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- 04 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?
rules and thus on capital markets, observes Karthik Ramanna, an associate professor and Henry B. Arthur Fellow in the Accounting and Management unit at Harvard Business School, where he studies the political economy of corporate... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat
performance-related stress by engaging in unethical behavior," says Jooa Julia Lee. Real-world Implications The researchers acknowledge that additional studies will be needed to determine cause and effect between hormones and unethical... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 25 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?
Mass.-based management consulting firm TruePoint Partners, which Beer co-founded and on which he now serves as a director. Most training programs focus on developing and changing behavior of individuals and teams. Beer and his colleagues say the problem View Details
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
Finally, the long-run risks model implies extremely low yields and negative-term premia on inflation-indexed bonds. Download the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/W14788 Measuring the Financial Sophistication of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Alfred A. Checchi
Al Checchi's record of achievement - particularly his turnaround of Northwest Airlines - is usually attributed to his brilliance and financial acumen. Often overlooked is how family heritage and twists of fate have played a role in his... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 29 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas
gain experience, they get worse at predicting timelines." Record venture capital investment and a surge of new businesses launched during the COVID-19 pandemic are raising the stakes for entrepreneurs. In a domain that prizes speed,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 29 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 29
equilibrium outcome of a game where a person can-at a cost-look ahead, investigate, and announce a set of (intended or actual) choices to the rest of the organization. Strategy is also-in some precise sense-the smallest set of decisions that View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
Baker Scholar. After spending a year at HBS as assistant to the legendary Professor Georges F. Doriot, Barford moved on to work as a financial analyst at Doriot's American Research & Development Corporation, one of the first U.S. venture... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
department at a Woolworth store back when they had manual cash registers. Candy bars used to sell really quickly, and the department needed constant restocking. During lunch, hundreds of customers would come in to buy snacks, and the... View Details
- 15 Mar 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business
This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details
Risks, Opportunities, And Investments In The Era Of Climate Change (ROICC)
The MBA course on "Risks, Opportunities, and Investments in an Era of Climate Change" is ideal for students who aspire to become entrepreneurs by starting their own company or joining a start-up that is driving innovation and solving challenges posed by climate change.... View Details
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General Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Vikram Gandhi : Winner of the 2021 Teaching Recognition Award for Excellence in Sustainable Finance Education from the Financial Times and the Impact and Sustainable Finance Faculty Consortium for the course, "Investing for Risk, Return,... View Details
- Web
Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Management (RRBM) for Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire (PublicAffairs, 2020). Frank Nagle : Strategy Research Forum Member, 2021. Maria P. Roche : Winner of the 2021 Best Dissertation Award from the Technology and Innovation... View Details
- 26 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Leadership Principles for Managing in the Time of Coronavirus
Cash. The most obvious commercial C of the 7 Cs is Cash. Cash is king at a time of crisis, and everything needs to be done to look both short term and long term at the financial health of the organization.... View Details
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics The Relevance of Broker Networks for Information Diffusion in the Stock Market By: Di Maggio, Marco, Francesco Franzoni, Amir Kermani, and Carlo Sommavilla Abstract—This paper shows that the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 19, 2010
related to improved project performance in some cases. Our results highlight a need for more nuanced approaches to leveraging experience in team management. Deed, Clear Conscience: When Cheating Leads to Moral Disengagement and Motivated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Market Research Reports in General Databases
Multi-Industry, Country Reports Global EMIS 2016 to current Colliers Real Estate Emerging Markets EMIS 2013 to 2018 Deloitte Multi-Industry Global EMIS 2013 to current Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Energy, Healthcare, Financial... View Details
- 21 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 21
allow manufacturers to commercialize innovations with financial value. Yet scholars have recently shown that entrepreneurial activity by users is more widespread than previously believed. We present data and statistics documenting the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge
pairs and filled out worksheets about their strengths and weaknesses as salespeople. They then compared notes and talked through how they could improve. In the other, pairs of employees received a financial bonus based on their combined... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Simone Marinesi. Himabindu Lakkaraju : Recipient of the Distinguished Young Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Science in 2024. 2023 Prithwiraj Choudhury : Selected for the 2023 Forbes Future of Work 50 list. Amy C. Edmondson : Winner of the 2023 View Details