Standard Setting - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?

very confused, as is much of the discussion around our topic. Briefly, running an organization effectively involves: Leadership: Vision Energizing Management: Efficiency Results Administration: Rules Procedures Our focus today is on leadership: how an executive View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

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HBS - The year in Review

million from Ben Faw (MBA 2014) and his wife Julia Yoo, who sponsored the Challenge to motivate fellow younger alumni to make leadership gifts to the HBS Fund. The Challenge also helped set a new annual record for Investors Society... View Details

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Food & Agriculture - Business & Environment

Strategy and Business Operations, Pattern Ag David Chan HBS MBA 2018, Chief Operating Officer & Co-Founder, FarmTogether “I’m committed to solving climate change by setting high environmental, social, and governance (ESG) View Details

21 Dec 2023
Blog Post

Top 10 MBA Voices Blogs of 2023

obstacle threatening to set me back. Growing up in one of the tougher, under-resourced communities of Houston, Texas, I encountered innumerable challenges early on in my life. I felt prepared to navigate this reality. I wasn’t always this... View Details

31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

strategic alliances could be optimal. We expect that, given institutional knowledge about a particular setting, our broad theoretical framework can be specialized to deliver testable predictions for that setting (as has occurred in some... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 17, 2008

loans to small firms and those with more "soft information"—particularly in states with weak legal enforcement of financial contracts. However, decentralized banks are also more responsive to the competitive environment when View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Stages of Development - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

as a sequence of stages, each with a different set of economic characteristics and challenges. Factor-Driven Stage The first stage is the Factor-Driven Stage, in which competitive advantage is based exclusively on endowments of labor and... View Details

12 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

What Actually Draws Sports Fans to Games? It's Not Star Athletes.

data. In fact, just one standard deviation increase in injury-induced outcome uncertainty drove average attendance up 11 percent, the equivalent of adding 3,700 spectators. “Aggregated across a full season’s worth of games, this amounts... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Sports

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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

even successful people fail to notice the absence of critical and readily available information in their environment due to the human tendency to focus on a limited set of information. This work is still in its formative stages, and I... View Details

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Information Technology - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

referring physicians and patients 5. Includes templates and expert systems for each medical condition Provides views and templates by medical condition to enhance data entry, search functionality, input of standard order View Details

13 Jan 2023
Research & Ideas

Are Companies Actually Greener—or Are They All Talk?

Most companies now account for social good in their financial reports in some way, but with regulation scattershot and evolving, it’s complicated for investors to assess so-called ESG reports. The disclosures, known as Environmental, Social, and Governance reports,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

30 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55179 When Harry Fired Sally: The Double Standard in Punishing Misconduct By: Egan, Mark, Gregor Matvos, and Amit Seru Abstract—We examine gender differences in misconduct punishment in the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

27 Jun 2016
Research & Ideas

These Management Practices, Like Certain Technologies, Boost Company Performance

important as other inputs in production and can create significant competitive advantage” over each other and across a wide variety of countries and sectors, says Sadun. “Originally it was like a bet—can we quantify management?” she says. Beginning in 2004, using as a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online

Enroll Now Key Concepts Discover how balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements are developed and how each interact Evaluate the financial health of a business using financial statements Understand GAAP and IFRS standards... View Details

16 Jan 2013
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The Messy Link Between Slave Owners and Modern Management

Caitlin C. Rosenthal didn't intend to write a book about slavery. She set out to tackle something much more mundane: the history of business practices. But when she started researching account books from the mid-1800s, a period of major... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Johnston

03 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping

a second-hand truck for $120. This purchase set McLean on his lifelong career in the transportation industry. McLean soon began hauling dirt, produce, and other odds and ends for the farming community in Maxton, where reliable... View Details

Keywords: by Anthony J. Mayo & Nitin Nohria; Manufacturing; Transportation; Aerospace

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Finance - Faculty & Research

725-408, February 2025. Ingersoll Rand: Broadening Employee Ownership By: Ethan Rouen and Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago February 2025 | Case | Faculty Research Set in 2024, this case examines how Ingersoll Rand— a global leader in air,... View Details

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Profiles - MBA

technologies that expand the frontier of diagnostic and therapeutic possibility for neurological diseases and other challenging medical conditions. I aspire to build and lead a team that will translate AI-enabled scientific breakthroughs from bench to bedside and... View Details

11 Apr 2023
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Is Amazon a Retailer, a Tech Firm, or a Media Company? How AI Can Help Investors Decide

human-plus-machine-based decision-making. Kost: Do you see the potential for a shift away from the GICS? Srinivasan: We develop certain standards because it creates a common way for us to understand and communicate what we are doing. It... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Consumer Products; Real Estate; Financial Services; Retail

17 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

Women Receive Harsher Punishment at Work Than Men

afterwards, their employment prospects were pretty dismal,” says Mark Egan, an assistant professor of finance at Harvard Business School. Egan details the misconduct findings in a new working paper, “When Harry Fired Sally: The Double View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

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