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- 29 Jan 2019
- News
Gloria Steinem and Diane Paulus Take Center Stage
of Africa’s businesses. Along with CTO Joshua Ihejiamaizu and board member Temi Awogboro, Chow ensures GEN’s programs effectively break young Nigerians out of dead-end, low-skilled work, through its international operations and presence... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
be comfortable in recounting our strengths and accomplishments. It is also important to not restrict ourselves to only those efforts where we know we will perform perfectly. We cannot require ourselves to be perfect in all endeavors. It... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
Marshall knew all of our faces and names. He had memorized them from the photos we had submitted with our applications. Marty's bravura performance and the fact that he had gone to the trouble of learning all of our names before the first... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Books
Jay Lorsch and the Boston Consulting Group’s Colin Carter (MBA ’71) argue that corporate boards have made progress in the last decade, but are being pressed to perform unrealistic duties, given their structure, processes, and membership.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Research Brief: Where Top-Down Tops Out
Raffaella Sadun (photo by Russ Campbell) Raffaella Sadun (photo by Russ Campbell) In the face of economic challenges, hospitals in the English National Health Service have turned to a strategy that has proven effective for small private... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
At Your Service
Obviously, when your organization is in the business of saving lives, you can’t intentionally be “bad” at anything. But you can decide to not perform as well in areas that patients care less about, with the understanding that it will give... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Third Force: Indispensable to Society, Nonprofits Should Redirect Oversight Efforts
Homelessness. Entrepreneurial services for the poor. The arts. Spirituality. Who — or what — in our society can best address these issues? Here's a hint: It's not business, and it's most definitely not government. "Nonprofits are the most View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
harmful consequences of climate change fall disproportionately on poor nations that have done little to contribute to it. Agreement on a fund to mitigate the disastrous effects of climate damage in poorer nations was seen as a surprising... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
From Das’s Desk
executives as they navigate the board selection process and provides resources to effectively govern as a corporate director. Making Corporate Boards More Effective. The newly expanded program gives senior executives the latest thinking... View Details
Keywords: Das Narayandas
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015
expectations; create and implement an effective customer-access strategy; capture and leverage the customer’s voice to set priorities and improve products, services, and marketing; and use customer-relationship- management systems,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
trained in agronomy and business, dispenses advice on everything from best practices to business ethics, while keeping track of growth rates and other performance measures with a smartphone app. This process also de-risks the loans in the... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Research Brief: May I Ask Your Advice?
implicit effort to not seem negative, but reserving that input has performance consequences later on,” Whillans says. “A better understanding of how advice-seeking closes those gaps would be a really powerful View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Duo Offers Personalized Career Assessment
careers. "We wanted to provide an effective self-assessment tool," notes Butler, who describes the BCII as "an extremely sophisticated instrument derived from a ten-year study of over 650 business professionals." Together, the text and... View Details
Keywords: Bob Binstock
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
the foundation's senior vice president has developed a benefit-cost (BC) approach to analyze the performance of program grants. How effective is the method? Is funding programs with the highest BC ratios a... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Short Takes
Managing Development Flexibility in Uncertain Environments," the authors assert that increasing flexibility during the product development cycle can enable a firm to adjust to unanticipated circumstances so opportunely and cost View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
New Releases
service, and knowledge management in examining the implications of this paradigm shift for managers, entrepreneurs, and policymakers. Cost & Effect by Robert S. Kaplan and Robin Cooper (Harvard Business School Press) Cost & Effect: Using... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
To the Rescue
WINSHEL AND FRIENDS: At The Boss's right, and with his help, aiding Sandy's victims. Photo courtesy of Robin Hood Foundation Last fall's 12-12-12 Concert for Sandy Relief put the spotlight not only on its rock star performers but also on... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Faculty Books
in entrepreneurship, the historical origins of "born global" companies; the importance of networks in new international market development; the role of public policy in shaping cross-border entrepreneurial activity; and the effect of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Where Are They Now?
in management control systems through research focused on the various issues related to the design and effects of performance measurement, evaluation and incentive systems, and, more recently, corporate... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Future of Foreign Aid
worked for the Millennium Challenge Corporation. Is the MCC development model an effective one? The MCC, a US agency established in 2004, is viewed by many as a success, in part because it aims to depoliticize aid. To be eligible for MCC... View Details