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Managing Financial Reporting and the Effect on Firms' Costs of Capital

Amy P. Hutton's research investigates the impact of capital market forces and firm contracts on financial reporting and disclosure policies. Specifically, her research examines how managers use financial reporting to convey a firm's strategy, and the effect of... View Details
  • Summer 2013
  • Article

Nuclear Negotiations With Iran

By: Paul R. Pillar, Robert Reardon, James K. Sebenius and Michael K. Singh
Paul Pillar and Robert Reardon challenge the analysis and substantive policy inputs that Sebenius and Singh developed for their article "Is a Nuclear Deal with Iran Possible? An Analytic Framework for the Iran Nuclear Negotiations" (International Security 37, no. 3... View Details
Keywords: Nuclear Proliferation; Zone Of Possible Agreement; ZOPA; International Relations; Negotiation; Iran; United States
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  • 01 Jun 2024
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Research Brief: Ahead of the Game

As a lifelong runner who spent countless hours training and competing his way up to the national level, Professor Paul Gompers has always believed that his athletic experiences were critical to shaping who he is, both as a competitor and... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Antonio Pinna

    DISCOVER YOUR TRUE NORTH

    The Leadership Classic, Discover Your True North, expanded for today's leaders

    Discover Your True North is the best-selling leadership classic that enables you to become an authentic leader by discovering your True North.... View Details

    • 16 Jun 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

    Twenty years has provided time to judge the success or failure of Theodore Levitt's predictions of a global economy populated by standardized products and marketing approaches. For the colloquium, a number of Harvard Business School and... View Details
    Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
    • December 1987 (Revised August 1990)
    • Case

    Florida Power & Light's Quality Improvement Program

    Describes a major electric utility's highly successful effort to institute a comprehensive quality improvement program throughout the organization. Designed to be used in a comparative analysis of the quality improvement effort described in Paul Revere Insurance Co.... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Quality; Performance Productivity; Utilities Industry; Florida
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    • February 2016 (Revised July 2017)
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    Leadership and Independence at the Federal Reserve

    By: David Moss and Marc Campasano
    “From the Great Depression, to the stagflation of the seventies, to the current economic crisis caused by the housing bubble, every economic downturn suffered by this country over the past century can be traced to Federal Reserve policy.” Ron Paul, a Republican from... View Details
    Keywords: Government Legislation; Central Banking; Policy; Financial Crisis; Business and Government Relations; Banking Industry; Public Administration Industry; United States
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      Luis M. Viceira

      Luis M. Viceira is the George E. Bates Professor in the Finance Unit  and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research, course development, and teaching focus on the areas of investment management... View Details

      Keywords: banking; education industry; financial services; nonprofit industry; retail financial services
      • May 2011
      • Article

      Challenge the Boss or Stand Down

      By: W. Earl Sasser
      This HBR Case Study includes both the case and the commentary. For teaching purposes, this reprint is also available in two other versions: case study-only, reprint R1105X, and commentary-only, R1105Z. Tom Green, an aggressive young sales executive at self-service... View Details
      Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Personal Development and Career; Jobs and Positions; Conferences; Service Industry
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      How Venture Capitalists Make Decisions

      By: Paul A. Gompers, Will Gornall, Steven Kaplan and Ilya Strebulaev
      For decades now, venture capitalists have played a crucial role in the economy by financing high-growth start-ups. While the companies they’ve backed—Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and more—are constantly in the headlines, very little is known about what VCs actually... View Details
      Keywords: Venture Capital; Investment; Decision Making
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      • 21 Dec 2010
      • First Look

      First Look: December 21

      article reviews recent research conducted by the authors that finds that intellectual property rights reform increases technology transfers, foreign direct investment inflows, and industrial development. It also places the findings of... View Details
      • 30 Sep 2014
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      First Look: September 30

      supply chain factories' adherence to the global labor standards embodied in codes of conduct imposed by multinational buyers. We find that suppliers are more likely to adhere when they are embedded in states that participate actively in... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 22 Aug 2017
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      First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23

      opportunities to practice their skills in time frames connected to actual buying processes. They can do so by using the same technologies that are “disrupting” their customer-contact activities: videos and mobile apps that reps can view... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 16 Jan 2007
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      First Look: January 16, 2007

        Working Papers"Don'ts" And "Do's": Insights from Experience In Mitigating Risks Of Western Investors In Post-Communist Countries Authors:Charalambos A. Vlachoutsicos and Paul R. Lawrence Abstract No abstract... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • February 2018
      • Teaching Note

      Still Leading Series—Issues in Transitioning to New Forms of Service Later in Life

      By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Rakesh Khurana, James Honan and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
      The Still Leading case series includes an introductory note, “Still Leading (A): Issues in Transitioning to New Forms of Service Later in Life” and 10 supplementary cases that cover the transition of highly accomplished and prolific leaders (Hon. Robert McDonald, Hon.... View Details
      Keywords: Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Transition
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      • 11 Apr 2017
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      First Look at New Research, April 11

      biased forecasts for potential future employers are more likely to face favorable career outcomes and bank executives appear to profit from the analysts' bias since the bias is associated with higher levels of insider trading. Our results highlight the bias created... View Details
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      Information Intermediation

      Christopher F. Noe's research involves examining a variety of issues relating to the process through which firms communicate with external parties. He has shown that trading by corporate officials in their own firms shares of common stock increases in the period... View Details

      • March 2016 (Revised June 2016)
      • Case

      Gotong Royong: Toward Sustainable Palm Oil

      By: Rebecca Henderson, Hann-Shuin Yew and Monica Baraldi
      In late 2015, Jeff Seabright, chief sustainability officer at Unilever, had to report to Unilever CEO Paul Polman on the effort to transform palm oil cultivation. Historically, palm oil was produced using unsustainable methods that included burning large tracts of... View Details
      Keywords: Sustainability; Environment; Industry Self-regulation; Corporate Image; Corporate Strategy; Indonesia; Malaysia
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      • 13 Apr 2010
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      First Look: April 13

      by deviating frequently and in predictable ways from the recommendations offered by a centralized capacity planning model. Finally, we document that these discretionary capacity supply decisions exhibit a... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 06 Jun 2017
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      First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

      survival of only the most productive domestic firms. We investigate the roles of the two different mechanisms in determining the aggregate productivity gains by exploring their distinct predictions on the distributions of domestic firms:... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne