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  • 12 Dec 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

to police its trademark by preventing others from using it to refer to something other than the Real Thing. Shareholder value is enhanced when a firm chooses an appropriate form of business organization, ranging from a limited liability... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services
  • 08 Mar 2021
  • In Practice

COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?

A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 06 Oct 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Updating a Classic: Writing a Great Business Plan

lamebrained the idea. Also, we have difficult factor markets like energy, but that simply means that there are great opportunities for people with ideas for alternative energy. Were I rewriting the article today, I might emphasize the importance of controlling your... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Research Summary

Managerial Decision Analysis

By: David E. Bell
David E. Bell and Arthur Schleifer, Jr. are concluding a multiyear project aimed at producing more field-oriented case material for the Managerial Economics course, specifically, materials on decision, data, and risk analysis. A series of case- and textbooks (with... View Details
  • Article

Is It Time for Auditor Independence Yet?

By: M. H. Bazerman and D. A. Moore
Well before the collapse of Enron and Arthur Andersen, we argued that the auditing system had been corrupted by the incentives auditors face to please their clients. We stated that even honest auditors were incapable of independence within the current regulatory... View Details
Keywords: Accounting Audits; Change; Crime and Corruption; Customer Satisfaction; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Failure; Motivation and Incentives
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  • 02 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities

What makes for the ideal entrepreneurial opportunity? To learn about the frameworks firms use when evaluating potential venture opportunities, Mike Roberts, executive director of the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, and HBS senior... View Details
Keywords: by Lauren Barley
  • 20 Oct 2010
  • Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

Editor's Note: Christian Ketels wrote this paper for the World Bank's Development Debate, "What Do We Mean by Export Competitiveness and How Do Countries Achieve it in an Uncertain World?" held March 29, 2010. Ketels is... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
  • 2022
  • Book

From Strength to Strength: Finding Meaning, Success, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life

By: Arthur C. Brooks
Many of us assume that the more successful we are, the less susceptible we become to the sense of professional and social irrelevance that often accompanies aging. But the truth is, the greater our achievements and our attachment to them, the more we notice our... View Details
Keywords: Aging; Meaning In Life; Purpose; Personal Development and Career; Success; Happiness; Satisfaction
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  • 30 Jun 2021
  • In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

a Terrorist, a deeply powerful memoir by Patrisse Cullors, the founder of the Black Lives Matter movement. Cullors shares her incredible journey from childhood to adulthood as a Black queer woman in LA. It is an emotional, yet insightful... View Details
Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland
  • 12 May 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Accounting Information as Political Currency

potentially controversial business activities—outsourcing, for example—understate their earnings if it might boost a candidate's chances of election. The research by HBS professor Karthik Ramanna and a colleague from MIT, Professor Sugata... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jul 2017
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up

to the reality that race issues in major metropolitan cities had to be addressed. The third instance came in the 1990s when global opportunities arose for US-based companies to lead their respective industries through a sustained period of growth. This latest... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 19 Sep 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

journals. “Academic research can be helpful, but it tends to be overly complex, hard to digest, and not backed by real quantitative insights from customer populations or engagements,” says Neale-May, executive director of the Chief... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education
  • 03 Dec 2012
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: Against the Grain

many people. “There is a central tension in the case between the student feeling at once helpless against a corrupt system and surprisingly powerful given his novitiate status.” The case, Against the Grain: Jim Teague in Tanzania, was written View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Food & Beverage
  • 03 May 2010
  • Research & Ideas

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

remain relevant, business schools will have to rethink many of their most cherished assumptions." In an interview, we asked Datar and Garvin to explain more. Datar, the Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Accounting at Harvard University,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
  • 2006
  • Book

Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism

By: Arthur C. Brooks
We all know we should give to charity, but who really does? Approximately three-quarters of Americans give their time and money to various charities, churches, and causes; the other quarter of the population does not. Why has America split into two nations: givers and... View Details
Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Demographics; United States
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  • 05 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

the board take into account? Bagley: The Business Roundtable is to be commended for its clear stand on the importance of selecting an ethical CEO. Anyone who ever wondered whether ethics matters need only look at the outflow of funds from the equity markets since the... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
  • 29 Jul 2013
  • Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism

Ramanna, who holds appointments as the Henry B. Arthur Fellow, supporting the research and teaching of business ethics, and as a Marvin Bower Fellow, helping faculty launch innovative new business agendas. "Capitalism delivers on... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 28 May 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets

to 80 in 2014. Another example: Some 70 percent of auditors in 1996 were likely to settle claims with some sort of cash payment. By 2016 the percentage of paid settlements had dropped to a little over 30 percent. “Reducing the bite, the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Accounting
  • 17 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook

theory of the firm owe to Chandler, but there are other important examples. For example, during the 1950s Harvard's Research Center in Entrepreneurial History, organized by HBS business historian Arthur... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Jul 2005
  • What Do You Think?

How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant?

research, Paula Thornton commented that "trying to get professors to pick up studies that are needed by the business community has been frustrating." Arthur Fullerton includes on his list of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett

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