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- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
Missing Quarterly Analysts Forecasts (revised) Authors:Richard Mergenthaler, Shiva Rajgopal, and Suraj Srinivasan Abstract We find that missing the quarterly analyst consensus earnings forecast is associated with career penalties in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
Source: Delpixart There’s a general consensus that Washington is “broken.” But the reason politics doesn’t seem to deliver for citizens anymore may not involve who’s in the White House, which party controls Congress, or even any inherent... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 30 Mar 2017
- News
Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest
table, if I get eight you get two. We're trying to figure out a way that we both get eight. How do we create a system that has wins for all the major actors? And that ties very directly into what our definition was for a consensus... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
that provided economically efficient and environmentally sound energy sources. But due to political legacies, these markets fail to function in nearly every energy sector today, and nowhere are the costs of these failures clearer than in the case of oil. Lacking the... View Details
- 06 Dec 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Doing Business in Emerging Markets
nations have improved since 1980, the new instruments are failing to satisfy the interests of either host countries or their business partners. Protections can be improved by developing a real consensus on the part of investors' home... View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Is “Business as Usual” After September 11?
Summing Up According to the immediate and numerous responses to questions raised concerning the impact of the tragic events of September 11 on "business as usual," the consensus is that our lives have been changed, whether at a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Jan 2011
- News
HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovation
school deans, corporate recruiters, and executives, who broadly agreed that business schools faced significant challenges in educating leaders for 21st century global commerce. The second attracted more than 100 HBS faculty, who came to a clear View Details
- 01 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?
maximize the purchasing power of consumers or if it is to reinforce certain government favoured industries and, indirectly, the people who work and invest in those industries. After more than thirty years when broad international View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Sep 2014
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Choose Your Boss?
duties, it is wise, as part of its selection process, to seek inputs from those who will 'live' daily with the next leader." Mike Flanagan commented: "The more buy-in from a broader range of people the better (the) choice and the easier for the chosen one to... View Details
- 02 Jan 2013
- What Do You Think?
Should We Rethink the Promise of Teams?
Summing Up Under what conditions do teams, introverts, and innovation go together? Properly structured and led, teams can support innovative thinking that depends on contributions from both extroverts and introverts. That's the consensus... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
still hard for Japanese companies to adopt real strategies. There are huge pressures for imitation because of consensus decision making. But I think Japanese companies are definitely moving in the direction suggested in this book; it is a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
are very good at thinking through and dissecting elements of the financial crisis, and there is incredible consensus about elements that contributed to it and some frustration with the bite of the regulatory tools we do have,” she says.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovations
school deans, corporate recruiters, and executives, who broadly agreed that business schools faced significant challenges in educating leaders for 21st-century global commerce. The second attracted more than 100 HBS faculty, who came to a clear View Details
- Web
Board Diversity Network: 2024 Fall Events Recap - Blog: RGE Report
(such as cybersecurity expertise or experience with CEO transitions) in a new member, but it’s still important to show broad leadership capabilities, including that you know how to build consensus and be a thoughtful, action-oriented team... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
with them quickly. If you take the time to do the nemawashi process, the implementation of subsequent action is lightning fast. It wasn’t consensus decision-making so much as consensus-building, because at the end of the day, I had to... View Details
- 22 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change
and measure methane emissions and leaks. We applaud Congress for coming to consensus on such a critical issue for our nation and the world, and for seeing that it’s also the greatest investment opportunity of our era. Christian Weeks (MBA... View Details
- 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
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Organizational Model for Open Source
how individuals with limited power and resources negotiate and collaborate with the largest of corporations. Community may not be exactly the right word to describe these forms, as the term denotes more consensus than reality might... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
scientific consensus on climate change (as represented by the IPCC reports), or attempted to undermine public policy frameworks that aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions." And ClimateCounts ratings account for support for (or... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
ethical obligation. Business school deans in the early 1930s were determined to finally reach a working consensus about what constituted a professional business education, and to mobilize their institutions on behalf of a nation whose... View Details