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Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
to sitting on the sidelines afraid to invest, period. To make matters worse, staffing their start-up turned out to be painfully difficult. It didn’t help that the free office the partners secured from a friend for a year was located in a... View Details
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
consistent with stock prices being subject to temporary fluctuations caused by changes in market risk aversion, which adds an additional layer of short-term volatility to stock returns. In recessions, even as long-term fundamentals remain the same, investors may be... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2019
investing in core programs and strategic innovation, while still concluding the year in a strong financial position. The HBS economic model is unique among the Harvard University schools and begins with our commitment to internally funded faculty research. View Details
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Annual Report 2017 - Annual Report 2017
MBA student projects during 2017–2018 will analyze this data in advance of an on-campus conference in April 2018. More about the AASU 50th Anniversary A Living Model Two hundred and sixty-two staff positions were filled during 2017–2018.... View Details
- 31 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Improving Fairness in Flight Delays
estimated at $25.7 billion ($12.2 billion in increased airline operating costs, $7.4 billion in passenger time lost, and $6.1 billion in costs to related industries). On about 40 percent of the days in 2007, there was at least one GDP and at least one AFP in place... View Details
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
Toyota, for instance, groups countries by existing and expected free trade areas. At other times, however, such definitions will yield regions that aren't geographically compact. After making its first... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 12 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors
analysts, he or she must believe that an analyst's report is something more than a disguised sales pitch. So banks have ordinarily insisted that analysis and sales were separated by a so-called Chinese wall which left analysts free to... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 30 Oct 2017
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success
America. But that didn’t mean Rice put his nonprofit on hold: he simply worked two jobs at once. “Looking back, I’m not sure that would be my recommended course of action,” he says with a chuckle. “It’s risky to the day job; and it puts major constraints around View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
of sugary drinks. Four well-powered, incentive-compatible experiments evaluate two possible ways in which firms might comply with such a policy: bundles (i.e., dividing the contents of oversized cups into two regulation-sized cups) and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
destroy value by adding administrative costs and leads to structures involving health plans and providers and other actors, which are misaligned with patient value. In a world of zero-sum competition, for example, providers will... View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
on digital photography would inevitably distract the mainstream managers. Fund in stages. Establishing a freestanding venture is a good first step, but it's no guarantee that the people in charge will manage the business as an independent... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
Future. "One of the biggest unknowns right now is what Saddam Hussein will be allowed to do. Most people think that his reserves are very, very large. If he were free to expand the production and export of... View Details
- 29 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?
resources they need. Getting those resources will help the entrepreneur build a more valuable company. However, getting those resources is far from a free lunch. To get co-founders, investors, hires, and... View Details
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
Streamline approvals. A complicated decision process can burden the fund with too many goals and lead to ineffective investing patterns. Provide powerful incentives. Companies that don't offer adequate compensation to their venture capitalists View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
research study of 30 world-class innovators who have collectively created billions of dollars’ worth of business value, as well as new advances in the arts and sciences that bring joy to the world and can save millions of lives. Insights from these journeys View Details
- 18 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.
punishment.” And: “Caregivers feel free to question the decisions or actions of those with more authority.” Three rounds of surveys were conducted from 2017 to 2021, allowing the researchers to track how individuals’ responses changed... View Details
- 16 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018
input more valuable. Distributed supermodular complementarity (DSMC) exists when two or more independent actors can create complementary value by pursuing their own interests and will not find it advantageous to combine in order to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
outside firms, and that knowledge is diffusing in both directions." One implication for executives: Don't lock your scientists, researchers, and inventors in ivory towers. Your organization will benefit by the knowledge that flows to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
in his path. Langford, 65, is far too genteel and affable for that, as anyone who knows him will tell you—and plenty of people in Georgia know Jim Langford (MBA 1984), whose family roots in the state stretch back to 1853. But those same... View Details