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- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
members of the Fed pay attention to media speculation? How do they deal with a situation where the speculation is going in the wrong direction and will likely result in a “surprise” to the markets when announced? Would they prefer to...
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- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Create Winning Streaks
accountability, collaboration and initiative. Each of these factors lead to winning, and winning reinforces the actions and leads to greater confidence. This holds for external confidence as well. Winning yields positive attention from...
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
was spurred by high profits. Typical cable systems outside the top 100 markets earned rates of return on net investment (before taxes and interest expense) over 40 percent. 9 Wired Cities: 1970-1975 (10) With industry growth surging through the 1960s, cable began to...
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- 06 Oct 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?
think the data exists." (In these instances, I came up with estimates and went on with the necessary calculations.) I wasn't surprised. How many of us have sat in on board meetings where the analysis of historical financial data went on far too long with little...
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by James Heskett
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Surveying the VC Landscape
performance of venture capital funds. What could be done to make this information more readily available to investors? A: The lack of transparency in private equity is a major issue that is likely to attract considerable attention in the...
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- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
rigorous methods to problems of great social importance, tirelessly championing multi-level analyses of problems that matter. His impact on our field has been immense. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2295054 Working Papers Span of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Education: Investing in the Next Generation of Workers
scale. Offerings such as MOOCs (massive open online courses) have wide reach but relatively low engagement, while approaches that offer faculty interaction result in high engagement but don’t scale. The answer may lie in shifting View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
25th Annual African-American Student Union Career/Alumni Conference
tremendous resource to the next generation of leaders." Conference chair Sara Crutchfield (HBS '97) views the conference as a "homecoming" for African-American graduates and a chance to strengthen bonds between students and alumni. "One of the AASU's current priorities...
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- 20 Aug 2015
- Blog Post
AVICII: REFLECTIONS ON MANAGING THE BRAND OF A GLOBAL SUPERSTAR
company was very much like working for a start up that is on the precipice of transitioning into a larger company. How do you maintain the culture of freedom and creativity while setting yourself up to scale globally by taking on more artists that require the amount of...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
serious attention at HBS, was intoxicating. That year, 26 graduates went into the real estate field, in no small measure due to him. I will never forget his time-honored recipe for success: "Find a discontinuity and capitalize on it."...
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Pricing Paradise
Clinton as assistant secretary and CFO of the Department of Commerce, Bilmes’s attention shifted to government spending. “The government is good at making promises, but poor at valuing what those promises are going to cost,” says Bilmes,...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Renewing Baker: Tom Michalak, Executive Director of Baker Library
We are in the process of working out a contract with two of our vendors of licensed commercial products that would also permit us to provide these services to alumni from our own platform for a fixed fee. Aside from technology, what else commands your View Details
- 09 May 2013
- News
Road Trip
and Amaris Singer (all HBS 2014). As Gerald explains: "With globalization, there's been a lot of attention paid to what's happening overseas, and rightly so. But our goal is to help MBAs better understand the challenges of being an...
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- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
Thyssen himself paid an immense amount of attention to issues of organization, accounting, and control, so in many ways the book reflects those interests. It became clear that Thyssen and his managers were doing many innovative things in...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
US Competitiveness Report Sees ‘A Nation Divided’
Porter and Rivkin. “The weak economic recovery we now see is due to long-term structural issues, which are further compounded by political paralysis.” The report draws attention to the choices facing the nation in order to rebuild a...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Pearson Hunt Remembered
teaching and learning processes in business schools worldwide, Hunt was 93. Hunt was one of the first to bring to the attention of the academic community the problems related to the management of working capital and to make constructive...
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- 19 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Privacy Protection Notices Turn Off Shoppers
State’s David Norton, compares the phenomenon to seeing bulletproof glass at a bank. “Bulletproof glass is something meant to protect us, but sometimes its very presence can make us aware of the dangers we hadn’t previously been paying View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
customers. To me, it seemed like a very interesting challenge. How do you view your mandate as commissioner? There is one overriding mandate emerging from the IRS Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998: we've got to rewin the confidence of the taxpayer and still collect...
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Garry Emmons
- 12 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Mass Shootings Lead to Looser Gun Restrictions
More broadly, “The Impact of Mass Shootings on Gun Policy” raises the general question of what factors drive policy changes—and what factors don’t. “Our findings suggest that while much attention has been rightfully devoted to...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Marketing of a President
positive and unruffled demeanor, and his compelling biography attracted the attention and empathy of voters. Second, Obama converted this empathy into tangible support. More citizens volunteered time and money to help the Obama campaign...
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by John Quelch