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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Urban Renewal
aspirations. We serve as psychotherapists to neighborhoods.” Favorite LA building: Los Angeles City Hall. “In a city that is so diverse and dispersed, it’s the symbol of common ground that draws us together and gives tangible expression to an View Details
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Julia Hanna
- 24 May 2018
- Blog Post
Win/Win Board Assignments: Expert Advice from Board Recruiter Julie Norris
live in the E.U., your insights into and knowledge of U.S. business may be of great value to a European company." The intangibles represent the "soft skills" that are familiar to business leaders – but with a twist....
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Countdown To Remote Learning - HBS Fund Investors Society 2020 Report
educational experience online, he acknowledges that students and faculty alike missed "the energy and the connection of an in-person discussion...those intangible qualities that make the HBS classroom such a magical place.” He led...
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- 26 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees
trip or dinner is more memorable and emotionally satisfying to them than just receiving cash, so it can act as a stronger motivator.” Give the gift of time—and other intangible perks A Glassdoor survey Whillans and her team conducted with...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Popular Stock Metric That Can Lead Investors Astray
investors identify value stocks,” Wang says. Why the metric isn’t working One reason the metric became less reliable over time? The transition to a knowledge-based economy, the researchers say. Corporate investments in intangible...
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by Rachel Layne
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness
accountabilities. This provides a mechanism for the board to set objectives and subsequently review its performance. The Balanced Scorecard strategy map provides a framework to illustrate how strategy links intangible assets and...
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by Robert S. Kaplan
- 13 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
Ask A Coach: How Do I Find a Mentor?
with senior-level experience? A: HBS Career & Professional Development (CPD) Coach Sarah Bua suggests looking for someone who has that "special sauce," a kind of seemingly intangible knack for success and learn from them....
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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Revitalizing America
regions. National and community service is more than a program. It is a mindset and a way to shift the culture. While sporadic service days are more symbolic than sustainable, they still pay tribute to values and call on people's better selves. Let's not forget those...
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Health, Social Assistance
- 24 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility
executive said to me, 'I'm willing to accept a long time horizon, but if it's not going to have a positive influence eventually, I'm not going to do it." Building A Study To determine a company's CSR performance, the researchers relied on rankings of 1,500 companies...
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by Michael Blanding
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Take Responsibility for Rising Stars
have typically fallen into HR's domain. The prevailing wisdom has been that if HR took care of those often intangible "soft" issues, line managers and executives would be free to focus on "hard" business issues and...
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- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Countdown To Remote Learning
intangible qualities that make the HBS classroom such a magical place.” He led additional work over the summer, based on extensive feedback, to further enhance teaching and learning. The School is sharing what it learned with educators...
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- 03 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Web Services
allow them to change the user experience based on market demands." Does the intangible nature of Web services pose a particular marketing challenge, asked moderator and HBS assistant professor Robert Austin. How do you sell a product...
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- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
Proceedings Crime and Punishment: The Reputational Consequences of Withdrawals from Venture Capital Syndicates By: Zhelyazkov, Pavel Ivanov, and Ranjay Gulati Abstract—Traditional research has long treated reputation as an egocentric attribute, typically described as...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Growth of the Social Enterprise
intangibles (such as its distinctive culture) and tacit knowledge that could best be conveyed within a single organizational structure. Similarly, but on a much larger scale, the Salvation Army operates primarily as a branch organization,...
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by Carla Tishler
- 18 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
A Peek Inside Peek Weekend
career would take me. I was thinking about my summer and how best to use this time to explore my options. I did not, however, think about the more intangible and quite profound value that the program would add to my life. More than simply...
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- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
contracting. We recognize the advantage of using fair values in circumstances where these are based on observable prices in liquid secondary markets, but caution against expanding fair values to areas such as intangibles where they could...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Peeling Back the Global Brand
elements from the real, tangible, and functional to the virtual, intangible, emotional, and unspecific. Henkel decided to tweak the conventional wisdom that a brand "is some sort of holistic entity" that had to consistently blend various product attributes...
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- 07 Dec 1999
- Research & Ideas
Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century
to be made to appreciate the intangible aspects of a good—the associations and expectations that they attached to it. Heinz knew from selling bottled horseradish that men and women would not buy a completely new product, especially a good...
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by Nancy F. Koehn
- 29 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Research Symposium 2014
to favor this experienced view." He cited the example of several meetings in the year 2000, during which the Financial Accounting Standards Board was hashing out rules regarding mergers and acquisitions. At issue was the topic of goodwill, an View Details
- 04 Aug 2023
- Blog Post
Four Remarkable Stories of HBS MBA Students Tackling Climate Change
his company and its mission forward. “When I came to HBS I think that’s one thing I learned. How to lead an organization, lead a team, build organizational structure, understand organizational culture, and how all those intangible...
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