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  • June 1998
  • Article

International Accounting Standard: New Employee Benefits Standard

By: David F. Hawkins
Keywords: Global Range; Accounting; Standards; Compensation and Benefits
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  • Fast Answer

Reshaping Competition

Workspace: Platform with company financials, news articles, and analyst reports (helpful for understanding market sentiment and important entity events). Orbis: A database for company information that is global in View Details
  • Profile

Patrick Akl

appreciate the benefits of diversity,” says Patrick. “HBS attracts people from different cultures and backgrounds; its cases are truly global in scope and reach.” The case method also surfaces the best aspects of diversity. “Because... View Details
  • 05 Dec 2023
  • Blog Post

Taking Learning Beyond the Classroom

the time of writing. Discussion expanded beyond the case to include the current landscape of emissions tracking and the range of regulatory and ratings agencies involved. Students discussed if car manufacturers should be held accountable for their View Details
  • April 2022
  • Article

Predictable Financial Crises

By: Robin Greenwood, Samuel G. Hanson, Andrei Shleifer and Jakob Ahm Sørensen
Using historical data on post-war financial crises around the world, we show that crises are substantially predictable. The combination of rapid credit and asset price growth over the prior three years, whether in the nonfinancial business or the household sector, is... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Global Range; Forecasting and Prediction; Mathematical Methods
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  • April 2009
  • Case

Invest Early: Early Childhood Development in a Rural Community

By: Stacey M. Childress and Geoff Eckman Marietta
Invest Early was an early childhood development partnership in rural northern Minnesota between 14 different organizations, which worked together through an advisory board, governing board, and leadership team in order to deliver coordinated early childhood services to... View Details
Keywords: Early Childhood Education; Rural Scope; Management Teams; Managerial Roles; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business and Community Relations; Partners and Partnerships; Social and Collaborative Networks
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  • July 2020
  • Article

Who Should Select New Employees, Headquarters or the Unit Manager? Consequences of Centralizing Hiring at a Retail Chain

By: Carolyn Deller and Tatiana Sandino
We examine how changing the allocation of hiring decision rights in a multiunit organization affects employee-firm match quality, contingent on a unit’s circumstances. Our research site, a U.S. retail chain, switched from a decentralized hiring model (hiring by... View Details
Keywords: Control; Selection; Decentralization; Company Values; Retail Chains; Employees; Selection and Staffing; Local Range; Business Headquarters; Decision Making
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  • December 2012
  • Article

Reflected Knowledge and Trust in Global Collaboration

By: Mark Mortensen and Tsedal Neeley
Scholars argue that direct knowledge about distant colleagues is crucial for fostering trust in global collaboration. However, their arguments focus mainly on how trust accrues from knowledge about distant collaborators' personal characteristics, relationships, and... View Details
Keywords: Global Work; Organizational Studies; Knowledge; Trust; Cooperation; Global Range; Relationships; Behavior; Personal Characteristics
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  • 01 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 1

creative destruction. Dominant incumbent firms, long successful in an existing technology, are often much less successful in new technological eras. This is puzzling, since a cursory analysis would suggest that incumbent firms have the potential to take advantage of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Feb 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Evolving for Success [Part One]

working, to be sure; but it's profound whether or not it's a moneymaking proposition. Q: What was the scope of your research, and what insights arose for you out of that work? A: I embarked on a classic research project of enormous View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 1997
  • Article

Multinationals, Development and Social Change in Asia: Long-Term Perspectives

By: G. Jones
Keywords: Global Range; Growth and Development; Society; Change; Perspective
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  • February 2014
  • Article

National Institutions and Subnational Development in Africa

By: Stelios Michalopoulos and Elias Papaioannou
We investigate the role of national institutions on subnational African development in a novel framework that accounts both for local geography and cultural-genetic traits. We exploit the fact that the political boundaries in the eve of African independence partitioned... View Details
Keywords: Ethnicity; Development Economics; Local Range; Government and Politics; Africa
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Pre-colonial Ethnic Institutions and Contemporary African Development

By: Stelios Michalopoulos and Elias Papaioannou
We investigate the role of deeply rooted pre-colonial ethnic institutions in shaping comparative regional development within African countries. We combine information on the spatial distribution of ethnicities before colonization with regional variation in contemporary... View Details
Keywords: Ethnicity; Development Economics; Local Range; Government and Politics; Africa
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  • 2011
  • Chapter

The Embeddedness of Social Entrepreneurship: Understanding Variation across Local Communities

By: Christian Seelos, Johanna Mair, Julie Battilana and M. Tina Dacin
Social enterprise organizations (SEOs) arise from entrepreneurial activities with the aim to achieve social goals. SEOs have been identified as alternative and/or complementary to the actions of governments and international organizations to address poverty and... View Details
Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Civil Society or Community; Local Range
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  • March 1998
  • Article

Internal Financing of Multinational Subsidiaries: Debt vs. Equity

By: Bhagwan Chowdhry and Joshua D. Coval
Keywords: Financing and Loans; Borrowing and Debt; Global Range
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  • 14 Nov 2024
  • News

How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
  • Web

Activating a Legion of People | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

about a job at the Wildlife Conservation Society. It was such an unexpected synergy of circumstances. I really fell in love with the organization, the people (who are primarily scientists), and the scope of the opportunity. In my current... View Details
  • 11 Oct 2022
  • News

On Balance

but also from kindergarten, so that young people are thinking and dreaming differently about their futures.” The scope is daunting but, for Wooldridge, success will entail changing the conversation. “We can change hearts and minds,” she... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Research Is the Foundation

responses, and 20,000 documents. The project’s scope would have been nearly impossible in the absence of HBS’s support for ambitious research objectives.” Earlier, in her doctoral studies at Stanford, Neeley had interviewed several teams... View Details
  • 01 Oct 1997
  • News

Expanded Elective Curriculum Offers Students A Wealth of Choices

Management and Entrepreneurial Finance, continue to broaden their scope and impact on entrepreneurial studies at HBS. The EC also now offers many small, innovative courses such as Professor Elon Kohlberg's Analytical Reasoning, Professor... View Details