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IT Strategy: HBS IT Website Provides Easier Access to News and Support | Information Technology

to share their services and stories with the HBS community – and the world. The team set out create an easy-to-navigate ecosystem of sites that would not only provide the community with clear access to IT... View Details

01 Oct 2009
What Do You Think?

Can the “Masks of Command” Coexist with Authentic Leadership?

do you think? To read more: Warren Bennis with Patricia Word Biederman, The Essential Bennis (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2009) William George, Authentic Leadership: Rediscovering the Secrets to Creating Lasting View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

04 Apr 2008
What Do You Think?

Who Owns Intellectual Property?

we (as common people) be thinking into how to share solutions ?) ... Our ideas, our knowledge, should be public." Or do you feel, as Gaurav does, that "the creator is the owner! If not, people will not create"? (Of course,... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

20 Apr 2022
Blog Post

How HBS Prepared Me to Lead a Company on Day One

had anything to do with becoming a karate champion. But I’ve noticed that alumni feel even more strongly about the value of the HBS education as they develop in their careers. I believe that is because HBS’s noted focus on leadership pays... View Details

06 Dec 2013
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela

[He has] created a monument more lasting than bronze And loftier than the pyramids' royal pile, One that no wasting rain, nor furious north wind Can destroy, nor the immeasurable succession of years and flight of time. (Book III. Ode 30)... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, Linda Hill, Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Gautam Mukunda

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Maggie Sanchez (MBA 1990) on Purpose-Driven Board Leadership - Blog: RGE Report

with Microsoft, for example, took her to Paris to lead the company’s transition to the cloud. She joined Vodafone at its headquarters in the UK shortly after the company had acquired a variety of telecom companies throughout Europe and needed to unify teams around... View Details

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Systems for Scaling Ventures (SSV) - Course Catalog

actively apply tools. This course is for founders, joiners, investors, and consultants aspiring to create value by designing (or helping design) the management systems necessary to bring new ventures from... View Details

01 Jun 2005
News

Change of Pace

between the liberal bishop and the GOP politician, who share an interest in putting the values of their Christian faith into action in the secular arena,” the Boston Globe (March 7, 2005) reported. Houghton,... View Details

Keywords: GOP; Catholic; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

13 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future

managers to favor short-term profits over long-term gains. The research results suggest that managers of public companies are under much more pressure than their private-firm counterparts to show short-term financial results. Peeking In On Private Companies The... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

21 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores

values that include community, curation, and convening. (Video by Amelia Kunhardt) About the Author Michael Blanding is a writer based in Boston. [Image: georgeclerk] Related Reading Technology Re-Emergence: View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Entertainment & Recreation

24 Apr 2014
News

Betting big on star power can be a winning strategy in business—not just show business

business,” says Elberse. Blockbuster strategies work because audiences value high production values and strong brands—notably A-list stars—and they like to make choices based on personal recommendations and... View Details

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Turnarounds and Transformation - Course Catalog

(2) create a new value proposition and/or (3) unlock new growth avenues. There will be synthesis segments after each group of cases to solidify learnings connected with each turnaround lever. The opening and... View Details

06 Sep 2017
What Do You Think?

Summing Up: What Are the Limits of CEO Activism?

still makes a statement.” Referring to the specific action of Ken Frazier, CEO of Merck, who resigned from a presidential appointment in protest, hollidsu said, “Frazier was showing true leadership. He should be commended even if the View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld Network... View Details

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Commencement 2017 Address | About

highs, but these data points do not offer comfort to those who experience firsthand the wide and growing inequality in how the value created by businesses is shared with... View Details

19 Jul 2024
Blog Post

Seven Lessons from the Section Experience

(Greatest of All Time) and had a bunch of unique traditions. Once a month, we would host “All Hands” meetings over bagels to share section updates. We hosted “lock-ins” at the end of each year where we’d spend the night together in... View Details

01 Sep 2010
News

Dean Nohria Looks Ahead

value for society. You gain society’s confidence when you are seen as solving the biggest problems and contributing in ways that are innovative and imaginative. We need to return to creating real View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson

28 Jun 2021

Spark: Social Enterprise and Public Entrepreneurship @ HBS

Be a part of the spark for creating social value and social change. Join Social Enterprise Initiative Director Rob Zeaske (MBA 2002) and Professor of Management Practice and the Richard L. Menschel Faculty... View Details

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Market Reaction to and Valuation of IFRS Reconciliation Adjustments: First Evidence from the UK

By: Joanne Horton and George Serafeim

We investigate the market reaction to, and the value-relevance of, information contained in the mandatory transitional documents required by International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) 1 (2005). We find significant negative abnormal returns for firms reporting... View Details

Keywords: Valuation; Markets; Information; International Finance; Earnings Management; Stock Shares; Taxation; Goodwill Accounting; Price; Financial Reporting; Standards; Corporate Disclosure; United Kingdom

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24 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 24, 2009

authorities will soon deplete their supply. I evaluate a series of possible responses to this shortage: sharing addresses impedes new Internet applications and does not seem to be scalable. A new numbering system ("IPv6") offers... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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