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- 31 Jan 2016
- News
Studios Back App, Hoping to Fill Cinema Seats
Backed by $50 million in capital from three movie studios, startup Atom Tickets is planning a nationwide launch this summer, reports the Wall Street Journal. Cofounded by Matthew Bakal (MBA 2004), Atom is entering a market as “first...
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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
waited seven to ten years before setting up their own shops, today’s graduates are taking the plunge much sooner. In 1997, the first-ever HBS Business Plan Contest yielded a formidable number of participants and mobilized a strong View Details
- 01 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 1, 2006
of "organized" retailers such as Pantaloon. Pantaloon's management faced some exciting opportunities as well as some potential competition both from global retailers planning to enter the Indian market and from large Indian...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2378558 Towards a Contingency Theory of Enterprise Risk Management By: Mikes, Anette, and Robert S. Kaplan Abstract—Enterprise risk management (ERM) has become a crucial component of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Berlin will be the place to be June 13-16. To rephrase John F. Kennedy, you can all be Berliners! I look forward to seeing you there. The planning for subsequent conferences is already under way. HBS professor Gary P. Pisano and a strong...
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Edmund A. Hajim (MBA 1964)
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
positive motivational value, how employees at lower levels viewed the fairness of incentive plans, and whether incentives had an effect on corporate performance. The results were surprising. Most noteworthy: making pay contingent on...
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Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- Web
Policy Changes: Deferrals & Withdrawals | HBS Online
program and the timing of your request: CORe Prior to the first day of CORe: Participants can defer to a later program through our Support Portal Once CORe has started: Participants may be granted a deferral, contingent on the following...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Podcast Podcast Harvard Business School Professors Bill Kerr and Joe Fuller talk to leaders grappling with the forces reshaping the nature of work. Apple Podcasts Spotify Amazon More Ways to Listen iHeartRadioPlayer.fmAudacyCastboxPocket Casts 12 Jan 2022 Managing the...
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- 17 Nov 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Are Optimists or Pessimists Better Leaders?
with optimists. As a determined optimist who has grown a bit more pessimistic during my life, I do want to share one important finding from my 35 years of field research: Effective long-term planning and investment requires an optimistic...
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- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
Working PapersAdding Bricks to Clicks: The Contingencies Driving Cannibalization and Complementarity in Multichannel Retailing (revised) Authors:Jill Avery, Thomas J. Steenburgh, John Deighton, and Mary Caravella Abstract This paper...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World
analysis is possible, commit to moving in a particular direction, carefully plan the immediate next steps, work hard to learn from execution and experiment, seize opportunities along the way, and be prepared to recalibrate an...
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by Joseph L. Badaracco
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
PublicationsThe Coexistence of Overestimation and Underweighting of Rare Events and the Contingent Recency Effect Authors:Greg Barron and Eldad Yechiam Publication:.Judgment and Decision Making 4, no. 6 (October 2009) Abstract Previous...
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Sean Silverthorne
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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2019
reserve. Moving down the income statement to operating expenses, our fiscal 2020 financial plan targets an approximately 8 percent increase in the School’s total spending, compared with fiscal 2019. As in the past few years, a portion of...
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- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
Review 88, no. 6 (June 2010) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the preview: http://hbr.org/2010/06/change-for-changes-sake/ar/1 Working PapersLimits of Nonprofit Impact: A Contingency Framework for Measuring Social...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Whit Sears (MBA 1959)
wat. Although built around a temple and housing a contingent of monks, each wat also serves as a social and community center and frequently hosts market days and carnivals. It’s hard to convey the pervasive role of monks in Thai society....
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- 18 Jul 2014
- News
Team Players
interesting challenge, because you have a limited amount of time to build the brand. Then it disappears. We had to develop a marketing plan that was all-encompassing, but that still got the right information to the people who needed it."...
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Financial Report 2018 - Financial Report 2018
with the goal of strengthening the School’s resilience in the event an economic downturn materializes. We will continue to closely monitor the School’s actual financial performance versus budget as the year unfolds. Contingency View Details
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
advantage of an exogenous shock that occurred when the agency expanded the scope of its ratings. Our study is among the first to theorize about the impact of ratings on subsequent performance, and we introduce important contingencies that...
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Martha Lagace
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
of business, and it taught me how to think as a businessperson,” says Fisher. “The case-study method is fantastic at making you assess all the factors you have to deal with. It says, Here’s the situation; what’s the action plan? And what’s your View Details
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Robert S. Benchley
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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2016
activities such as associate professorships, fellowships, MBA Program enrichment, and cross-disciplinary global research. Giving for these purposes will remain a priority as the Campaign progresses. We will carefully monitor the School’s financial performance as fiscal...
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