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  • September 2001
  • Background Note

Financial Reporting Environment, The

By: Paul M. Healy, Amy P. Hutton, Robert S. Kaplan and Krishna G. Palepu
Provides a framework for understanding the role of financial reporting and various intermediaries as mechanisms for reducing both adverse selection and moral hazard problems in capital markets. Financial reports reduce adverse selection by providing basic information... View Details
Keywords: Financial Reporting; Financial Statements; Capital Markets; Venture Capital; Corporate Disclosure; Conflict of Interests
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  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores

customer walked away in frustration. Shoppers thought that they were doing something wrong. They weren't. The kiosk's printer was out of paper, but it had no way of alerting customers. Lesson 3: Execution Matters: Prototype, Test, And Refine. Many technologies are... View Details
Keywords: by Raymond Burke; Retail
  • February 1993 (Revised May 1993)
  • Background Note

Responsibility Centers and Performance Measurement

By: William J. Bruns Jr.
Introduces the concepts of responsibility centers and performance measurement. Expense centers, financial responsibilities such as profit centers, and investment centers are introduced, defined, and illustrated with simple examples. View Details
Keywords: Accounting; Management Systems
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  • 06 Jul 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Are You a Level-Six Leader?

Packard in the early 1980s what accounted for HP's extraordinary run he modestly replied, "I guess we found a way to make a better product." Where are those better products today? Referring to one of HP's most visible new... View Details
Keywords: by Mitch Maidique
  • 06 Nov 2008
  • Op-Ed

Selling Out The American Dream

resilience of consumer spending has saved the day. Until recently, it has accounted for 72 percent of the American economy, compared to around 60 percent in European countries where government spending is higher. Given the likely depth... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • 22 Oct 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Bringing ‘Lean’ Principles to Service Industries

Thanks to the pioneering success of Toyota, the concept of a "lean" operating system has been implemented in countless manufacturing companies and even adapted for industries as diverse as insurance and healthcare. With its... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer
  • March 2018
  • Module Note

Module Note for Instructors: Responsibilities to Society

By: Nien-hê Hsieh
This note outlines a framework to help managers discern and deliver on their responsibilities to society that has been taught in the “Responsibilities to Society” module in Leadership and Corporate Accountability (LCA), a semester-long, first-year required course for... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Leadership; Society
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    Organizing the In-between

    This article examines the population dynamics and viability of network weavers, which are organizations that provide network relations for others. An analysis of the population dynamics of the intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) that are the basis of the... View Details
    • November 1990 (Revised May 2004)
    • Case

    Mile High Cycles

    By: William J. Bruns Jr.
    Introduces the concept of cost variances. Looking at a bicycle manufacturer with one product and three departments, the case presents budgeted and actual data for material, labor, and overhead. View Details
    Keywords: Cost; Business Divisions; Accounting; Bicycle Industry
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    • 11 Aug 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

    a company? A: The OSM is analogous to a military general's chief of staff. The general is responsible and accountable for developing the strategy to win wars and battles. But a general almost always has a chief-of-staff, often several... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • Research Summary

    Winning Coalitions

    By: James K. Sebenius
    James K. Sebenius is examining the most effective ways to generate and sustain cooperation among a corporations many stakeholders. As the number of stakeholders grows, and management actions more often involve players outside the traditional chain of command and... View Details
    • 15 May 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Money or Knowledge? What Drives Demand for Financial Services in Emerging Markets?

    Keywords: by Shawn Cole, Thomas Sampson & Bilal Zia; Financial Services
    • 10 Aug 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    High Commitment, High Performance Management

    to know the truth nor did they develop the type of learning and governance processes that would have enabled truth to speak to power. Journalistic accounts and interviews with current or past employees of companies like Merrill Lynch and... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 04 Apr 2019
    • News

    How Can Technology Help Small Businesses? Think: 'Cash Flow.'

    • 23 Aug 2006
    • Op-Ed

    The Real Wal-Mart Effect

    paying higher prices. In The Wal-Mart Effect, Charles Fishman raises another specter: Wal-Mart as giant boa constrictor, squeezing the life out of capitalism through sheer market dominance. This seems far-fetched. Wal-Mart still accounts... View Details
    Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Ken A. Mark; Retail
    • September 2015
    • Teaching Note

    Unidentified Industries: Australia 2014

    By: Benjamin C. Esty and William E. Fruhan, Jr.
    Helps students to understand how the characteristics of a business are reflected in the firm's financial statements. In this exercise, students are given balance sheet data in percentage form (common-size balance sheets) and other selected financial ratios for a set of... View Details
    Keywords: Accounting; Finance; Financial Management; Australia
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    • 2011
    • Working Paper

    Organizations in the Shadow of Communities

    By: Siobhan O'Mahony and Karim R. Lakhani
    The concept of a community form is drawn upon in many subfields of organizational theory. Although there is not much convergence on a level of analysis, there is convergence on a mode of action that is increasingly relevant to a knowledge-based economy marked by porous... View Details
    Keywords: Knowledge Sharing; Organizational Culture; Civil Society or Community; Boundaries; Information Technology; Theory; Value Creation
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      The Underdog Effect: The Marketing of Disadvantage and Determination through Brand Biography

      We introduce the concept of an underdog brand biography to describe an emerging trend in branding in which firms author a historical account of their humble origins, lack of resources, and determined struggle against the odds. We identify two essential... View Details

      • 09 Apr 2007
      • Research & Ideas

      Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?

      particularly interested in certified process standards. For example, ISO 14001 is focused on environmental management, and ISO 9000 on quality management. Social Accountability (SA) 8000 focuses on labor management. (ISO is the... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace
      • 12 Nov 2010
      • Research & Ideas

      One Report: Integrated Reporting for a Sustainable Strategy

      What a company externally reports shapes how it behaves internally. The key question is, "What should companies report?" A new reporting practice--"integrated reporting," which integrates measures of financial and non-financial performance in a... View Details
      Keywords: by Robert Eccles; Accounting