Basic Accounting Concepts - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2004
News

Marquis Jet Takes Off

partners took to NetJets was a new concept — membership cards giving customers 25 hours of flight time for $109,000 and up. Functioning primarily as a sales and marketing organization, Marquis Jet needed to ink a partnership with NetJets... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Air Transportation; Transportation

23 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 23

Publications 2006 University of Chicago Press Manufacturing Morals: The Values of Silence in Business School Education By: Anteby, Michel Abstract—Corporate accountability is never far from the front page, and Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Jul 2010
First Look

First Look: July 13

under historical market conditions, compared to simulated losses of $280 billion in the absence of equity extractions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-023.pdf Implications for GAAP from an Analysis of Positive Research in View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Jun 2009
What Do You Think?

What Does Slower Economic Growth Really Mean?

economy without continued expansion." P. Maxson, assuming also that growth has limits, asked, "will we manage this change, or will we let ourselves be mauled by it?" A more basic question may be whether a stable economy and... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate

23 Jun 2022
Research & Ideas

All Those Zoom Meetings May Boost Connection and Curb Loneliness

experience called “Learn About Space with an Astronomer,” a virtual tour hosted by a science expert. Since the pandemic curtailed travel, Airbnb had pioneered a concept called Online Experiences to let would-be travelers experience some... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

12 Jan 2016
First Look

January 12, 2016

link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50304 October 2015 Health Affairs Exposure to Harmful Workplace Practices Could Account for Inequality in Life Spans Across Different Demographic Groups By: Goh, Joel, Jeffrey Pfeffer,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

16 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce

bank account was opened in the name of the woman in the household; the second included an account and basic training in banking; the third included an View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

28 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

account individual circumstances. From the 1980s Unilever also honed skills in divesting businesses. Unilever's ability to identify acquisition targets, and to absorb the capabilities of acquired companies, became one of its principal... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products

11 Mar 2024
News

In Harmony

Asia and COO of Asia-Pacific investment banking at Salomon Smith Barney. “It’s basically my career, crystallized,” he observes wryly. The trophies, and the magazine covers nearby, tell a very different story from Kim’s earlier, modest... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photograph by Jun Michael Park

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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

announced the launch of a new fund Jana Impact. The basic premise is that the fund will be able to generate superior returns by using Jana’s activist approach with companies that are underperforming on ESG metrics. The case examines the... View Details

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

module, you will be able to download a PDF summary highlighting key concepts and accounting and financial formulas used throughout the course. At the end of the program, you will receive a PDF compilation of... View Details

28 Jan 2016
Blog Post

Why Get an MBA?

element of an MBA is whether you learn true, hard skills. How can you teach accounting and finance through the case method? A mentor of mine put it best when he said “HBS will teach you how to think about View Details

27 May 2022
Blog Post

Q&A with the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association, MBA Class of 2023

has your military experience set you apart from your non-military classmates? Being in the military makes you adaptable to any environment or challenges that you may face and helps put things into perspective. When you are accountable for... View Details

14 Oct 2021
In Practice

Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return

people return to prior patterns of in-office hours, we have to make sure those who are still constrained by the pandemic don’t face additional penalties. Employers and managers who take their employees’ perspectives and take employees’ whole lives into View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

01 Sep 2023
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

numbers increasing from 605 million to two billion. This book is dedicated to the proposition that a basic understanding of what happens when the brain ages can improve quality of life for individuals as well as benefit society as a... View Details

01 Jun 2023
News

From Big Pharma to Startup

our story and gain feedback from an audience of potential investors,” Goble says. The victory also came with $75,000, a sizable sum for the young firm facing basic company-formation costs. The enterprise became part of the Harvard i-lab... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

A Penny for Your Thoughts? For Big-Picture Ideas, the Right Pay Structure Matters

Because workers focus too narrowly on how to achieve those objectives, rather than looking beyond the scope of their role to improve the business more broadly. Gallani conducted the study—which was published in the journal Contemporary View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

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Rclone - Research Computing Services

Security's web pages on data safety levels and appropriate data storage locations (see large graphic), or contact informationsecurity@hbs.edu . Configuring rclone You must configure rclone for each cloud storage account you wish to use.... View Details

29 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism

analysts, auditors, and accounting standards—rush in to fill that gap. Even in cases where a certain company dominates a market to create a near monopoly, entrepreneurs can find competitive advantages to create new opportunities—think IBM... View Details