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Generative AI - Alumni

responsibly and effectively in your job search, and leverage HBS's GenAI resources and guidance below. GenAI for Your Job Search View highlights from a webinar on leveraging ChatGPT and other GenAI tools in your job search. View... View Details

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Information Technology - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

help providers and other players in the health care system leverage information technology to help them achieve two key aims: restructuring care delivery and measuring results . Establish common data definitions and precise language... View Details

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Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Outstanding Reviewer Award from the Management Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association. Susanna Gallani : Winner of the Best Paper Award at the 2022 Conference of the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand, Technology Section,... View Details

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

had taken insufficient measures before that to address its long-standing financial problems. Some research suggests that voluntary or preemptive restructuring can generate more value than restructuring done under the imminent threat of... View Details

Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson

Winter 2013
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Mandatory IFRS Adoption and Financial Statement Comparability

By: Francois Brochet, Alan Jagolinzer and Edward J. Riedl

This study examines whether mandatory adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) leads to capital market benefits through enhanced financial statement comparability. UK domestic standards are considered very similar to IFRS (Bae et al., 2008),... View Details

Keywords: IFRS; Comparability; Private Information; Insider Trading; Ethics; Standards; Financial Statements

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Business for Social Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

effectively advance the organization’s net-zero ... Campbell's Recipe for Advancing School Nutrition By: Hise O. Gibson, F. Christopher Eaglin and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone April 2025 | Faculty Research In 2021, The Campbell’s Company... View Details

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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

related to the workforce, including the skills gap, degree inflation, care economics, the role of artificial intelligence in employment outcomes, the effectiveness of social entrepreneurs in improving education to employment outcomes,... View Details

28 Sep 2011
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The Profit Power of Corporate Culture

concept," he says. "Its impact on profit can be measured and quantified." Heskett finds that as much as half of the difference in operating profit between organizations can be attributed to View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Research Areas - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

success & social progress. Social Progress Index Developing effective measurement tools for social progress. Philanthropy Strategies for effective philanthropy at foundations... View Details

27 Mar 2018
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First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018

reforms have the strongest impact in medical fields in which the probability of facing a malpractice claim is the largest, and they do not seem to affect the amount of new technologies of the highest and lowest quality. Our results underscore the importance of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Jul 2021
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Good News for Disgraced Companies: You Can Regain Trust

collaborated with Deloitte on TrustIQ, a proprietary tool that measures key elements of trust in major corporations and public sector organizations. “An increasingly large number of issues are piling up in front of companies, issues that... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Toomas Laarits & Jeffrey Wurgler MAR 2022 What is the role of fiscal stimulus in the stock market? The authors study the stock market effects of the arrival of the three rounds of “stimulus checks” to U.S. taxpayers and the single round... View Details

18 Jun 2024
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Industrial Decarbonization: Confronting the Hard Challenges of Cement

Cities like Cairo; Chongqing, China; Delhi; and Kinshasa, Congo are experiencing population explosions accompanied by unprecedented demand for homes, offices, factories, and infrastructure. In the United States, the Biden Administration’s policy-driven infrastructure... View Details

Keywords: by by Janelle Conaway; Green Technology; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing

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Leadership - Faculty & Research

"deviance" to foster innovative behavior and boost productivity. March 2015 Module Note Power and Influence in Society By: Julie Battilana This module aims to help students understand how power and influence are employed, both to reproduce the status quo and to View Details

08 Oct 2020
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Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

maximizing productivity? How do we help employees with work/life balance?” “How to keep people engaged and connected and OPTIMISTIC in appropriate measure while so many have so many competing personal and business and health and family... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

19 Sep 2013
Working Paper Summaries

U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence

Keywords: by William R. Kerr

09 Apr 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

The Dark Side of Performance Bonuses

Quotas Motivate the Sales Force Best Bonus programs are effective for motivating sales people, but also costly for companies to maintain. Which compensation schemes work best? If the CEO’s High Salary Isn't Justified to Employees, Firm... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

09 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization

experimentation. Uncertainty in this sense refers not to scientific questions about the coronavirus, but to what effect the virus will have on the future. What new realities will it generate? What will recovery look like? How long will it... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

24 Feb 2016
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Why It's Best to Take Tests Early in the Day

recent initiative that depends largely on student test scores to measure teacher efficacy. “There are all sorts of debates in the United States and, more generally, across the globe about how to improve the quality of students’ life in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008

leadership is useful in identifying potentially effective spreaders of WOM among very loyal customers, it is less useful for the sample of less loyal customers. We suggest a measure of one's social network... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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