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- 26 Jul 2023
- News
Overcoming Your Fear of Giving Tough Feedback
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Measured Approach
sophisticated monitoring and evaluation tools that could make a huge difference in how organizations implement and modify their projects, but they simply weren’t being used by decision-makers on the ground. A big reason they decided to... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 16 Oct 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
education, promote health, and expand economic opportunity for the citizens of 80 countries. Founded in 1958, EDC designs, implements, and evaluates programs that range from early childhood education to suicide prevention to distance... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
building interpersonal relationships. I was the head of the compensation promotion committee at Morgan Stanley that had to evaluate and weigh his 360-degree performance reviews, so I know every breath in that case. I’ve taught it 500... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
and brands. “I admit it’s written in a provocative way, and that’s one reason it gets assigned all the time.” While Levitt’s vision of a world where standardized products rule has not yet been borne out, the article is still read and discussed 25 years later. In a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
teaching and a corresponding faculty commitment to remaining close to actual business practice. Moreover, the School continuously evaluated and updated its curriculum. “The general criticism of MBA programs you read today — that MBA... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
consequences for breaking the law.” “Crime and incarceration will continue to be pressing societal issues,” Huntsman adds. “I am proud that CEC is a part of the solution.” In her research, Assistant Professor Pian Shu and her colleagues found that View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
enfranchised in the solution,” Whitman stated. “We need more explanation, and we need more leadership across the board.” Mahindra of India’s Mahindra & Mahindra called for a “reset” and a return to fundamentals. “Banking is about relationships,” he said. “It comes down... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
favored white males, hunted for clues to candidates’ soft skills over dinner or coffee, and hired people based on résumés that revealed little about job fit. Yet Polli knew that scientists possessed a battery of tests for accurately and objectively View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
In a predawn phone call on October 14, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences informed HBS professor Robert C. Merton that he had won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics. Merton's work evaluating risk has changed the nature of financial... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
trying to go the right way,” Cognetti says. “There’s evidence of that in partnerships like this one.” With one year left in her term, Cognetti is evaluating the lessons she is learning and weighing options for the future. Seeing an... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
have to pivot from. This whole bet is unique,” he says. “Yet I don’t think anyone here could promise this will be a home run.” Nonetheless, Meg Whitman is putting all her chips on the table. Over her decades in Silicon Valley, she developed a checklist to View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
“Everything we consider precious on earth is available in limitless quantities in space.” More than 700 asteroids are estimated to be worth $100 trillion, according to Asterank, which tracks and evaluates 1 million of the largest... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Mission in Motion
Since its beginnings 20 years ago, the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative has been a focal point for applying innovative business practices to drive sustainable, high-impact social change. Conceived by John Whitehead (MBA 1947), the SEI was founded at HBS and brought to... View Details
Keywords: summary
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Faculty Books
activities? How does one evaluate the reasonableness of a manager’s performance on large projects where traditional outcome methods don’t seem to apply? HBS emeritus professor Fox and his coauthor answer these questions based on records... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
NFL Players Tackle Cases at HBS
Making a point: Professor Joe Lassiter leads a class on developing and evaluating business plans. On the field, they can be the fiercest of competitors. Off the field, thirty veteran NFL players teamed up to work toward a common goal... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Faculty Research Online
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact Donors are placing nonprofits on the hot seat to measure social performance. Problem is, there is little agreement on what those metrics should be. Associate Professor Alnoor Ebrahim discusses how nonprofit managers should... View Details
- 25 Jul 2012
- News
Movie Magic
self-service kiosk system that evaluates and buys back used cell phones and MP3 players from consumers for cash. Found currently in southern California, Kaplan expects this concept to roll out as well. Kaplan recently returned to HBS for... View Details
- 14 Oct 2014
- News
When it comes to climate change, companies must prepare now
operations to take advantage of the opportunities, and skirt the dangers raised by the prospect of climate change,” Reinhardt says. Each company must evaluate its use of energy in its own context. In some cases, other firms or governments... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Righting the Ship
engineers. Right off the bat, Stuckey identified two issues. One, there was no standard to evaluate the CIP managers at the division level. And two, the way the funds were being distributed at the headquarters level was problematic as it... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon