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03 Mar 2003
What Do You Think?

Are Conditions Right for the Next Accounting Scandal?

the other three Big Four firms have greater conflicts of interest (i.e., representing Acme's arch competitors, etc.) than the one hired to perform due diligence on its own work. The audit committee at Acme, unwilling to entrust the due diligence to a second-tier... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Accounting; Financial Services

13 Feb 2020
News

Honoring a Legend

and then figure it out.” That boldness is what makes Nussey a Legend, says Kirschner. “Bill can do anything he wants, but he has elected to do something that will benefit all of mankind if his efforts succeed.” Arizona Alumni Networking... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 1997
News

MBA Program:Rapid Innovation in '96

discussions and faculty polls. Students may also access a comprehensive Career Services database of job listings (searchable by company, industry, and other categories). Other efforts to enhance the educational process through technology include online video and... View Details

01 Jun 2016
News

Faculty Q&A: That’s Classic

Lead to Rome, a one-off elective course team-taught by HBS professor Frances Frei (left) and Harvard history and classics professor Emma Dench (right), juxtaposed ancient texts by Julius Caesar, Seneca, Tacitus, and others with... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Aug 2002
News

Class Day & Commencement

impart knowledge, and contribute to student life. In the Required Curriculum, the winners were Assistant Professor Frances Frei (TOM) and Assistant Professor Jan Rivkin (Strategy); honorees in the Elective Curriculum were Assistant... View Details

01 Mar 2017
News

Constant Inspiration

Harvard overall, in many other ways, too. For example, she was a section and class fundraising volunteer for two decades, and was a member and a VP of the HBS Alumni Board. She is a new member of the HBS Latin America Advisory Board and is an View Details

10 Jan 2017
News

A Voice for Women Leaders

role is to make sure we get all the women who have been elected as members, and to create events and ways to create dialogue amongst women, and, again, to create that sense of voice for women.” (Published January 2017) View Details

01 Feb 1998
News

Touching All the Bases: Stephen A. Greyser

commentator; a current board member of four marketing-related corporations; formerly an editor and later board chairman of the Harvard Business Review; and former executive director of the Marketing Science Institute. He was elected a... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Jun 2006
News

HBS Professors Pearson, Thurston Remembered

wars” and aggressive global expansion. Pearson left PepsiCo to join the HBS faculty in 1985. He taught the first-year course Competition and Strategy and the elective Management Policy and Practice. “Andy brought an extraordinary amount... View Details

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders

terms of not only financial performance but management practices and reputation in the community. The result of her efforts is the MBA elective course Globalization, Culture, and Management. According to Paine, as students examine the... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

23 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Forgiving Medical Debt Won't Make Everyone Happier

people with health insurance often are saddled with medical debt. Policymakers have taken notice, and in an election year amid an uncertain economy, health care, debt, and economic mobility are all hot issues. A comedy show discovery... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

29 Sep 2015
Blog Post

5 Leadership Lessons from the First Year at HBS

after I was elected President of Section A. As the weeks pass and the section dynamics fall into place, you’ll soon realize that this pressure is merely self-inflicted and better let go, as the sooner you do, the more quickly you can... View Details

13 May 2014
News

Inside Africa

shortly before Nelson Mandela was elected president and she stood out because there weren’t many African-Americans there at the time. As a result, people kept asking who she was and what she did and then telling her the country needed... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Sep 2003
News

Dean Clark Reflects on the School’s Key Initiatives

the world. Professor David Garvin, for example, developed a multimedia case — in real-time — that followed the newly appointed CEO of a local medical center as he attempted to turn around the organization. Professor Michael Porter “virtually” cotaught an View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

2023
Working Paper

Words Can Hurt: How Political Communication Can Change the Pace of an Epidemic

By: Jessica Gagete-Miranda, Lucas Argentieri Mariani and Paula Rettl

While elite-cue effects on public opinion are well-documented, questions remain as to when and why voters use elite cues to inform their opinions and behaviors. Using experimental and observational data from Brazil during the COVID-19 pandemic, we study how leader... View Details

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01 Mar 2010
News

Sole Mates

expect we haven’t seen the last of it. When it comes to corruption here, the bad guys don’t even have to be clever. But, to her credit, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who is Africa’s first elected female head of state and a graduate of Harvard’s... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Forestry and Logging; Agriculture; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government

July 2007
Teaching Note

Rwanda: National Economic Transformation (TN)

By: Michael E. Porter and Michael Patrick McCreless

Teaching Note to 706491. View Details

Keywords: Economy; Problems and Challenges; Development Economics; Policy; Poverty; Transformation; Performance Evaluation; Political Elections; Rwanda

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17 Jul 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence

and Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration at Harvard Business School and an expert in technology strategy. So when Yoffie began a three-year effort to update an HBS elective course on strategy development in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer; Education

18 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments

latest e-commerce enterprise. And in a new MBA elective course he has developed, Large-Scale Investment, Esty examines how private firms structure, value, and finance large, first-of-a-kind (or greenfield) projects. "Although the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

17 Jul 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up

G19 + 1. For business leaders, the early optimism following Trump’s election that corporate taxes would be reduced, America’s infrastructure would be improved, and an improved healthcare system would be created has faded away. Many... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

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