Standards - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Jul 2015
What Do You Think?

Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?

our thinking about work outmoded? What do you think? Original Article This question popped up in my mind last month after President Obama, exercising his authority under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, announced a change in labor... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services

09 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 9

institutions in which ongoing crises of legitimacy demonstrate the need for a renewal of embedded liberalism and a revitalization of global governance. They are as follows: the activities of transnational corporations, particularly with regard to core View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO

development, service delivery, and project management. They had only small teams and no P&L responsibility. Their charter was to set standards within their areas and to work with others to bring about necessary improvements. . . . The... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

06 May 2002
Research & Ideas

A Toolkit for Customer Innovation

for designing better plastic products. In software, a number of companies let people add custom-designed modules to their standard products and then commercialize the best of those components. Open-source software allows users to design,... View Details

Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel

01 Mar 2023
News

The Exchange: Micro Management

spend the money and its impact on their businesses and their livelihoods.” How are these findings shaping your work? Roth: There are two strands of research that form the basis of our conviction about how microfinance could do better. One is about the timing of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

06 Apr 2007
What Do You Think?

Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?

larger or different role in the debate? For example, should the Big Three argue for much higher mileage goals, however difficult they may seem at the moment to meet? After all, Toyota may owe the Japanese government a debt for holding it to stricter mileage View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities

01 Dec 1997
News

Banking on HBS

Challenge Indeed, the Bank's stated mission is to reduce poverty and improve living standards by promoting sustainable growth and investments in people. To those ends, it provides loans, technical assistance, and policy guidance for its... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Feb 2000
News

Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care

standardization of that information; evaluation of adjustments for the severity of illness of the patient; changes in the tax system to avoid discrimination against the uninsured; reform of state regulation, which one participant... View Details

26 May 2022
News

Bidding Up

Editor Julia Hanna talks to Wilson about thinking beyond standard economic models, what collaboration looks like to him, and the work that has fundamentally changed the way governments and corporations buy and sell essential goods and... View Details

30 Jun 2020
Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

capitalism powered by private enterprise and appropriately regulated offers the best hope for continuing to improve living standards and the well-being of people across the world. Lagace: What’s an example or two of businesses that are... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

06 Mar 2018
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

considerations. Important impediments to the use of ESG information are the lack of reporting standards and as a result, lack of comparability, reliability, quantifiability, and timeliness. Among the different ESG investment styles,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement

variables, the note describes the standard properties of the normal distribution: a single peak, and a symmetric, bell-shaped curve.” Axis My India Ananth Raman, Ann B. Winslow, and Kairavi Dey “Pradeep Gupta founded Axis My India (AMI)... View Details

09 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting

years. One of his students, Simon Kuznets, developed [a standard way to measure] Gross National Product there in the 1930s. In all these ways, the growth of the forecasting industry spurred efforts to make sense of economic change. Q: How... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

27 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Horrible Boss Workarounds

company or team goals from the get-go. "Empowerment can happen only when there's a consensus on goals and an agreement that certain standards have to be met," Kanter says. "If there isn't agreement in the beginning, that's... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

28 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Why Manufacturing Matters

erosion of the economy, which could lead to a decline in the standard of living. An individual company, though, can move assets anywhere. So companies can reward their shareholders regardless of what happens to the national economy. As a... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Manufacturing

10 Jun 2008
First Look

First Look: June 10, 2008

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-098.pdf Evidence from Goodwill Non-impairments on the Effects of Unverifiable Fair-Value Accounting (revised May 2008) Authors:Karthik Ramanna and Ross L. Watt Abstract SFAS 142 requires firms to use unverifiable fair-value estimates... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Studying Japan from the Inside

of having cases written about them? How do you work with reluctance or hesitation? A: Most Japanese companies I contacted to ask for cooperation to develop cases have been quite cooperative. I believe that the high academic standards of... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

07 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

The Organizational Model for Open Source

biggest surprise to me was the level of involvement that firms engage in with community forms on software development and standard setting in general. That is, forms that are not government sponsored nor formally constituted by... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

21 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

What Happens in Vegas Could Shape the Metaverse

grand vision for the unified metaverse, the developers of the proto-metaverses will need to agree on a common set of standards for interoperability.” Building a virtual world that’s both equitable and cooperative must go beyond serving... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Nover; Computer; Information Technology

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Cristina Ros Blankfein

these were our friends who were going to be encouraging no matter what. So we divided up a lot of that enthusiasm and just realized that the mixers had been depleted at the bar more quickly than all the standard drinks. Besides the Rock... View Details

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