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  • 05 Jun 2012
  • First Look

First Look: June 5

professional and political characteristics of FASB members and SEC commissioners predict the accounting "reliability" and "relevance" of proposed standards. Notably, we find FASB members with backgrounds in financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8

  PublicationsProspects for the Professions in China Authors:William P. Alford, William Kirby, and Kenneth Winston, eds Publication:Routledge Studies on Civil Society in Asia. London: Routledge, 2010 Abstract Professionals are a growing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Nov 2012
  • News

First and Goal

says, “I was living a dream every time I put on that helmet. And none of my teammates, from high school All-Americans to the last guys on the bench, needed any extra motivation to leave their guts, heart, and blood on the practice field... View Details
Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
  • 19 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 19, 2008

value chain and the motivation for the reuse of blocks of intellectual property in modern IC designs. It briefly examines ARM Limited as an example of an IP specialist supplier and looks at the evolution to complete Systems-on-Chip and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care

opinion, there is another important set of discussions to be had around how we actually organize care. Many of these issues are managerial in nature, rather than policy issues. Questions we need to answer include: What is the best way of configuring and managing... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health
  • 02 Sep 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road

organization. U.S. firms have typically been more centralized on the U.S., more professionally managed and [have had] more formalized bureaucracy. They have generally been seen as more aggressive and results-oriented. U.K. firms placed... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
  • 20 Dec 2019
  • News

The 19 Musts of 2019

at the center of the story was a motivational speaker, so he recorded himself a lot—which makes for really rich source material.” Courtesy source Courtesy source —Julia Kaplan (MBA 2017), business development lead at podcast network... View Details
Keywords: podcast; Arts, Entertainment
  • 01 Oct 1998
  • News

A Community Investment

that entered the business world at a time when, as one classmate puts it, "we certainly heard more praise for socialism than capitalism" - respond to questions about their personal and professional involvement in social enterprise... View Details
  • 22 Mar 2016
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March 22, 2016

benefits; and theoretical work to guide the analyses. The paper summarizes likely motives for foreign direct investment and potential effects of FDI on local economies as well as recent findings from the macro literature on the role of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Apr 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Building Businesses in Turbulent Times

decade, money from around the world has poured into the United States. Despite massive investments, when adjusted for inflation, U.S. GDP grew slowly, with much of the growth from professional and business services—including real estate,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 08 Jan 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]

In our January 2 update, we featured the first part of a two-part interview with HBS professor Michael E. Porter, an internationally influential expert on strategy and competition. (Porter was recently appointed to a University Professorship, the highest View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
  • 01 Dec 1999
  • News

Q & A: Herb Kohl

implement strategy. In a retail business, no matter what you decide in the office, if the people out in the stores don't execute it, your business isn't going to be worth a darn, because they're the ones who deal with your customers. So hiring and View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 09 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership

opportunities and promise where others see only defeat.” At each stage of aviation's business life cycle—start-up, growth, maturity, decline, rebirth—new types of leaders emerged, such as entrepreneur C.E. Woolman at Delta in the 1920s and '30s; View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Air Transportation
  • 15 Dec 2024
  • News

The Golden Thread

took a few years. Early on, her research took place in the lab, which offered a controlled environment that made it possible to nail down causality as she measured intrinsic motivation and creativity. After a few years, though, Amabile... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustration by Nigel Buchanan; retirement; careers; psychology
  • 01 Jun 2007
  • News

Profiles from the class of 2007

Photographs by Webb Chappell Now in its twelfth year, the annual student profiles feature has become something of a Bulletin tradition. As editors, we look forward every spring to meeting these outstanding members of the MBA graduating class — and who wouldn’t? Their... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
  • 13 Jul 2015
  • Research & Ideas

‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview

realized muscles & golf don't mesh (from former professional linebacker Shawne Merriman) and Remind me not to stay out til 2am w/@kidrock again. Hurtin' for certain today (from cyclist Lance Armstrong). Research shows when you're... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 13 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 13, 2007

financial returns but are also deeply committed to improving the environment and making a difference in people's lives. Robert Salas, CEO, wants a management system that communicates and motivates Amanco's three high-level goals.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 13, 2009

Long-Run Investment: The Case of Innovation Authors:Josh Lerner, Morten Sørensen, and Per Strömberg Abstract A long-standing controversy is whether LBOs relieve managers from short-term pressures from public shareholders, or whether LBO funds themselves are driven by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 31 May 2011
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First Look: May 31

described, along with efforts to professionalize sourcing/pricing and product management functions. The case closes with questions about how Chegg should respond to the pending transition from printed textbooks to electronic textbooks.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 4

there is no significant relationship between service quality and profitability. My findings highlight the importance of attending to process discipline in certain service settings. They also show that too much corporate emphasis on payroll management may View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace