Accounting Standards - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Enron’s Lessons for Managers

collapsed on December 2, 2001 it destroyed over $60 billion in market value, he said. Second, its accounting fraud was "massive." Reasonable men and women might quibble over some of the finer points in accounting, but in FY... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

06 Oct 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

Protect and Pivot Boris Groysberg, Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration. MARKETING Tip: Tailor your brand stories to the new reality. Which types of brand stories should companies tell? After KFC was chastised by the U.K. Advertising View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

25 May 2011
HBS Case

QuikTrip’s Investment in Retail Employees Pays Off

according to market, QuikTrip uses the same store layout everywhere, along with limited product variety. "The reduced complexity that results from these decisions leads to higher employee productivity and fewer errors," says Ton. "This View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

08 May 2020
Blog Post

Building a World of Trusted Leaders: Taking the MBA Oath

leaders. Students representing more than 100 schools around the world have taken this important step toward building a planet with a shared standard for ethical and professional behavior. The MBA Oath Committee decided to share their... View Details

29 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism

process, in which diverse views are able to provide input with no one party able to receive a special voice. "As the chairman of Goldman Sachs or Citigroup or IBM, you have a substantial capacity to structure the rules of the game when it comes to View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

11 Oct 2016
First Look

October 11, 2016

self-employment is positive at the median. The option to return to paid work is large enough to reverse the result from cross-sectional studies that the median man expects to earn significantly less from self-employment. However, after View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce

bank account was opened in the name of the woman in the household; the second included an account and basic training in banking; the third included an account and direct... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

30 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

How Technology Adoption Affects Global Economies

nation's wealth. After all, new tools—from the telegraph to the PC—enable expedited production of goods and services, eventually facilitating economic growth. Technological tools also improve a country's perceived standard of living, as... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

individuals. In response to the recent scandals, politicians and government officials have stepped in to pass new laws and create new regulations, while prominent persons on Wall Street and elsewhere in the business community have issued their own calls for reform in... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

25 Jan 2017
HBS Case

How Should Advertisers Respond to Consumer Demand for Whiter Skin?

merely “suggestions” Stepping into the controversy, the Advertising Standards Council of India, a self-regulatory body for the ad industry, in 2014 issued guidelines about the advertising of skin-whitening products, saying ads should not... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Beauty & Cosmetics

16 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 16

the industry and accounted for its resilience and how these are likely to influence its future. Publisher's link: http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=22872 2006 John Wiley & Sons Venture Capital & Private Equity: A Casebook By: Lerner,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 17, 2009

purchase low market-to-book targets. Instead, mergers pair together firms with similar ratios. We then build a continuous-time model of investment and merger activity combining search, scarcity, and asset complementarity to explain this like-buys-like result. We test... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Jan 2002
Research & Ideas

How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty

at the societal benefit while at the same time taking care of the individual. That in essence is what we're trying to get at. McCaffrey: In a standard marketing situation, there's usually somebody who pays for it—such as a corporate... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

24 Feb 2020
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software

naming conventions. Perhaps the most pressing problem is the lack of a standardized software component naming schema. “Until one exists, strategies for software security, transparency, and more will have limited effect,” the report... View Details

Keywords: by Frank Nagle and Jenny Hoffman; Computer

Web

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

29 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

Case 118-030 JetBlue: Relevant Sustainability Leadership In 2017, JetBlue, the airline founded on the mission to “bring humanity back to air travel,” became one of the first companies to report performance according to the Sustainability View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

18 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?

precisely what they are—to information that would help people make assessments about which markets they want to be in and how much risk they’re taking on. Highlight it in the same way that we provide information about other asset classes and products. There aren’t... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Financial Services; Technology

07 May 2024
Blog Post

Opportunity to Offset Travel Emissions with Carbon Credits that Meet HBS Criteria

during travel. In fact, tourism accounts for about 8% of the world’s carbon emissions, contributing significantly to climate change. Pollution from travel also has major impacts on human health. One approach to help offset the negative... View Details

10 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

The Little Understood Problem Confronting Diverse Workplaces

organizational leaders rely on their own experiences and established success standards to form expectations for these workers, resulting in them feeling discouraged and unable to fit in. The paper, Relational Reconciliation: Socializing... View Details