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- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
e.g., to buy out minority shareholders; for gift and estate tax purposes; to tie executive compensation to firm performance; to raise outside capital; or to sell the company outright. However, these companies present certain unique... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
teams; the worst-performing franchises have the first picks in the league's annual draft of college players; and salary caps help ensure that wealthier teams can't just buy up all the best players. A congressional partial exemption from... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
offices—have promised to make patient data easier to analyze and move around to different care settings. But the biggest EHR players sell systems that are relatively closed, that are best at communicating within the walls of the hospital... View Details
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
"course researchers," whose class participation can be exceptionally valuable in the theory-building process. Buy Local? The Geography of Successful Venture Captial Expansion Authors:Paul A. Gompers, Henry Chen, Anna Kovner, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Moving the Needle
hospital stays and doctors' visits showed her the health care system up close. "I realized that I really wanted to make a difference," she recalls. At Harvard, this self-described "contrarian" recalls having to push her idea of promoting... View Details
- 12 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 12, 2006
accountability, or group norms; their long-standing relationships and trust help them make an impact very quickly. Of course, the process is not without risks: A failed lift out can lead to loss of money, opportunity, credibility, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
make the community better, you have to support it.” The Kraft gift, announced during Black History Month, is the largest donation from an individual that NCF has received to date. The gift “might inspire others to see the seriousness of... View Details
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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2022 Commencement Remarks | About
ethos: if the team decides to go in a different direction than yours, you can disagree, but you nonetheless must commit to supporting the team’s decision. My colleague Hubert Joly, who served as CEO of Best Buy for a number of years,... View Details
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
the moment of acquisition) that the firm makes about customers' traits that are relevant for the firm (e.g., whether the customer will purchase again, how s/he will respond to specific marketing actions). The main aspect of the model is... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
but in the Partnering Motivation Spectrum, the focus is simply on the partners' motivations rather than the ultimate outcomes. Altruistic motives are centered, for example, on helping individuals in need, solving community problems, or View Details
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
Alzheimer's, MS, and Huntington's) and do so by encouraging collaboration among researchers in the HMS community. When Ivinson takes the helm in 2001, he finds a dysfunctional center with little organization or structure. In addition, he has little formal authority to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
boarded a bullet train, headed west as far as they could, and exited in a village to start asking people what would make them buy a computer. What they discovered surprised them. Wandering to an impoverished... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
farmers to expand their activities once they had the cow. It was hard to see how this program could be sustainable. In the government’s action plan, the co-op approach seemed to be the main way of solving problems—a tough way to go. For farmers to move beyond... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
organizations—our students today do not care about this divide. So many of them come to HBS with a deep interest not only in making profit but also in doing good. So it’s multiple stakeholders putting pressure on businesses, and... View Details
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
information about how to switch to export crops, makes in-kind loans for the purchase of the agricultural inputs, and provides marketing services by facilitating the transaction with exporters. The experimental evaluation design randomly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
From Coercion to Excitement Authors:Peter Tufano and Daniel Schneider Abstract We review a wide variety of programs that support savings by families, in particular by low- and moderate-income families. These programs range from ones that literally compel families to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
changing too quickly for arm-chair strategizing to be useful. As a consequence, many management teams are stuck in a wait-and-see posture in response to extreme uncertainty in the post-COVID environment, while others are making panicky... View Details
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
distinctive methods of prediction to investors and businesses and thrived in the boom years that followed World War I. Yet, almost to a man, they failed to predict the devastating crash of 1929. Despite their failures, this first generation of economic forecasters... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
goodwill. With the Games only weeks away, officials at the headquarters of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games (ACOG) are putting the final touches on a six-year preparation effort that culminates with next month's opening ceremonies. To View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
to come. A “complete system reset” is how Mawilmada describes this ambitious plan, and he recognizes what it will take to get it done. Time and money, yes, but that’s not all. There’s also the question of how you get a guy who makes his... View Details