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- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
of value and growth indices, and a more general investor, who also has access to Treasury bills and bonds. We find that the mean allocation of equity-only investors is heavily tilted towards value stocks at short horizons, but the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2000
- What Do You Think?
What’s Happening to Our Patience?
our spare time so we kill it." I assume he means that we engineer our lives so that we are always busy, thereby avoiding spare time. Aurin Bhattacharjee admonishes us to "moderate our ways and appreciate the passage of time for... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
7 Resolutions for Recruiting in the New Year
for your company to improve and resource the departments tasked with executing on those changes appropriately. 4. Resolve to Close the LoopClear communication is an important part of any successful recruiting process. Resolve to evaluate... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Leadership in the Digital Age
successful otherwise.” Hill heard the same sentiment from many of the approximately 175 people she and her team talked with around the world over the last year. From London and Johannesburg to Manila and Atlanta, a few common themes emerged, she says. For instance,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
batching. So many tasks feel never-ending, and we become exhausted by bookmarking, prioritizing, and switching. Batching helps. A good example is email: By batching email into two one-hour windows a day—say 9 to 10 a.m. and 4 to 5... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- Profile
Brett Laffel
forward to being able to give back, after receiving so, so much from giving career advice, connecting one person to another and teaching others things I have learned (both classroom and non-classroom related). Independent of what I end up doing long-term, I want to be... View Details
- 08 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader Needs to Know
In an AI-world, leaders who speak technology’s language gain an edge. But that doesn’t mean every manager needs a computer science degree. A handle on a handful of basics goes a long way toward preparing strategic leaders for today’s... View Details
- 24 Mar 2021
- News
Clubs Reaffirm Equity in Community Partners Work; Alumni Angels Invest in Member Education
Oregon, like many other HBS alumni clubs and associations focused on pro-bono consulting, have been reaffirming their commitment to racial equity in a variety of ways. Phillips says the Connecticut program has launched a Diversity Task... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 19 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Climbing the Great Wall of Trust
deals. The problem, according to these executives, is that foreigners are rarely invited. "It's really a perception that foreigners can't appreciate the culture," says Chua. In practice, it means that foreign businesspeople are... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Nov 2018
- Research & Ideas
'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making
But technology has changed all that. “These always-on technologies mean that we’re always in constant interaction with others. We wanted to see if that is a good thing.” They spent a year compiling data from 600 small groups, running... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Hybrid Learning the HBS Way
students on campus and remote students across the globe. “‘Hybrid learning’ can mean a lot of different things. For us, it meant enabling both in-person and remote students to participate simultaneously in case discussions,” explains Beth... View Details
- 22 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Mind of the Market: Extending the Frontiers of Marketing Thought
"What is the nature of loyalty?" HBS Professor Gerald Zaltman asks. But it's not brand loyalty he's concerned with: rather, it's loyalty in its most fundamental sense. "What is the anatomy of loyalty?" he continues. "What is the meaning... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Nov 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?
auditing and particularly large amounts of consulting services from the same supplier. And now, by means of Section 404, it will: (1 require senior executives to certify that their companies have financial controls that work, and (2 give... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Much Time Should CEOs Devote to Customers?
there are two reasons why CEOs should be cautious about overdoing the percentage of time interfacing with customers. First, marketing and selling should be a prime task of the CEO's direct reports, the individual business unit leaders.... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 06 Oct 2022
- News
Untapped Potential
ability to exist,” Ferguson says. Burnt Island Ventures is committed to finding and implementing solutions to everyday water concerns around the world. Some countries lack the means to provide clean water to their residents. That is not... View Details
- 26 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?
What would Aristotle think about self-driving cars? As the abilities of artificial intelligence systems to automate complex tasks accelerate, warnings about the dangers of outsourcing life-and-death decisions to machines are pumping the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Antitrust in Historical Perspective
questions. Yet, the conceptions of business that each question implies can be (and historically have tended to be) mutually exclusive. Everybody wants goods and services made available at low prices. But achieving that goal often means... View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 05 Jan 2022
- News
Untapped Potential
you have people in Park Slope, Brooklyn, walking through water up to their knees, people notice.” Burnt Island Ventures has a broad vision that is committed to finding and implementing solutions to everyday water concerns around the world. In some countries, that... View Details
- 04 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Should You Outsource Your Marketing?
more common, because companies can no longer rely on mass marketing to reach prospective customers. Communication tasks have become much more complicated, and therefore more dependent on computer-aided analysis. Q: What marketing... View Details
Keywords: by Poping Lin
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Meeting the Challenges of Third-World Development
improve the economic and social well-being of low-income people by helping them create sustainable businesses. The diverse microenterprises she worked with included oil seed extraction, a sewing school, farming activities, dairy cooperatives, and informal credit... View Details