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- 14 Nov 2011
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Creating a Global Business Code
- 01 Dec 2023
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The Exchange: Help Wanted
Roma, although the more successful of the two sides, and it’s only through superior social skills that I am able to have a productive relationship with Raffaella. In all seriousness, beyond the evaluation process it’s also the hiring...
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- 01 Sep 2023
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Research Brief: Making Way for Moonshots
pretty similar to what the company would normally fund,” Krieger observes. He and Nanda captured their findings in the working paper, “Are Transformational Ideas Harder to Fund? Resource Allocation to R&D Projects at a Global...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 22 Sep 2023
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Capital Connection
living for a very meaningfully sized community.” The Bodka Creek project embodies everything Beckford envisioned for DLS. As a small boutique firm with limited resources, the company evaluates potential...
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- 01 Feb 2001
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What Makes a Good Leader
as one observer puts it — while leaders are the charismatic, big-picture visionaries, the ones who change the whole ant farm. But such a construction, those interviewed for this article agree, erroneously leads to a bimodal way of looking at something that should...
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- 01 Mar 2024
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Game On
for the pickleball but stay for everything else. It takes a staff of 30 to provide this level of service, and they’re just six months into operations by this point in November. Like every startup, the team has been busily evaluating what...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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Toward a Life Well Lived
years after graduation,” explains Perlow. The following year, she led 17 students in an independent study project that asked hundreds of alumni to consider what they wished they’d known while at HBS and what they’ve learned since then....
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- 11 Oct 2022
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Righting the Ship
When Ross Stuckey (PLDA 21, 2016) joined the NAVSEA Warfare Centers—a part of the naval research labs responsible for developing science and tech for national defense—as their capital improvement program (CIP) manager in 2016, he was charged with doling out $80 million...
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Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2014
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Generation Next
not exist previously—a year after the project ended. Today, he is CEO and managing director of Godrej Consumer Products, the group's largest and most profitable company. Godrej consultant Nathani-Menzies calls the hire "revolutionary for...
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- 29 Aug 2023
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Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do...
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- 01 Jun 2023
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Righting the Ship
annually from the U.S. Navy Working Capital Fund to each of the divisions, for capital improvement projects like buildings and equipment. But there was a major problem with the fund’s model: “In 2001, we were at 93 percent execution of...
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Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2013
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The Long View
in the academic literature, social scientists should focus their research on larger public problems. "That resonated with me," says Moss, who in 2005 founded the Tobin Project in collaboration with Poorvu Family Professor of Management...
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- 01 Mar 2016
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Research Brief: The Benefits of Bias
over time. Her findings indicate that expert evaluators were indeed biased in favor of projects in their own area, which increased the application’s funding chances by 3.2 percent. But there was an...
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Erin Peterson
- 01 Mar 2007
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Faculty Books
activities? How does one evaluate the reasonableness of a manager’s performance on large projects where traditional outcome methods don’t seem to apply? HBS emeritus professor Fox and his coauthor answer...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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Sizing Up Social Impact
in household income? At the end of the day, did we reduce poverty? "We measure quantified objectives beforehand, monitor them during implementation, and evaluate them afterward," Bloom continues. "It's all very public, very explicit, and...
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- 16 Oct 2019
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The Road to Impact
education, promote health, and expand economic opportunity for the citizens of 80 countries. Founded in 1958, EDC designs, implements, and evaluates programs that range from early childhood education to suicide prevention to distance...
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- 01 Dec 2019
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Research Brief: Subject Expert Matters
Karim Lakhani (photo by Dana Maxson) Karim Lakhani (photo by Dana Maxson) Every year billions of dollars are granted to scientists based on the evaluation of peer-reviewed proposals. The final decisions about whose View Details
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Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2014
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Innovation: Revenge of the Nerds
all these students, learning practical business skills every day but not yet applying them in the real world,” says Petitti. “And we saw all these businesses with needs.” To connect the two groups, the team built an online marketplace where MBAs could bid on short-term...
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April White
- 01 Oct 2001
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New Economy Notables: Eileen M. Rudden
spanned various stages of computing evolution — from mainframe to personal computer to local area network to the Internet. After working in a grassroots community organizing project ("One of those social experiments," says Rudden with her...
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