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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
investors, falsified information, and pretended to create value when value hadn't really been created. If inadequate disclosure rules were cracks in the financial infrastructure, options were the rocket fuel that blew the cracks wide... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 05 Nov 2007
- What Do You Think?
Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?
Summing Up Should CEO succession processes be certified? Respondents to this month's column agree that CEO succession is badly managed, perhaps accounting in large part for the fact that few "inside outsiders" ever make it into... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 10 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 10
Approaches and Evidence By: Kerr, William R. Abstract—High-skilled immigrants are a very important component of U.S. innovation and entrepreneurship. Immigrants account for roughly a quarter of U.S. workers in these fields, and they have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
redesigned in a manner that would make Martha Stewart proud — and also gives an outsider a hint that she’s not exaggerating. During her New York days, Reade specialized in buying and selling firms that had gone bankrupt or were in View Details
- Web
Ownership (OWN): Define Success, Create Advantage, Build to Last, Engage Effectively - Course Catalog
are ethically driven (e.g., Patagonia), or the opposite (e.g., Purdue Pharma). By understanding these dynamics, students will be able to build long-term, sustainable strategies that account for the strengths/weaknesses that are built into... View Details
- 30 May 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship’s Wild Ride
of the other members. It also flourishes in communities where resources are mobile. Q: Does this help explain the phenomenal increase in entrepreneurial activity we have witnessed over the past few years? A: Changes in the financial and... View Details
Keywords: by William Mahoney
- 25 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
Not Waiting for Progress: Diversity and Inclusion in the Film Industry
in the midst of a successful career in financial services with the Capital Group Companies, attended the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, with some HBS friends. A believer since childhood in the power of storytelling on the big... View Details
- Web
“It’s like a pie-eating contest” | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
top levels of the hospital’s executive team. Josh started as a Special Assistant to Alastair, who oversaw a hospital-wide strategy team responsible for a wide range of initiatives. “On my first assignment, I used skills I already had to make a View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
Philippe de Montebello, a 37-year veteran of the Met. "We have a strong, diverse, unpredictable revenue base, and the financial demands of running an institution this size are considerable," says Winshel. "We have a not-for-profit revenue... View Details
- 26 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Where will Pokémon Go with Your Personal Information?
Q: If you were in charge, how would you monetize Pokémon Go? Shih: With so many people looking for spots to collect these things, the platform’s ability to pull traffic to particular locations is innovative and completely unique, and represents a huge View Details
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
Abstract The 12th edition of Accounting: Text and Cases covers both financial and managerial accounting as well as broader managerial issues. Chapters 1-14 cover financial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
inadequate disclosure rules were cracks in the financial infrastructure, options were the rocket fuel that blew the cracks wide open, with some disastrous results. I think all the attention being paid to the current problems—particularly... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
decisions to employees further down the managerial hierarchy. Economists have developed a range of theories to account for delegation, but there is less empirical evidence, especially across countries. This has limited the ability to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
management. The authors provide first-hand accounts of M&A transactions that they led or were involved in, assessing each from an insider perspective and outlining the key success factors and pitfalls. The book concludes with practical... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HIV/AIDS and Business
social and financial cost of inaction is so high that standing by is not an option, particularly for multinational corporations doing business in countries with high infection rates. “AIDS places a dramatic spotlight on the question of... View Details
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The Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School
With the exception of New York University, HRPBA boasted the greatest number of female students in business administration. Individuals like Margaret Earhart, an activist for workers' rights as well as a faculty member, helped to sustain the program with her View Details
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/514061-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 917-402 Banking on Change: Aligning Culture and Compensation at Morgan Stanley This case study was prepared as part of a research project on Culture, Conduct, and Governance in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018
Christopher Stanton Abstract—Wage rigidity creates real and financial frictions, though the real-world drivers of rigidities remain largely unstudied. We use staggered commission reductions at a sales firm to estimate effects on worker... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 7, 2016
spreads have lower means, lower cross-country correlations, and lower sensitivity to global risk factors. We discuss several major sources of credit-spread differentials, including positively correlated credit and currency risk, selective default, capital controls, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
analyzing the relevant processes. Part 2 discusses strategic choices, what research tells us about selling effectiveness, and how to translate a strategy into customer-selection and sales-call criteria. Part 3 focuses on core sales management issues: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne