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  • 11 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why Budgeting Kills Your Company

protection. The budget process may help establish a ceiling on costs, but the internal politics of the fixed-performance contract ensure that there is also a cost floor—in other words, that the cost savings aren't as sizable as they might... View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gary
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Cotting House | About

faculty and staff. The three-story, 16,747-square-foot Georgian Revival-style, brick-and-wood structure was designed to accommodate the expansion of the School’s International Teachers Program (ITP) and other View Details
  • 28 Sep 2023
  • News

Meet the New HBS Team Helping Alumni Clubs and Associations to Thrive

mission-driven roles leading teams and partnering with alumni, faculty and staff. “Sarah’s positive energy, collaborative nature, and thoughtful, strategic approach focused on high impact will serve her well in this new role,” says Gold. Stockwell says she’s excited to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; community service
  • 27 Jun 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Recovering from the Need to Achieve

real sense of purpose and a "flatness"—in career and in life. They often go through patches of life without creating or enhancing meaningful relationships, and even lack strength to deal with life's failures. A former chief View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 10 May 2016
  • First Look

May 10, 2016

developing world. We then discuss how survey techniques can be improved to better measure willingness to pay for urban amenities. Finally, we explain how Internet data is being used to improve the quality of city services. Publisher's... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Dec 2023
  • News

Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem

well as Ace Foods, which sells African spices. She is also the founder of African Food Changemakers and an expert on African agriculture and nutrition, entrepreneurship, social innovation and youth development; Runa Alam (MBA 1985), a cofounding partner and CEO of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
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Our Mission & Team | Institute for Business in Global Society

Our Mission & Team We are working with scholars, business leaders, and community leaders around the world to advance our understanding of business' role in society and to develop a thriving ecosystem for translating that research into... View Details
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Judging Success - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

to its impact in areas such as leadership and professional identity. The development of self-awareness, judgment, and a capacity to act under uncertainly may receive important foundations in the case classroom. Yet until students move... View Details
  • 12 Mar 2021
  • News

My Favorite Case

a fintech unicorn that spans multiple verticals. After another sales record during the 2016 Global Shopping Festival with Alibaba, Ant Financial’s chief strategy officer contemplates the various opportunities and challenges associated with the firm’s View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 14 Jun 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact

rights-based work, where collaboration may matter more than acting alone, an organization's resources would be better used pursuing its mission and developing approximate measures to help it improve, rather than chasing hard proof of... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 01 Feb 1999
  • News

Too Much of a Good Thing?

teaches Business, Government, and the International Economy in the MBA Program, cites several periods in history when excess capacity has been blamed for economic upheaval. Emmons says that "accurate business forecasting is never really... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 16 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 16

Anglo's risk managers were strong in only some of the competencies, but Saxon's were strong in all four. They consistently scanned the internal and external environment for important issues to which they could apply a risk management... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
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Participating Institutions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Development Administration, NIDA Business School (Bangkok) Rajamangala University of Technology Isan (Mueang Nakhon Ratchasima District) Siam University (Bangkok) Trinidad W.I. University of the West Indies (Mt. Hope) Ukraine View Details
  • 27 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 27, 2007

  Working PapersPublic Action for Public Goods Authors:Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer, and Rohini Somanathan Abstract This paper focuses on the relationship between public action and access to public goods. It begins by developing a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

Banking on Success

liberal arts education he received at Hamilton and now serves as chairman of its board of trustees. Kennedy says he has developed "an appreciation for a tolerable level of risk" in trying to decide which companies to underwrite at... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
  • February 2010 (Revised July 2010)
  • Case

Barclays Wealth: Reignite WAR or Launch AlphaStream?

By: Lena G. Goldberg and Elisa Farri
In late January 2009, Thomas Fekete, managing director at Barclays Wealth in London, redeemed the most illiquid positions in the so-called Wealth Absolute Return Fund (WAR), one of Barclays Wealth's most promising offshore funds of hedge funds, and halted the Fund's... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Financial Liquidity; International Finance; Investment Funds; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Strategy; Financial Services Industry; London
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  • 05 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

China Tariffs and Coronavirus a Double Hit to American Retailers

Evidence from U.S. Trade Policy, accepted for publication by American Economic Review: Insights. It was co-authored by Gita Gopinath of Harvard University and the International Monetary Fund; Brent Neiman of the University of Chicago; and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 22 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 22

integration and degree of structural differentiation together affect a firm's ability to explore and exploit. We suggest that the senior team's ability to attend to and deal with contradictory internal architectures is a crucial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Oct 1997
  • News

Donald J. Chiofaro

however, his $600-million, 1.8-million-square-foot International Place - one of the top ten office buildings in the country, according to the Wall Street Journal - is a Boston landmark and a monument to Chiofaro's daring and tenacity.... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
  • 11 Apr 2024
  • News

Mission Control

that doesn't belong. And I think that's a little bit was like this mission statement for my life, right? I had spent truly decades chipping away that internal feeling of what it is that I want to do. And so, it became clearer and clearer,... View Details