Accounting Process - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Nov 2013
First Look

First Look: November 26

accounting standards to argue that when the political process of determining institutions of capitalism is "thin," in that managers find themselves with specialized technical knowledge unavailable... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008

highlight a two-stage process for marketing resource allocation. In stage one, a model of demand is estimated. This model empirically assesses the impact of marketing actions on consumer demand of a company's product. In stage two,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

An Organization Your Customers Understand

payers. For example, an office assistant may order office products to be used by fifty people in a department and paid for by a central accounts payable facility. All these entities are customers. The advice to managers: "Look at all... View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

03 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Business History around the World

World War. The Dutch were also massive foreign investors given the size of their country. Between 1914 and 1980, the U.S., Britain, and the Netherlands together accounted for between two-thirds and three-quarters of total world FDI. It... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

12 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Competition the Cure for Healthcare

to do so will certainly improve. Gaming of the system will be corrected. The whole process of working hard to measure results better and better is extremely good for patients. If doctors can demonstrate results, they will not have health... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health

01 Sep 2011
News

The City Solution

the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group), Bloomberg sees cities as focal points in the struggle against global warming and climate change. Urban areas are now home to half the world’s population, consume half the world’s energy, and, according to some measures, View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

16 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Faculty Books Published in 2020

analytics, and AI-driven processes are transforming the nature of work. While we often still treat AI as the domain of a specific skill, business function, or sector, we have entered a new era in which AI is challenging the very concept... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

07 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Negotiation and All That Jazz

Michael Wheeler Read An Excerpt Meanwhile, as you're trying to gain a better sense of the situation, your counterpart is also reading or misreading you. As one manager told Wheeler, "It sometimes feels like I'm dancing on a tabletop in the pitch dark." To take into... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

10 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing

and licensed to practice radiology in the United States. The data set included 2.7 million scans read by the radiologists for 1,431 customers over a 30-month period. Nearly 85 percent of the scans were CT; roughly 10 percent were ultrasound; and X-ray, MRI, and nuclear... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health

01 Oct 2009
What Do You Think?

Can the “Masks of Command” Coexist with Authentic Leadership?

accepting full responsibility for outcomes and holding others accountable for their performance." Having established a framework for authentic leadership, George and his coauthor then personally interviewed 125 leaders they identify... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

22 Feb 2022
News

An Rx for Small Business Recovery

COVID-19’s impact on the sector makes 2009 look like a teeny blip.” There are over 30 million small businesses in the United States, accounting for half of the nation’s private sector employment and the majority of job creation. Many of... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Oct 1999
News

New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program

community standards of respect, integrity, and accountability have always been implicit and widely shared here at the School, and we have now articulated them more clearly and established processes to help... View Details

13 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 13, 2010

education program has modest effects, increasing demand for bank accounts only for those with low levels of education or financial literacy. In contrast, small subsidies greatly increase demand. A follow-up survey confirms these findings,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Oct 2017
News

Radical Generosity for the Real World

have been and what was still possible for someone like Nasaru. Hanna: You also got to witness that process in your church, when your church received a significant windfall from the sale of some real estate. And I wondered if you could... View Details

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packages of work. Decision making regarding work processes occurs at the lowest possible point in the organization. Baker Library is organized into: Baker Library Collections (including contemporary and historical collections and the HBS... View Details

10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016

May 2016 Journal of Accounting Research Gathering Data for Archival, Field, Survey, and Experimental Accounting Research By: Bloomfield, Robert, Mark W. Nelson, and Eugene F. Soltes Abstract—In the published... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Apr 1996
News

"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs

comprehensive program designed to ensure a basic level of competency throughout the cohort. By all accounts from the students, faculty members, and staff involved in the initial Foundations module, the experience was a huge success.... View Details

15 Feb 2023
News

Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains

pretty used to explaining what it takes to decarbonize the atmosphere. The basic science has been understood for nearly a century and the first movers in the sector got their start more than a decade ago. But the process is still a... View Details

07 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

when treating the opponent’s campaign plan as given. Our formulation accounts for both the time cost of traveling between districts and the time expended while campaigning within districts. We describe a polynomial-time algorithm that... View Details