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  • 01 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 1

  Working PapersWhat Should GAAP Look Like? A Survey and Economic Analysis Authors:S.P. Kothari, Karthik Ramanna, and Douglas J. Skinner Abstract Based on extant literature, we articulate a positive theory of GAAP under the assumption that GAAP's objective is to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • September 2009
  • Article

Are You Having Trouble Keeping Your Operations Focused?

By: Robert S. Huckman
As a business broadens over time, it can lose the operational edge that led to its original success. Core strengths atrophy, efficiency or quality suffers, and sharper rivals close in to take advantage of the loss of focus. In his classic article "The Focused Factory"... View Details
Keywords: Business Units; Business Growth and Maturation; Goals and Objectives; Resource Allocation; Operations; Performance Efficiency
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  • 15 Nov 2016
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November 15, 2016

will be critical to their success. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51813 Fiscal Rules and Sovereign Default By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—We provide a quantitative analysis of fiscal View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 17

the effects on subsequent reporting periods and competitor behavior are greater than previously documented. Paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-073.pdf Implicit Voice Theories: Taken-for-granted Rules of Self-censorship at Work... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Oct 2015
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October 6, 2015

had no prior experience, were more likely to fail, and had lower performance than those who did not benefit from the reform. Our results provide evidence that despite asymmetric information and opacity in startup lending, banks' screening can play an important role in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Negotiation, Organizations & Markets - Faculty & Research

leadership had to decide how to allocate their efforts across these diverging options, each of which demanded distinct expertise and focus. Citation Related Goldenberg, Amit, Elie Ofek, and Orna Dan. "Intuition Robotics: An AI Companion... View Details
  • 03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015

successfully navigate their academic careers. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50056 Public R&D Investments and Private-sector Patenting: Evidence from NIH Funding Rules By: Azoulay, Pierre, Joshua S.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

future at the same time. It is like changing the engine of a plane while it is flying. Based on almost ten years of research, this book provides a framework for companies to reimagine their business. Using rich case studies and rigorous research, it shows how the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

Wide Horizon

it.” “I thought, you know what? I don’t have to build a war chest; I just have to convince the people who have the war chest to start allocating it differently,” says Rodakis. If he could convince the National Institutes of Health, for... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
  • 09 Aug 2016
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August 9, 2016

Endowment Portfolios: The Case of Christ Church College The case centers on Christ Church’s Treasurer, James Lawrie, who is contemplating his options for investing a portion of the College's endowment in real estate. Approximately 1/3 of the total $690 million... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

How to Spot a Liar

receiver. In many instances, allocators choose to share half, Malhotra says. For the purposes of the deception experiment, the rules of the ultimatum game differed from the traditional version in three ways.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • Web

Business History - Faculty & Research

Ultimately, the Godcharles ruling enshrined the specialness of workingmen's labor contracts and rejected the use of equity principles to justify contract regulations, but the controversy also informed future labor strategies, especially... View Details
  • Web

Profiles - MBA

into designing the organizations that run modern society. Whether that means using graphs to optimize meeting scheduling, auctions to estimate how a product will be received by the public, or fair allocation View Details
  • 22 Oct 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Bringing ‘Lean’ Principles to Service Industries

through changes in problem solving, coordination, and standardization. They also draw on a framework of 4 principles of the Toyota Production System defined by HBS professor Kent Bowen and Steven Spear (HBS DBA '99): Rule 1: All work... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer
  • 13 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: Leadership Roles

decades. Whether you adopt the one-leader model for your own family enterprise, as RBS has done, or whether you build a team of leaders, you still need to design, structure, and allocate all the necessary leadership roles. Why? Because... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Davis
  • 23 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 23

strategy. Fairness, Efficiency and Flexibility in Organ Allocation for Kidney Transplantation Authors:Dimitris Bertsimas, Vivek F. Farias, and Nikolaos Trichakis Publication:Operations Research (forthcoming) Abstract We propose a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Rethinking Activity-Based Costing

directly estimate the practical capacity of the resources supplied as a percentage of the theoretical capacity. There are various ways to do this. As a rule of thumb, you could simply assume that practical full capacity is 80 percent to... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson
  • 08 Oct 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

by allocating rewards and resources for both traditional performance and for learning activities. What has changed and what hasn’t? The four drives themselves, fundamental to human psychology, have not changed. The COVID-19 pandemic has... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
  • 16 Mar 2009
  • Research & Ideas

When the Internet Runs Out of IP Addresses

addresses they need. Neither are Web sites demanding IPv6, because Web sites want to be reached by users, and users only run IPv4. In fact, it's even worse than that. Moving to IPv6 too early brings extra costs. For one, there are the standard costs of learning how to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Telecommunications
  • 31 Jul 2023
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Striving for Imperfection

that, Conn says, the rules of strategy that he learned in business school no longer apply. So how do we change the way we solve strategic business problems? In this episode of Skydeck, Conn talks with Associate Editor Jen Flint about his... View Details
Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management