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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Leadership on a Global Stage
election, Jefferson was offered the position of Assistant Secretary for the Department of Labor’s Veterans’ Employment and Training (VETS) program. He served for two years as the CEO of VETS, a national agency whose mission is to assist... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
and CEO Thompson terms "satellite infrastructure" (technology that enables people to conduct business activity anywhere on the planet). Before reaching its fifteenth birthday this spring, Virginia-based Orbital will have surpassed $450... View Details
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
Abstract We examine the effect of mandatory International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) adoption on firms' information environment. We find that after mandatory IFRS adoption, consensus forecast errors decrease for firms that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
within an organization to be effective leaders and to accomplish their personal goals. Executives are urged to examine their lives to discover major themes, interests, and values, using that examination to create a short statement of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
2018, implementation has been slow. Dawi aims to meet primary care needs for Egypt's highly fragmented middle market. When Habib started fundraising seriously, Enan urged her to reach out to the EAEF. "Amal was really instrumental in closing that deal," explains Habib,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
fraction of their wealth increases annuitization relative to a situation where annuitization is an "all or nothing" decision. Very few respondents choose declining real payout streams over flat or increasing real payout streams of equivalent expected present... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
problem is that companies do CSR in fits and starts," Rangan says. "Programs are fragmented, and so they're not that effective in helping the community or the company." And then the CEO wakes up one day and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
sustainability. Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, chairman and CEO of the Ayala Corporation and vice chairman of Manila Water, is an architect of the water company’s successful triple-bottom-line approach to providing millions with a basic... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
this one played out brilliantly. Within a decade, Dr. Daniel Vasella (PMD 57, 1989) rocketed through the ranks of Sandoz and in 1996 led the firm’s merger with Ciba-Geigy, emerging as CEO of the new company called Novartis, based in... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
– our scientists and engineers have delivered massive design improvements and our manufacturing and supply chain leaders have delivered unbelievable cost improvements. If you take the cost competitiveness of renewables, the increasing concern about global warming... View Details
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
Fetter, a senior lecturer, is former CEO of Tenet Healthcare. Regulations that limit care might be loosened Richard Hamermesh: Cutting the red tape in diagnostic testing The crisis has revealed the weakest part of our medical system—the... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
https://www.competitionpolicyinternational.com/when-should-a-platform-give-people-fewer-choices-and-charge-more-for-them.htm Institutionalizing Self-Regulation: The Effect of Commitment, Threat and Surveillance Authors:Jodi L. Short and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
with direct incentives for CSR is an effective tool to increase firm social performance. The findings provide evidence identifying corporate governance as a determinant of managerial incentives for social performance and suggest that CSR... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
Arizona, give their CEO updates on their respective projects via video chat. There are more than a dozen reports, covering everything from marketing to engineering to HR. Some are brief, some—a disagreement over a potential... View Details
- 08 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 8
and discuss how the combined effect of increased market concentration and cost synergies can be assessed efficiently. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-031.pdf Investment Cycles and Startup Innovation Authors:Ramana... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Listen to “Yes”
outlines concrete steps that managers at all levels can take to spark positive conflict and make sure that all views get a fair hearing, and he outlines as well a fair and open process for making more effective decisions. "Keeping... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
build a culture of innovation? What does that culture look like? How does it evolve and grow? How are teams most effectively created and then nurtured in this context? What is a leader's role in this culture? This little book is a roadmap... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Credential of Digital Innovation and Strategy | HBS Online
6 Modules Digital Marketing Strategy Craft data-driven digital marketing strategies that effectively reach, convert, and retain customers in a dynamic business environment. Highlights Asmita Dubey, L'Oreal CMO Complexities of the Funnel... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
based on diary evidence that a subject actually did creative thinking that day, not on his or her self-evaluation.) The diary findings also showed a positive carry-over effect in creativity and productivity, one day and even two days... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Making Strategy Work Using the Balanced Scorecard by Sanjiv Anand (AMP 163, 2002) (Wiley) This is a hands-on guidebook for making strategy work with effective Balanced Scorecard design, deployment, and maintenance. It outlines the ways in... View Details