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- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
which acted essentially as an in-house management consultancy and auditing firm. He personally composed the statutes as to its authority. This was one of the first offices in the world that began a task of standardizing accounting methods... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
absolutely essential to the future of the American Dream in this country, absolutely essential to enabling people to have equitable pathways to opportunity, and enabling employers to meet their talent needs... View Details
- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
page the ghost of that policy looks over the shoulder of the analyst, frames his assumptions, guides his pen." Overall, says Schumpeter, "the capitalist process is essentially a process of change of the type which is being... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
sitting in or that you own or manage, and we bet with just a little effort you could find out precisely how much energy it uses in a typical year. That’s because it essentially only takes one or a handful of cheap sensors and a couple of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
talented and highly capable individual, invariably with a memorable personal story and important life lessons to share, as the following profiles attest. Photographed while enjoying favorite places or activities both on- and off-campus, these seven members of the Class... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
choices we face. Regards, Dean Nitin Nohria I suspect there’s a great deal that most of us can agree on about capitalism. The free enterprise system, of which HBS is an essential part, has lifted billions of people around the world out of... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
illuminating graphics to guide readers in conceiving, designing, building, testing, and scaling up the ideal business for them. The Career Playbook: Essential Advice for Today’s Aspiring Young Professional by James M. Citrin (MBA 1986)... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
he too emphasizes that making facilitating payments for essential documents and services is a routine fact of life in many countries, so much so that facilitating payments are not barred by the 1977 U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act,... View Details
- 25 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity
you." At the factory, the workers were essentially "managing up" by protecting their managers, themselves, and their company from unproductive attentional capture. The findings indicate that it may behoove managers to... View Details
- 15 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult
innovation," says McElheran. Other ingredients: Organizational understanding. A deep understanding of how the company functions and competes is essential, because IT needs to support essential firm processes, rather than vice versa.... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 24 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Want People to Save More? Send a Text
experiment to determine if physical meetings were essential for holding people accountable for their goals. Could the same effect be accomplished remotely? To find out, the research team designed a text message experiment among 873 people... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 07 Feb 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Creating the Founders’ Dilemmas Course
young dreamers might not otherwise consider—including their personal lives. Early in the course, the professor essentially plays a foil to the blindly enthusiastic entrepreneur by taking on the role of a concerned spouse: "Look at... View Details
- Profile
Georges F. Doriot
Arnold recalled that he even offered advice to his then all-male students on the importance of choosing the right woman to marry. Doriot believed deeply that a healthy family life was essential for a businessman’s success. His former... View Details
- 17 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
The Fifth Year of Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) at HBS
alternatives for feeding the planet. He founded the GFI, he said, to answer a single question: How do we feed 10 billion people by 2050 without burning the planet to a crisp? For Friedrich, finding alternative protein sources is not just a climate change imperative,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Rethinking the MBA
overemphasize rigor and underemphasize relevance. Does your research bear that out? Garvin: We frame it a bit differently, but in general we agree. We use a trilogy that we borrowed from West Point to describe the essential components of... View Details
- 18 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
friend of mine), and the company, were represented. A steering committee met monthly to essentially go over what each one of those constituencies needed to do differently and what they needed to do collaboratively to bring about the... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
these major global players. Taiwan- and Korea-based TFT-LCD flat panels are the critical components in notebook computers, computer monitors, and flat panel televisions from essentially all well known global brands. Purchase this case: View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
expenditures for telecommunications and information technology. One option is to hand over management of its telecom and IT networks to its vendors. Explores the pros and cons of such an outsourcing arrangement for a company in an industry where technological... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
Thus NGO involvement is essential to monitor and provide assurance that the poor are benefiting from the public-private partnership. NGOs, in spite of their own legitimacy problems, have become the conscience of the world, and they will... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
'78), the former head of real estate for Fidelity Management & Research Company in Boston who now handles special projects for Fidelity. Real estate syndicators essentially sold tax losses to their well-heeled clients. Savings and... View Details