Standardization - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Sep 2019
News

Advanced Statistics Are the New Foam Fingers

and RBIs—is WAR (wins above replacement). What was once a weird new metric, which caused panic among traditionalists, has become industry standard shorthand for assessing player value. “If anyone tries to explain how WAR is calculated, it... View Details

01 Dec 2005
News

Alumni Achievement Awards: Honorees and Victories

corporate practices in his country, championing modern concepts of production and manufacturing as well as adherence to the highest standards of governance. Nancy M. Barry (MBA ’75) For fifteen years, Nancy Barry has been president of... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2010
News

Eight Join HBS Faculty

accounting information affects economic outcomes, specifically, how accounting standards and corporate disclosures influence capital allocation decisions. Yu’s work has been cited in the New York Times. She earned her Ph.D. from the... View Details

24 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 24

Canadian regulators' decision to adopt International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). The Canadian decision in 2005 to adopt IFRS is particularly interesting because Canada had well-developed domestic accounting View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Feb 2019
News

Protecting the Power Grid

incursions have been reported that the government has had difficulty identifying patterns. That’s because the cybersecurity reporting standard for utilities, he observes, “is worded in a way that nearly every breach falls outside the... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; terrorism; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

Article

Values, Purpose, Meaning, and Expectations: Why Culture and Context Matter

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter

The "rational person" standard, based on assumptions of economic self-interest, has long prevailed in legal reasoning. But understanding of decision making, behavioral choices, and possibilities for action must be enlarged to include a variety of factors that give... View Details

Keywords: Standards; Interests; Decision Making; Behavior; Value; Groups and Teams; Performance Expectations; Organizational Culture; Leadership; Business Cycles; Forecasting and Prediction; Motivation and Incentives

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21 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation

legislation deserves to be recognized as a large and impressive accomplishment nonetheless. The most important part of the statute, Title I, authorizes regulators to tighten regulatory standards for the largest and most systemically... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

15 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 15, 2008

newer technologies have been adopted faster than old ones. The cross-country variation in the adoption of technologies accounts for at least a quarter of per capita income differences. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-093.pdf Bank Accounting View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

Want Your Employees to Plan Better for Retirement? Don't Do This

study was a concern that people aren’t saving enough, and that as a result, they won’t have an adequate standard of living in old age.” Beshears is part of the School’s Negotiation, Organizations, and Markets unit, where he researches... View Details

Keywords: Re: John Beshears; Financial Services

01 Jun 2020
News

Staying the Course

recommended curriculum saw larger and faster gains in math knowledge—as much as 7.5 percentile points on a standardized test—than those who did not. The challenge for the CEO was ramping up access to the platform as the country began to... View Details

Keywords: April White; online education

19 Jul 2011
News

Brightening the Future

efforts to improve living standards and open new possibilities for the 20 million (one in four) Filipinos who live in remote areas and lack reliable access to electricity. In May, three motorcycle riders embarked from Manila, leading an... View Details

Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Dec 2011
News

Ticktock

students,” Ofek says. “How do you manage this growth phase?” The case describes the prototypes that Nanda developed as potential complements to Clocky: Ticky, which sported digital minute and hour hands as opposed to a standard digital... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel; viral marketing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

14 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 14

considers the challenge of how an organization, with a standardized service model, can repeatedly delight customers whose expectations grow with every interaction. To explore this question, the case details the design elements of Oberoi's... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?

10, I trust the consumer to do the right thing,” he said. “(But) if you’re a regulator, and the consumer does the wrong thing one out of 10 times, that’s 10 percent, and that’s too much for a regulator to tolerate. There’s a disconnect between the regulatory View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

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5.1 Information Technology | MBA

MBA Program. Standards for Electronic Communication & Interaction HBS is committed to freedom of expression. All members of the HBS Community benefit from the open expression of ideas and opinions. However, HBS will not tolerate:... View Details

15 May 2019
Research Event

The Unconventional Capitalism That Shapes Business History

Lalocracio In thinking about the current contested state of global capitalism, and what to do about it, much can be learned from the debates I heard at the recent Harvard Business School conference, Seeking the Unconventional in Forging Histories of Capitalism, which... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones; Education

06 May 2015
Research & Ideas

A Flood of Picassos Threatens to Water Down the Art Market

which the art world uses market categories to separate and organize large amounts of information, which in turn allows buyers and sellers to accurately assess the value of various works. This investigation led to a related lesson that art markets occasionally defy... View Details

24 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 24

PublicationsThe Need for Sector-Specific Materiality and Sustainability Reporting Standards Authors:Robert G. Eccles, Jr., Michael P. Krzus, Jean Rogers, and George Serafeim Publication:Journal of Applied Corporate Finance (forthcoming)... View Details