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  • 12 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Operations and the Competitive Edge

anything, it naturally follows that senior managers can't simply delegate critical decisions involving operations, the adoption of IT or other technologies, and improvement efforts to "experts," whether they're View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 09 May 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 9

innovation adoption and, over time, the breadth of the organization’s innovation practices. We delineate these processes, as well as the internal and external contingencies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

that normative or preconceived beliefs about the functioning of the social world may guide social behavior in children. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54387 Coupling Labor Codes of Conduct and Supplier... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2013
  • Working Paper

The Appeal of the Appropriate: Accounting, Risk Management, and the Competition for the Supply of Control Systems

By: Anette Mikes
How do certain risk measurements in organizations come to be seen as more reliable and acceptable than others? Taking a multiple-control perspective, I investigate the aftermath of a control debacle at a financial services company (MultiBank), focusing on its insurance... View Details
Keywords: Management Control Systems; Multiple Control Systems; Interactive Control Systems; Performance Measurement; Risk Measurement; Financialization Of Accounting; Institutional Logics; Banking; Risk Management; Fair Value Accounting; Insurance; Financial Services Industry
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  • December 2005 (Revised February 2006)
  • Background Note

Why do strategies fail?: Advanced Competitive Strategy, Module note for students

By: Jan W. Rivkin
The third of four module notes for students who are taking an advanced course on competitive strategy. Examines how combinations of external threats and internal barriers to change lead to strategic failure. View Details
Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Situation or Environment; Failure
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  • 21 Jun 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets

"We've wanted to learn about the challenges of the process and the challenges of companies in those markets trying to compete on a global platform. We are also curious how international companies have been... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 04 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

structural adjustment followed. Today several structural issues and the threat of external risks continue to cast a shadow on its otherwise remarkable recovery. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • June 2012
  • Case

Buro Happold (Abridged)

By: Robert G. Eccles and Ryan Johnson
In 1996, Ted Happold, the founder of the engineering services firm Buro Happold, passed away, and Padraic Kelly became the firm's new managing director (MD). One of his first initiatives was "Aim for Growth," which was intended to help the firm grow beyond its current... View Details
Keywords: Learning And Development; Managing Growth; Organizational Design; Diversification; Client Management; Leadership Skills; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Leadership Development; Management Skills; Training; Programs; Customer Relationship Management
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  • 29 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

context of a family-owned Vietnamese restaurant, it examines the operational changes associated with transitioning ownership from the founder to his son, including formalizing equity stakes and internal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/318082-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 318-083 Sandra Brown Goes Digital (B): The Commitment Decision Sandra Brown, a middle manager at a biotech company who has led internal View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

(cherry blossoms) Project, where the company asked users in Japan to report about how cherry blossoms were blooming near them day by day, had opened up opportunities for the company's consumer business in Japan. The project ultimately... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

using, respectively, pre-migration settlements and their interaction with MSA geographic characteristics that affect the cost of moving to the suburbs. I find that black in-migration imposed a strong, negative fiscal View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • February 2005 (Revised March 2006)
  • Case

PCAOB, The (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Kim Bettcher
Members of the Public Co. Accounting Oversight Board--a private-sector, nonprofit body created by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002--must determine the form and content of a new auditing standard on internal control that will fulfill the requirements of Section 404 of the... View Details
Keywords: Law; Financial Reporting; Corporate Governance; Standards; Government Administration; Accounting Audits
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  • September 2017
  • Article

The Advocacy Trap: When Legitimacy Building Inhibits Organizational Learning

By: Tiona Zuzul and Amy C. Edmondson
This paper describes a relationship between legitimacy building and learning for a new firm in a nascent industry. Through a longitudinal study of a new firm in the nascent smart city industry, we found that the firm failed to make progress on important internal... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Learning; Advocacy; Organizations; Learning; Organizational Culture; Entrepreneurship
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  • March 2001 (Revised April 2001)
  • Case

General Electric 2000: Quality of Earnings Assessment

By: David F. Hawkins
A financial analyst reviews General Electric's financial reports to learn more about U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and how they differs from international accounting standards. View Details
Keywords: Financial Reporting; Financial Statements; Accounting Audits; International Accounting; Consumer Products Industry; Technology Industry; United States
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  • 03 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51347 Harvard Business School Case 118-061 The Whistleblower at International Game Technology Robert Mayhem, a senior manager at International... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 07 Nov 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

building and learning for a new firm in a nascent industry. Through a longitudinal study of a new firm in the nascent smart city industry, we found that the firm failed to make progress on important internal... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Sep 2023
  • Book

Successful, But Still Feel Empty? A Happiness Scholar and Oprah Have Advice for You

Schedule your downtime and leisure just as you would work. Set goals that focus on service to others and earned success. Take your vacations. Invest more in family, friendships, View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 26 Feb 2019
  • First Look

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 manager, View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 30 Mar 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Professional Networks in China and America

issue of the Journal of International Business Studies. We asked Chua to discuss his research into professional networks and the differences between American and Chinese... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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