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Aline Camargo
issue that makes me deeply sad. My mission as a worldwide citizen is to help reversing this situation and creating more opportunities for artists with limited structure to... View Details
- 11 May 2017
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: Microsoft
the willingness to take risks and continue to learn from any of your growth opportunities. Your opportunity for success is only limited by your own drive View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 16 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?
strongly motivated to control and reduce costs. Yet the Army, the Navy, and, to a lesser extent, the Air Force provide limited industrial management training for military... View Details
- 06 Jan 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is a Stringent Climate Change Agreement a Pot of Gold?
problem. If entrepreneurial interests try to skew the response, in the form of an agreement, in one direction or another, it could limit the range of possible responses to be... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- Op-Ed
The Real Duty of the Board of Directors
define materiality for reporting and strategy. We call this the Statement of Significant Audiences and Materiality, or simply The Statement. No matter how big the corporation, it has limited resources. Thus, the board has a responsibility... View Details
Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & Tim Youmans
- 28 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Manufacturing Matters
After decades of destructive outsourcing, America's ability to innovate and create high-tech products essential for future prosperity is on the decline, argue professors Gary Pisano and Willy Shih. They won the prestigious McKinsey Award... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
No Bull — Nancy E. Havens-Hasty (MBA 1971)
female corporate finance associate at Kidder, she became an equity analyst two years later, covering the computer industry. Joining Bear Stearns in 1979 as a risk arbitrage analyst, she rose to number two in... View Details
Keywords: Linda Goodspeed
- 31 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
My Misperceptions about HBS
sessions open to our entire section before exams. This actually extended across all subjects that a lot of students struggled in, so it wasn't even limited to just finance. ... View Details
- 06 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Meet the Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (ETA) Club
What is Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition? Through ETA (search funds), individuals can acquire an existing business, become its CEO, and build a larger and more successful enterprise. The search fund model gives relatively inexperienced professionals with View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 12 PM – 1 PM EST, 11 Dec 2014
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Leadership Lessons from the 2010 Chilean Mine Rescue
Professor Edmondson will explore teaming as a dynamic response to the demands of knowledge intensive businesses. Organizations that do it well have a competitive advantage, because teaming is how organizations learn how they anticipate and respond to shifts in the... View Details
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
monitoring of financial institutions has been left mainly to federal regulators. But there are limits to the effectiveness of any federal regulator in light of the fast pace of... View Details
- 05 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
4 Things You Should Know about Entrepreneurship at HBS
because we had that baseline, we should feel confident in taking risks, remembering that “risk” isn’t just downside--its volatility that goes both ways. The more risk we take, the greater upside potential we have, while our downside is always View Details
- 05 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 5, 2016
occupations, the creative act has received limited attention as an economic behavior and has historically proven difficult to study. This paper studies the incentive effects of competition on individuals'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
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Brett Laffel
continue to hone in on a limited number of skills. With a business education, I feel that I have opened the door to many different additional opportunities for myself. With a... View Details
- 29 Jan 2025
- Blog Post
Finding Professional Purpose: Building an Impactful Career that Reflects your Values with Lisa Tanzer (MBA 1993)
undergraduate background with limited exposure to business, I began my career as an Associate Consultant at one of the Big Four accounting firms (PwC), focusing on strategic planning in financial services,... View Details
- 01 Aug 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?
tax. This has effectively capped salaries, but invites unlimited compensation in other forms. Several high-performing companies such as Costco Wholesale and Whole Foods Markets limit CEO pay to some multiple... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits
Congress and the next president of the United States will be under pressure to make major changes to U.S. corporate tax policy, the consequences of which could have significant impact on profit and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
4 Challenges All Early-Stage Startups Face
still felt limited in what we could explore. Our process included several meetings to synthesize the ideas into four categories, three rounds of voting on the best categories, two prototypes View Details
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
net, the benefits of expertise tend to dominate the costs of bias. As a result, policies designed to limit reviewer biases may also reduce the quality of funding decisions.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Incubators Take Notice: Your Entrepreneurs Are Networking with the Wrong People
learning and advice when members are already embedded in existing networks,” Koning and coauthor Sharique Hasan of Duke University argue in Prior ties and the limits of peer effects on startup team performance, published April 11 in... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost