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  • 28 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 28

capacities as corporate fiduciaries and citizens. The note offers a unifying framework by organizing major contemporary societal challenges into four "tragedies of the commons" and by developing the notion of a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 28 Oct 2020
  • Blog Post

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged

all jobs must be knowledge work, or that employees must work at the peak of their intellectual or creative capacity to be fulfilled in this drive. There are two main ways that the drive to comprehend is satisfied on the job. The first is... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 08 Dec 2020
  • Blog Post

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged

all jobs must be knowledge work, or that employees must work at the peak of their intellectual or creative capacity to be fulfilled in this drive. There are two main ways that the drive to comprehend is satisfied on the job. The first is... View Details
  • 24 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

evidence that “short-termism" and “quarterly capitalism” are impairing firms' ability to invest, innovate, and provide good wages. We explain why S&P 500 shareholder-payout figures provide a misleadingly incomplete picture of corporate capital flows and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2015
  • First Look

First Look -- September 1, 2015

FRM to the study of managerial compensation. We conclude that the FRM provides an improved methodological approach to the study of bounded dependent variables. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49493 Bureaucratic Norms and State... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 28, 2015

sellers creates fragility-higher concentration results in more volatile risk premiums. I also employ a number of complementary approaches to address identification, such as using the 2011 Japanese tsunami as an exogenous shock to the risk bearing View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 24

models, and partnerships involved in eight early "ecocity" projects to begin to identify success factors in this emerging industry. Ecocities, for the most part, are viewed as a means of mitigating threats to the natural environment while creating urban... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 22 Nov 2024
  • News

Healthcare Club Hosts its 25th Annual Conference; Alumni Step Out for Global Networking Night; Meet the Club Leader: Andrea Fantacone

Healthcare Alumni Conference Marks 25 Years The HBS Healthcare Alumni Association (HBSHAA) hosted its 25th Annual Conference at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge on November 7, and once again offered an exclusive agenda that was jam-packed with industry thought leaders... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 16 Oct 2013
  • Op-Ed

Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

supply contamination, etc.), as long as production takes place in a state or other legal jurisdiction with a history of sensible oil and gas production regulations and regulatory capacity in-place to enforce those regulations. “Cleaning... View Details
Keywords: by Joe Lassiter; Energy; Utilities
  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

Green Day

in the northeastern state of Bahia, the $43 million thermoelectric plant built as a result of those initial talks has a year-round capacity of 30 megawatts (enough to power 200,000 Brazilian homes), generated entirely by a dedicated... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna;Sarah Auerbach; Agriculture; Manufacturing; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities
  • 01 Mar 2005
  • News

In the Blood

back centuries,” says Clay. “There’s a beauty in watching a foal being born and growing up to race and become a champion. It gets in your blood quickly.” When Clay attended the Owner/President Management Program (OPM) in the late 1970s, however, he did so in his View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia; horse racing; Animal Production and Aquaculture; Agriculture; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 20 Jun 2012
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Leadership: What We Know

students with a set of skills and capacities enabling them to lead more effectively); and still others have focused primarily on helping out students actually become leaders (assisting students to gain access to and acquire the identity... View Details
Keywords: by Scott A. Snook, Rakesh Khurana & Nitin Nohria; Education
  • 08 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 8, 2008

effectively, fulfilling those responsibilities, in a complex situation. Decisions facing the company include how to sustain credible research on the drug's efficacy and safety, how to increase manufacturing capacity to meet expected... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Library Visionary, Innovator, Educator F rom 1926 to 1966, Doriot taught nearly 7,000 students at HBS. "Doriot showed a singular capacity to...draw his experience into his teaching and to practice what he preached. Unlike most teachers,... View Details
  • Web

Entrepreneurship Outside the Valley - Course Catalog

is highly inefficient. Technology can dramatically improve productive capacity of farms and increase food security in a country. A second type of opportunity that entrepreneurs in emerging ecosystems develop are those that are imitations... View Details
  • 14 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: February 14

of an intellectually robust and relevant research and educational agenda for business schools that has in part contributed to the intellectual stasis that now characterizes business education research and its capacity to inform management... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 5, 2008

themes, and balanced scorecards, which link objectives to performance metrics. Stage three involves creating an operational plan to accomplish the objectives and initiatives; it includes targeting process improvements and preparing sales, resource, and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

whether EforAll has the capacity to expand, and if so, which new city it should expand to first. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/818007-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 418-020 GROW: Using Artificial... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

of its major holdings in joint venture companies, which would generate the financial capacity for M&A activities again in later years. In the meantime, Sijbesma wanted the company to prove it could grow organically as well. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 2

franca, or shared language, or in a local language-does not guarantee high performance. Recruiters may favor fluency over other capabilities. They may rely on external hires with language skills rather than grooming internal candidates with the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne