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My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is... View Details
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My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is... View Details
- 06 Dec 2016
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December 6, 2016
American economic development, Slavery's Capitalism identifies slavery as the primary force driving key innovations in entrepreneurship, finance, accounting, management, and political economy that are too... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Life
unusual application of an economic term delighted Christensen, a management professor known around HBS and the globe as both a brilliant business thinker and a deeply religious man. For more than a decade he... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
was focused on what we call today innovation platforms. With the emergence of Amazon, eBay, and other firms in the late 1990s and early 2000s, it was clear that a very... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?
socializing or collectivizing the potential costs of exercising their professional judgment. Some risk-taking is needed in any professional activity; it is from such risks that innovation and growth... View Details
- 22 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
Use Artificial Intelligence to Set Sales Targets That Motivate
Setting the right sales targets for employees is a difficult balancing act, with long-term consequences on growth and morale. Setting a target too low, making it easily achievable, might cause an an employee... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
effects from someone else’s disruption, threats to future plans. It’s important that people feel that there is something positive they can do to be useful and regain some control over routines View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
The New Global Business Manager
knowledge, and expertise—the key resources required in the development and diffusion of innovation worldwide. So this increasingly important capability really is about using... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 20 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry
successful. The most successful competitors were those that commercialized products on either side of IBM's 360's price and performance standards; these included the much smaller Digital Equipment, with its stripped-down minicomputer,... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly
While the US Food and Drug Administration has chiseled away pharmaceutical review times over the years to speed innovative drugs to market, the opposite seems to have occurred in the agency's approval of... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Buyer-Seller Relationship
compared the firms' performance over six years. What they found: in the beginning of a relationship, suppliers enjoyed no significant difference in sales, inventory holding and control costs, gross margins,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be
refreshing their product lines and extending their brand to more affordable items. Pressure to innovate is intense, says HBS professor Nancy F. Koehn, a business historian and... View Details
- 02 May 2017
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First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017
patent boosts a start-up’s subsequent growth and innovation by facilitating access to funding from VCs, banks, and public investors. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 9
belonging to the Lowell General Physician Hospital Organization (LGPHO). The case describes the LGPHO physicians' experience during their first two years under the AQC, allowing students to assess the group's performance as well as potential challenges in the remaining... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2001
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Corporate Governance?
Summing Up Future Corporate Governance: Different, But More Effective? Shann Turnbull suggests that the world of corporate governance will benefit from the establishment of "a new type of corporate information and View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone
since little of the upside tends to flow back onto corporate balance sheets. To that end, Nagle says, “Can we design systems and regulations to allow a company to get some of those benefits?” One model for... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 14 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact
organizations like Doctors Without Borders, responding to a disaster, will necessarily have more complex operational strategies. In order to provide shelter and food, they have to control an elaborate supply... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 2014
- What Do You Think?
Is Too Much Focus a Problem?
people to do senior managers all want innovation and risk taking in principle, but they don't have ways of measuring and evaluating it in the short term. So focus generally... 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... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne