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- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
orders and have them delivered to their tables—a service often performed by managers. “Now when I see a customer talking to a manager, it’s a good thing,” says Karavites, smiling. Traditionally, the bank of cash registers that separates... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
epitome of the Aston Martin Grand Touring car. Comfortable for two, it has few frills and a high level of luxury and yet is capable of heart-stopping performance and superb handling on the racetrack. Candee examines in detail the history... View Details
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
a platform-based market socially efficient? We analyze a dynamic model where an entrant with superior quality competes with an incumbent platform, and examine long-run market outcomes. We find that the answers to these questions depend View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
Ramanna, and Douglas J. Skinner Abstract Based on extant literature, we review the positive theory of GAAP. The theory predicts that GAAP's principal focus is on control (performance measurement and stewardship) and that verifiability and conservatism are View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
widgets, according to John Quelch and Katherine Jocz. In "Greater Good", the authors contend that marketing performs an essential societal function—and does so democratically. They maintain that people would benefit if the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
customer-oriented advisers. The training program includes a set of metrics that relationship managers must hit in the first thirty, sixty, and ninety days. “We track performance against those measures and have area managers coach staff to... View Details
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
JohnsonHarvard Business School Case 511-036 AMD management needs to make a critical decision on the launch sequence of its next-generation technology called Fusion. The Fusion processor concept merges the central and graphics processing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
By using a modified dictator game, we assessed sharing behavior and beliefs about others in children between 3 and 12 years old. We performed four studies (N = 376) aimed to assess whether decisions were related to beliefs (Studies 1 and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
improves financial performance on measures such as profitable investments at the individual portfolio-company level and overall fund returns. And even though associating with similar people can have social benefits for those people, it... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
the aftermath of the 2008 recession, the asset management firm BlackRock was busy charting a course for growth. Its revenues, profits, and stock price all performed consistently through this tumultuous period. The authors looked at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
own way, I’m trying to make up for the failures of the past. Amar Kumar (MBA 2010) SVP, Pearson Do more than deliver In our first semester at HBS we studied a case on relationship building—something about blue lines and red lines, and how it is View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
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Supplemental Financial Information | Annual Report 2024
value. The University’s endowment payout rate for fiscal 2024 was 5.0 percent, compared with 4.7 percent in the prior year. The payout formula typically results in a lower annual payout rate after years with strong investment performance... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
and not those of third parties. Michael Porter points out that when social activities lack a strategic dimension, Milton Friedman's well-known criticism that philanthropy has no place in business, suddenly seems to take on more... View Details