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- 01 Jun 2017
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Supercharged
2020—though it is replacing them with a carbon-emission credit system, similar to the one employed under California’s ZEV mandate, that will continue to support the manufacture of electric vehicles. In the United States, federal View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
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3-Minute Briefing: Angela Ruggiero (MBA 2014)
loving it. My sister played for two years. After that I was the only girl in California playing hockey in my age division. It was just me and the boys, which I loved. When I was nine, my dad took my brother and me to try out View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
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Ask the Expert: Auto Pilot
increase shared rides? The match rate increases the more people use Lyft. We are also creating better matching algorithms and incorporating walking into the service to reduce the number of detours necessary and to increase matches. Cities are also talking about... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
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Short Takes
studies do not exclude the possibility that cigarette advertisements in these magazines target adults, rather than youths. Second, these studies do not specifically examine advertising for the few brands that youths actually smoke. The... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 03 Apr 2012
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Just Compensation
a business strategist at Booz & Company (then, Booz, Allen & Hamilton). “I got into executive compensation and performance because incentives are a way to help drive corporate strategy,” she explains. “A lot of governance infrastructure... View Details
- 08 Apr 2011
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Management Matters In Health Care, Too
The road to higher-quality, lower-cost health care leads straight to better management. That was the central message a panel of experts convened by the HBS Health Care Initiative delivered last week to a full house of students, faculty, and practitioners in Spangler... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
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Three Appointed to Endowed Professorships
efforts center on issues affecting entrepreneurial firms and their investors. Gompers studies the structure, governance, and performance of private equity funds; the sources of financing, incentive design, and performance of private... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
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Over the Top
search for answers about the past and future of executive compensation and corporate governance. In recent conversations, they reflected on key issues. Edited excerpts follow. Brian Hall focuses his teaching and research on performance... View Details
- 14 Feb 2019
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Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change
to catch up to the technology of today.” She cited the Seaport District as an example, where small condominiums sell for more than $1 million, but builders are not required to make their projects energy efficient, nor are View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
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Alumni Books
Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits by Leslie R. Crutchfield (MBA ’01) and Heather McLeod Grant (Jossey-Bass) What makes nonprofits great? The authors studied twelve nonprofits that have extraordinary influence —... View Details
- 31 Jul 2019
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Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Fifteen years ago, while Patrick McGinnis (MBA 2004) was a student at HBS, he wrote a column for the student newspaper, the Harbus, about his observation that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
mechanism to make it clear that the atmosphere is a scarce resource, and we have to treat it that way,” he says. “That change would go a long way to creating incentives for the kinds of cities we ought to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
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Diagnosing DC’s Dysfunction
election process, from moving to a single primary ballot for all candidates to instituting nonpartisan redistricting. They also propose restructuring the governing process by aligning legislative and governance rules with the public... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
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Enron’s Legacy
for corporate boards. The yes answer reflects the fact that many productive aspects of corporate governance and control that have proven effective in the private-equity industry were noticeably absent at Enron. If Enron’s board (which was... View Details
- 08 May 2015
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An alternative view of the role of the corporation in society
a need for additional research on topics such as sustainability metrics, how executives design incentive and control systems, and how companies report their performance and position. (Published May 2015) View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
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Immersion Program Digs Deep
NEW FRIENDS: Stephen Kraus (MBA ’08) meets students of Shanghai’s Weihang Migrant School, a privately funded school for the children of rural-to-urban migrant workers. HBS ramped up its commitment to the winter break Immersion Program... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
including venture-based approaches that consider the ROI necessary to attract investors. “Delivering philanthropic and investment dollars into the areas with the most potential for accelerating cures is our top priority,” Giusti says. “We... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 01 Mar 2007
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HBS Alums Help Jailhouse Entrepreneurs Go Straight
Like it or not, a drug dealer, for example, already knows a lot about what it takes to run a successful business. Teaching them passion is not something we have to do; what we teach them is how to go legit.” At HBS, several students are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
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The CEO and the Functions of Leadership
responsibility for each of these areas among managers in the organization, and in particular, what the specific role of the CEO should be in each of them. “It is beyond the scope of this paper to catalog all the functions involved in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
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Innovation, Inc.
“Creativity does have a reputation for being magical,” says HBS professor Teresa Amabile. “One myth is that it’s associated with the particular personality or genius of a person — and in fact, creativity does depend to some extent on the... View Details