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29 Apr 2025
News

Challenge Accepted

the Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment, an organization that funds impact investing, research, and public advocacy, in addition to investing in early-stage green technology. Jeremy Grantham: One of my biggest... View Details

Keywords: challenges; failure; advice; experience

09 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale

on. It's noteworthy that he was educated at public universities. There was no tuition at CCNY, City College of New York. Q: And he was penniless when he came. A: He came here with nothing but the shirt on his back. He literally crawled... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

12 May 2011
Research & Ideas

The Difficult Transition from For-Profit to Nonprofit Boards

Both organizations can grow, transform, merge, or die. Success is not guaranteed for either type of organization, but requires sustained work. In both cases, cash is king. This for-profit focus is critical for a nonprofit board. In both settings, View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

04 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Max Bazerman

inefficiencies and waste we document in our book could be eliminated by the adoption of meaningful campaign-finance reform. Unfortunately, the majority of the public does not press its leaders on this issue. Q: You discuss a number of... View Details

Keywords: Re: Max H. Bazerman

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Data Tips & Toolkits - Research Computing Services

HuggingFace is a hub for open-source pre-trained models and provides a user-friendly approach to implement them. They have numerous informative and effective NLP tutorials . Topic Modeling Packages Gensim is often used for Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic... View Details

29 Jan 2013
First Look

First Look: Jan. 29

Publication:Journal of Public Economics Abstract We examine a prominent justification for capital income taxation: goods preferred by those with high ability ought to be taxed. In an environment where... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Online Creating Brand Value Course | HBS Online

importance of building enduring brand communities Learn how to manage brands over time to maximize their value Explore how brands create shareholder value and why it’s vital to invest in your brand Who Will Benefit Marketing Professionals Managers and Consultants in... View Details

17 Jan 2025
News

Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff

decision? FL: Well, I had been up to my ears fighting the unions, and I really got to the point of thinking that there was life outside the airline business. The unions had done a very good job of painting me out to be a tough guy. The... View Details

04 Dec 2019
News

Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders

China, and India combined. It's a huge market. But they also discovered that over 90 percent of female consumers, who are responsible for most of the shopping, are dissatisfied with the goods and services that are out there. Top of the... View Details

10 Mar 2021
Blog Post

COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace

as a result of the pandemic and why. Finding out how employees would like to work—home or office—through a survey is too simplistic. You want to know the whole truth. You need an honest, collective, and internally public conversation!... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

20 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 20, 2008

information to maximize their consumption-based utility. Emotionally, prices can induce regret and anger among consumers. The optimal responses of firm's prices to these reactions can explain why firms charge prices below marginal cost for many View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch

"the top 200 chief executives at public companies with at least $1 billion in revenue got a big pay raise over last year," with a median 2012 compensation package of $15.1 million, up 16 percent from 2011. What's going on here?... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

11 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’

This statute also tells directors that they may delegate the actual running of the company to its officers. Court decisions related to director conduct are largely focused on matters of process-that is, on how boards are to carry out their duties. For example,... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Lorsch

14 Nov 2019
Book

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

Turkey’s economic development story has always been something of a black box for scholars to understand, perhaps in part because many of the most successful business enterprises there have been in family hands and largely closed to public scrutiny. The authors of a new... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

10 Mar 2015
First Look

First Look: March 10

Publications February 2015 Academy of Management Review Reflections on the 2013 Decade Award: "Exploitation, Exploration, and Process Management: The Productivity Dilemma Revisited" Ten Years Later By: Benner, Mary, and... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2022
News

What We’re Reading

Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Fabio Consoli Whatever your summer plans might look like this year—whether you’re traveling to a faraway beach or enjoying downtime much closer to home—nothing has the power to transport us quite like a View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 2004
News

Life Lessons

loving parents, both of whom had grown up in the inner city. They sent me to private school and sheltered me from the crime of Detroit.” But then, one month after being diagnosed with cancer, Sundy’s father died. Young Rob was soon in View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner; Garry Emmons; Julia Hanna; Susan Young; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2012
News

From Where We Stand

What can men learn from women leaders? What are the responsibilities of a leader today? What did you learn from the experience when you failed at something? What makes a good mentor? Whom do you admire in the business world? What career... View Details

08 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 8, 2008

we show that the same behaviors produce more ethical condemnation when they happen to produce bad rather than good outcomes, even if the outcomes are largely determined by chance. Our studies show that individuals judge behaviors as less... View Details