Impact Accounting - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Aug 2013
First Look

First Look: August 6

today's managers need to harness technological advances, manage and lead a dispersed and diverse workforce, anticipate and react to constant competitive and geopolitical change and uncertainty, compete on a global scale, and operate in a socially responsible and View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

24 Feb 2020
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software

accounts were less likely to employ the same level of security measures (such as multifactor authentication) common among organizational accounts. According to the study, “changes to code under the control of these individual developer... View Details

Keywords: by Frank Nagle and Jenny Hoffman; Computer

18 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

How New Managers Become Great Managers

are willing to take some risks, disclose some of their shortcomings, and open themselves to constructive criticism—admittedly a tall order. Choosing The Right Position Establishing a management career begins with choosing the right positions along the way. Managers... View Details

Keywords: by Linda Hill

01 Oct 2014
What Do You Think?

Is Too Much Focus a Problem?

"fail to consider or know how to recognize what is outside their industry that is impacting their business (such as) customers who are buying their goods but don't fit the target profile, or alternative (product) uses Focus has a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

This exercise may greatly help illuminate opportunities to improve effectiveness and efficiency. Keep people accountable and adjust their deliverables The COVID-19 outbreak presents us all with an unprecedented amount of uncertainty. We... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

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Introducing One-Step Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

A RESEARCH & MANUFACTURING COMPANY Commercialization of the Polarizer Innovation and the War Effort A Rewarding Working Life INSTANT PHOTOGRAPHY The Idea of Instant Photography Research and Development, Project Code SX-70 Introducing One-Step Photography TAKING THE... View Details

01 Jun 2024
News

Firm Foundation

a strategy without McKinsey or Bain. And how do you execute that strategy and drive accountability into organizations?” She and Pampered Chef CFO Brian Humphrey realized they’d found a sweet spot: They’d talked to dozens of executives who... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; private equity; Warren Buffett; career path; investment strategy; family business; Finance

03 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2010

Judging by the most-read articles and faculty working papers over the last year, our readers continue to be fascinated by the emergence of social networks and their potential impacts on business and management. Another developing area of... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

12 Oct 2017
News

Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time

as the School’s first Goldman Sachs Fellow, and was elected copresident of the African American Student Union (AASU). “I had never taken an accounting or finance class before I went to HBS,” he notes. “The AASU study groups and community... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

30 Jun 2021
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

10 Jul 2007
What Do You Think?

How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?

whether 10 percent or something else, can be measured is a puzzle. Gerald Nanninga commented that " (the) 90 percent which is attributable to the 'environment' fails to take into account (the) fact that somebody somewhere made some... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

global regulators may take action in time, the best companies are implementing sustainable accounting now, rather than waiting and playing catch-up later. Whether focused on energy, agriculture, infrastructure, or less obvious sectors... View Details

11 Mar 2021
News

Leading with Heart

the team the following three core values that they can expect from me and hold me accountable to. The first value that I have is one of congruence—that what I think, feel, say, and do will always be congruent. The second one, which is a... View Details

14 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

When the Rubber Meets the Road, Most Commuters Text and Email While Driving

post-doctoral researcher Thomaz Teodorovicz, Andrew Kun of the University of New Hampshire, and Orit Shaer of Wellesley College. Work vs. personal multitasking Numerous studies have been conducted over the years, including some by HBS researchers, about the driving... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

20 Dec 2016
First Look

December 20, 2016

contend with the fact that patenting is highly concentrated in certain product categories and that this concentration has been shifting over time. Accounting for secular trends in innovative activities, we find that the View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

08 Nov 2021
News

New Director Named for Mid-US Research Office

School. This will include serving as a key source of new research and curriculum content on a wide range of fields, including finance, technology, marketing, accounting and control, strategy, and entrepreneurship, to develop further... View Details

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By: Matthew C. Weinzierl

My academic research centers on uncovering and closing gaps between the theory and reality of tax policy. My main contribution has been to identify and address a mismatch between the goals for taxation typically assumed in theory and the goals the public and... View Details

01 Feb 2002
News

It's academic. (Not!)

acquisitions, analyzed the impact of accounting information. The stock market, he found, reacts positively to an open disclosure of a merger, coupled with independent corporate governance. His current... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

02 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017

And an audience of customers standing by with their smartphones to record any spectacle seems to have had, until now, unfortunately, no discernable impact on corporate policy guidelines for dealing with uncooperative customers. Companies... View Details