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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Rebel with a Cause
environmental sustainability efforts, serving as executive director of Ceres, a coalition of environmental groups and institutional investors; initiator of the Investor Network on Climate Risk; and cofounder of the Global Reporting Initiative, the world’s leading... View Details
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709488 Investing in Early Learning as Economic Development at the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank Harvard Business School Case 309-090 In his role as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
to deliver patient care. In fact, GSU's patient satisfaction scores, although average, had been declining steadily over the past few years. Barbara has been asked by EMU's Director of Nursing to turn the unit around in the midst of an View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
waiting in queues or of exposing their private information. Second, and more importantly, South Korea took proactive measures to test its people, even those without symptoms, through contact tracing. In addition to having every confirmed... View Details
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
seek the best health care value regardless of location. (Some consumers will continue to choose local care because of greater convenience even if the quality is not as good.) Value-based competition will be supported with detailed information that View Details
- 10 AM – 11 AM EDT, 22 Oct 2015
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Collective Impact: An Innovative Approach to Improving Public Education
In this webinar, Professor Grossman will describe an innovative approach to improving public education Collective Impact and how you can get involved to help transform public education in the communities you care about. View Details
- November 2009
- Article
Is it Fair to Blame Fair Value Accounting for the Financial Crisis?
By: Robert C. Pozen
When the credit markets seized up in 2008, many heaped blame on "mark to market" accounting rules, which require banks to write down their troubled assets to the prices they'd fetch if sold on the open market - at the time, next to nothing. Recording those assets below... View Details
Keywords: Cost Accounting; Fair Value Accounting; Financial Crisis; Assets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Crisis Management; Standards; Banking Industry
Pozen, Robert C. "Is it Fair to Blame Fair Value Accounting for the Financial Crisis?" Harvard Business Review 87, no. 11 (November 2009).
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
standard measures of patent quality, we find that patents granted to firms involved in private equity transactions are more cited (a proxy for economic importance), show no significant shifts in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making the Most of Government Upheaval
preliminary findings suggest that the profound economic metamorphoses taking place in Latin America's emerging economies have imposed dramatic changes on the competitive environment, compelling firms to develop new strategies and... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
- 13 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future
were to their investment opportunities," Farre-Mensa explains. Investment opportunities are usually measured by market-to-book ratio, the relationship between the market value of a company and the book value of its assets.... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
great business cultures, building on over a century of academic thinking. They share a simple, highly predictive measurement tool, the Total Motivation (ToMo) Factor, which enables managers to measure the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
prisons, and garbage collection among them — has been attempted, When All Else Fails argues that government has been and will inevitably continue to be the nation's ultimate risk manager and insurer of last resort. Drawing on history and View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
Publications August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics The Performance of Corporate Alliances: Evidence from Oil and Gas Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico By: Beshears, John Abstract—I use data on oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
whole. The interests of the shareholders are primarily measured in terms of economic return over time. The interests of others in society (other stakeholders) are defined by their relationship to the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues
his assessment in large measure on the mutual dependency of the two entities, Cheng said, "Hong Kong has benefited enormously from the economic opening of China. At the same time, Hong Kong has helped China... View Details
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
forthcoming Abstract Capitalism, as defined in this book, is an indirect, three-level system of governance for economic relationships (i.e., economic, administrative, and political). Whereas economic markets... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- January 2010
- Teaching Note
IFRS in China (TN)
By: Karthik Ramanna
Teaching Note for [110037]. View Details
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Tech Investment the Wise Way
whom resources will flow. Value, of course, is an economic concept, not primarily measured in physical performance attributes, but rather what a buyer will pay for a product or service. A customer can value... View Details
- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
increasingly used as a key input by firms, understanding its impact on productivity becomes critical. This study measures the firm-level productivity impact of nonpecuniary (free) OSS and finds a positive and significant value-added... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
2016 Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development By: Beckert, Sven, and Seth Rockman, eds. Abstract—During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne