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- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
organization's frontlines and back offices. This new partnership with employees is reinforced with personal and team objectives linked to unit and corporate achievement, and, typically, with a new incentive plan that enables all employees... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
and financial distress—a mentally toxic combination for many. In fact, almost half of adults in the United States, 45 percent, say that worry and stress related to the coronavirus and the resulting economic downturn are hurting their... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
accountability and effectiveness today? What should it do about them? With a detailed description of the Bank's challenges of democratic accountability, its constraints, and recommendations for the future, HBS professor Alnoor Ebrahim testified before the Committee on... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
earlier than when the match was operating. It became customary for GI program directors to make very short offers, rarely exceeding two weeks and often much shorter. Consequently many potential fellows had to accept positions before they finished their View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
forthcoming Journal of International Economics Corporate Debt, Firm Size and Financial Fragility in Emerging Markets By: Alfaro, Laura, Gonzalo Asis, Anusha Chari, and Ugo Panizza Abstract— The post-Global View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
business endeavors through the lives of ten titans of commerce. Beginning with the Tudor merchants who transformed England’s economy via trade with the New World, the author traces an entrepreneurial golden line through men such as Thomas Pitt, savior of the East India... View Details
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
the potential for non-traditional gender role models to gradually erode gender inequality in homes and labor markets. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49311 Customers and Investors: A Framework for Understanding View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
in Iraq. Local Motors currently has three working microfactories, with plans to build a network of 50. But the pressures of military service weighed on him. He loved the Marines, but he missed his wife and three-year-old son. Two of his... View Details
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
labor force attachment than accepted applicants. These findings are consistent with the theoretical prediction that disability insurance may encourage individuals to save more in the present and plan to apply for disability benefits in... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 18 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
change the world. The conversation, including five key insights from the P-TECH experience, has been edited for length and clarity. 1. Plan for change at scale Kanter: Just to develop the first P-TECH school, you had to deal with the K-12... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
most sales compensation plans (about 70%, according to surveys) incentivize volume independent of the type of sale or cost-to-serve different customers. This is ineffective deal management and, to avoid this, some firms establish a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
the largest financial services providers in the U.S., indicate that customer sensitivity to service time varies widely and predictably with observable market characteristics. In turn, we find evidence that local operating managers account... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
deteriorated and the financial crisis intensified. [ ] In March and April 2008, when [Abercrombie & Fitch] was making operational plans (for example, sourcing raw material and View Details
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Chain Management Technology & Operations Management Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Sara Fleiss Field Course: Public Markets Investing Seminar Finance Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 C. Fritz Foley Corporate Finance: Corporate Financial Operations (CFO)... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
was an absolutely key pillar in the Business School, both in the mission sense — of getting our thoughts out and having an impact in the world — and in a financial sense,” says the School’s current Dean, Jay Light. “He also understood the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?
within a set of constraints, both direct and indirect (For example) (A) recent Labor Department proposed rule just reiterated that the duty of (ERISA retirement) plan fiduciaries is to maximize investment returns.” Rather than hold CEOs... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 2, 2009
throughout Bangladesh. Venture capitalist Patrik Brummer invested in a first round of funding to connect major cities. Should he invest again, this time in a rural roll-out, which may have lower financial returns but greater social... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
New Ways to Stay Connected
City area are currently making plans to convene the next Women’s Leadership Accelerator in the spring of 2019. “It’s invaluable to have HBS support for alumnae-led events in the region. I look forward to continuing to create opportunities... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program
on an aggressive campaign to increase our profile abroad. The Class of 2001 will be more than one-third international, which is a huge jump. We have also increased fellowship funding by about $2.5 million for next year. In coordination with Citibank, we are offering a... View Details
- 11 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Crafting a Nontraditional Path to Venture Capital and Private Equity with Morgan Sheil (MBA 2021)
years at HBS, allowed her to pick up experiences, skills, and knowledge that would help her carve a path from chemical engineering and supply chain to climate operations strategy at KKR Capstone and climate investment at KKR ESG. Sheil’s Road to HBS Sheil began making... View Details