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  • 01 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?

they had more positive post-quarter sales information. WHAT’S THE MOTIVATION? The same outcome was found when they studied managers’ voice tone during announcement conference calls using natural language testing that measures the number... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services
  • 13 May 2002
  • Op-Ed

A Cure for Enron-Style Audit Failures

with information regarding alternative GAAP methods that would result in different accounting outcomes and with figures outlining those differences. The reasons for the committee's acceptance of the management's and the auditor's... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Lorsch; Accounting
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

In the Zone

already have to high-performing organizations, we feel we can cultivate a pool of support that folks can tap into,” Owusu-Kesse explains. “There are core principles and accountability outcomes underlying this work, in addition to the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; nonprofit management; urban development; leadership; public education; Educational Services
  • September 2023
  • Case

The Rise and Fall of FTX

By: Aiyesha Dey, Jonas Heese, Joseph Pacelli and Max Hancock
In November 2022, Sam Bankman-Fried's multi-billion-dollar crypto exchange, FTX, collapsed, wiping out investors and throwing the crypto industry into disarray. As FTX's founder and CEO, Bankman-Fried developed a reputation for his unerring business sense and... View Details
Keywords: Cryptocurrency; Crime and Corruption; Financial Statements; Misleading and Fraudulent Advertising; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Corporate Governance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Failure; Restructuring; United States; Hong Kong; Bahamas
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Dey, Aiyesha, Jonas Heese, Joseph Pacelli, and Max Hancock. "The Rise and Fall of FTX." Harvard Business School Case 124-014, September 2023.
  • March 1999
  • Case

MySoftware Company (A)

By: H. Kent Bowen and Nicole Tempest
In 1997, Gregory Slayton took the position as CEO of MySoftware, which had been experiencing revenue and operating losses for the past two years. Within 90 days, he stabilized the company through a combination of cost cutting, financial discipline, and accountability... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Cost Management; Profit; Employees; Growth and Development Strategy; Operations; Outcome or Result; Partners and Partnerships; Internet and the Web; Applications and Software; Information Technology Industry
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Bowen, H. Kent, and Nicole Tempest. "MySoftware Company (A)." Harvard Business School Case 699-121, March 1999.
  • 30 Jun 2020
  • What Do You Think?

Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?

student as a DBA-- doctor of business administration--student.”) David Wittenberg was more to the point, arguing that it is not inadequate recruitment efforts that are producing disparate enrollments. “Let’s do everything in our power to improve View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Education
  • 29 Oct 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'

advising on everything from the type of auction to run to where to set reserve prices. “Tech firms have also hired economists to solve challenges relating to the choice of outcome of advertising, such as pay-per-click versus... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology; Education
  • 22 Mar 2017
  • Research & Ideas

What's the Ideal Frequency for a Sales Quota?

higher-profit sales, then giving them a less-frequent quota—consistent with the length of the sales process—would make sense. The important thing is to consider what kind of outcome you want." Readers: Have you found that quotas... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 22 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism

businesses, the problem isn't so much agency issues within the firm as much as it is public cronyism, with companies jockeying to curry favor with government for preferential investments or loans based on political connections. "In that case, government investments may... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 07 Sep 2021
  • News

Embracing Activism for Social Change

Co-Response Partnership, a pilot program implemented with the county’s mental health authority, Detroit Wayne Integrated Health Network (DWIHN), designed to create better outcomes in emergencies involving first responders and citizens... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 17 Nov 2016
  • News

Wired for Innovation

districts in Texas. Let’s just say the outcome of the election was that I was the recipient of the silver medal!” he reveals with a rueful laugh. By all indications, the defeat did little to dampen Skelly’s idealism or entrepreneurial... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities
  • 15 Feb 2022
  • Blog Post

Health is Wealth | The Path to Creating a Venture

opportunities to leverage technology to help people experience their healthcare in a better way. Driven by her own personal health experiences in where she constantly used a guess and check methodology to improve her health, she sought to learn how to solve health... View Details
  • 23 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 23

leads the loan syndicate (parent-financed deals). Bank-affiliated deals are similar in characteristics and financing to stand-alone deals but have worse outcomes if consummated during the peaks of the credit market. Parent-financed deals... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity

cycles. To sustain these changes, leaders may want to initiate "periodic monitoring of the fit between outcomes and assumptions, and intermittent periods of analysis relatively free of new activities." The study also underlines... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting
  • 03 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 3

leadership development programs for residents. The authors first present a definition of clinical leadership and highlight evidence that effective frontline clinical leadership improves both clinical outcomes and satisfaction for patients... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 8, 2010

nature of willpower and are reliable predictors of economic outcomes in the adult. The implication is that one might, for example, be able to strengthen a "weak" child's ability to resist temptation, and in so doing offer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018

in stylized, hypothetical scenarios meant to isolate key features of the tax problem, a large share of respondents resist the full equalization of unequal outcomes due to innate brute luck that standard analyses recommend. A similar share... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Nov 2019
  • Book

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

Turkey’s economic development story has always been something of a black box for scholars to understand, perhaps in part because many of the most successful business enterprises there have been in family hands and largely closed to public scrutiny. The authors of a new... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn

need for substitutes.” Another outcome of a drop-off in consumption and employment is a need for products that become more valuable during such periods when consumers have more time on their hands. An astounding number of media companies... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jan 2025
  • News

Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963) grew up in Rego Park, Queens, the son of Spanish immigrants. As a boy in the 1940s, he would watch the airplanes fly over his backyard and into LaGuardia Airport,... View Details
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