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Management Consulting: Build a List
How can I create a list of management consulting firms in a certain geographic area, with a specific industry focus and a certain number of employees? Creating Your Own List of... View Details
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Online Management Course | HBS Online
management processes within each—what worked and what didn't—provided a unique method of learning, and incomparable to other course offerings available. Monica Higgins Account Director at Hollywood Agency... View Details
- 06 Oct 2016
- HBS Seminar
John Van Reenen, MIT Sloan School of Management
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Managing Health Care Delivery - Executive Education
While delivering patient care has always been a primary goal of health care organizations, financial outcomes have long been the metric by which success is measured. Increasingly, however, health care leaders are being held accountable for... View Details
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Entrepreneurial Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research
Entrepreneurial Management Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students MBA Required Curriculum (FIRST YEAR) The Entrepreneurial Manager In order to “educate leaders... View Details
- June 2010
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Enterprise Risk Management at Hydro One (Multimedia)
By: Anette Mikes
An early adopter of Enterprise Risk Management, energy giant Hydro One anticipated new threats and opportunities in an industry that faced climate change and carbon legislation, the deregulation of electricity markets, and the greater adoption of renewable... View Details
Mikes, Anette. "Enterprise Risk Management at Hydro One (Multimedia)." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 110-707, June 2010.
- March 2004
- Article
How Do You Stop the Books From Being Cooked? A Management Control Perspective on Financial Accounting Standard Setting and the Section 404 Requirement of the Sarbanes/Oxley Act
By: S. Datar and M. G. Alles
Datar, S., and M. G. Alles. "How Do You Stop the Books From Being Cooked? A Management Control Perspective on Financial Accounting Standard Setting and the Section 404 Requirement of the Sarbanes/Oxley Act." International Journal of Disclosure and Governance 1, no. 2 (March 2004): 119–137.
- February 1983
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Managing Product Safety: The Case of the Procter & Gamble Rely Tampon
Presents an accounting of Procter & Gamble's handling of a product safety controversy (1980) surrounding its Rely tampon. May be used as part of a series, Managing Product Safety, that provides an opportunity to compare and contrast the social response strategies... View Details
Goodpaster, Kenneth E., and Dekkers L. Davidson. "Managing Product Safety: The Case of the Procter & Gamble Rely Tampon." Harvard Business School Case 383-131, February 1983.
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Discussion of Earnings-based Bonus Plans and Earnings Management by Business Unit Managers
By: Paul M. Healy
Healy, Paul M. "Discussion of Earnings-based Bonus Plans and Earnings Management by Business Unit Managers." Journal of Accounting & Economics 26, nos. 1-3 (January 1999).
- April 1997
- Background Note
Using ABC to Manage Customer Mix and Relationships
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Describes applying activity-based costing to manage customer relationships. Links cost-to-serve to net margins earned with individual customers. View Details
Kaplan, Robert S. "Using ABC to Manage Customer Mix and Relationships." Harvard Business School Background Note 197-094, April 1997.
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Password Managers | Information Technology
passwords, and if necessary, un-share them. Your HBS Credentials: T here may be some accounts that need to be shared amongst colleagues. For example, you may have a social media account that multiple people... View Details
- July 2017
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The Four Stages to Becoming an Excellent Front-Line Sales Manager
By: Frank V. Cespedes
Sales occupations account for more than 10% of the total U.S. labor force, and that official estimate is almost certainly low: In an increasingly service economy, many people who do business development for a living are not listed as “sales” for reporting purposes.... View Details
Keywords: Salesforce Management
Cespedes, Frank V. "The Four Stages to Becoming an Excellent Front-Line Sales Manager." Quotable (July 2017).
- September 2022
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Tone at the Bottom: Measuring Corporate Misconduct Risk from the Text of Employee Reviews
By: Dennis W. Campbell and Ruidi Shang
This paper examines whether information extracted via text-based statistical methods applied to employee reviews left on the website Glassdoor.com can be used to develop indicators of corporate misconduct risk. We argue that inside information on the incidence of... View Details
Keywords: Management Accounting; Management Control; Corporate Culture; Corporate Misconduct; Risk Measurement; Organizational Culture; Crime and Corruption; Risk and Uncertainty; Measurement and Metrics
Campbell, Dennis W., and Ruidi Shang. "Tone at the Bottom: Measuring Corporate Misconduct Risk from the Text of Employee Reviews." Management Science 68, no. 9 (September 2022): 7034–7053.
- 06 Jul 2020
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The Right Way to Manage Churn for Maximum Profit
- January 2000
- Case
Measurement and Management at CitySoft
By: V.G. Narayanan and Sanjay Pothen
CitySoft is a very small software developer that is grappling with issues of cost measurement and management. View Details
Keywords: Cost Accounting; Cost Management; Applications and Software; Problems and Challenges; Information Technology Industry
Narayanan, V.G., and Sanjay Pothen. "Measurement and Management at CitySoft." Harvard Business School Case 100-056, January 2000.
- 10 Nov 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Managing Reputation: Evidence from Biographies of Corporate Directors
- 05 Oct 2016
- HBS Seminar
Linus Dahlander, European School of Management and Technology (ESMT)
- October 2002 (Revised March 2004)
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Management Earnings Disclosure and Pro Forma Reporting
Introduces a discussion of management earnings disclosure and the growing use of pro forma reporting by corporations. Highlights the background of pro forma reporting, how it has been used in the past couple of years, and what the regulators at the capital markets... View Details
Bradshaw, Mark T., and Jacob Cohen. "Management Earnings Disclosure and Pro Forma Reporting." Harvard Business School Case 103-005, October 2002. (Revised March 2004.)
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The Information Age has introduced well-received opportunities to track performance. Fitbits and Fuelbands allow individuals to track their own performance; companies like Uber and leading hospitals help you choose a driver or a doctor based on how others rated... View Details
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep
right funds to follow. Since distinguishing ability from luck in investing is always a challenge, that last requirement may not be so easy to fulfill. Q: Do you think the Web-based data input accounting standards such as XBRL would affect... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen