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- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
Board of Governors to formulate monetary policy, ensuring that its policies take into account conditions in every state and across all economic sectors. Each Reserve Bank is supervised by a nine-member board of directors. With the Federal Reserve potentially poised to... View Details
- 20 Jun 2014
- News
Innovation is not a side business to running a company—innovation is the business
of the core business. "Cutting back and hunkering down during downturns may get you through a short-term crisis but will not position you to be a leader in the future," Applegate says. Rather, she advises companies to identify... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
The awarding of “up-front” bonuses — before cash and profits from commercial endeavors — invites employees to maximize their short-term interests while compromising the company’s long-term interests. Systems of reward that ignore... View Details
- 06 Nov 2014
- News
Building a Startup Community Beyond Commencement
after seeing a demand for privacy. Expansion within the building is part of the short-term plans, and Goldstein hopes to move into a standalone space in three to five years. But she can see the model working beyond campus, too. “The... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Ensuring success through education
spirit. I tell them if they believe and work hard . . . they can be successful,” says Özyeğin. “Life is a marathon, not a hundred-meter dash. Young men and women have to strive for long-term sustainable achievements, rather than View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Research Brief: The Fresh Start Effect
range of behaviors where there’s a virtuous option with long-term gains that we should be engaging in and a tempting one with short-term gains,” Beshears observes. That might include tackling a challenging work project, facing up to a... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Research Brief: Unveiling the Truth about Transparency
things happen for a firm under a high-transparency environment,” Cullen says. Employees, on the other hand, may find short-term gains by having open conversations about wages but potentially long-term losses. Transparency benefits some... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
From Das’s Desk
Reflective Leader program Today, however, the practice of education is changing, from a short-term learning intervention to one centered on a lifelong process of development. At HBS, our core mission is to keep the School relevant for... View Details
Keywords: Das Narayandas
- 06 Aug 2008
- News
Caution to the Winds
had installed on the White House roof. Imagine if alternative energy had instead been an ongoing national priority for the last thirty years. Wouldn’t the American economy, the country itself, and indeed the rest of the world be much better off today? Entrenched, View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 26 Sep 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
Wattle Range Council. “I was becoming more and more disillusioned with working for a nameless, faceless shareholder, where short-term financial returns were becoming more important than long-term sustainability,” he says. That said, a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
One of them, "Managing Our Way to Economic Decline," a 1980 piece coauthored with the late William Abernathy, became a classic for its warnings about the dangers of sacrificing long-term technological competitiveness in favor of View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
An Authentic Leader
excess costs, which was a good thing. But many CEOs saw how much people were making in these takeovers and raiding attempts and thought they should be well compensated too. They started to get very large rewards for eliminating costs and pumping up View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rwanda Provides Students with Hands-On Learning
Brazil and Costa Rica take place in March. This year, for the first time since the IXP was launched in 2007, an international program went beyond observing a country’s business environment and engaged in short-term consulting projects.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
Street’s outsize pay packages “shameful,” especially for companies in need of federal bailouts. Such pay, he said, is “exactly the kind of disregard for the costs and consequences of their actions that brought about this crisis — a culture of narrow self-interest and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
traditional banks to one where non-bank financial intermediaries played a much more important role,” he says. These less regulated intermediaries, which included money market funds, hedge funds, and investment banks, relied heavily on View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
we think peak production is likely to occur in 2016 or 2017—possibly sooner if oil prices stay low—and then trail off dramatically. And that understanding is so important because you’d behave differently depending on whether or not you believed it was a View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Disaster Master
short-term objectives with long-term sustainability. The probability of disaster is relatively low, but the impact can be very significant, so you definitely have to be proactive by building awareness of risk, conducting annual risk... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 08 Jan 2016
- News
Investing in Sustainability
should be investing in ways that align with their mission,” says the former hedge-fund investor. “In that way, they can get both good returns and further their goals.” Tiller knows that his goals of changing the food and fuel sectors aren’t View Details
- 20 Nov 2014
- News
Strengthening America's Public Education System
business in America’s education system. Among its findings: Business is involved in 95 percent of school districts, but largely through “checkbook philanthropy” supporting short-term efforts. Most superintendents would welcome deeper... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
One-on-One with William H. Donaldson
worlds. Even before that, I’d been upset with the gradual erosion of ethics in some of our best companies. This is not unheard of in ebullient market times when everything’s booming and people get sloppy in their ethical mandates. A major contributor to this problem... View Details