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- 12 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Difficult Transition from For-Profit to Nonprofit Boards
against mission." Repeatedly we have seen new trustees and ineffective boards try to wag the mission dog with the financial tail. It just doesn't work that way. Without mission and its accountability we have... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Jeremy Lipstein
experiences "A big part of the HBS program," Jeremy explains, "is that it has a strong core curriculum. Like it or not, you're taking marketing, technology and operations, management, finance, View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
HBS Clubs and Associations
offered by HBS Executive Education every summer. The program with the broadest content and largest number of scholarship recipients is Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management (SPNM). It helps nonprofit executives sharpen leadership skills and better understand... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
Understanding Advanced Topics in Accounting by Lawrence Weiss (DBA 1989) (Business Expert Press) Accounting information provides individuals with a starting point to understand and evaluate the key drivers... View Details
- 27 Oct 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits
evolving in this area? A: Yes, they are, and that is not necessarily a good thing. Financial accountability is an important characteristic of high-performing nonprofits, to be sure. But an undue focus on... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives
valuations and growth options. A key to meeting growth potential is eliminating the gulf between big-picture strategy and day-to-day field execution. It's often the most difficult part of implementation because you're dealing with a combination of View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Green House
sustainable building. According to the United Nations, buildings and their construction account for 39 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. It was the measurable impact of the work that attracted her. “I had used a lot of analytical tools... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
INK: Big News for Small Business
What would this golden age look like? Imagine if small businesses had access to AI-enabled insights—picture a dashboard informed by a business’s bank accounts, payment systems, taxes, and accounting software. The business owner could see... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 19 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 19
settings. We find evidence consistent with this proposition for 68 currency and systemic banking crises in 17 countries from 1983 to 2005. We exploit a key publicly disclosed signal of fundamentals that drives financial markets, namely... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
management decisions, with consequences for aggregate economic activity. This article discusses the role of investment banking and investment management industry veterans on the Financial Accounting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
HBS Posts Strong Results in 2008
The business of business education produced another year of strong results for HBS during fiscal 2008, which ended last June. Applications for the core MBA Program reached a five-year high of 8,661, and the percentage of admitted students... View Details
- 28 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World
the financial crisis to see how traditional guardians of accountability—regulators and boards of directors—have failed to keep up with the speed of the markets. In the new marketplace, leaders are called upon more than ever to keep... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Web
Systems for Scaling Ventures (SSV) - Course Catalog
systems (OKRs), Balanced Scorecards (BSCs), and Performance-potential models, to hold employees accountable for driving financial results for established offers, while encouraging them to uncover new... View Details
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
companies. Ambuja is a leader in CSR activities and is attempting to quantify its impact, both positive and negative, using the “True Value” framework developed by the global accounting firm KPMG. True Value is an innovation in this area... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
A core feature of youth service programs, namely their dual identity of helping others (i.e., service beneficiaries) and helping oneself (i.e., participants), might partly explain the mixed outcomes. We find that participants focus on one... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
IBM Finds Profit in Diversity
responsibility, would add little to the candidate's development. Instead she was given a general management assignment—and the team got a signal from the CEO about his commitment to diversity. His behavior communicated a sense of appreciation and View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
Course MaterialsBASIX Harvard Business School Case 207-099 BASIX, an Indian microfinance corporation, must decide whether to continue to sell weather insurance to its clients. A brand-new financial product, weather insurance pays if... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
exhibit "The Four Spans" provides a summary.) The span of control. The first span defines the range of resources—not only people but also assets and infrastructure—for which a manager is given decision rights. These are also the resources whose performance... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
most cities? In part, the answer is that OPEB liabilities were for many decades never reported on municipal balance sheets. Without such reporting, it seemed that cities' healthcare promises did not have serious financial consequences.... View Details
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
organizational coherence in support of the strategy Developing and managing human capital Allocating resources in alignment with the strategy Using performance data for decision making and accountability Here's how these play out on the... View Details