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- 22 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore
clients' campaigns. This practice was institutionalized by an arrangement known as the "recognition system" between agencies and publishers, and administered by a set of trade associations. Among other things, the system supported... View Details
- 01 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation
when making pricing decisions in the US syndicated loans market and mutual fund managers when making asset allocations near the time of an election. 3. Entrepreneurs and inventors influenced by politics Yet another study found that... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations
running operations across the Internet as well as having a heavier IT component that examines subjects such as Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) and Internet Commerce EE: What are the main objectives of the program? Upton: BCAO's primary objective is to enable View Details
Keywords: by Staff
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Getting Things Done: Motivating Yourself and Others - Course Catalog
contending with this challenge, the designer of an incentive system—or someone trying to motivate themselves—faces an important tradeoff between inducing high levels of motivation and inducing the right types of behavior. All incentive View Details
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Vaughn Bryant Archives | Social Enterprise
Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services Public Sector Public-Private... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
the last quarter century, not only in terms of entrepreneurship but also in the dynamics of the free-enterprise system itself. In 1975, venture funding in the United States totaled about $50 million. Today, it is somewhere between $50 and... View Details
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Strategic Plan | Information Technology
Content Management System (CMS) Program 3.10: Research Computing Platform (formerly CloudJump) 4. Protect HBS Information & Technology Assets 4.01: Data Loss Prevention (completed) 4.02: View Details
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
inside the firm to create subunits that define the operating core. As you will see, responsiveness is the critical objective for units close to the customer; economic efficiency and cost control are more important for units in the... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 09 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming the Challenges of Selling Brand New Technology (Hey, Need a 3-D Printer?)
“Nothing sells itself,” says Frank Cespedes, senior lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School. “When companies introduce new products, they are offering something that by definition is going to replace... View Details
- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53811 Do Banks Have an Edge? By: Begenau, Juliane, and Erik Stafford Abstract—We decompose bank activities into passive and active components and evaluate the performance of the active components of the bank business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
focused on attempting to connect federal government appropriation accounting to the internal management systems of the various agencies. Of course, the Congress would have none of it! Even in retirement and... View Details
- January 2011 (Revised April 2011)
- Case
CME Group
By: Forest L. Reinhardt and James Weber
The case describes CME Group, the world's largest commodities exchange, futures and options on futures contracts, history, regulation, and the strategic choices the company faced. CME Group was formed from the oldest and most well-known exchanges in the world. Traders... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Stocks; Goods and Commodities; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Risk Management; Market Participation; Market Transactions; Financial Services Industry; United States
Reinhardt, Forest L., and James Weber. "CME Group." Harvard Business School Case 711-005, January 2011. (Revised April 2011.)
- November 2009
- Article
Is it Fair to Blame Fair Value Accounting for the Financial Crisis?
By: Robert C. Pozen
When the credit markets seized up in 2008, many heaped blame on "mark to market" accounting rules, which require banks to write down their troubled assets to the prices they'd fetch if sold on the open market - at the time, next to nothing. Recording those assets below... View Details
Keywords: Cost Accounting; Fair Value Accounting; Financial Crisis; Assets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Crisis Management; Standards; Banking Industry
Pozen, Robert C. "Is it Fair to Blame Fair Value Accounting for the Financial Crisis?" Harvard Business Review 87, no. 11 (November 2009).
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
disaggregated "clusters" or "ecosystems" of firms has been widely recognized. But platforms and the systems in which they are embedded are very diverse. In particular, platforms may exist within firms as product lines,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Faculty Books
use — among them, death by delay, confusion, fearmongering, and character assassination — and then engage them with tactics tailored to each strategy. By “inviting in the lions” to critique an idea and being prepared for them, managers... View Details
- 17 Nov 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Equity Concerns Are Narrowly Framed
- 2021
- Working Paper
Equity Concerns Are Narrowly Framed
By: Christine L Exley and Judd B. Kessler
Distributional decisions regularly involve multiple payoff components. In a series of experiments, we show that subjects frequently exhibit narrow equity concerns: individuals apply their fairness preferences narrowly, on a specific component of payoffs, rather... View Details
Keywords: Equity; Equality and Inequality; Fairness; Perception; Outcome or Result; Resource Allocation; Behavior
Exley, Christine L., and Judd B. Kessler. "Equity Concerns Are Narrowly Framed." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-040, November 2018. (Revised August 2021.)
- March 2001 (Revised July 2002)
- Case
WingspanBank.com (B): Should This Bird Still Fly?
By: Sandra J. Sucher and Stacy McManus
WingspanBank.com is launched to critical acclaim, but its fate is hardly certain. Bank One's new CEO, Jamie Dimon, must decide what to do with what is now a second Web site for the bank's current and prospective customers. View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Customers; Innovation and Management; Organizations; Complexity; Web Sites; Financial Services Industry
Sucher, Sandra J., and Stacy McManus. "WingspanBank.com (B): Should This Bird Still Fly?" Harvard Business School Case 601-071, March 2001. (Revised July 2002.)
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Introduction - The Production - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
it offered in industrial relations. In courses such as “Human Problems of Administration” and “Personnel Research” students became familiar with prevailing management theories that espoused the importance of a cooperative View Details
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Carlos Coto
interesting. "I moved into a full-time management rotation program and noticed something intriguing," Carlos says. "As a teller, you get to know clients personally; you're aware of major life events, like when they're... View Details