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28 May 2019
Research & Ideas

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

financial reporting quality has fallen in places where it has become harder to sue. The rulings of Tellabs and Janus have made it easier for auditors to argue, “We didn’t know the company lied to us.” How do investors prove that auditors didn’t ask the View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Accounting

02 Aug 2022
Blog Post

From HBS to Cutting-Edge Tech

Gaurav Singh (MBA 2022) grew up in Varanasi, India. He completed his Bachelor’s of Technology in Instrumentation and Control Engineering from NIT Trichy, India before moving to the US to pursue his M.S. in Electrical and Computer... View Details

28 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Can Navigate Politicized Conversations and Inspire Collaboration

says, “but to what seems morally right during a particular period in certain circles.” The authors also differentiate between political incorrectness and other types of insensitive communications, such as hate speech. [div... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

01 Mar 2024
News

On the Radar

Concentric’s bioradar has already proven effective at providing earlier warnings. In 2022, Traveler-based Genomic Surveillance—a program Concentric runs for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at seven American... View Details

Keywords: Janine White; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

15 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next

has been a failure of leadership as astounding and momentous (and ironic) as the company's early achievement. Robert D. Austin, Associate Professor: When I worked in a U.S. auto company in the mid 1990s, we were doing many of the right... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

Web

Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

as glare. Land found that placing one polarizing filter over another at a right angle halted all light vibrations. Moving the second filter back and forth created variable vibrations of light. In 1929, with Donald L. Brown, a patent... View Details

03 Jun 2022
Research & Ideas

In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?

settle in a desired geographic location while retaining a job elsewhere—the best of both worlds for many people. “I see work-from-anywhere as a policy that allows the individual to control her personal geography. And I think that’s why... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

15 Jul 2019
Book

Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence

sellers control important sources of information, including historic financial information. What do you think the seller has been doing, as it prepares for a sale? It might make itself look particularly good by accelerating sales,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Nov 2011
First Look

First Look: Nov. 1

just adopted a "New Growth Path," hoping to create several million jobs over the next few years. Both the finance minister and the head of the Central Bank support the initiative but worry how they can sustain fiscal discipline and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Mar 2024
News

In Harmony

hyphenate as a descriptor a lot,” he says. “Korean-hyphen-American. I consider myself Korean and American.” The Korea he knew as a young boy was a much poorer country, where strict state control was the norm. “I was the envy of my... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photograph by Jun Michael Park

15 Jun 2021
News

Zone Defense

design a high-tech armored suit for a person when artificial intelligence could do the job with significantly less risk. “Why wouldn’t they just put in a computer to control the suit?” he wondered. “‘Good mission, but it sounds like a... View Details

Keywords: April White; drone technology; military; security; entrepreneurship; leadership; Air Transportation; Transportation

10 Jul 2007
What Do You Think?

How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?

theater and control is required to make people feel comfortable when fundamental operating systems change ." Narendar Singh Raj Purohit adds that " when things are getting out of control someone... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

14 Jun 2010
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact

the same time," Ebrahim notes. "Delivering emergency relief and basic services in sanitation, water, and housing is easier to measure than impacts on public policy or on good governance, freedoms, and rights. Societal transformations—such as improving human View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

10 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

Development Organization controlled by a federally recognized tribe.[27] There are also $550 million for Bureau of Reclamation domestic water supply projects,[28] which funds the planning and construction of water projects that are... View Details

18 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

Pulpit Bullies: Why Dominating Leaders Kill Teams

to ask questions and make comments. In reality, however, the speakers often do the opposite—dominating the time and not allowing for much discussion at all. "As professors we do this too," admits Gino. "It's very difficult when you think you have the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

29 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Delving Deeper into Development with the MBA/MPA-ID Program – a Q+A with Zainab Raji (MBA/MPA-ID 2022)

education, hard work, and generosity played in their lives. One story I often reflect on is my grandpa’s path to school. During his childhood years, children could not attend school until their right hands could reach over their heads and... View Details

05 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

Is JC Penney’s Makeover the Future of Retailing?

challenge, Lal says. Pricing It Right Retail pricing is a high art, and Johnson is starting from scratch at Penney, replacing frequent sales—the company had 590 of them in 2011—with "Fair and Square everyday pricing." When outlining the... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Retail

11 May 2009
Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

making more explicit business arguments for IT in the context of senior leadership meetings, and inviting the CEO and partners into important, risk trade-off decisions. An important lesson Barton learns over the course of the novel, after rashly seizing View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

are on the same page. The final thing I’ll say: Remote companies have well-established processes where people are socializing and no one is feeling isolated and falling through the cracks. That’s really important right now, especially... View Details