Director Accountability - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Oct 2007
What Do You Think?

Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?

that "firm performance and top management compensation are inversely related." And this may not have taken into account the large severance payments made to those being asked to leave their leadership jobs because of mediocre... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

08 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?

—Robert Todd, HSBC "Following the tragic events in Japan, this has spurred many people to review their policies towards nuclear," said Robert Todd, director for renewable energy in the Resources and Energy Group at HSBC.... View Details

Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Energy; Utilities

06 Mar 2018
Blog Post

Peek: The People, The Experience, and The Case Method

that we planned a Peek reunion for two weeks later in New York City. Experience We saw the campus through the lenses of current HBS students and alumni to get a first-hand account of how an MBA from HBS has shaped their lives for the... View Details

13 Jul 2011
News

China Boot Camp

Accounting and Management Unit, Srinivasan says that his research received an immediate boost from the trip. “I have a couple of projects on securities markets and financial reporting in China that have come into sharper focus since the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Innovating in Health Care - Course Catalog

thousands of lives; served on the Boards of directors of many large, public health care firms; written a number of best-selling books on health care entrepreneurialism and the health care plan of a U.S. presidential candidate; and often... View Details

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Elizabeth "Betsy" Latimer Jaffe Oral History - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

but there was a lot of turnover. I stayed there five years. I was part of the Women Directors Roundtable, helped facilitate that. We pulled women directors from all the corporations together for a topic, and... View Details

24 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

an established cost accounting method, time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC), to assess the costs of performing an abdomen and pelvis computed tomography (AP CT) in an academic radiology department. We then identified opportunities... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS

and AIDS exert such power to wreck communities and companies that they should almost be viewed as a metaphor for "disruptive technology" along the lines of the model proposed by HBS Professor Clayton Christensen in his book, The Innovator's Dilemma, said Buff... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Oct 2000
News

Faculty Retirements

the University of Rochester in 1977 and served as its director until 1988. From 1992 to 1998, he was a member of the steering committee of Harvard's Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative, an interfaculty effort to study the limitations of the... View Details

01 Mar 2019
News

In Character: A Case Discussion Drama

the business but no day-to-day role). The case is fictional but is based on a combination of several real businesses encountered by Boris Tsimerinov (PLDA 16, 2017), managing director at Semper8 Capital, a Toronto-based investment firm.... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Sep 2016
News

How I Got to Google

essentially the same—but the scope of my products has increased in size. My first role at Google was working on features on a product for Google Checkout. Now I get to work in health search, which accounts for one in 20 queries on... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 1998
News

Mark Tatum

vice president of the university's Black Alumni Association. Working at Procter & Gamble after graduation, he was promoted four times in four years, eventually becoming an award-winning corporate account executive. As a regional sales... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; photograph by Webb Chappell

22 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore

Fans of the television show Mad Men are well acquainted with the mystique of the advertising business, circa 1960s, where relationships were consummated over martinis and campaigns fashioned through the wizardry of creative director Don... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising

15 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 15, 2008

newer technologies have been adopted faster than old ones. The cross-country variation in the adoption of technologies accounts for at least a quarter of per capita income differences. Download the paper:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Actions Organizations Can Take to Communicate Their Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging

Director of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging at Harvard Business School, offered the following guidance to help organizations understand the metrics that serve as a baseline for diversity and inclusion initiatives and improve... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

16 Jun 2015
First Look

First Look: June 16, 2015

Publications June 2015 Review of Accounting Studies Speaking of the Short-Term: Disclosure Horizon and Managerial Myopia By: Brochet, Francois, Maria Loumioti, and George Serafeim Abstract—We study conference calls as a voluntary... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Behrad Mahdi

two-year commitment. At first I did everything from meeting with board members to cleaning the office at night. Eventually, I became director of development and external affairs." Within a year, the Columbia City Year moved into the... View Details

01 Jun 2011
News

Where Conservation Means Business

historical volumes occupying 28,000 linear feet of shelving over two basement floors of climate-controlled — 60 F and 40 percent humidity — stacks. That’s more than five miles of shelves filled with a trove of historical documents, from 15th-century Medici View Details

Keywords: Roger thompson

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Management Training Program - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

Management Training Program and experienced a brief postwar enrollment boom. The new name reflected a broader scope that included human relations as well as production issues related to industry and government. T. North Whitehead, who had served in the war in the... View Details

01 Dec 2001
News

September 11: A Community Reflects

each one of us receives from this community are very important. I want to thank all of you for participating in this support system and for sustaining the unique set of values that defines HBS. "Stacey M. Childress (MBA '00), director of... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg

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