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Events - Private Capital Project

and was moderated by Professor Josh Lerner (Co-Head of the HBS Private Capital Project) Private Capital through Political Cycles September 9, 2024, “Private Capital through Political Cycles” with John Coates... View Details

30 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 30

longitudinal data from 68 multi-method case studies of organizational change initiatives conducted at the National Health Service in the United Kingdom support these predictions and advance a relational view of organizational change in which social networks operate as... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 May 2019
Research & Ideas

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

a political and societal balance. The bottom line from our study is that the balance has moved away from investors and toward auditors. We hope our evidence helps provide some of the information we need to strike that balance. Where is... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Accounting

24 Feb 2020
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software

“Without this awareness,” the report reads, “and especially without processes and procedures in place to address the risks created by legacy FOSS, organizations open themselves up to the possibility of hard-to-detect issues within their... View Details

Keywords: by Frank Nagle and Jenny Hoffman; Computer

2012
Report

Sweden's Position in the Global Economy

By: Christian H.M. Ketels

In the spring of 2012, the Swedish economy is, as many of its peers, facing a difficult and uncertain economic environment. While these challenges are real, the Swedish economy looks much better prepared to deal with them than many of its peers. Following its own... View Details

Keywords: Economy; Financial Crisis; Government and Politics; Policy; Globalization; Competitive Advantage; Sweden

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29 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

How to Succeed in Business (According to a 15th Century Trade Merchant)

issue of responsibility to the community and who you are as a person.” Written in 1458 in Italy by trade merchant Benedetto Cotrugli, The Book of the Art of Trade recently received its first English translation. Baker Library at HBS and... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Value of Business Education

University, the Atlanta Conferences addressed pressing economic issues that the Black community faced. The fourth annual conference was entitled "The Negro in Business." In 1900, Booker T. Washington founded the National Negro Business... View Details

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

implicated in recent acts of corporate malfeasance—could have become so depraved, this is probably the wrong question. Given that human nature does not change much from age to age, the real issue is the effectiveness of the constraints... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28

issues of econometric and scientific uncertainty. As a result, the basis for the broader legitimacy of the WTO is shifting from questions of representation that have long drawn attention to epistemic issues, especially concerning the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Analyst Incentives.” John D. Macomber : Winner of the 2016 Page Prize for Sustainability Issues in Business Curricula for the MBA Course "Building Sustainable Cities and Infrastructure." Kristin W. Mugford : Received the 2016 Charles M.... View Details

22 Feb 2022
News

Breaking News

shown that those scrappy, community-based weeklies and monthlies serve a vital role in society, curbing political polarization and boosting civic participation. They also remain an unparalleled check on city and town councils, school... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dana Smith; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

27 Nov 2006
What Do You Think?

What’s to Be Done About Performance Reviews?

Summing Up The topic of performance reviews triggers a wide range of complex responses. The fact that most of their strongest critics elected to reply anonymously to this month's column suggests that there are also political overtones to... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

30 Aug 2016
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August 30, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51574 Fiscal Rules and Sovereign Default By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—We provide a quantitative analysis of fiscal rules in a standard model of sovereign debt accumulation and default modified to... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

04 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?

periodically raises concerns about audit-industry concentration and suggests ways to boost growth of smaller firms. The consolidation raises the issue of how the surviving big auditors and the nation's accounting regulators will manage... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

18 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 18

WhiteHarvard Business School Case 713-015 For the past few decades, Australia has dealt with the benefits and costs of repeated mining booms-inflation, a housing bubble, a current account deficit, and growing dependence on China. Between 1996 and 2007, however,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

05 Dec 2016
Research & Ideas

How The 2016 Presidential Candidates Misled Us With Truthful Statements

Others With Truthful Statements.) And it has certainly wormed its way into the political spectrum. The research paper Artful Paltering: The Risks and Rewards of Using Truthful Statements to Mislead Others opens with excerpts from a... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

February 2023 (Revised March 2024)
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Saudi Arabia: A Vision in Progress

By: Kristin Fabbe, Adel Hamaizia and Tom Quinn

In 2016, when Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman announced a long-range economic and social transformation plan called Vision 2030, he faced Western skepticism about how the oil-rich and religiously conservative country would accomplish its ambitious goals.... View Details

Keywords: Economic Growth; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Globalized Economies and Regions; Government Administration; International Relations; Leading Change; Privatization; Religion; Public Opinion; Saudi Arabia

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30 Nov 2016
What Do You Think?

How Do Leaders Manage the Tension Between Pride and Arrogance?

successful strategies. Recent events, including several well-publicized corporate missteps as well as statements made during the recent United States presidential campaigns, suggest that managing the tension between pride and arrogance is one of the most difficult,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

of organizational capabilities, technological innovation through R&D, problem solving, knowledge, and continuous learning—investment in human capital and technology that only firms could generate. Chandler placed the issue of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2022
News

My First Job

project, I was issued badge number #A001 and tasked with figuring out which markets would be best to enter and at what size to build the first manufacturing line and facility. What was my mistake? While I was willing to take a bet with... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

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