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My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is... View Details
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Overview
My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is... View Details
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
PublicationsFlying Without a Net: Turn Fear of Change into Fuel for Success Author:Thomas J. DeLong Publication:Harvard Business Review Press, 2011 Abstract Confronted by omnipresent threats of job loss and change, even the brightest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
after much smaller scale errors or "near misses." These formal studies were forums designed explicitly for the purpose of learning from mistakes by probing deeply into their causes. In addition, cross-functional teams, known as... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- 30 Nov 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do Leaders Manage the Tension Between Pride and Arrogance?
designing a “similar survey to be administered to every group of stakeholder outside of the company organization, to get the feedback on ‘how it feels’ doing business with the company.” Lavinia Rasca said “the answer was given by Andrew... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Dec 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time To Break Up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google?
a company for doing the best job they can and succeed?” Others argued that market definition is changing in ways that render United States anti-trust policy outdated in an increasingly global economy. As Craig Parietti & Partners put... View Details
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/112031-PDF-ENG Mike Mayo Takes on Citigroup (B) Suraj Srinivasan and Amy KaserHarvard Business School Supplement 112-051 "Mike Mayo Takes on Citigroup (B)" is a supplementary exercise to go with the "Mike Mayo... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Career Advice for Minorities and Women: Sharing Your Identity Can Open Doors
harder.’” People respond more when identities are mentioned The researchers conducted three experiments designed to examine whether “help-seekers” should call attention to their identities. In the first, the researchers sent about 2,500... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 04 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Web Surfing Distracting Your Workers?
matter how much willpower we adults think we have, we are still susceptible to tempting distractions. Deliver Us From Temptation For Piovesan, the findings have clear implications for how employers should design their office environments.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 16 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 16
at baseline (18%, 28%, and 33%, respectively, p0.05 for interaction between race or job type and intervention). Mean calories per beverage decreased similarly over the study period for all racial groups and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution
the bias belted tire, claiming that it conferred significant performance improvements and launched an advertising campaign questioning the benefits of radials. Firestone, Uniroyal and General Tire quickly followed Goodyear's lead and introduced their own belted bias... View Details
- 06 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Technology Re-Emergence: Creating New Value for Old Innovations
introduced low cost production methods to manufacture highly accurate quartz watches. Swiss business historians refer to this as the "Quartz Crisis." Companies like Seiko and Casio seized the quartz market. By 1983, two-thirds of the watch industry View Details
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
more by intermediate objectives like generating jobs or creating export revenues to cover import costs or serve foreign debt obligations. There is nothing wrong with these objectives but they are neither necessary nor sufficient for... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 26 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Office of Strategy Management
other roles where it plays a coordinating function, essential to ensuring that strategy informs critical processes like budgeting, operational planning, and performance management. Q: Your article discusses Chrysler Group and the U.S. Army as View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Do You Have Change Fatigue?
own. Such a formula, he believes, has enabled his company to eliminate the "boarding-school issues" that take up 20% to 30% of managers' time—and that many formal change programs are designed to address. Often described as... View Details
Keywords: by Nick Morgan
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions
Alternatively, the group may designate "intellectual watchdogs" who are assigned the task of scrutinizing the process for unchecked assumptions and challenging them on the spot. Well-Defined Criteria. Without crisp, clear goals,... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- 23 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID Was Supposed to Increase Bankruptcies. Instead, They've Gone Down.
Consumer bankruptcies usually climb alongside unemployment rates as filers seek to discharge debt and get a fresh start, write the authors of the new working paper Bankruptcy and the COVID-19 Crisis. “Historically, the number one cause of consumer bankruptcy filings is... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 30 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?
outcry from users, legislators, and the general public, to force the company to do a better job of protecting private information. In an initial response, Facebook informed its blog readers that it had suspended the consultancy from the... View Details
- June 2020 (Revised May 2022)
- Case
Vanguard Retail Operations (A)
By: Willy C. Shih and Antonio Moreno
The first two cases in this series are set in the financial services industry, and explore whether it is better for back-office workers to be generalists who provide the flexibility of being able to handle the complete range of transactions that the company faces or... View Details
Keywords: Pooling; Generalist Model; Specialist Model; Operations; Service Operations; Management; Job Design and Levels; Financial Services Industry; United States
Shih, Willy C., and Antonio Moreno. "Vanguard Retail Operations (A)." Harvard Business School Case 620-104, June 2020. (Revised May 2022.)
- 01 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?
Bergen titled “YouTube Executives Ignored Warnings, Letting Toxic Videos Run Rampant.” The article noted recommendations from current and former employees about ways to alter policies designed to increase “user engagement, ” or the amount... View Details