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- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
Press, 2007), and a recent op-ed in the Financial Times, "The World Bank Must Fix its Business Model," Ebrahim has focused his research and teaching on the challenges of accountability, performance, and organizational learning... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 22 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
What's the Ideal Frequency for a Sales Quota?
spend more than $800 billion annually on those efforts. Sales compensation plans are at the center of all this activity, the primary tool managers use to motivate and incentivize salespeople. Sales reps feed on two forms of compensation:... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 09 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off
the empirical quest to link a firm's social investments to its financial returns has preoccupied researchers. Our goal in this paper is to reorient debate and research about social initiatives by business. We try to stimulate a fresh... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
presents the results of a study that investigated the use of the underdog effect in marketing. The idea of triumphing over disadvantages by impassioned determination is said to be a powerfully positive image, which can lead consumers to choose a brand over its larger... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2019
- Blog Post
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS
had bonds with. I struggled to grasp the significance of that moment, in which two of the people I cared most about shared what their rishte meant to them. Over time, I realized that the word translates to “relationships.” My relationships define me and are at the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
brand management that avoids traditional brand tenets of control and competition, largely adopted from the private sector, in favor of a strategic approach centered on the mission and based on participation, shared values, and the... View Details
- 23 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation
In 2009, a stroke victim at a Los Angeles medical center started losing his hair following a CT brain perfusion scan. After some confusion, doctors determined he had been subject to a radiation overdose—a serious accident that might lead... View Details
- 03 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry
observations. Although healthcare as a whole still suffers from the elephant problem, it's suffering less all the time—at least where science is concerned—thanks to remarkable and ever-faster scientific advances. Chief among the advances is genomic View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Reinvigorating Democracy: A Vote for Change
They also cite Pew Research Center data showing that trust in the federal government has gone from 77 percent in 1964 to 17 percent in 2019. But even in the face of these difficult odds, Gehl and Porter... View Details
Keywords: Young, Susan
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
with HBS Working Knowledge editor, Sean Silverthorne, Porter discusses the importance of cluster research and the value of the CMP. Silverthorne: How can data from the Cluster Mapping Project help corporations make better location... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Mar 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
entrepreneur-in-residence at the Stevens Institute of Technology’s Venture Center in New Jersey, advising startups in the energy space, specifically clean-tech. She is also an adjunct professor, teaching entrepreneurial management.... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
you can catch and hold one of the briny little creatures in your own two hands. As president and CEO of the Thompson Island Outward Bound Education Center in Boston, Arthur Pearson (MBA 1991) is working with Boston Public Schools to make... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
even this is a relatively small slice of the country. More than 1.5 million Americans have served in Iraq and Afghanistan. As I am writing this, the official military fatality count is approaching 4,000. But a survey last year by The Pew View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping the Beat
their Instagram. I’m logging on to Deepak Chopra’s meditation center and doing a meditation from their Instagram. Those are powerful for me because I’m reaching audiences that I would never have reached otherwise. And the difference is a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
afforded me so many opportunities.” (The EiR position is unpaid.) Novakovich also researched and wrote a case with HBS faculty Mike Roberts and Bill Sahlman and offered a four-part “how-to” series for students interested in the... View Details
- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details
- 20 Jun 2012
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Leadership: What We Know
is taught should be grounded in research. Even for teachers who do relatively little leadership research, it is still assumed that what they convey to students represents the most important research relevant to the field. Moreover, when... View Details
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
Prosocial Identity Reduces Prosocial Behavior Authors:Adam M. Grant, Andrew Molinsky, Joshua D. Margolis, Melissa Kamin, and William Schiano Periodical:Journal of Applied Social Psychology 39, no. 2 (2009): 319-349 Abstract Considerable View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
continues to run the company as CEO), Barna again beat the odds. In 2017 she became a general partner at First Round Capital, an early stage investor in Birchbox. She was the first woman to hold that title in the firm’s then-13-year history. Even today, according to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
according to research conducted by private-capital database PitchBook, just 12 percent of check-writing decision-makers at the largest VC firms in the United States are women. A survey by The Information, a tech-sector media outlet, found... View Details