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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Turning Point: Ready or Not
connection to your heritage until the oldest person in your family passes away. In that sense, my grandmother’s death last September, at the age of 92, was a turning point for me. I had already lost my father; right before lockdown, I was able to return to Chennai to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
at the current financial crisis in hopes of solving it? I draw a parallel between the natural world and the financial world in the concluding part of the book and sketch out a rough evolutionary theory of finance. And the bottom line is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
brilliant, effective innovators have forced sluggish U.S. industries to become more productive. Sam Walton’s exquisitely detailed supply chain management, coupled with his daring decision to locate Wal-Marts in rural areas, kick-started... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Better Hiring Through Brain Science
Data-driven hiring practices have taken off. As early as 2010, Google was using talent analytics to help hire the right people. Research supports this strategy; in studies, algorithms outperformed humans in hiring decisions by at least 25... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
potential to return their entire fund through acquisition or IPO. In the process, she says, VCs can be “forced to make investment decisions that don’t benefit the company, the entrepreneur, or the entrepreneurial landscape.” For example,... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The Potential of Business to Improve Lives
says, people throughout the business community are interested in diversity in the workplace and looking to scholars to guide their decision making. Studying the complex and multifaceted topic requires a group of investigators from a wide... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar
areas of capital markets, financial services, and corporate finance. "New financial product and market designs, improved computer and telecommunications technology, and advances in finance theory during the past quarter century have led... View Details
Keywords: Elizabeth McNair
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Consumers Make Decisions (and Why Clinicians and Managers Should Care) by Gordon Moore (AMP 79, 1978), John A. Quelch, and Emily Boudreau Oxford University Press The direct-to-consumer business model has transformed how people seek out... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
mortgage-backed securities were greatly overvalued, giving investors and bank CEOs a false sense of security. “The cycles of optimism and pessimism in financial markets will always exist, but we can help people make better informed View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Ink: The Habit of Innovation
view the process as being as rational as possible. These criteria will be guidelines, not rules, as final decisions will always require subjective judgment. Involve outsiders. Parents can attest to how hard it is to be objective about... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
battled it out in an ever-increasing test of nerves, a kind of Darwinian gauntlet. Early NASA executives had decided this was how to identify who had been born with “the right stuff.” Many companies looking to make top staffing decisions... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
surgeons, and Vanya hoping to solve the final puzzles of Einstein's elusive theory of relativity, can they bear to leave the homeland that has given them so much? Grounded in real history—and inspired by the solar eclipse of 1914—A Bend... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
on track. Underpinning his advice with research and illustrating it with stories from others’ successes, Barnett lays out practical, step-by-step processes to help readers realize their goals. Money, Murder, and Madness: A Banking Life by... View Details
- 25 Jun 2019
- News
After the Storm
management experience and lay the financial groundwork for his family to transition into the world of nonprofits. He wound up staying twice as long. “Every year it would get to bonus time, and I’d say, ‘All right, next year I’m going to... View Details
Keywords: Paul Flannery
- 26 Oct 2020
- News
A Social Impact Roadmap; Arts Leadership in a Pandemic; Amplifying Hispanic Contributions
good? And if we believe profit, purpose and social returns are not in conflict, how do we put that theory into action as a corporate executive, entrepreneur, or investor?” Cissy Chen (MBA 2019), who helped organize the event for the HBS... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 09 Jan 2020
- News
Your Whole Self
stuck in leader B mode. And then finally for our teams and our loved ones, when we ripple out leader B, we're telegraphing our stress and our worst self onto others and so suddenly our worst days have made bad days for other people. April: In the book, you View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
by Roger Thompson A spate of business scandals — from Enron’s spectacular collapse to stock option backdating — have put business schools on the spot to explain what, if any, responsibility they might have for what’s gone wrong in America’s executive suites. Two View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
affect the decision to go public. As the authors shed light on the structure and operations of venture capital firms, three major themes emerge. First, all venture capitalists confront tremendous incentive and information problems, in... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
conversation that would eventually lead to Rogers meeting with Comstock and GE CEO and Chairman Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) at GE’s headquarters in New York. In the meeting, Jay recalls Immelt laying out his frustrations with production costs.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
Important Life Decisions by Jaja Jackson (MBA 1999) and Jennifer Grimes (Jennifer Grimes) The authors demonstrate that it is really how we make important decisions that will determine how happy we are. A... View Details