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Call it corporate alchemy. New research finds that multinational companies can spin gender bias into gold by recruiting and hiring well-educated female managers in countries that traditionally discriminate against women. Employing women... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Apr 1997
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Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT

The following article is the ninth in a series on the activities and research taking place in each academic unit at HBS. The information technology (IT) industry, for which rapid change has been a constant for decades, has reached another important phase in View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb

30 Nov 2019
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CIOs concerned IT not providing enough of a competitive edge

24 Apr 2014
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Ensuring a business’s profitability enables it to serve society

company is having in India, for example, embodies founder Henry Ford’s mantra that it is “in Ford’s DNA to give back to communities.” Said Fields, “Only a profitable business can be of service to society, both from an economic development... View Details

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet

Manufacturing and information technology these days go together like bread and butter. But it wasn't always so. As Professor David Upton pointed out in a Global Alumni Conference panel titled "E-Commerce and the New Operations,"... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

August 18, 2020
Article

What It Takes to Lead a Disease Research Foundation

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Kathy Giusti

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2008
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Where Does It Go? Spending by the Financially Constrained

By: Shawn A. Cole, Peter Tufano and John Thompson

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Overt Interfunctional Conflict (and Its Reduction through Business Strategy)

By: J. J. Rotemberg and Garth Saloner

Keywords: Conflict and Resolution; Business Strategy

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2008
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Where Does It Go? Spending by the Financially Constrained

By: Shawn A. Cole, John Thompson and Peter Tufano

In this paper, we analyze the spending decisions of over 1.5 million Americans who vary in their degree of revealed credit constraints. Specifically, we analyze how these Americans spend their income tax refunds, using transaction-level data from a stored-value card... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Credit; Personal Finance; Spending; Taxation; Consumer Behavior; United States

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January 2003 (Revised September 2004)
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Consulting by Auditors (B): The Compromise and its Fallout

By: Ashish Nanda

This case tracks the evolution from October 2000 to July 2001 of public debate, regulatory decisions, and firm perspectives on the subject of consulting by accounting firms. View Details

Keywords: Conflict of Interests; Service Delivery; Accounting Industry; Consulting Industry

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