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- 08 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records
misconduct disclosures may be higher. Near the top for best ethical practices was USAA Financial Advisors, which serves military families and had only a 3 percent rate of misconduct. More distressing than... View Details
- 28 Mar 2019
- News
California Alumni Explore Role of Capitalism in Addressing Climate Change
representatives from 12 European-based alumni clubs, provides club leaders the opportunity to share experiences, gain new perspectives, and learn about successful club activities and programs. This year’s conference focused on best View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
HBS Alumni On Leading Their Alma Mater
being able to make decisions that are in the best long-term interest of the institution. We don’t have a quarterly earnings report that we need to be attuned to. And I still reflect on cases that we studied featuring companies that didn’t... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 09 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk
one this step is based on, is figuring out how you will know when to go for Options B or C and call it quits on the current game. To do this, we first assess what our best option seems to be based on: our satisfaction to date with the... View Details
- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
independent predictor of mental and physical health-such as decreased depression and doctor's visits-over and above mean levels of positive and negative emotion. These results remained robust after controlling for gender, age, and the five main dimensions of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
What Should German Applicants Know about HBS?
turned out to be one of the biggest positive surprises – I have never learnt so much about finance, leadership, ethics and entrepreneurship. By learning I mean actual theory, like how to calculate a WACC in finance or how to set up a cap table for a start-up, but also... View Details
- 19 May 2016
- Blog Post
5 Lessons from Business School
will be forced out of your comfort zone daily Each day in class, you will take a position on a variety of choices presented in case studies. HBS requires you to defend that position while being open to critically listening to opposing views. This is the View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Knowing the Score
always wind up being the best operators of a new business. I have been fascinated with ways companies brand themselves ever since my first-year Marketing class. That exposure informed many of my interview questions aimed at exploring... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
available today does not address the needs of senior job seekers. Building a Winning Career sets out a proven process that has worked for hundreds of senior executives, delivering superior results for those considering their next career move. William Cowan describes... View Details
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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
practice, and consulting. Flora Taylor is a Lecturer in the University of Pennsylvania's Non-Profit Leadership Program. Zachary Green is an Associate Professor of Practice at the University of San Diego. Diane Forbes Berthoud is the... View Details
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
are better off emulating Odysseus—the sailor who sought prosperity closer to home—in the pricing opportunities inherent in their current business mix. Q: What do successful performance pricers understand? Ben Shapiro: They have a strategy and View Details
- 09 Sep 2024
- News
Basket Chase
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. On this episode, we’re featuring an excerpt from a new HBS podcast called Think Big, Buy Small. The show is hosted by Professors Richard Ruback and Royce Yudkoff... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
GMAT Added to Admissions Criteria
for throughout the applicant's portfolio. However, one of our long-term goals in working with the GMAC is to determine what the predictors of leadership potential might be and to explore how traits closely tied to leadership - such as View Details
- 04 Mar 2015
- What Do You Think?
Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?
value' mentality and get back to the 'stakeholder value' model." Others see it as the only practical resolution of the problem of growing inequality. As Paul commented, "In the current national (U.S.) legislative arena, it's... View Details
- 02 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Leading Professional Service Firms
industry are human talent and alignment. The work of professional service firms depends exclusively on the talent and intelligence of the people delivering it. Good firms hire the absolute best people and develop them, motivate them, and... View Details
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care
becomes the engine of progress and reform. Improvement feeds on itself. For that process to begin, however, the locus of competition has to shift from "Who pays?" to "Who provides the best value?" Getting there will... View Details
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
large research and practice infrastructures to produce in-depth insights for a staggering array of public companies, private entities, investment firms, public sector organizations, academic institutions, not-for-profits, and governmental... View Details
- 17 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Applying the MBA Skillset to Global Health Challenges: Summer Fellow Vasilis Theodorou (MBA 2022)
structures to tackle global public health issues, fundraising strategies for global health organizations, and best practices for supporting national health programs. How has your MBA skillset prepared you to... View Details
- 17 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2024: Business and Environment Ventures
gives them a personalized geo-tagged best practices schedule to help increase the per-acre yield of their lands. Therefore, the two major outcomes from Bagh-e are increased financial inclusion and per-acre... View Details
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Sarah Wolfolds
organizational practices of firms, and how these interact with the firms’ strategies. Coming into graduate school with less clearly defined interests meant that I have been able to use my coursework to guide potential research... View Details