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  • June 2014
  • Article

The Capitalist's Dilemma

By: Clayton M. Christensen and Derek C. M. van Bever
Sixty months after the 2008 recession ended, the economy was still sputtering, producing disappointing growth and job numbers. Corporations seemed stuck: Despite low interest rates, they were sitting on massive piles of cash and failing to invest in new initiatives. In... View Details
Keywords: Capital Investments; Creating Markets; Evaluating Business Investments; Innovation; Emerging Markets; Investment; Economic Growth; Capital; Innovation and Invention
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  • 10 Jan 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Technology and COVID Upended Tipping Norms. Will Consumers Keep Paying?

if they tipped at all, throwing it into a jar on the counter.” Formerly, tipping was limited to waitstaff at sit-down restaurants, says Avery, an expert in customer relationship management. And, “In the US, tips were somewhere in the... View Details
Keywords: by Anna Lamb, Harvard Gazette
  • 04 Jun 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Navigating Consumer Data Privacy in an AI World

CTO or a CIO? Huang: Based on several interviews we did, two key qualifications are commonly expected for this role. First, this person needs to be an expert in legal and compliance issues, primarily to ensure that no laws are violated... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology
  • Web

Finance - Faculty & Research

offered scalable, proven solutions to overfishing, ocean pollution, and climate change. Its investments were approved by an expert impact committee, and the fund’s carried interest depended on it meeting impact targets that were confirmed... View Details
  • 2018
  • Book

Business and the Natural Environment: A Research Overview

By: Andrew J. Hoffman and Susse Georg
The fields of corporate environmentalism, green business and corporate sustainability have grown significantly over the past twenty-five years, such that the academic research domains of business decision-making, accounting, organizational behaviour, and the protection... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Environmental Regulation; Research
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  • October 2021
  • Article

Judgment Aggregation in Creative Production: Evidence from the Movie Industry

By: Hong Luo, Jeffrey T. Macher and Michael Wahlen
We study a novel, low-cost approach to aggregating judgment from a large number of industry experts on ideas that they encounter in their normal course of business. Our context is the movie industry, in which customer appeal is difficult to predict and investment costs... View Details
Keywords: Judgment Aggregation; Quality Uncertainty; Creative Industry; Project Evaluation And Selection; Creativity; Film Entertainment; Judgments; Motion Pictures and Video Industry
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  • 2015
  • Book

Political Standards: Corporate Interest, Ideology, and Leadership in the Shaping of Accounting Rules for the Market Economy

By: Karthik Ramanna
There are certain institutions underlying our modern market-capitalist system that are largely outside the interest and understanding of the general public—e.g., rulemaking for bank capital adequacy, actuarial standards, accounting standards, and auditing practice. In... View Details
Keywords: Business And Society; Financial Institutions; Financial Reporting; GAAP; IFRS; Lobbying; Capitalism; Sustainability; Accounting; Finance; Business and Government Relations; Leadership; Accounting Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States; China; India
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  • Web

Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

venture-stage companies that offered scalable, proven solutions to overfishing, ocean pollution, and climate change. Its investments were approved by an expert impact committee, and the fund’s carried interest depended on it meeting... View Details
  • Fast Answer

Suggested Resources: Israel - Hamas War

(CSIS) CSIS in a bipartisan think tank where leading experts across the organization provide comprehensive analysis on the conflict in Israel and potential outcomes in the days ahead. View Details
  • 18 Mar 2013
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: LEGO

expert Poul Plougmann was hired to reassemble LEGO and staunch the red ink. "He comes in and does things by the book," says Thomke. "He lays people off, he streamlines some things, he globalizes." And yet the financial... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 02 Nov 2023
  • News

Seeding Startups

Shirish Nadkarni (MBA 1987) was the director of product planning for Microsoft’s MSN when he decided he was ready to become an entrepreneur. He had recently led the growing internet portal’s 1997 acquisition of Hotmail, the first free, web-based email solution, and the... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 28 Nov 2018
  • HBS Case

On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website

turnaround, Datar studied the calculated steps it took to fuel its success. Hire data experts In 2013, the one bright spot in Target’s otherwise bleak financial picture was its then-small e-commerce arm. Although overall sales declined,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail
  • 26 Feb 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Barriers to Acting in Time on Energy and Strategies for Overcoming Them

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman; Energy; Utilities
  • January 2008
  • Article

How to Change the World

By: Howard H. Stevenson
Alan Wilson has a decision to make. The CEO of his company, Grepter, wants him to relocate to Zurich, where he can gain valuable experience for a rise to the top. Karl, his best friend, hopes to lure him to a hedge fund that promises big money fast. Shiori, an enticing... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Values and Beliefs; Compensation and Benefits; Personal Development and Career; Power and Influence
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  • 15 Jul 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Five Imperatives for Improving Health Care

experts including executives, policy makers, and academics. In association with the conference, the Forum launched an HBS and HMS Survey of Executive Sentiment in Health Care. “There's a lot of activity that goes on in health care that... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • Fast Answer

Financial databases: certification and training

the markets and finance. Designed by industry-leading instructors at Training the Street and finance experts at LSEG, the program offers a carefully organized educational series that delivers a clear framework of the foundations of the... View Details
  • 29 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 29

highlights that a process we term toolmaking, whereby experts adopt, adjust, and reconfigure tools that embody their expertise, is central to the way in which the risk managers in our study attempt to gather influence in their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Dec 2023
  • Research & Ideas

15 Podcast Episodes That Grabbed Listeners in 2023

businesses are turning to AI for its efficiencies and revolutionary potential, but its proliferation has sparked widespread skepticism and questions about equity, privacy, liability, transparency, and security. William Kerr talks to AI View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 05 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 5

  PublicationsThe Labor Illusion: How Operational Transparency Increases Perceived Value Authors:Ryan W. Buell and Michael I. Norton Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract A ubiquitous feature of even the fastest self-service technology transactions is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 5, 2009

  Working PapersRegional Trade Integration and Multinational Firm Strategies Authors:Pol Antrás and C. Fritz Foley Abstract This paper analyzes the effects of the formation of a regional trade agreement on the level and nature of multinational firm activity. We examine... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace