Validation - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets

auditing as a profession? Srinivasan: Auditors are in an interesting position. They rely on management teams in a lot of ways, but they also have an adversarial relationship. They verify that companies follow generally accepted accounting principles and by doing so... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Accounting

06 Feb 2014
HBS Seminar

Karthik Ramanna, Harvard Business School

19 May 2023
Blog Post

Creating and Nurturing a Sense of Belonging at HBS

community at HBS?” – a valid question that I also once asked when trying to find my own path to an MBA. But I’m here to tell you that I was able to do it and you can too! When I think of community and belonging, I think of a place where I... View Details

11 Feb 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI

and understand the input needed and the internal workflow used by businesses in order to trust AI’s judgments and validate results. Organizational shift: Towards a more open and experimental culture. ML/AI engineers are still a novelty in... View Details

Keywords: by Rocio Wu

14 Sep 2023
Blog Post

MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures

the right expectation and rhythm for execution, discovering and developing talent to their potential, to being responsible for every decision I make. What's next? Teresa: In the year ahead, I’m excited to continue customer interviews with product and accessibility... View Details

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

regional trade, CEPII Working Paper N° 2005-02, Paris: CEPII Research Center. Medina-Smith, Emilio J. (2001), Is the export-led growth hypothesis valid for developing countries? A case study of Costa Rica, Unctad, Geneva: 2001 Ohno,... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

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Get Involved - Entrepreneurship

mentors, and facilitated peer exchange to engage in structured experimentation, validate important hypotheses, and develop new ventures. Mentors are asked to engage with their team throughout the 10-week term on a bi-weekly basis (via in... View Details

01 Nov 2019
What Do You Think?

Should Non-Compete Clauses Be Abolished?

old and occur all over the world. For example, an English common law court in 1414 chose not to enforce such an agreement, claiming that it represented restraint of trade. A watershed 1711 case, Mitchel v. Reynolds, validated non-competes... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Judges - Alumni

problem are you solving? Why does it matter? How does your solution change lives or industries? Show traction and validation Investors want proof of concept. Demonstrate real traction—customer growth, revenue, user retention, or any key... View Details

25 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Fool vs. Jerk: Whom Would You Hire?

social sciences. After all, these people make us feel good because they reaffirm the validity of our own characteristics and attitudes. But there's a business, as well as a psychological, benefit when similar people choose to work... View Details

Keywords: by Tiziana Casciaro & Miguel Sousa Lobo

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

When Benchmarks Don’t Work

like comparing Armani's selling expenses per transaction to Wal-Mart's, a comparison that deviates from benchmarking's original purpose: to perform detailed process comparisons across similar entities, as in the Toyota/GM example. Simplistic benchmarking using... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan; Service

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Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online

valuable business that can scale and attract venture capital. What’s the difference between Launching Tech Ventures and Entrepreneurship Essentials? + – Entrepreneurship Essentials focuses on entrepreneurship in general and how to identify a startup idea, View Details

14 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

When the Rubber Meets the Road, Most Commuters Text and Email While Driving

more voice-activated controls. “We need to encourage drivers to keep their eyes on the road and to keep them aware of their car’s surroundings,” says Teodorovicz, emphasizing such concerns are valid even if overall commuting levels... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

31 May 2017
What Do You Think?

Can Amazon Do What Walmart Couldn’t, Stop the 'Wheel of Retailing'?

categories, including those served by Walmart. Amazon’s success raises questions about the future of retailing. Is an “Amazon 2.0” even now in the early stages of design and introduction? Is the wheel of retailing any longer a valid or... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

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US Business Immigration Overview - Alumni

enterprise in which s/he has invested, or is investing, a substantial amount of capital (E-2) Duration Visas are generally valid for a period of 5 years, but treaty traders and investors may not be admitted for an initial period of more... View Details

18 Feb 2019
Book

What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology

that this three-part structure allows them to distinguish clearly between the novel and non-novel aspects of their business idea. It also forces the more intuitive thinkers to articulate, test, and validate their assumptions, rather than... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Beauty & Cosmetics; Insurance; Service; Retail

25 Jan 2024
Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #15: Hilton Augustine III on Financing Climate Ventures

stakeholders to make both micro- and macro-level decisions today that will have net positive environmental and economic effects now and into the future” At the May 2023 “Accelerating Climate Solutions” conference at HBS, Hilton found View Details

28 Feb 2023
Blog Post

Celebrating Socioeconomic Diversity and Inclusion at HBS (Part 1)

than 99% of the others students born into poverty and addiction that didn’t make it here? I doubt it. But that’s harder to hear. We like hearing the success stories. It validates our own work and affirms the meritocracy myth. It helps us... View Details

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

evidence, there is still a segment of our population that will not accept the validity of the science relating to this. So it is with climate change. Despite clear scientific consensus, there is still a reluctance on the part of too many... View Details

04 Aug 2011
What Do You Think?

How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?

learned something from it that we can use in making future decisions. As a result, we give unwarranted credit to such things as experience, intuition, and even common sense. Watts challenges our ability to assess the validity of... View Details