Filter Results
:
(95)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (95)
- Faculty Publications (12)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (95)
- Faculty Publications (12)
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Leading Boston and Beyond
Digital Officer, says the first step is to craft language for request responses that makes residents feel valued, but does not provide false hope their particular request will be accommodated. “We appreciate their (residents’) role; they...
View Details
- 08 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Socioeconomic Inclusion at HBS: Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)
those multiple facets, Mbanusi took a position at MDC, a non-profit in Durham, focusing broadly on poverty alleviation across the South. Over the next five years, he gained exposure to efforts with employment, economic security, and...
View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
loss of control, overbearing input, disproportionate reward to the wrong shareholders, or founders being squeezed out of their own businesses. Investment can also prop up a business artificially, building false hope and disappointment in...
View Details
- 20 Jul 2020
- Op-Ed
It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees
under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or Medicaid.) Some contend that the Public Option’s low-cost premiums are falsely achieved by shifting Medicare’s costs to private insurers, but Medicare’s massive scale—61.2 million enrollees—delivers...
View Details
- Web
Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory
goals and beliefs, particularly as new generations come into decision-making positions and may advocate for new strategies such as impact investing. Once a strategy is in place, selecting the right investments or funds requires extensive...
View Details
- 01 Jul 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?
introduction of stretch goals was also accompanied by both positive and negative incentives. The message to the frontline, whether intentional or not, was hit the goal; don’t necessarily tell us how you did it. The result, as we know,...
View Details
Keywords:
by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
opportunities to travel and meet new people. Maintain a sense of humor and share your true self. Make sure you have close friends with whom you can brainstorm and complain in private. Be positive in the job environment, but be sure that...
View Details
- 20 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
Minorities Who 'Whiten' Job Resumes Get More Interviews
‘Pro-diversity’ employers discriminate, too What’s worse for minority applicants: When an employer says it values diversity in its job posting by including words like “equal opportunity employer” or “minorities are strongly encouraged to apply,” many minority...
View Details
Keywords:
All Industries
- 11 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Usher in the Next Generation
there needs to be tension between making money and doing good is a false one that boys are not usually burdened with, said Godfrey, using her babysitter example. Even Mother Teresa was a powerhouse fundraiser, a fact not often recognized....
View Details
Keywords:
by Martha Lagace
- 23 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Are Great Teams Less Productive?
the learning organization: organizations with the capacity to sense and act upon opportunities for positive change. Around this time, I thought I'd better go to graduate school to learn and explore these ideas more carefully. Early on, I...
View Details
Keywords:
by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 01 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?
not be any sort of attack on this very fundamental right. On the other hand social media platforms still have an obligation to the public that they serve YouTube needs to redouble its efforts and be totally relentless in its quest to View Details
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
Prize winner perhaps most famous for his climate-change documentary An Inconvenient Truth, "Fox News has consistently delivered false and misleading information to its viewers about the climate crisis." Indeed, polls have shown...
View Details
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
corporate executives, government officials, and journalists, for allegedly spreading false rumors online about the market’s stability. And in a turnabout, authorities also announced they will not institute more interventions to rescue the...
View Details
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
learned to navigate and still come out strong. Sometimes as HBS students, we have a false sense of security. Remember, nothing has a guarantee. I was an immigrant to the US in 2010 and got my citizenship later, so I had to work double...
View Details
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
powerful in explaining quarterly sales growth, revenue surprises, and earnings surprises, generating average excess returns at announcement of 3.4%. However, surprisingly, our post-quarter measure is related negatively to announcement returns and View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
Alumni Books Out of the Desert: My Journey from Nomadic Bedouin to the Heart of Global Oil by Ali Al-Naimi (AMP 82, 1979) (Penguin UK) Until May 7, 2016, Ali Al-Naimi was the Saudi oil minister (and an OPEC kingpin), a position he held...
View Details
- 22 Apr 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught
people retain a false image of entrepreneurs as very heroic types. But most entrepreneurs are just regular men and women who happen to start their own businesses and go about their lives happily and independently. PM: Basically, we're...
View Details
Keywords:
by Staff
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
Glass has just taken over as CEO from the legendary Sam Walton at Wal-Mart. Meanwhile, Joe Antonini has just taken the CEO position at Wal-Mart's arch rival, Kmart. Although Wal-Mart is still well behind Kmart, it appears to be in great...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
(2011), idiosyncratic shocks to the sales growth of large firms are positively and significantly correlated with GDP growth in our emerging markets sample. Relatedly, the negative impact of exchange rate shocks has a more acute impact on...
View Details
Keywords:
Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
returns are more positive for acquisitions in which both the target and the acquirer are financed by the same venture capital firm. Similarly, we find that having a common investor increases both the likelihood that a transaction will be...
View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace