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- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
promotions to control the flow of shoppers inside stores to meet social distancing requirements. Many started offering Black Friday deals in early November. Discounts appear to be larger than ever this year, likely reflecting soft consumer demand. The holiday season... View Details
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
decisions to hire Easterbrook and then to fire him without cause were matters of business judgment that the court would not second guess. However, the SEC charged McDonald’s and Easterbrook with providing false and misleading public... View Details
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
of racial inclusion on boards of directors among large public corporations, and we draw upon in-depth interviews with key participants to gain insights into the mechanisms that are likely to have generated the patterns we detect in our... View Details
- 06 Jan 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?
discovery in a legal case. The wise don't do it. But this can be a costly practice, given our faulty memories. And in the age of WikiLeaks and the Internet, when every "secret" seemingly becomes public before long, the new... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
- 05 Dec 2017
- Research & Ideas
What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets
full of accounts of those mistakes—that’s one of the really nice features. Because of the status of these individuals and the high degree of respect they command, I think they’ve treated the videos as an opportunity to reflect honestly... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
cash flow to ensure this. Evidence shows that there are limits to venture capital as a solution to the funding gap, especially in countries where public equity markets for venture capital exit are not highly developed. We conclude by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
Quality Demons Author:Regina E. Herzlinger Publication:." In Accountability and Responsibility in Health Care: Issues in Addressing an Emerging Global Challenge. Vol. 1, edited by Bruce Rosen, Avi Israeli, and Stephen Shortell.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Dec 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Against the Grain
that economic tools of supply and demand can be applied to studying the phenomenon of corruption. On the demand side, it is true that corrupt government officials sometimes garner a degree of sympathy from the public, legitimizing their bribe-taking. View Details
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
cadavers. Such concern is also probably heightened by U.S. historical accounts of grave robbing (Goodwin 2006; Sappol 2002; Shultz 1991). Together these elements contribute to fears of "body-snatching." C. A Market in All but... View Details
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
Harvard Business School Case 107-035 Obadiah Vineyard's owners create financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) to help them obtain funding to plant more acreage. The owners grapple with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 7, 2016
frictions. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51088 forthcoming The Accounting Review Institutional Ownership and Corporate Tax Avoidance: New Evidence By: Khan, Mozaffar N., Suraj Srinivasan, and Liang Tan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Improving Fairness in Flight Delays
congestion at airports and in the air. In Equitable and Efficient Coordination in Traffic Flow Management, a paper recently accepted for publication in Transportation Science and coauthored with Cynthia Barnhart of MIT and Dimitris... View Details
- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
crossed with small financial incentives (ranging from U.S. $3 to $14) to open bank savings accounts. We find that the financial literacy program has no effect on the likelihood of opening a bank savings account in the full sample, but do... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
Publications December 2014 Academy of Management Journal Harnessing Productive Tensions in Hybrid Organizations: The Case of Work Integration Social Enterprises By: Battilana, Julie, Metin Sengul, Anne-claire Pache, and Jacob Model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
China‘s income inequality has risen rapidly over that same time frame, Vietnam‘s has only grown moderately. Structural and socio-cultural determinants fail to account for these divergent pathways. Existing political variables are also... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
Publications August 2013 Cambridge University Press Democracy and Its Elected Enemies: American Political Capture and Economic Decline By: Rosefielde, Steven, and Daniel Quinn Mills Abstract—Democracy and Its Elected Enemies reveals... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
Taxes: An Analysis Perspective Harvard Business School Note 107-047 Provides an overview of accounting for deferred taxes. The primary objective is to provide external users with a basic understanding of deferred taxes. A simple... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
Telephone Company, formed by a consortium of private equity firms, has made a public tender offer for Denmark's leading telecommunications company, TDC. TDC's board of directors approved the take-private transaction, and 88% of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Evolving for Success [Part Two]
a project to a small group of people who are amateurs, who do the project part-time and act as a committee. It doesn't demand management time and resources, and you haven't brought in new skills. This holds for hospitals, government agencies, View Details
Keywords: by Staff