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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

01 Dec 2009
News

An Action Plan for Economic Recovery

and we made believe that the sponsors, the biggest money center banks, had zero risk of loss. They did not fully disclose what was happening, and they did not put up enough capital to cover potential risks. Now, the FASB Financial Accounting View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

01 Sep 2013
News

Leading the Way

means for the future of the School, as well as the need for HBS to educate leaders who will help solve the complex challenges facing the world today. The Campaign Nitin Nohria: The Harvard Business School Campaign offers us an opportunity to think strategically about... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

06 Jun 2024
Blog Post

Revolutionizing Wellness: Kate Twist (MBA 2008) Shapes the Future of Consumer Health Brands

be smaller for them, they will also need to be even more conservative with cash. Underrepresented founders often will be held to a higher standard in terms of financial progress and are likely to be faced with more board oversight (more... View Details

10 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Cofounders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke

opportunity, Schoonbeek and van Poecke set about building a scalable, cost-effective, and automated software solution to enable companies to manage and improve their ESG performance. “There is no uniform set of standards for ESG, which... View Details

15 Nov 2016
First Look

November 15, 2016

will be critical to their success. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51813 Fiscal Rules and Sovereign Default By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—We provide a quantitative analysis of fiscal rules in a View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Jan 2015
First Look

First Look: January 20

performance. Publisher's link: https://hbr.org/2015/01/the-truth-about-csr Working Papers Auditor Lobbying on Accounting Standards By: Allen, Abigail M., Karthik Ramanna, and Sugata Roychowdhury Abstract—We examine how Big N auditors'... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

Best Practices of Global Innovators

can provide a valuable source of product differentiation. And finally, advances in development tools (e.g., computer-aided design) coupled with a move to more open architectures and technical standards have driven down the cost of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Case Method - Research Resources | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Research records The Bureau of Business Research was formed in 1911 and was responsible for all research conducted at the school, including the writing of cases, until the formation of the Office of Case Development in 1953. Bureau of Business Research instructions to... View Details

01 Feb 2001
News

Drilling Down

the energy industry is far more important than the ups and downs of the Internet." Oil Lingo 3-D Seismic: A technique to acquire a three-dimensional image of the earth's interior by projecting sound waves from geometrically spaced points at the earth's surface. Barrel:... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Matthew R. Simmons; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities

02 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019

(HMM12). The revamped software would be hosted exclusively on HBP’s server rather than on its clients’ servers, allowing updates to take place continuously. Given the change, accounting standards required HBP to change the recognition of... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

26 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

poor managers because they persist in their behaviors as reps rather than managers. This article discusses why this is common, the problems with standard advice about how to address this issue, what it now takes to be an effective sales... View Details