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- July 2016
- Article
The Capital Market Consequences of Language Barriers in the Conference Calls of Non-U.S. Firms
By: Francois Brochet, Patricia L. Naranjo and Gwen Yu
We examine how language barriers affect the capital market reaction to information disclosures. Using transcripts from the English-language conference calls of non-U.S. firms, we find that the calls of firms in countries with greater language barriers are more likely... View Details
Keywords: Voluntary Disclosure; Capital Market Consequences; Non-plain English; Spoken Communication; Complexity; Capital Markets; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues
Brochet, Francois, Patricia L. Naranjo, and Gwen Yu. "The Capital Market Consequences of Language Barriers in the Conference Calls of Non-U.S. Firms." Accounting Review 91, no. 4 (July 2016): 1023–1049.
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Kenny Appointed Chief Marketing Officer
Brian Kenny, who has nearly twenty years of experience in marketing and communications at universities and firms such as Monitor, Genuity, and Arthur D. Little, has been named chief marketing and View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Delivering Trust
and Jake are well aware of the stigma surrounding fertility issues in an era of “picture-perfect” social media identities. Creating a community where people can share their experiences while improving the outcome for themselves and others... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 09 Feb 2016
- News
Providing the Care That Seniors Need
Patricia Will (MBA 1980) is cofounder and president of Belmont Village Senior Living, which operates 25 retirement communities in the southwestern and midwestern United States. In this video, she talks about how she came to found a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
You Are What You Eat
destructive, and unsustainable,” he said. “Our treatment of livestock reflects the public worldview of self-interest and greed.” Until the modern era, Hodges asserted, farmers and keepers of livestock understood “the importance of sustainable husbandry and of human... View Details
- Profile
Chao Zeng
communications skills. Finally, HBS is a platform for being more global, not only through classes, but in after-class activities like the Asia Business Conference or going to Brazil in FIELD to do a consulting project. By doing business... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
goes to education—about $800 million. Business people are also allocating a lot of private philanthropy money. JOSEPH FULLER Professor of Management Practice and Co-chair of HBS’s Managing the Future of Work project The funding mechanisms for K–12 education create... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 10 Feb 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Fostering Perceptions of Authenticity via Sensitive Self-Disclosure
- 1979
- Book
Teaching Interpersonal Behavior
By: Michael B. McCaskey, John J. Gabarro and Louise Cahill-Dettrich
McCaskey, Michael B., John J. Gabarro, and Louise Cahill-Dettrich. Teaching Interpersonal Behavior. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1979.
- June 1981
- Article
Boundary Spanning Individuals: Their Role in Information Transfer and Their Antecedents
By: Michael Tushman and T. Scanlan
Keywords: Communication
Tushman, Michael, and T. Scanlan. "Boundary Spanning Individuals: Their Role in Information Transfer and Their Antecedents." Academy of Management Journal 24, no. 2 (June 1981): 289–305.
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Drawing on the Crowd for Innovative Problem-Solving
the number of participants needed, and what incentives to provide. In most instances, he recommends that “an organization’s internal problem solvers should define the parameters of a challenge rather than attempt to solve it, encourage diverse ideas through a contest,... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Climate change as must-see TV
climate change story to a broad public—especially those who “may not be convinced of the issue or understand its urgency.” Abbasi secured backing from HBS alumni to support the series, and hopes to enlist the HBS alumni community in the... View Details
- 09 Oct 2015
- News
Balancing Progress and Preservation
development should stop, but we also don’t believe that the city is a vast template where the real estate community should exercise its greatest fantasies at the expense of our architectural heritage.” To illustrate, Zuckerberg notes his... View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
remake their communities for the digital age. Below, a look at how HBS alumni are helping to rewire the way the world thinks about its cities. Town Halls for All Getting your voice heard by local government is unnecessarily difficult,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 19 May 2015
- News
Getting Ready for Success
four-year colleges.” Raised in a low-income community in southern New Jersey, Huebner experienced firsthand the difference in her public school college preparation with that of her fellow students at the University of Pennsylvania. “Had... View Details
- October 1982
- Supplement
Fiber-Optics Industry (E)
By: Michael E. Porter and John R. Wells
Porter, Michael E., and John R. Wells. "Fiber-Optics Industry (E)." Harvard Business School Supplement 383-045, October 1982.
- October 1982
- Supplement
Fiber-Optics Industry (D)
By: Michael E. Porter and John R. Wells
Porter, Michael E., and John R. Wells. "Fiber-Optics Industry (D)." Harvard Business School Supplement 383-044, October 1982.
- February 1979 (Revised July 1985)
- Case
Fiber-Optics Industry (A): Products, Technology, and Markets--1978
Keywords: Competition; Competitive Strategy; Hardware; Communications Industry; Communications Industry
Porter, Michael E. "Fiber-Optics Industry (A): Products, Technology, and Markets--1978." Harvard Business School Case 379-136, February 1979. (Revised July 1985.)
- February 2024
- Case
Chime Solutions
Just two years after launching its 10k by 2020 initiative to hire 10,000 employees by 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic forced Chief Executive Officer Mark Wilson to send nearly all of his staff at Chime Solutions (Chime) to work from home. Chime was a customer contact firm... View Details
Keywords: Working Capital; Service Operations; Recruitment; Performance; Change Management; Retention; Financial Institutions; Employee Relationship Management; Talent and Talent Management; Growth Management; Mission and Purpose; Communications Industry; Communications Industry; United States
Bernstein, Shai, William R. Kerr, Christopher Stanton, Raymond Kluender, and Mel Martin. "Chime Solutions." Harvard Business School Case 824-133, February 2024.
- July 2019
- Teaching Note
AT&T, Retraining, and the Workforce of Tomorrow
By: William R. Kerr and Carl Kreitzberg
A Teaching Note for the "AT&T, Retraining, and the Workforce of Tomorrow" case study (HBS#820-017). The case describes how AT&T designed and implemented a program to retrain 100,000 of its workers. The case first reviews the technological forces that compelled AT&T to... View Details
Keywords: AT＆T; Workforce; Future Of Work; Telecommunications; Unions; Technological Change; Layoffs; MOOCS; Strategic Planning; Employees; Training; Labor; Learning; Labor Unions; Technology Adoption; Talent and Talent Management; Transformation; Communications Industry; Communications Industry; United States