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- 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008
opportunity to see both sides of the issue. When Hrad enters into a contract to create a new accounts payable system for Welsh toy distributor Tegan, the outsourcing firm from the Czech Republic views the project as another step in its...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Education, Technology, and Business: What’s the Catch?
was what led Ira Fishman in this direction. Fishman worked in the Clinton administration as Counsel and Director of the Task Force on Education at the Federal Communications Commission and founding CEO of the nonprofit E-Rate program that provides money to connect...
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- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
include whether high-performance Asian companies can provide a business model for success in the region, the role of accounting infrastructure in transitional economies, restructuring diversified businesses in emerging markets, and...
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- 12 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising
The Subcommittee: My name is Benjamin Edelman. I am an assistant professor at the Harvard Business School, where my research focuses on the design of electronic marketplaces, including designing online marketplaces to assure safety, reliability, and efficiency. My full...
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- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
government officials are transparent. “Public officials have got to be accountable to taxpayers when it comes to budget decisions, contracts,” Cognetti continued. “Officials must be able to show their work. That’s what we all learned in...
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- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
argue the authors of Higher Ambition. In fact, as global competition stiffens and enterprises face increasing public scrutiny, successful leaders must win on all fronts-with their people, their customers, their communities, and their...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 21
Publications October 2014 Harvard Business Review Press Aligning Strategy and Sales: The Choices, Systems, and Behaviors That Drive Effective Selling By: Cespedes, Frank V. Abstract—There are many books that provide strategy advice and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25
Publications August 2013 Social Psychological & Personality Science Matchmaking Promotes Happiness By: Anik, Lalin, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Four studies document and explore the psychology underlying people's proclivity to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
psychology that accounts for behaviors inconsistent with ethical beliefs and describe how people reconcile their immoral actions with their ethical goals through the process of moral disengagement. We then examine how the mind selectively...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
Ward - once synonymous with out-of-control crime rates, gang warfare, antiquated public housing, crumbling schools, and degrading poverty - have begun to show indications that there may be a way out of the hopeless downward spiral. In...
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- 27 Aug 2019
- News
A Shot at Success
like the ones her former teammates had experienced, she needed to understand the problems. In 2016, she quit her accounting job and moved to Bolivia to work as a teacher for A Ganar, a youth-workforce-development program that uses soccer...
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April White
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era
that seeming progress, the nonpartisan, nonprofit Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) notes that wind and solar still only accounted for 2.9 percent and 0.7 percent, respectively, of total global power generation in 2014. How can we hasten the...
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- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
Confront the powerful divides in America The Public Option health insurance proposed by the Biden campaign will weaken our economic status by adding to the national deficit and to Medicare’s unfunded liability. We should, of course,...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Football Stars Debate ‘The Social Capital of the Savvy Athlete’
astrophysics to barbs about the National College Athletic Association. When asked who would win the NCAA basketball tournament, Foster Tweeted: Ncaa will win. They'll get billions, players get a trophy.RT @mcorado33: @ArianFoster "Anyone who opens a Twitter View Details
- 16 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 16, 2015
Publications June 2015 Review of Accounting Studies Speaking of the Short-Term: Disclosure Horizon and Managerial Myopia By: Brochet, Francois, Maria Loumioti, and George Serafeim Abstract—We study...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Business Plan Contest Keeps Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive
track, defined as any organization whose core activities address social issues. Each winning team received $10,000 in cash as well as $10,000 in in-kind accounting and legal services to get its venture up and running. For the fourth year,...
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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Job Hunting in a Tight Market: Strength in Numbers
job-hunting targets. If you are searching only in Los Angeles, for example, think of other geographic areas. If you are looking only in large public corporations, consider small or private companies or nonprofits. It takes an average of...
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- 05 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 5
PublicationsTowards an Understanding of the Role of Standard Setters in Standard Setting Authors:Abigail M. Allen and Karthik Ramanna Publication:Journal of Accounting & Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We investigate the effect of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
The charter school movement was supposed to transform American public education. So far, though, the results have been mixed. But HBS grads nationwide are offering new approaches, innovative methods, unique models—all of them begging the...
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- 14 Dec 2015
- News
A Leader’s Call to Action
management role at the Wisconsin Public Service Corporation that included a team of 42 union and administrative workers spanning four counties. At 34, she was assigned line responsibility for electric line crews and gas technicians. “I...
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Margie Kelley