Size - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Mar 2022
Blog Post

ClimateCAP 2022

scientists and policy makers.” - Mariah Cushman (MBA 2023) “Attending ClimateCAP emphasized to me both the massive size of the climate problem as well as the equally impressive number of robust, innovative solutions to combat it. Hearing... View Details

01 Jun 1997
News

MBA Program:Rapid Innovation in '96

summer work experience," says Wheelwright. "They've had the same opportunity as their September classmates to find a great position, and they've expressed great satisfaction with this opportunity." Foundations Wheelwright notes that the smaller View Details

01 Dec 1996
News

Entrepreneurship at HBS

build the Entrepreneurial Management team around full-time faculty drawn from diverse disciplines and perspectives. The wealth of backgrounds of its members facilitates this unit's ability to engage in intellectual cross-fertilization with other groups at the School.... View Details

23 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?

The size and funding of the European Union budget as well as the role of the European Investment Bank and the European Stability Mechanism should be enhanced. The issuance of Eurobonds to finance infrastructure, human capital, and R&D... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini

08 Aug 2016
Lessons from the Classroom

Panic Management: Keep Your Eyes on the Road

place.” None of it helps clean up a workplace mess. ADVERSITY TOOLKIT Managers can soup up resilience in themselves as well as their teams by making a shift in how they size up a challenge. Rather than dwelling on their misfortune,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

07 Jul 2022
Blog Post

Pathlight: Reimagining the Developer Onboarding Experience

We had a period of time where our engineering team grew to three times its size within six months, and we saw how onboarding fell apart using just a document and a buddy. Our team’s productivity dropped precipitously, and we all felt the... View Details

25 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 25

indicated that he believed that another doubling in size was feasible, but it would probably take a major acquisition to do so. And JCDecaux faced more pressing short-term issues. The contract for London bus shelters that the company had... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Web

Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: ASIA - Alumni

12:00pm (noon) ET Apply to GO:ASIA Demand for the program (i.e., the size of the applicant pool and availability of funds) determines the number of GO: ASIA Fellowships granted each year as well as the amount of each fellowship award.... View Details

01 Dec 2000
News

Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management

Philippe de Montebello, a 37-year veteran of the Met. "We have a strong, diverse, unpredictable revenue base, and the financial demands of running an institution this size are considerable," says Winshel. "We have a not-for-profit revenue... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; museums; marketing; management; nonprofits; education; facilities; Internet; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

04 Dec 2019
News

Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders

and series B financing? Dodi: Definitely. The bulk of venture capital comes from institutions, whether they be pension funds or endowments. But their ticket, their minimum investment size is typically $10 million or even more, and they... View Details

17 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2020

Nolan. The 5 most-engaging stories on social media How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities COVID's Surprising Toll on Careers of Women Scientists How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19 Merck CEO... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

22 Dec 2016
Op-Ed

The Small Business Administration is a Model for How to Drive Economic Growth

the credit gap in small-dollar loans—those under $250,000, which is the size that 76 percent of small businesses say they need—is very real. While new private sector players like online lenders can help in this segment, they will... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills

07 Sep 2021
News

One Degree of Difference

Courtesy Paris Wallace Courtesy Paris Wallace At 70 employees strong, the Boston-based digital company Ovia Health is on the smallish-but-mighty size compared to the rest of the local tech hub. Competing for talent is tough. While those... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

10 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt--‘Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World’

threats, and to create and execute new strategies. The point is that management and leadership are very different, and when organizations are of any size and exist in environments which are volatile, both are essential to helping them... View Details

Keywords: Re: John P. Kotter

14 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off

and negotiation of the system. Other HP units ran into similar difficulties. As he and Cannon wrote in their paper, "The most striking finding from these pay-for-performance experiments is the size of the gap between managers'... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2016
News

Carving a Niche

strategy for building Faction embraces that aura of distinction (“for the few” is one tagline) while leveraging several key retailing trends. “The average size of an interesting, exciting brand is smaller and more premium than it used to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Apr 2001
News

Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments

high leverage and its effects on managerial incentives and firm performance,” says Esty. “The projects I currently study are financed with 65 to 90 percent debt, compared with 25 to 35 percent for the typical industrial firm.” Both the View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Motorola; Air Transportation; Transportation; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Telecommunications; Information

29 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

forthcoming Journal of International Economics Corporate Debt, Firm Size and Financial Fragility in Emerging Markets By: Alfaro, Laura, Gonzalo Asis, Anusha Chari, and Ugo Panizza Abstract— The post-Global Financial Crisis period shows a... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

04 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: January 4

than smaller menus, as measured by the maximum Sharpe ratio achievable. We propose a model in which menu setters differ in their ability to pre-select the menu. We show that when the cost of increasing the menu size is sufficiently small,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

07 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies

The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

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