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- 16 Feb 2018
- Blog Post
Out of PE, Into Africa
seemed to almost grow as she was more memorable in her networking, with clients feeling a catalyst to engage her before she left for the trip. Leaving can also force you to honestly assess what is important and urgent in your work and in... View Details
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
in teams: reflexive, experimental, contextual, and vicarious learning. We integrate these categories into the dynamic capabilities framework to show their particular relevance at different points along the sensing-seizing-reconfiguring pathway and View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
restaurants for a three-month period, with randomization done at the restaurant level to assess the overall impact of advertisements. We find that advertising increases a restaurant’s Yelp page views by 25% on average. Advertising also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
clinical psychologists and journal editors, divide a continuous flow of judgments into subsets. College admissions interviewers, for instance, evaluate but a handful of applicants a day. We conjectured that in such situations, individuals engage in narrow bracketing,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
paper called, "Asset Allocation and Asset Location: Household Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances," published by the Journal of Public Economics in August, 2004. Using data from the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), the team View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
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LGBTQ+ Pride Month | Baker Library
often face: assessing coworkers’ levels of awareness or acceptance, weighing potential risks, and determining whether to be honest, evasive, or closeted. The diagram ends by contrasting the energized start of an open employee’s day with... View Details
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Building Bridges to Sustainable Infrastructure with Allied Climate Partners - Recruiting
environment. My responsibilities spanned two main areas: supporting fund strategy by conducting deep dives into new markets and verticals that might offer promising investment opportunities, and assessing the viability of opportunities... View Details
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Corporate Governance and Boards of Directors - Course Catalog
making presentations to boards, or investment professionals needing to assess the governance of companies you invest in. Over the longer term, many of you will serve in CEO or other senior executive roles working with your company’s... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Turning Point: Makeover
assessment came back as “highly effective.” Confused, I asked why. Their lawyer replied, “If your ego is so big you need to hold onto the CEO title, and you’d be willing to hurt the company to do so—we can have that conversation.” It felt... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Marking 10-Year Connection with Japanese Earthquake Region
Takeuchi’s decision to embark on the inaugural Japan trip involved a realistic assessment of both the logistical challenges and educational opportunities of the experience. But taking students to a disaster area entailed unprecedented... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World
they can assess their ROI. He will also research how others across the country are trying to develop and advance such metrics. "For decades, people have said there is just no way to measure nonprofit value creation. How can you value a... View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
School Ties
important barriers to greater engagement, including significant differences between education and business leaders in their assessments of America's schools. Notes Rivkin, "Compared to the typical superintendent, HBS alumni are far more... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Alumni Books
Thomas J. Bolam (MBA ’64) (McFarland & Co.) The Bolams examine 407 commercial films that include an American president as a character. They summarize each president’s administration and discuss its films, giving plot summaries, credits, descriptions of the president’s... View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
demand information that the dealer obtains through the initial assessment and subsequent learning in the selling process. With the dealer's average net profit per car in the estimation sample being around $1150, the initial View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Nov 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
chain that generalizes Antràs and Chor (2013). To assess the evidence, we construct firm-level measures of the upstreamness of integrated and non-integrated inputs by combining information on the production activities of firms operating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing
possible causal agents in gas can injuries would be to assess what the likely outcome would have been if one of the agents didn't exist. Consider the counterfactual in which Blitz did not exist as a company during the years in question.... View Details
- 09 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 9
traits. To better determine when a firm will be attracted to agglomeration economies, we develop a three-layer framework. The first layer assesses the relative importance of skilled labor, suppliers, and knowledge spillovers. The second... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: Preparing to Sell
vehicles while they catch their breath and assess their interests, unity, and risk tolerance. Longer term, they might start or buy another operating company, while keeping some portion of their assets, individually or collectively, in... View Details
- 03 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Social Responsibility in a Downturn
environment for the business to be engaged to its stakeholders in creating value for itself and the community in which it operates. But the assessment of what that value is should be undertaken rigorously. While there might not be a neat... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Jun 2016
- News
Having an Impact on Development and Poverty Issues
doesn’t just assess an investment on the basis of whether it will have impact, but also on whether it can generate a return that will make it possible to be self-sustaining. In addition to increasing the likelihood of success of the... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman