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  • 09 Jan 2023
  • News

Alumna Leads Biggest Ever Debut for a Woman-led Hedge Fund

"SurgoCap will use data science to invest around the theme of how technology can enhance other sectors such as financials, industrials, health care and enterprise data, according to people familiar with the matter," the article notes. Gaonkar is also View Details
Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
  • 11 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why Budgeting Kills Your Company

benchmarks—chief among them sales growth, return on sales, and economic value-added (EVA) growth—not only helped it shorten and simplify its budgeting process, it also reduced the amount of budget gaming. Evaluation and rewards based on relative-improvement contracts.... View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gary
  • 17 Jan 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Being the Boss

person can possibly possess the knowledge, experience, and wisdom needed to make every decision. Organizational success today requires the involvement of everyone at all levels. Less authority-driven organizations are more likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Aug 1998
  • News

Spangler Family Gift Endows New Campus Center

as his daughter Anna and her husband, Thomas C. Nelson (MBA '88), are graduates of the School. In addition, Spangler has been deeply involved in a broad range of HBS activities and was a 1988 recipient of the Alumni Achievement Award. An... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
  • 21 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 21

in press Academy of Management Journal Compromised Ethics in Hiring Processes? How Referrers’ Power Affects Employees’ Reactions to Referral Practices By: Delfer-Rozin, R., B. Baker, and F. Gino Abstract—In this paper, we explore referral-based hiring practices and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jan 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Novelty Paradox & Bias for Normal Science: Evidence from Randomized Medical Grant Proposal Evaluations

Keywords: by Kevin J. Boudreau, Eva C. Guinan, Karim R. Lakhani & Christoph Riedl; Health
  • September 30, 2019
  • Article

Climate Change and Our Emerging Cultural Shift

By: Andrew J. Hoffman
Today, we have made climate change trivial by making its solutions easy, looking for simple answers that are palatable, generally framing it in the language of commerce. In the long run, it won’t work. There is no technological or political silver bullet to solving our... View Details
Keywords: Culture; Climate Change; Values and Beliefs; Transition
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  • February 2010
  • Case

Shurgard Self-Storage: Expansion to Europe (Abridged)

By: Richard G. Hamermesh
Shurgard, a U.S.-based firm that rents storage facilities to consumers and small businesses, is considering financing options for rapid expansion of its European operations. Five years after entering Europe, Shurgard Europe has opened 17 facilities in Belgium, France,... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business Growth and Maturation; Multinational Firms and Management; Logistics; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Trade; Equity; Corporate Finance; United States; Europe
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  • 06 Dec 2022
  • HBS Seminar

Elizabeth Lyons, UC San Diego

  • Person Page

Source Code

 

torfason.igraph.utils

This is set of utility functions written while working on “Organizing the... View Details

    Learning to Successfully Hire in Online Labor Markets

    Hiring in online labor markets involves considerable uncertainty: which hiring choices are more likely to yield successful outcomes and how do employers adjust their hiring behaviors to make such choices? We argue that employers will initially explore the value... View Details
    • Profile

    Meagan Hill

    founders and management teams to help their companies grow. She will be involved in sourcing new deals and enhancing operations in the firm's current portfolio. "BASE is a team that loves rolling up its sleeves and working on the... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Services
    • 29 Jul 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Learning from the Kursk Submarine Rescue Failure: The Case for Pluralistic Risk Management

    Keywords: by Anette Mikes & Amram Migdal
    • Forthcoming
    • Article

    Engaging Customers with AI in Online Chats: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

    By: Shunyuan Zhang and Das Narayandas
    We examine how artificial intelligence (AI) affected the productivity of customer service agents and customer sentiment in online interactions. Collaborating with a meal delivery company, we conducted a randomized field experiment that exploited exogenous variation in... View Details
    Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Customer Focus and Relationships; Performance Efficiency
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    Riding the Passion Wave or Fighting to Stay Afloat? A Theory of Differentiated Passion Contagion

    By: Emma Frank, Kai Krautter, Wen Wu and Jon M. Jachimowicz
    Prior research suggests that employees benefit from highly passionate teammates because passion spreads easily from one employee to the next. We develop theory to propose that life in high-passion teams may not be as uniformly advantageous as previously assumed. We... View Details
    Keywords: Passion; Emotional Contagion; Emotions; Groups and Teams; Employees; Power and Influence; Performance Improvement
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    Tread Lightly Through These Accounting Minefields

    By: H. David Sherman and S. David Young
    In the current economic climate, there is tremendous pressure—and personal incentive for managers—to report sales growth and meet investors' revenue expectations. As a result, more companies have been issuing misleading financial reports, according to the SEC,... View Details
    Keywords: Derivatives; Benchmarking Performance; Accounting; Revenue Recognition; Assets
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    • March 2004 (Revised May 2005)
    • Case

    Shurgard Self-Storage: Expansion to Europe

    By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Indra Reinbergs
    Shurgard, a U.S.-based firm that rents storage facilities to consumers and small businesses, is considering financing options for rapid expansion of its European operations. Five years after entering Europe, Shurgard Europe has opened 17 facilities in Belgium, France,... View Details
    Keywords: Private Equity; Valuation; Business Model; Governing and Advisory Boards; Entrepreneurship; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Service Industry; Belgium; France; Sweden; United States; Europe
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    • September 2018 (Revised November 2018)
    • Case

    Careem: Base Camp or Mountain Peak? Designing an OS for Scaling

    By: Shikhar Ghosh, Gamze Yucaoglu and Alpana Thapar
    This case focuses on designing a fast growing organization. It is part of a two-case set that is taught together to cover the scaling journey.
    Careem, a Dubai-based ride-hailing service aimed to ‘simplify and improve the lives of people, and build an awesome... View Details
    Keywords: Scale; Values; Rights; Operating Systems; Business Startup; Transportation; Organizational Design; Entrepreneurship; Information Technology; Organizational Culture; Values and Beliefs; Decision Making; Managerial Roles; Dubai; United Arab Emirates; Middle East
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    • 09 Feb 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Sustainable Cities: Oxymoron or the Shape of the Future?

    Keywords: by Annissa Alusi, Robert G. Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson & Tiona Zuzul
    • 22 Dec 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    10 Reasons to Design a Better Corporate Culture

    leaders to reinforce desired behaviors, the breakdown of consistent communication, and leaders who are overcome by their own sense of importance. We have learned repeatedly that there is a pattern in the actions and activities involved in... View Details
    Keywords: by James L. Heskett, W. Earl Sasser & Joe Wheeler