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- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Perspective: The Morning After 9/11
then-prevailing HBS model—since amended—where speaking in class was essential to earning high grades, Frances was not insisting we stick to standard operating procedure. She was trusting each of us to know what was best for us and to act... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Case Study: A Good Fit
question for Bulletin readers in 2016 went to the issue of pricing: Eldercare and EAP benefit offerings tend to charge according to a per-employee, per-month (PEPM) pricing, often $0.30 or less. Should Wellthy adopt this standard... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
and find that employees hired from low employment districts outperform their non-remote counterparts in standardized verbal and logical tests at the recruitment stage. To explain why the firm might be more likely to select high ability... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
because luck prevails. Piketty (1995) had shown that a similar pattern could arise from standard preferences if initial beliefs about the relative importance of effort and luck in generating income differed across the two societies, while... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
corporate standards in Brazil improved enormously, not only because the regulator became tougher and introduced more transparent disclosure standards, but also because there was a big movement to improve corporate governance led by... View Details
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
The art of business today seems to be the ability to influence resources your company doesn't own—resources such as the production scheduling of manufacturing partners, the packaging requirements of distribution partners, and the development of technical View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
Executives must adjust the span of control for each key position and unit on the basis of how the company delivers value to customers. Consider Wal-Mart, which has configured its entire organization to deliver low prices. Wal-Mart's strategy depends on View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) leads to capital market benefits through enhanced financial statement comparability. UK domestic standards are considered very similar to IFRS (Bae et... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2016
- Op-Ed
The Real Jobs Tragedy in the US: We've Lost the Skills
of jobs that Americans would aspire to, if only they knew where scarcity existed, what the qualifications were for those jobs, and where to go to acquire the right credentials. Tariffs or flimsy labor standards agreements will do nothing... View Details
- 21 Aug 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Under the Magnifying Glass: The Benefits of Being a Case Study
Subside Panelist Horacio Forjaz, of Brazilian aircraft manucturer Embraer (see related article), concurred with Austin's description of standard case methodology, but added a few comments on what the experience had been like from the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
AI Enhances Diagnostic Care
likelihood of an illness, and precision imaging that can detect abnormalities not visible to the human eye. Tantawy says that MRC, founded in 1989, uses advanced technologies to deliver the highest standards of health care in the field of... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
Jan Rivkin conceived of a data-based, research-driven effort to influence the national dialogue and shed light on the crucial issue of the ability of US companies to compete in a global economy while supporting rising living standards for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Cracks in the Foundation
HBS alumni. A few highlights: Some 71 percent of respondents expect US competitiveness to decline over the next three years, with workers' living standards under greater pressure than firms. The United States fares poorly when decisions... View Details
- 01 Nov 2018
- News
The Power of Civility
that approach in civility, I don't believe that we can turn to somebody else and say, “you need to be more civil.” It has nothing to do with that. It only has to do with how we behave and how we convey our thoughts and our actions and our deeds. By setting that View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Arthur Rock (MBA '51)
microprocessors. Equally important, the idea of stock options for employees and the use of venture capital financing became a standard part of the nascent high-technology industry. As one of the founding fathers of venture capital - and... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Sparking Internet Commerce
proposal for an Open Profile Standard [OPS] that is widely supported by the online industry." OPS is based on the concept that users should get something of value for their personal information and that companies not only must have a... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
accounting standards to argue that when the political process of determining institutions of capitalism is "thin," in that managers find themselves with specialized technical knowledge unavailable to outsiders and with little... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
absolute. Instead, measures/reports of time and distance were found to depend on one's reference point, specifically one's direction and speed of travel, making our apparent physical reality, in Einstein's words, "merely an illusion." Like time and distance,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
Working PapersMandatory IFRS Adoption and Financial Statement Comparability Authors:Francois Brochet, Alan Jagolinzer, and Edward J. Riedl Abstract This study examines the effect of mandatory International Financial Reporting Standards... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Kayak Users Built a New Industry
firms must wait for the pace of user innovation to slow down and the design space to be "mined out." We also show that innovative user-manufacturers and mass-market firms can share the market for a long time. That's the standard... View Details