Pay As You Go - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Dec 2009
Research & Ideas

Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer

In fact, it makes it worse. Q: What if rating agencies were paid by investors rather than by bond issuers? Wouldn't that stop forum shopping? A: In theory, yes. The people who are being served by the rating agencies, the investors, should View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services

20 Sep 2010
Research & Ideas

Power Posing: Fake It Until You Make It

continues. "I try to show students that it doesn't work that way—you have to go meet people where they are and then all move together. You have to connect with them before View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

21 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?

was truly going on, and ultimately, he concluded that LEGO’s biggest problem was internal: Company employees were getting in their own way. So he made sure managers were retrained in their approach to meetings and worked to change other... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

04 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Learning from the Entrepreneurs-in-Residence as a Harvard MS/MBA Student

position, which can be either “above the line” or “below the line.” To be above the line means that you are open and excited about the topic at hand; to be below the line is to be apprehensive or to interpret a situation View Details

12 Oct 2016
Blog Post

Interning as a Software Engineer while at HBS

Today, we’re catching up with Andrea Coravos (HBS ‘17). Before coming to HBS, Andrea worked in private equity at KKR Capstone. She also spent three years at McKinsey in the Houston and then DC offices. This summer, she interned as a... View Details

28 Jun 2018
News

If You Want to Do Good, Expect to Do Badly

26 Aug 2020
Blog Post

Two sides, same coin: How I left the Bay Area as an operator and returned as an investor

reflecting on our experience. In fact, after going through the program, many of my fellow RVPs realized this was not the career path for them, while others had their aspirations reinforced. Growing on a personal level: There are very few... View Details

07 Jun 2019
Book

Are You a Digital Manager?

teams within and sometimes outside their organization. This raises questions like: How will you innovate? How will you bring out the best ideas in your teams working together near and far? How will View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

21 Jan 2022
Blog Post

How HBS Financial Aid Can Help You Meet the Cost of Your MBA

As a first-generation college student, I understand firsthand what it’s like to have to figure out how to pay for school. Education is an investment, and I’m here to tell you... View Details

16 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?

part of a much larger problem, as I've tried to suggest, and will require new thinking about the design of compensation systems and processes within the boards through which compensation is determined. Yet if View Details

Keywords: by Kim B. Clark

January 2020 (Revised March 2020)
Case

LOLA: Do You Know What's in Your Tampon?

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and Aldo Sesia

LOLA is a direct-to-consumer (DTC) business launched in 2015. What started as a company to provide women with organic and transparent material-labeled tampons via a subscription model, had, by 2019 evolved to include additional menstrual and sexual wellness products.... View Details

Keywords: Direct-to-consumer; Channels; Disruption; Business Model; Brands and Branding; Internet and the Web; Strategy; Retail Industry; United States; Canada

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09 Mar 2021
News

Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity

Island. You can’t go into a medical office in the state without meeting a CCRI graduate who’s your nurse, your ultrasound tech, or your dental hygienist. And there’s a demand for still more IT support... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

14 Jan 2022
News

Tsedal Neeley on Why We Need to Think of the Office as a Tool, with Very Specific Uses

04 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

the right word—and I had to negotiate about this. That experience gave me a sense that you can't be a passive person, even with the best of physicians. You have to understand what's View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health

15 Feb 2017
News

You Should Consider Buying a Small Business. But When?

22 May 2017
Blog Post

Changing How You Think at HBS

Video I wanted to go to business school as I hoped my roles would evolve from individual contributor, to team manager, to stakeholder with wider influence. I also wanted to explore different business areas... View Details

12 Sep 2023
Book

Successful, But Still Feel Empty? A Happiness Scholar and Oprah Have Advice for You

masses.” “Everybody thinks that [successful people] have perfect lives, but if you look inside their own heads, you’re going to see the same problems that everybody else has.” Written for a broad audience,... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

01 Mar 2009
News

Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion

over a thousand miles from the coastal enterprise zones most Westerners visit. Yet the province’s 32 million inhabitants are as much caught up in today’s economic miracle as those in Hong Kong or Shanghai.... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

30 Aug 2023
Blog Post

I’m From the South and Going Back: Why HBS Was the Best School for Me

fully plan to contribute to that progress and have my voice heard, whether as a voter or as an active corporate citizen. I'll use this last paragraph to share a piece of unsolicited advice for aspiring... View Details

12 PM – 1 PM EST, 05 Feb 2019
Webinars: Career

Rebel Talent: Why It Pays to Break the Rules at Work and in Life

Rebels can often change the world for the better with their unconventional outlooks. Professor Francesca Gino has spent more than a decade studying rebels at organizations around the world. In this webinar, she explores the qualities that make rebels masters of... View Details

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