Span Of Accountability - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Jul 2020
Op-Ed

It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees

accounting principles of private health insurers. “Both sides will benefit from the control in costs, reduction of Medicare’s costs, and revitalization View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger and Richard J. Boxer; Health; Insurance

24 Apr 2020
Op-Ed

Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19

percent of explained variance) accounted for more than three times the variance compared to owners (11.12 percent). Coaches accounted for 29.08 percent View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Abbott , Boris Groysberg, Tali Groysberg, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

07 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

The Quest for Better Layoffs

wouldn't face the domino effect that many people face when they don't have savings accounts or other resources that my classmates and I had." Emotional Costs And Worst Practices And so the students teamed up with the professor on a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

21 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases

For the last quarter century, many fought hard to overcome gender discrimination in the workplace by raising awareness, strengthening antidiscrimination policies, and encouraging more women to enter the corporate world. At first blush, that work appeared to pay off.... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

25 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

MNCs in Asia: Investing in the Future

shareholders in both state and private enterprises." No Single Asian Market Mark Newman, vice president and CFO for GM Shanghai, the largest Sino-U.S. joint venture, presented statistics that clarified the corporation's significant investment in Asia. "Eight... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Stuart Gilson

the end I believe this accounting innovation played an important role in the ultimate financial success of the restructuring. Some critics have pointed to recent labor unrest at the airline as evidence that... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

13 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview

If you've spent any time on Twitter, then you're probably familiar with the "humblebrag"—a brag veiled in a complaint, so as to sound less blatantly like a brag. Here's an example from the Twitter account of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

12 Aug 2008
Op-Ed

Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising

before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary Task Force on Competition Policy and Antitrust Laws, Edelman wrote that the deal could have an anticompetitive effect on Internet advertising. "The proposed... View Details

Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman; Advertising; Publishing

26 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Where will Pokémon Go with Your Personal Information?

Instead of taking big screens across the country by storm, this summer’s blockbuster has people glued to much smaller ones. Launched at the beginning of July by San Francisco-based software development... View Details

Keywords: Re: Willy C. Shih; Video Game; Entertainment & Recreation

08 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Everything Must Go: A Strategy for Store Liquidation

It's an unhappy yet unavoidable fact: Sometimes, retail chains go out of business. Moreover, even healthy chains periodically must close down some existing stores. When stores have to be liquidated—when "everything must go"—a... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

04 Mar 2002
What Do You Think?

Why the Bull Market in Leadership Books?

... leadership of (especially people) assets." The timing of this "bull market," Chris Wolfington writes, may be accounted for by "the wave View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

24 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Global Brands: Connecting With Consumers Across Boundaries

The panelists found themselves in separate camps when the discussion turned to the reality of the truly global brand. Wagner, who headed Estée Lauder International for twelve years, noted that while her company's seventeen products take... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

04 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon

and counting, according to research—that the human body can fail. "The delivery of health care is arguably the delivery of 13,360 different service lines, town by town, of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

06 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy

blind spots regarding language to something as simple as managing individuals' airtime in meetings. Regardless of how it's done, it has to start with managers being trained and held accountable for their... View Details

Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley

03 Feb 2011
What Do You Think?

Are We Going “Back to the Future” In Researching Management?

discussing such things as the end of cheap oil, the exportation of jobs, work-life issues, the importance of attitude versus skills in work, marketing productivity, "judo... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

01 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care

treated for cancer out of the patient experience," says Feeley, who still serves as head of MD Anderson's Institute for Cancer Care Innovation. The bundles represent the treatments clinicians select for... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

11 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

Financial Services 24/7

accounts at a Schwab branch office. "There is a certain ceremony that most people are used to when large sums of money are involved," he explains. Because customers aren't comfortable using their mouse to... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

12 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits

because of what they did, but because of what they are? That's the question that intrigued Jonas Heese, who recently joined Harvard Business School as an assistant professor in the View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

24 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

Is Your iPhone Turning You Into a Wimp?

an average of 58 minutes per day on their smartphones, according to a recent report from Experian Marketing Services. Talking accounts for only 26 percent of that time. The... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Consumer Products

23 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It

women comprise 21 percent of senior executives in Sweden, they account for only 8 percent of CEOs. This Catalyst Pyramid visually highlights the gender gap in the labor force,... View Details