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  • 10 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

IT Links for Boundaryless Companies

David Upton's Alumni Conference report on the state of information technology for business-to-business began with a lesson in technology history because, said the HBS professor, "understanding doesn't come easy without an... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
  • 10 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 10, 2008

disease-based integrated practice units called multidisciplinary care centers. These units were supported by a new construction project that had created new disease-specific facilities and a widely supported administrative plan in which... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness

and monitor the CEO, scrutinize the performance of the company's leadership team, oversee financial reporting and disclosure, and ensure compliance with laws and regulations. The recent failures triggered regulatory and legislative... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
  • Web

Harvard Business School

American Business . New York: McGraw-Hill, 1978. Davis, George, and Glegg Watson. Black Life in Corporate America: Swimming in the Mainstream . Garden City, NY: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1982. Delton, Jennifer A. Racial Integration in... View Details
  • 04 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 4

organizations. In this article, we review and integrate this literature and suggest directions for future research. We first briefly review the early history of psychological safety research and then examine contemporary research at the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 8

  PublicationsConcentrating on Governance Authors:Dalida Kadyrzhanova, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract This paper develops a novel trade-off view of corporate governance. Using a simple model that View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 5

report accusing a Chinese bond company of using fraudulent financial statements. Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/112066-PDF-ENG Sino-Forest (C) David F. HawkinsHarvard Business School Supplement 112-067 An... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Nov 2016
  • Research & Ideas

It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales

senior executives specializing in everything except sales. “The number of executives reporting to the CEO in the average S&P 500 company has doubled in the last 20 years,” says Frank V. Cespedes, a senior lecturer in the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 16 May 2016
  • HBS Case

Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer

Chipotle Mexican Grill’s ongoing struggle to win customers back months after a contaminated food crisis highlights the challenges companies face with keeping food safe. Chipotle has seen its shares tumble and recently reported its... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage
  • 29 May 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Race Does Matter in Mentoring

responsibility for a functional department within a business unit—for example, the director of marketing or a plant manager.) And Stage 3 covered upper middle management to the executive level. (A person in this stage became a corporate officer or a direct View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
  • 17 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 17

integrating operations to avoid corruption. The difference, the authors believe, lies in the choice between “push” and “pull” investment. MNCs seek growth by pushing current products onto emerging middle-class consumers. They retain some... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Dec 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Sharing News That Might Be Bad

key interests? In this case, the executive's interests are twofold: maintain a trust-based relationship with her reports and protect the integrity of the business. What are the interests of the many... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
  • Web

2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Nation, HuffPost, and The Atlantic. In 2017, she was the co-recipient of the Newhouse Mirror Award for Best Single Feature of 2016 for an in-depth investigative report on free speech and the internet, and a Wikipedia Distinguished Service... View Details
  • 06 May 2008
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First Look: May 6, 2008

  Working PapersHighbrow Films Gather Dust: A Study of Dynamic Inconsistency and Online DVD Rentals Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract We report on a field study demonstrating systematic differences... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 23

allowing cities to target restaurants that are most likely to have a hygiene violation. In this work, we report the first empirical study demonstrating the utility of review analysis for predicting restaurant inspection results. Download... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 22 Dec 2003
  • Research & Ideas

How to Build a Better Board

their time by providing directors with better information. As we mention in the book, encourage directors to get out and do things between the meetings to learn more about the business. Provide them with interim reports about what's going... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 08 May 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018

manner that increases reimbursement or avoids financial penalties. Identifying upcoding in claims data is challenging due to unobservable confounders (e.g., patient risk). We leverage state-level variations in adverse event reporting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures

such far-flung but tightly integrated subsidiaries? How do you ensure that financial reporting is effective while simultaneously optimizing your tax position? How do you design compensation systems that... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29

customers. Company Strategy: Business Model Reconfiguration for Innovation and Internationalization Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Joan E. Ricart Publication:In Competitiveness in Catalonia: Looking Ahead—A Report of the Center... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016

gathering tasks. We use the framework and examples of successful research studies in the nancial reporting literature to clarify how data-gathering choices affect a study’s ability to achieve its goals and conclude by showing how the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel