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Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
basic system of HBS instruction. Doriot based the class on lectures (students were asked to listen and take notes, but not ask questions) and fieldwork. Teaching this single class for nearly 30 thirty years, Doriot continually reflected... View Details
- 04 Jun 2025
- News
Slice of Life
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In 2018, Bill Crawford (MBA 2006) founded Righteous Slice, a pizza restaurant in Rexburg, Idaho that has been steadily earning critical acclaim. It has... View Details
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
better access to finance can be attributed to a) reduced agency costs due to enhanced stakeholder engagement and b) reduced informational asymmetry due to increased transparency. Using a large cross-section of firms, we find that firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
as dangerous as Power and others speculate. Based on two detailed case studies and 53 additional interviews with risk-management staff at five other major banks over 2001-2010, this paper shows that relentless risk measurement is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
capture of accounting regulation by segments of the financial-services industry. Paper: http://hbr.org/2013/03/why-fair-value-is-the-rule/ar/1 Working PapersCarry Trade and Exchange-Rate Regimes Authors:Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract Carry-trade View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #1: Kameale C. Terry
dollars if the stations don’t work!” Terry’s activism has paid off. By mid-February, the Transportation Department included language – that Terry pushed for – in its initial standards for federally funded charging stations. Specifically,... View Details
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
company officers, and even play interactive games showing the challenges and trade-offs the company faces in making difficult decisions. Thanks to these kinds of One Report practices, these companies actually document their commitment to sustainability, make better... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
full lockdown has significant economic consequences, as most commercial activity comes to a halt. Also, in democratic societies, a complete lockdown is difficult and likely impossible to enforce. This is why the use of face masks becomes... View Details
- 23 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Financial Reporting Goes Global
even well-intentioned practitioners just may not have the skill set to properly implement the standards. In the study of international adoption of standards I mentioned previously, one of the things we find is that oversight by a regulator who is View Details
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
solve, the contributing factors that have caused this problem to remain unsolved until now, Madhav's theory of change, questions about whether these activities (inputs) will affect the outputs and have an impact, what will it take and how... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-107.pdf The Contaminating Effects of Building Instrumental Ties: How Networking Can Make Us Feel Dirty By: Casciaro, Tiziana, Francesca Gino, and Maryam Kouchaki Abstract—To create social ties to support their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
and the development of incremental tradeoffs towards radical moves to create new business models, new forms of satisfying needs that drastically reduce costs and/or raise value perceived by customers. One important enabler of new business... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Straight to the Heart
The truism “opposites attract” is something everyone has heard, but it’s forgotten in amateur matchmaking. People base their setups on similarities, not complementary differences. That creates commonality but no spark. You may think you... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
party in Boston that raised more than $2,000 for the Irish Hospice Foundation, a nonprofit based in Dublin that supports the development of hospice care. It’s part of an active off-campus life, which is... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
will be possible to both maximize shareholder value and be a good corporate citizen. Indeed, we should encourage managers to find the "sweet spot" where their actions generate a robust return for their shareholders without exploiting externalities and thereby... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016
resulted from focusing on securing the preferences of active voters. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50427 Commuting with a Plan: How Goal-Directed Prospection Can Offset the Strain of Commuting By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
time when Reddit is going through changes. It had just had a management change. The CEO had exited, the founders came back. There had been, obviously this is a very active user base, so there had been some upheaval a little bit in the... View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
electricity production and consumption to reduce spikes in demand; and EMBARQ, based in Washington, DC, which coordinates the interests of business and government to organize city transit services. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
their best moments, can lift people up, and in their worst, let them down.” Teaching by Heart isn’t designed to be an academically rigorous analysis of teaching, he adds. It’s personal, based on decades of classroom experience and his... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
service, monetizing empty seats, allowing a driver to split the cost of gas or tolls for a given trip to the airport or into work. Passengers can pay as little as half what would ring up on a taximeter for the same distance. Although... View Details