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Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online

FAQs Enroll Now Key Concepts Discover how balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements are developed and how each interact Evaluate the financial health of a business using financial statements Understand GAAP and IFRS... View Details

11 Jan 2022
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Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK

the COVID-19 pandemic approaches its third exhausting year. Validating someone’s feelings can be as simple as pausing during the day to say, “You seem anxious,” says Zlatev, a professor in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at HBS. "You're showing that... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29

research agenda to systematically address the social welfare implications of financial innovation. To complement existing empirical and theoretical methods, we propose that scholars examine case studies of systemic (widely adopted)... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2024
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In Harmony

I read, where I write. It’s where I find some little drops of peace.” The red and blue taegeuk at the center of South Korea’s flag represents the infinite interaction between the universe’s energies, similar to the concept of yin and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographs by Jun Michael Park; private equity; fiction; financial crisis; leadership; Korea

27 Apr 2016
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How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11

depend on the circumstances and, if so, how?” Drawing on 138 interviews with FBI officials and an analysis of 45 congressional testimonies from 2001 to 2013, the paper details the ways in which design change and identity change interacted... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

17 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 17, 2007

Kraiselburd and Noel Watson Abstract In this paper, we seek to use quantitative models to help appreciate the behavioral processes associated with successful cross-functional and cross-firm alignment in supply/demand planning. We model the View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Jun 2023
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My One Case: MBA Class of 2023 Looks Back

skills that will help me interact with others in successful ways. I attribute Peterson’s failures to his individual contributor mindset and it’s something that I think would have gone differently had he switched his mindset prior to... View Details

2017
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Natural Environmental Responsibility in Indian Corporations: A Mixed Method Study

By: Shashank Shah

The world is going through unprecedented environmental crisis. The type of destruction and dissolution of natural resources and elements by individuals and institutions that has been witnessed in the last century is much more than that witnessed in the previous... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Natural Environment; Management Practices and Processes; Research; Framework; India

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Curriculum - Business & Environment

Key concepts: Business and Society, Business Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility, Entrepreneurship, Leadership Patagonia's change of ownership from a privately held company to a perpetual purpose trust and 501(c)(4) nonprofit in order... View Details

Summer 2011
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Context, Agency, and Identity: The Indian Fashion Industry and Traditional Indian Crafts

By: Mukti Khaire

Identity is an important resource for firms, since it is a critical precursor of an important strategic resource-legitimacy. However, identities of new firms in new industries are typically inchoate, since they cannot be classified within pre-existing cognitive... View Details

Keywords: History; Decision Making; Identity; Entrepreneurship; Outcome or Result; Fashion Industry; France; Italy; United Kingdom; India

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20 Aug 2007
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HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively

top of things in a more interlinked environment will be asking for more, and more targeted, financial communication. They are gradually becoming more attentive to companies that position themselves as ecological and socially responsible... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities

09 Oct 2001
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Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

In Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices, the authors combine the latest thinking from the biological and social sciences to lay out a new theory on human nature. The idea: We are all influenced and guided by four drives: acquiring,... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria

2024
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Immodest Victims: Victims Who Broadcast Their Victimization Are Seen as Less Morally Virtuous

By: Nathan Dhaliwal, Jillian J. Jordan, Anoushka Kiyawat and Pat Barclay

How do people evaluate victims who advertise their victim status? Because such broadcasting can elicit sympathy and support, we propose that declining to broadcast serves as a costly act of modesty: one is withholding a fact about oneself that could garner resources... View Details

Keywords: Public Opinion; Communication; Perception; Reputation

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04 Jun 2020
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It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward

not in the room. The more trust that accumulates between us, the better this works. How do you build up stores of this essential leadership capital? Here’s the basic formula: people tend to trust you when they think they are interacting... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

29 Nov 2021
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How Bonuses Get Employees to Choose Work Over Family

choose to spend time with—work colleagues or family—based on how their pay is structured, in particular whether they get bonuses for a job well done or earn fixed salaries regardless of performance. In fact, employees who received performance incentives spent 2 percent... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka

17 Aug 2009
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Quantifying the Economic Impact of the Internet

brand or product Website (61 percent); paid bills (56 percent); watched a video clip (51 percent); used a price comparison site (50 percent); listened to an audio clip (44 percent ). “Social networks and the easy connections they facilitate are transforming View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Advertising; Publishing

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Online Finance & Accounting Courses | HBS Online

Active Immerse yourself in a dynamic, interactive learning experience. You’ll engage in a new activity every three to five minutes and apply your knowledge through polls, quizzes, and problem-solving exercises designed to accelerate and... View Details

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FAQs for Alumni Virtual Programs - Alumni

explain which features will be used during the event. Do I need to worry about Zoom bombing? Is there anything I can do? To reduce the risk of Zoom bombing, we ask that participants do NOT forward invitations, share login information, or post links to View Details

July 2015 (Revised October 2015)
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Building Strong Partnerships at the Inter-American Development Bank

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Erin L. Henry, Andreas Georgoulias and Natalie Bartlett

Building Strong Partnerships at the Inter-American Development Bank details the development of the bank's new Office of Outreach Partnerships to sustain a culture of innovation through maintaining and generating partnerships in order to fulfill the bank's greater... View Details

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Team Scaffolds: How Meso-Level Structures Support Role-based Coordination in Temporary Groups

By: Melissa A. Valentine and Amy C. Edmondson

This paper shows how meso-level structures support effective coordination in temporary groups. Prior research on coordination in temporary groups describes how roles encode individual responsibilities so that coordination between relative strangers is possible. We... View Details