Reporting - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 May 2016
Research & Ideas

Unethical Amnesia: Why We Tend to Forget Our Own Bad Behavior

describing either ethical or unethical behavior (the main character either did or didn’t cheat on an exam), and presented the story from either a first-person or third-person perspective. Four days later, the participants reported the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Business in Global Society - Alumni

welcome your support this year, . According to our records, you have not made a new gift or pledge in recent years (pledge payments not reflected here). Please consider making a gift today using our online giving form . Thank you in advance. Questions? Email or call... View Details

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

question: The data and analysis in the latest IPCC report amplified the reality that climate change is widespread, rapidly intensifying, and attributable to human activity. It also signaled both a responsibility and a real opportunity to... View Details

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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA... View Details

21 May 2015
Blog Post

3 Ways to Fund Your HBS MBA

financing options possible (you can pull your free annual credit report to see where you stand). If your credit score is too low or if you are in default of a previous loan, it can be difficult to obtain a future loan. You can always mix... View Details

08 Feb 2023
Op-Ed

Building an Inclusive Workplace? Prepare to Shield It from Economic Fears

from direct reports can help leaders. Reviewing team interactions, listening to team member exchanges, and examining follow-on actions help leaders assess whether the team effectively engages all members despite biases. Keeping bias in... View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and Nicole Gilmore

12 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

When Design Enables Discrimination: Learning from Anti-Asian Bias on Airbnb

early months of the pandemic compared to other hosts in New York City. The drop in reviews for Asian hosts began in the spring of 2020 and remained low through November 2020. Scapegoating during the pandemic Reports of racially motivated... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds; Technology; Travel

12 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Enron’s Lessons for Managers

collapsed on December 2, 2001 it destroyed over $60 billion in market value, he said. Second, its accounting fraud was "massive." Reasonable men and women might quibble over some of the finer points in accounting, but in FY 2000, 96 percent of Enron's View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 May 2016
Blog Post

5 Facts about Clubs at HBS

up and pay dues for 5-10 clubs immediately. Attend the first couple events of a few clubs you’re considering and then commit to ones where you are most excited. Few students report being actively involved in more than 2-3 clubs each year.... View Details

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Bibliography – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

Class Bias in Psychology," American Psychologist , no. 36, 1981, pp. 867-878. Full text available as a networked resource (valid Harvard ID required). Cass, Eugene Louis and Frederick G. Zimmer, eds. Man and Work in Society: a Report on... View Details

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Considering Retirement - Alumni

what will you do with it? What kinds of activities will you find meaningful? Time spent considering your future now will yield returns in the quality of the time you spend in retirement. In fact, the people who are most satisfied with their retirement View Details

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Serving the Public Interest Through Competition: British Railroads - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

was chairman, issued a report that noted, “As railways multiply, the collision of interests between them becomes sharp and violent, and where the combatants on all sides are so powerful and opulent, a more than ordinary vigilance and... View Details

08 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching

reports on job duties, companies can create narrative simulations that are more interactive, allowing employees to debrief with managers about what they did right and wrong. (Myers notes that Harvard Business School’s own faculty... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

01 Dec 2022
News

My First Job

(MBA 2022) Due to an Error in Editing In 1992, I was a subeditor and occasional reporter at the Times of India. We did very little work on computers. Most editing was done on sheets of paper that were later typeset by other colleagues.... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

24 Feb 2020
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software

underscore the importance of understanding where open source is most used and could be vulnerable to attack. The report, ‘Vulnerabilities in the Core,’ a Preliminary Report and Census II of Open Source Software, was prepared by the... View Details

Keywords: by Frank Nagle and Jenny Hoffman; Computer

09 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Most Accountants Aren’t Crooks—Why Good Audits Go Bad

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, signed into law last July, is the government's response to a series of financial reporting scandals that rocked investors. Among other measures the law offers up stiff criminal penalties for accounting... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman, George Loewenstein & Don A. Moore; Accounting; Financial Services

14 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Veteran Financial Aid Outlook

short is no student is here with 100% of the cost of attendance covered by a HBS Scholarship. For me, I decided if I needed to take out $30,000-$50,000 in student loans over two years, it would be worth the investment. The Career and Professional Development Office... View Details

19 May 2021
Op-Ed

Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career

relationships tend to be lacking. Perhaps the most troubling finding in our research was that only 35 percent of applicants report working directly with employers. The most effective programs in the social science literature feature... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson

June 2017 (Revised January 2019)
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Signet Jewelers: Assessing Customer Financing Risk

By: Gerardo Pérez Cavazos, Suraj Srinivasan and Monica Baraldi

Marc Cohodes, a renowned short seller, has identified weaknesses in Signet's business strategy, which he argues is heavily reliant on providing loans to customers with subprime credit scores. He believes that the company accounts for its receivables portfolio using... View Details

Keywords: Short Selling; Bad Debt Expense; Accounting; Financial Reporting; Financial Statements; Finance; Financing and Loans; Valuation; Retail Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States

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2012
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Conflict Policy and Advertising Agency-Client Relations: The Problem of Competing Clients Sharing a Common Agency

By: Alvin J. Silk

What restrictions should be placed on advertising agencies with respect to serving accounts or clients that are competitors of one another in order to avoid conflicts of interest? In recent decades, the advertising and marketing services industry has undergone a number... View Details

Keywords: Advertising Agency; Competitors; Marketing Services Industry; Structural Changes; Agency-client Relationships; Hybrid Conflict Policies; Safeguards; Advertising; Advertising Industry; Europe; Latin America; North and Central America