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Accounting & Management - Faculty & Research

Management Accounting. Our research helps scholars and educators understand current best practices for the design and use of performance measurement systems that help managers to build more effective,... View Details
  • 15 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 15, 2016

uses of formal “lessons learned,” and how best to use the scarce time of the most valuable JPL engineers. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/917404-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 917-405 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • September 21, 2013
  • Other Article

Redefining Global Health-care Delivery

By: Jim Yong Kim, Paul E. Farmer and Michael E. Porter
Initiatives to address the unmet needs of those facing both poverty and serious illness have expanded significantly over the past decade. But many of them are designed in an ad-hoc manner to address one health problem among many; they are too rarely assessed; best... View Details
Keywords: Health
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  • 17 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership

correctly and shaping one’s response to it optimally. The maxim of Epictetus, “What, then, is to be done? To make the best of what is in our power, and take the rest as it naturally happens,” has similarities to both Buddhist doctrine and... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
  • TeachingInterests

Managing Global Health: Applying Behavioral Economics to Create Impact (MBA)

Health, and development more broadly, is not something we give to people: it is something they produce themselves, interacting with supply-side and institutional factors. This course trains students to see through the lens of the end-user and to use the levers of... View Details

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Tread Lightly Through These Accounting Minefields

By: H. David Sherman and S. David Young
In the current economic climate, there is tremendous pressure—and personal incentive for managers—to report sales growth and meet investors' revenue expectations. As a result, more companies have been issuing misleading financial reports, according to the SEC,... View Details
Keywords: Derivatives; Benchmarking Performance; Accounting; Revenue Recognition; Assets
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  • June 2014
  • Supplement

Chung and Dasgupta: Supplemental Information on Jordan Ramirez and Casey Clark

By: Ian Larkin and Karen Huang
The "Promotion Process at Chung and Dasgupta, LLP" set of cases explores the roles of general and firm-specific human capital in employee performance measurement, feedback, and promotion/compensation decisions. In the cases, a leading law firm must decide whether to... View Details
Keywords: Performance Appraisal; Performance Measurement; Employee Feedback; Motivation; Promotions; Human Capital; Performance Evaluation; Management Systems; Compensation and Benefits; Retention; Legal Services Industry; United States; Massachusetts
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  • June 2014
  • Supplement

Chung and Dasgupta: Information for Casey Clark

By: Ian Larkin and Karen Huang
The "Promotion Process at Chung and Dasgupta, LLP" set of cases explores the roles of general and firm-specific human capital in employee performance measurement, feedback, and promotion/compensation decisions. In the cases, a leading law firm must decide whether to... View Details
Keywords: Human Capital; Performance Evaluation; Management Systems; Compensation and Benefits; Retention; Legal Services Industry; United States; Massachusetts
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  • June 2014
  • Case

The Promotion Process at Chung and Dasgupta, LLP

By: Ian Larkin and Karen Huang
The "Promotion Process at Chung and Dasgupta, LLP" set of cases explores the roles of general and firm-specific human capital in employee performance measurement, feedback, and promotion/compensation decisions. In the cases, a leading law firm must decide whether to... View Details
Keywords: Performance Appraisal; Performance Measurement; Employee Feedback; Motivation; Promotions; Human Capital; Performance Evaluation; Management Systems; Compensation and Benefits; Retention; Legal Services Industry; United States; Massachusetts
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  • 17 Apr 2019
  • Blog Post

Making Sabbaticals Mainstream Series: Marty

needed. Time off where the mind isn’t cleared and also high-quality work isn’t done is doubly ineffective. Finally, he would provide resources to those going on sabbatical to ensure employees “got off on the right foot.” These resources would also be directed towards... View Details
  • 23 Jun 2023
  • HBS Case

This Company Lets Employees Take Charge—Even with Life and Death Decisions

organization has been experimenting with methods to foster idea development and has implemented a de facto structured empowerment model, where best practices are shared without being imposed. And that’s the... View Details
Keywords: by Annelena Lobb; Health
  • 19 Sep 2023
  • HBS Case

How Will the Tech Titans Behind ChatGPT, Bard, and LLaMA Make Money?

And so, to the extent that maybe you don’t want an AI offering now, but you want one five years from now, the effort of building a centralized data store for all that data will be important. Rand: What are some best View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology
  • 26 Apr 2023
  • In Practice

Is AI Coming for Your Job?

cuts in white-collar staff. Joseph Fuller is a Professor of Management Practice in General Management and co-leads the Managing the Future of Work initiative at HBS. Ayelet Israeli: For now, AI still needs human intervention In the near... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Technology
  • 17 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Teaming in the Twenty-First Century

is the engine of organizational learning," says Edmondson. From Theory To Practice In the book, Edmondson makes the case for managers to shift from holding a static view of teamwork to this dynamic one. Real-world examples drawn from her... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • 18 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 18

initial socialization focused on personal identity (emphasizing newcomers' authentic best selves) led to greater customer satisfaction and employee retention after six months, compared to (a) socialization that focused on organizational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Decision Rights: Who Gives the Green Light?

best practices promise to lower them. Weighing The Costs There are two types of costs that must be considered in allocating decision rights. In their 1990 paper, "Specific and General Knowledge, and... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
  • Profile

Fatima Albassam

program to advance her skills, Fatima felt that, “If I were to leave work and family for two years, I wanted the best education possible. The way they teach at HBS emulates reality. With each case, you have limited information, but you... View Details
  • 11 Apr 2024
  • In Practice

Why Progress on Immigration Might Soften Labor Pains

innovation outcomes, and in many ways. Here are three: Knowledge is shared and then recombined. Knowledge is transferred from the home countries of the migrants to the US, we found in a study we did with data from US pharmaceutical... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 30 Apr 2024
  • Book

When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners

failed to meet the quotas could be transferred or have their work hours reduced. The unsurprising result is that when employees found themselves unable to meet the quotas, a significant number of them resorted to exaggeration and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Podcast - Business & Environment

the Sustainable Entertainment Alliance, a consortium of major studios and streamers including Disney, Netflix, and Warner Brothers. Sam describes how these players are working together to share best View Details