Standard Setting - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

Rate, Innovation and Productivity: Regional Heterogeneity, Asymmetries and Hysteresis By: Alfaro, Laura, Alejandro Cuñat, Harald Fadinger, and Yanping Liu Abstract—We evaluate manufacturing firms' responses to changes in the real exchange rate (RER) using detailed... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

From Emerging Economies to the Global Market: The Case of Embraer

posted a 54 percent jump in sales and a 35 percent gain in second-quarter earnings. A new HBS case study on Embraer, presented in Buenos Aires (in a modified version of how such a case might be taught in a standard classroom setting),... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Manufacturing

05 May 2011
What Do You Think?

How Ethical Can We Be?

happen," noting also that " it is a heck of a job to keep staying aware " Vasudev Das suggests that words of Krishna are appropriate here, to wit: "whatever action a great man performs, common men follow; and whatever View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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Teaching Quantitative Material - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

awareness: What data would help us solve this problem? How would you analyze it? What would you expect to find? What analysis did you run—why? What assumptions did you make? How did you set up the calculation? How did you account for x... View Details

15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

installments are 11 percent less likely to be missed under the group liability setting in comparison with individual liability. In addition, compulsory savings deposits are 20 percent less likely to be missed under group liability... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural Haiti

Medical records at a healthcare clinic in Lascahobas, Haiti. Ryan McBain A few years ago, the Boston-based nonprofit health care organization Partners in Health (PIH) set out to quantify the cost of primary care for its... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

October 14, experts warned that “voluntary” carbon reduction targets being set at COP26 are far from sufficient to meaningfully address climate change. Methane, which is 60 to 80 times worse than CO2, they said, isn’t even part of the... View Details

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Rclone - Research Computing Services

Software Tools Rclone 2ms About rclone Many people use a web browser to transfer files between local and cloud storage. In comparison, Rclone is a robust command-line utility for synchronizing and transferring files to and from cloud storage. The command-line... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

Full Court Press

organization required a very specific kind of leader, and he had one in mind: former classmate Williams, who led corporate and investment banking for African markets at South Africa’s Standard Bank. “He’s always been a real strategic,... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

17 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Can Autonomous Vehicles Drive with Common Sense?

figuring out what to do at an intersection if a traffic light fails. In testing new AVs, De Freitas and his colleagues propose that companies should adopt a standard they refer to as SPRUCE—teaching AVs to drive in a manner that is:... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Auto

24 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach

time, managers and corporations seek capital for their ideas, but in doing so they have an inherent conflict of interest about what information to disclose. Therefore, for this complex system to work smoothly requires a governance system where View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

are no live interactions during the course that requires the learner to speak English. Coursework must be completed in English. Can I work ahead of the course pace? Modules are released according to a schedule communicated at the start of each course or program. You... View Details

12 Jul 2004
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Enron’s Lessons for Managers

new rules, such as the documentation of internal controls as dictated by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, are turning out to be extremely expensive to implement. The new rules for the corporate governance system highlight three assumptions, he said: 1. The minimal View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

16 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow

organization and, even more importantly, a stronger ability to deliver on the mission. What Networks Are And How They Work Trust forms the core of a network, she said. Among academic researchers, the word network refers to a set of actors... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Aug 1998
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High Honors

Johnson & Johnson in 1973 and in 1977 joined Standard Brands Incorporated. There she rose to become vice president of marketing for the margarine division. Standard merged with Nabisco in 1981, and in 1987... View Details

10 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

top executive. Because of the COVID-19 outbreak, we are all taking in vast amounts of new information every day and adjusting to an entirely new set of behavioral habits. In addition, most of us are dealing with unprecedented tasks and... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

16 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making

probably not how you would do it,” Luo says. Rather, you’d take a (sizable) number of people, allocate the scripts to them, ask them to rate and rank the scripts based on a standard set of criteria, and not... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Motion Pictures & Video

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Scaling Work - Research Computing Services

functions in R ( apply() , lapply() , etc.). As when using implicit parallelism, you must request the number of CPUs you will use when submitting a job. We also recommend that you do not statically indicate ('hard code') the number of cores that you'll be using in your... View Details

27 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 27

set of insights regarding how networks of interorganizational relationships shape the behaviors and outcomes of corporate actors. This research has provided compelling evidence that the concrete patterns of relationships in which... View Details