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2017
Working Paper

The Accounting Rookie Job Market: A Practitioner's Guide

This paper offers guidance and shares collective wisdom for accounting Ph.D. students who will be entering the academic job market. It is divided into two sections. The first offers subjective advice on the dissertation process—from choosing a topic to surviving the... View Details

Keywords: Accounting; Jobs and Positions; Job Search

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06 Jun 2016
News

What Role Does Government Play in Job Creation?

October 2014
Article

The Promise of Positive Optimal Taxation: Normative Diversity and a Role for Equal Sacrifice

By: Matthew Weinzierl

A prominent assumption in modern optimal tax research is that the objective of taxation is Utilitarian. I present new survey evidence that most people disagree with this assumption, preferring tax policies based at least in part on a classic alternative objective: the... View Details

Keywords: Taxation; Theory

April 2008
Teaching Note

TerraCog Global Positioning Systems: Conflict and Communication on Project Aerial (Brief Case)

By: Michael Beer and Sunru Yong

Teaching note to case #2184 View Details

Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Meetings; Group Dynamics; Human Resource Management; Conflict; Leadership; Communication; Groups and Teams; Organizations; Decision Making; Human Resources; Conflict and Resolution

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24 Apr 2014
News

SHE builds confidence, promotes education, and creates jobs

Elizabeth Scharpf (MBA/MPA 2007) founded a business that improves the health and hygiene of millions of women. But her goal is much bigger: empowering women by fostering entrepreneurship. Sustainable Health Enterprises (SHE) brings... View Details

14 Oct 2010
News

Jobs Bill Misses Mark

Sometimes good politics and good policy just don’t mix. Take the Small Business Jobs Act that President Obama recently signed, for example. A bill that purports to create jobs... View Details

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

30 Nov 2022
Podcast

Mapping the flow of knowledge, goods, and jobs

Harvard Business School professor Willy Shih provides an update on post-pandemic global trade, supply chain snags, workforce development, and the challenges of getting industrial policy right. View Details

09 Mar 2013
News

India Can Educate the World and Create Jobs

October 2012
Supplement

Vodafone's Position in the Wireless Telecom Industry in 2001

By: Juan Alcacer

Instructors may use the supplementary material "Vodafone's Position in the Wireless Telecom Industry in 2001" to demonstrate noticeable differences across countries in terms of: (1) WTP (suggested by the striking differences in ARPU); (2) payment methods (pre-paid vs.... View Details

Keywords: Telecommunications; Information Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Telecommunications Industry; Japan

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03 Aug 2017
Working Paper Summaries

The Accounting Rookie Job Market: A Practitioner’s Guide

Keywords: by Ethan Rouen; Accounting

March 2007
Article

Authority, Risk, and Performance Incentives: Evidence from Division Manager Positions inside Firms

By: Julie Wulf

I show that performance incentives vary by decision-making authority of division managers. For division managers with broader authority, i.e., those designated as corporate officers, both the sensitivity of pay to global performance measures and the relative importance... View Details

Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Performance; Risk and Uncertainty; Business Model; Globalization; Measurement and Metrics; Status and Position; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Divisions

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10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

A Fast Start on Your New Job

even if they think they have been brought in specifically to change them. Leaders going into realignment and sustaining-success situations have to be particularly careful to invest in learning about culture View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Feb 2017
What Do You Think?

Is the Next Jobs Crisis Just Ahead?

for how to deal with it. Deaver Brown saw the future (and the jobs crisis) most succinctly: “Better quicker results due to fewer people between a customer and the solution.” Fizzinnf said, “Robotics View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Service

2009
Chapter

Position and Emotion: The Significance of Georg Simmel's Structural Theories for Leadership and Organizational Behavior

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Rakesh Khurana

Keywords: Leadership; Rank and Position; Status and Position; Organizational Culture

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October 2000 (Revised December 2008)
Case

Doyle's Dealmaking Dilemma (A): Negotiating the Job Search

By: James K. Sebenius

MBA student Doyle Williams searches for his ideal job in a private equity group and uses his negotiation skills to try to attain the best possible compensation package. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details

Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Job Search; Negotiation Process; Personal Development and Career

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January 2007 (Revised December 2008)
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Mercy Corps: Positioning the Organization to Reach New Heights

By: Allen S. Grossman and Caroline Joan King

Mercy Corps, the world's 5th largest international relief and development agency, is at a turning point. The nonprofit's opportunities to grow and serve a larger number of beneficiaries are unprecedented. By looking at the unique relationship between headquarters and... View Details

Keywords: Business Offices; Business Headquarters; Globalized Firms and Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Structure; Nonprofit Organizations

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