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- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
perpetrator. Finally, I examine how these factors are associated with the impact on competitiveness and find that internally initiated bribery from senior executives is more likely to be associated with a significant impact on firm competitiveness. Bribery detected by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader Needs to Know
distinguishes one computer from another. In reality, the operating system is more like a chief executive in that it allocates resources and establishes and controls workflow. In the simplest sense, it tells... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Incentives and Operational Excellence
Operational problems can be the cause of an organization’s demise. Often they can be traced to poor controls in interorganizational settings, according to HBS associate professor V.G. Narayanan, a specialist in measurement View Details
- 17 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Applying the MBA Skillset to Global Health Challenges: Summer Fellow Vasilis Theodorou (MBA 2022)
management diagnostic, an assessment tool designed to help national malaria control programs and ministries of health assess their managerial challenges in a more systematic way. I am also supporting the strengthening of the existing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Entrepreneurial Unit Travels to China
While China’s Communist Party still controls the country’s political machinery, the nation’s booming economy is increasingly in the hands of savvy entrepreneurs, with an estimated 70 percent of the nation’s GDP now produced by the private... View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
in nine term sheets received from different lenders. With the proposals in-hand, he needed to decide which one was the most favorable. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/217018-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 117-112 Management View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
money-maximizing evaluation procedure. Our findings are compatible with a behavioral model of information processing and with the System 1/System 2 distinction in behavioral decision research where people have two distinct modes of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
Competition for the Supply of Control Systems By: Mikes, Anette Abstract—How do certain risk measurements in organizations come to be seen as more reliable and acceptable than others? Taking a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2020
- Op-Ed
It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees
propose a way to alter our health insurance benefits universe for insured employees and the self-insured by combining the best of Republican and Democratic ideas about health insurance. More choice, affordability, and personal control A... View Details
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Judging | New Venture Competition
Herzlinger, Highland Instruments Alireza Masrour, Plug and Play Andre Rocha, ChaosSearch Andrea Riposati, Dante Genomics Andy Macey, EPAM Systems Anne Dwane, Village Global Anthony Franklin, Spearhead Capital Partners Barbara Finer... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
What is Web3?
Web3, a new era of the internet, uses blockchains, tokens, and wallets (tools for storing and managing digital assets) to facilitate a wide range of services and functionalities, including the transfer of assets from person-to-person. It represents a paradigm shift... View Details
- 23 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It
factors like chauvinism. They mostly failed. But in failing to find a quantifiable explanation, they succeeded to challenge a commonly held notion that the corporate gender gap can be attributed to observable, measurable, controllable... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Where Are They Now?
of California, Berkeley, earlier that year. “Bob Anthony, the father of the management control systems field, was teaching at HBS, as were Dick Vancil, Bill Bruns, and John Dearden. These were the giants in... View Details
- 02 Dec 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?
are totally different. They control access to leadership positions, yet those positions are often filled by those most familiar—that is, those who most resemble men.” She went on to suggest that as male leaders observe their daughters... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits
levers that politicians pull to spring the trap, including appointment of favored regulators, control of budget appropriations, and direct arm bending of regulators on behalf of companies they favor. In all these models, the cycle of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 2018
- Book
American Fair Trade: Proprietary Capitalism, Corporatism, and the 'New Competition,' 1890–1940
By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
American Fair Trade explores the contested political and legal meanings of the term fair trade from the late nineteenth century through the New Deal era. This history of American capitalism argues that business associations partnered with regulators to... View Details
Keywords: Economic Systems; Competition; Policy; Fairness; History; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; United States
Phillips Sawyer, Laura. American Fair Trade: Proprietary Capitalism, Corporatism, and the 'New Competition,' 1890–1940. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- 03 Nov 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?
not only a company's numbers but also the systems that produce the numbers. Finally, public accountants will have to evaluate the work of the boards' audit committees that hired them. The bill for the additional external auditors and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Jul 2018
- Blog Post
Pursuing A Passion in Health Care
assessing the opportunity for a new medical diagnostic tool that targets a previously unaddressed customer segment. My job involves reaching out to our different country teams across the globe to evaluate the opportunity in their market,... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
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Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition
Competition Winner, Business Track: Argus Systems Argus Systems accelerates AI model development for physical AI. Team: Lisa Yan (MBA 2025), Drew Borinstein (MBA 2025) Play Lexi: Sacerdote Grand Prize... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
periodically blown up other emerging markets. Having already devalued the renminbi in 1994, and having retained capital controls throughout the period of economic reform, China suffered no currency crisis in 1997–1998. When the Chinese... View Details