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- 03 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 3
the economic consequences of clusters. We identify and discuss policies that are being pursued in the United States to encourage local entrepreneurship and innovation. While arguments exist for and against policy support of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
difficult decisions regarding risk-taking incentives, leverage, and vesting since the goal of equity plans is to motivate long-run value creation in a cost-effective way. “The problem with equity-based pay is generally not that it fails... View Details
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
questions: "What resources do I control to accomplish my tasks?" "What measures will be used to evaluate my performance?" "Who do I need to interact with and influence to achieve my goals?" "How much View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: Cents and Sensibilities
is a good case study. A few years ago, California was in complete crisis, fiscally. One option was to become a more “competitive” state—lower taxes, lower spending, “lean and mean.” The other perspective was, “No, that’s not who California is.” They decided to raise... View Details
- 29 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
To New Beginnings: Reflecting on Transitioning Careers and Starting a Family while at HBS
She hopes this blog post will represent for woman considering business school and motherhood that the two are not mutually exclusive. Decision Time After serving for seven years in the United States Army, the View Details
- 15 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
Coming to HBS with a Non-Finance Background
were quickly allayed when she visited HBS for a class visit – and she discovered that the student admissions rep who picked her up was a former TFA teacher. She soon came to find that HBS is a place that brings together people from all different backgrounds, and that... View Details
- 03 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Social Responsibility in a Downturn
might arise: I believe the tendency is to make across-the-board cuts, without reflecting on the company's business strategy and its relationship to the larger environment. Some companies will end up making very poor decisions that will... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 May 2015
- Blog Post
Tips for Applying to Business School
to think about why an MBA, and why now Molly: I was advised to think critically and objectively about the reason I was pursuing an MBA and how earning an MBA would support my short and long-term goals. The ability to communicate your... View Details
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Latin America - Global Activities 2021
want to continue to develop to best support my team and my company,” she says. Pictured: Karen Bruck, a vice president at MercadoLibre, is the protagonist of a case highlighting the challenges of helping employees to succeed. But through... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Measured Approach
after the project has ended and never make it back to the teams that implemented the program. IDinsight makes these assessment tools available to the decision-makers and tailors them to the organization’s specific needs, allowing them to make data-informed View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
Abstract—Operational decisions under information asymmetry can signal a firm's prospects to less-informed parties, such as investors, customers, competitors, and regulators. Consequently, managers in these settings often face a tradeoff... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
European and UK Personal Data Collection Disclosure | HBS Online
transmit your Personal Data to another party; or object to automated decision making (if any) in certain circumstances. HBS Online does not generally engage in such automated decision-making on its Websites or in its Services, and if it... View Details
- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
to the inaccuracy of barrel bombs to examine the effect of having one's home destroyed on political and community loyalties. We find that refugees who lose a home to barrel bombing, while more likely to feel threatened by the Assad regime, are less View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Creating the Minority Renaissance for Venture Capital: Interview with Henri Pierre-Jacques and Jarrid Tingle, Managing Partners at Harlem Capital
Pierre-Jacques. Taking the Next Step with HBS As their careers at ICV grew alongside their work at Harlem Capital, Pierre-Jacques and Tingle both had decisions to make about where to go from here. For Pierre-Jacques, that next step was... View Details
- 26 Feb 2021
- News
Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation
campaign. To “put it all into action,” she says, the HBSLAA is assembling the Latinx Board Taskforce, aimed at connecting board-ready Latinx alumni and board decision makers to “move the needle on driving diversity in the boardroom.” Club... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
http://sloanreview.mit.edu/the-magazine/articles/2010/fall/52118/how-to-do-well-and-do-good/ Corporate Governance When Founders Are Directors Authors:Feng Li and Suraj Srinivasan Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We examine CEO... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment
to support immoral enterprises. Hayes argued that an investor is in a better position to change a company's policies than an outsider, noting that his college investment committee used proxy materials to raise an issue about sexual... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2021
- Blog Post
How I Used the HBS Community to Hone My Professional Goals
decision for me at my stage in my career was a job that would give me the experience and skills I needed to succeed long-term in a leadership role. Me with my HBS Health Care Club Conference teammates I joined Medtronic’s Corporate... View Details
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Commencement 2017 Address | About
remarkable global political events: Great Britain’s surprise decision to leave the European Union, one of the most contentious American elections in our nation’s history, and, just recently, the closely-watched presidential race in... View Details
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
Nisan-Ronen conjecture, especially given that the classic scheduling algorithms are anonymous, and all state-of-the-art mechanisms for special cases of the problem are anonymous as well. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-070.pdf A Noncooperative... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace