary management programs have focused on those that lack verification mechanisms and have found little evidence that they legitimately... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn’t)
from article evaluation standards to the etiquette surrounding debate. "When I got involved in this Article-for-Deletion process, they kept citing chapter and verse the policies and guidelines to me," McAfee says. "It really showed me how... View Details
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
CalPERS' external fund managers, Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA), and a service provider to DFA and CalPERS, KLD Research & Analytics. One question facing CalPERS with this new approach is whether to invest in PetroChina, which had been off-limits previously due to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
to come up with changes. Could we get together to brainstorm constructive ways to improve our industry faster?” Within 48 hours, nearly everyone on the email chain agreed to participate. “Founders are the customers of venture capital. If founders View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
in VC is just not OK. We have a window to come up with changes. Could we get together to brainstorm constructive ways to improve our industry faster?” Within 48 hours, nearly everyone on the email chain agreed to participate. “Founders are the customers of venture... View Details