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- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Most Accountants Aren’t Crooks—Why Good Audits Go Bad
build relationships that allow them to sell their more lucrative consulting services. Thus, from the executive team down to individual accountants, an auditing firm's motivation to provide favorable audits runs deep. As the collision case... View Details
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Selected Digital Historical Resources – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
the Depression The studies monitoring the output of relay assembly workers, which began in 1927, continued until 1932, becoming the longest running Hawthorne experiments. The six operators studied in a separate test room were single women... View Details
- 09 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government
must wrestle with the downsides of that, too," says Weiss. "On an individual basis, it might seem OK to say this rule doesn't make sense, so we won't follow it, but at what point does this practice become a problem?" One company View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 13 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas
run in-house labs to reap the benefits. Referencing the methods and results of formal scientific research is enough to lift a patent’s value. Defining a product’s ‘science intensity’ Krieger, Watzinger, and Schnitzer categorized some 1.2... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 01 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?
Bergen titled “YouTube Executives Ignored Warnings, Letting Toxic Videos Run Rampant.” The article noted recommendations from current and former employees about ways to alter policies designed to increase “user engagement, ” or the amount... View Details
- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
He recalls this moment in his new book, Around the Corner to Around the World: A Dozen Lessons I Learned Running Dunkin’ Donuts. “Up until that point,” he writes, “the only thing I had managed were a couple of donut shops—replacing... View Details
Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
- 07 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis
customers, and society at large, without regard for how much it costs, with 90 percent of consumers stating that brands should be willing to suffer substantial financial losses to ensure the well-being and financial security of others. Those brands that do not View Details
Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
- 04 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Maersk’s Journey to Decarbonize Shipping
listened to speakers at Maersk’s HQ, it was clear that they felt this was a transitory windfall as shipping rates have already largely fallen to near pre-COVID levels. However, due to Maersk’s unique structure as run by the AP Moller... View Details
- 20 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting the Marketing Mix Right
what is called the Invariant Proportion of Substitution (IPS) property, which implies that the proportion of demand generated by taking business away from a competitor is the same, no matter which marketing activity is used. "These models get View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Dec 2021
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on STEM
background? I wanted to understand how the very technical work I was doing in the field of engineering contributed and impacted the overall organization. I also hoped I could leverage my technical and critical thinking skill sets to bring a fresh perspective on how to... View Details
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Harvard Business School
spans more than thirty years. Upon earning an MBA from HBS, Simons joined CBS New York, where he held several managerial positions. He concluded his 13-year run with the network as vice president of Sales and Marketing for the CBS... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
articles that journals don’t like, then you won’t get published in top journals and be an academic for long!” Research that targets a specific business problem runs the risk of appearing too narrow in focus to editors of general-purpose... View Details
- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Do You Have Change Fatigue?
refreshing, he says, because they run counter to most companies' tendency to overmanage; they manifest "the brilliance of knowing when to lay off." The notion that "change comes from the top," Mintzberg declares, is a... View Details
Keywords: by Nick Morgan
- 17 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Pro Basketball Coaches Display Racial Bias When Selecting Lineups
that coaches demonstrate less racial preference when their team is on a losing streak or in playoff games. More than any other American sport, basketball is dominated by African American players. Three-quarters of athletes running up and... View Details
- 12 Mar 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Firing the CEO
knew more than others, even though the top management team had been in place for 20 years and had helped secure the father-son transition. The son felt the business could be run in a more profitable way. He was probably right, but the... View Details
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
up in that question,” Wood acknowledges. “People feel judgment running in both directions: I might think you’re judging me a prude, and you might think I’m judging you as less virtuous.” If you’re a young woman in the workplace, moreover,... View Details
- 06 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
The Business of Medicine: MD/MBA Students Having an Impact
from Harvard Medicine's website. Troy Ameen Troy Ameen has set his sights on becoming a surgical administrator, a profession he thinks will well prepare him to one day run an urban hospital. In such a position, this rising fourth-year... View Details
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
runs out. Importantly, there is no surviving, ongoing business. In the US, in stark contrast, bankruptcy law serves a much different purpose. Under Chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy Code, the goal is to give distressed companies the... View Details
- 23 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform
Wright note that there are interesting strategy implications for entrepreneurs when deciding where to place their business on the continuum that runs from pure reseller to pure MSP. These trade-offs were evident for thredUP, which shifted... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
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Artful Leadership | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
serve the social good. “I was drawn to... Riding the WAVE Misan Rewane 2013 When describing the experience of running WAVE (West Africa Vocational Education), Misan Rewane (MBA 2013) is frank. “It’s been a wild ride. I’ve learned so much,... View Details