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01 Dec 2011
News

Making the Case for Leadership

cannot be successful unless they show vulnerability, are consistent, take time to be balanced, have a vision, and embrace their role as decision-makers. In the 2010 case “Toby Johnson: Leading After School,” Johnson, with military service... View Details

01 Oct 1998
News

A Community Investment

service agencies. Employees who volunteer individually and through organized company programs bring renewed enthusiasm to the workplace. Scoon: Our company has benefited in three ways from social enterprise activity. First, we take pride... View Details

25 Jun 2001
Lessons from the Classroom

Machiavelli, Morals, and You

Stevens — we never learn his first name—set out early in life to become a great butler, one of the very best. He didn't want to get rich at it. He didn't care for fancy clothes. What Stevens wanted more than anything, according to HBS... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2011
News

Student Trio Advance Health Payment Reform

focused on how to calculate a fixed price for all services related to a specific condition — knee replacement. (The hospital is nationally recognized for expertise in orthopedic surgery.) The “bundled” price would cover everything from... View Details

Keywords: bundling; Health, Social Assistance

06 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Expensing Options Doesn’t Solve the Problem

transactions that were favorable to the SPE but not to Enron. The furor over expensing is, if anything, a sideshow distracting us from deeper flaws in accounting standards, compensation philosophy, and professional standards in the financial View Details

Keywords: by William Sahlman

18 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon

ablokhin Free shipping is an increasingly important tool in the online retailer's marketing arsenal, but few sellers understand the intricacies of the strategy and are leaving significant profits on the table, new research suggests. "Retailers need to be View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail

09 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection

Underhill. "If I go to a Web site that's hard to read because it's got funky type face, and I can't get service when I call, well, that's a problem." And many stores post signs with print far too small for many of their... View Details

Keywords: by Richard Bierck; Retail

06 Mar 2018
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52341 February 20, 2018 JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association Administrative Costs Associated with Physician Billing and Insurance-Related Activities at an Academic Health View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Jun 2016
Blog Post

Pursuing an Interest in Nonprofits at HBS

This past fall I participated in a nonprofit IP with another student. We worked at Hebrew Senior Life (HSL), a large nonprofit committed to improving the lives of older adults through their senior living communities, health care... View Details

01 Sep 2004
News

Spring Renewal

Choosing between faculty presentations ranging from entrepreneurship to Enron, from health care to international real-estate finance, close to 2,800 alumni and guests attended spring reunions June 3–6. Graduates from the MBA Classes of... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services

15 Nov 2016
News

HBS and SEAS Explore Opportunities for Innovative Thinking

the two schools would take shape in the next decade with Allston’s emergence as an enterprise zone. “There’s an energy here we want to keep fueling,” said SEAS Dean Frank Doyle, speaking about possibilities for collaboration in the areas of computer vision, data... View Details

06 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 6

requirements, reorienting the discussion around housing finance reform from keeping mortgage credit cheap to ensuring financial stability, and instituting measures that compel asset managers to compete on the true value of the services... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2009
News

Murray Named Class of ’08 Fellow

As a student of mechanical engineering at the University of New Mexico, Sean Murray (HBS ’10) learned to manage complicated projects. During three years of working for the Stryker Corporation, a medical-device firm in Kalamazoo, Michigan, he honed his design... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services

14 Dec 2009
Research & Ideas

Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?

exclusive right of way, typically an elevated guideway, though track can also be installed at or below ground level. A vehicle leaves when passengers are ready, and service is nonstop from origin to destination, with no intermediate stops... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Transportation

26 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire

is a sophisticated piece of medical equipment that exerts a very strong magnetic field at all times, and it's important to be very careful around it," Karmarkar says. "For example, you cannot take metal into a magnet room!"... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

20 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

How an Order Views Your Company

requires much careful thinking and management initiative. Q: Do you see the current trend of intense customer focus continuing? Shapiro: We believe that an increasing focus on customers is absolutely critical for companies to survive and... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston

18 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance

boards concentrate on fundraising and other activities rather than performance management. Executive attention is further divided by the need to take care of a large number of clients on each end of the pipeline—both donors and... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

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Training Course in Personnel Administration: 1937 - 1944 | Baker Library

for the program was to provide women with a background in the "understanding and treatment of human problems in any employment situation" that would enable them to enter positions in human resources departments. (3) Personnel work, the course catalogue explained,... View Details

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1.3.2 Citing Sources and Plagiarism | MBA

sources will be subject to disciplinary action. All assignments, projects, lab reports, papers, computer programs, and examinations submitted to a course are expected to be the student’s own work. Students should always take great care to... View Details

01 Oct 1999
News

New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program

solutions. In order to help students prepare, we have developed an innovative prematriculation program, most of which is online. Our Prematriculation and Academic Services teams have developed a first-rate Web site where admitted students... View Details

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