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- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
which acted essentially as an in-house management consultancy and auditing firm. He personally composed the statutes as to its authority. This was one of the first offices in the world that began a task of standardizing View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
while between-firm selection and market reallocation raise the left truncation of the distributions and shift revenue leftward. Using a rich cross-country firm-level panel dataset, we find significant evidence of both mechanisms, but between-firm selection and market... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
most cities? In part, the answer is that OPEB liabilities were for many decades never reported on municipal balance sheets. Without such reporting, it seemed that cities' healthcare promises did not have serious financial consequences. That came to an end in 2006, when... View Details
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
practices, accounting firms, investment banks, and other professional service organizations, industry veterans DeLong, Gabarro, and Lees show how this model works to: align your firm's culture and key organizational components; satisfy... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
tech bubble burst in 2001. Accounting scandals destroyed Enron in 2001 and WorldCom in 2002. And the current global financial crisis, the worst since the Great Depression, has yet to run its course. It’s no accident that all these... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
bucked the odds, winning the company accolades in the press, shelf space at major (and minor) retailers, and the Game of the Year awards at the American International Toy Fair, the industry’s annual trade show, in 2001 and 2002. Like LEGO, Cranium is not a product that... View Details
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
reflected in the enforcement actions of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). I find that large employers are less likely to be subject to an SEC enforcement action, after controlling for firm size, accounting quality, distance to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
that attempts to maximize profits. This stage takes into account costs as well as firm's objectives and constraints (e.g., minimum market share requirement). Over the last several decades, marketing researchers and practitioners have... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
Tightening the commercial banks' capital requirement from the status quo leads to safer commercial banks and more shadow banking activity in the economy. While the safety of the financial system increases, it provides less liquidity. Calibrating the model to data from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
the stories become part of us.” How could we be fair to the accused director? How could we protect the complaining employee from retaliation during the investigation? What standards of proof should we use in making our determination about... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
cancer at age 87 on June 2, 1987), all of the strands of Doriot’s life connect to form something quite profound. In the second half of the 20th century, the United States experienced a historic transformation, in which a society dominated by large corporations such as... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
Cash By Christopher Kawaja (MBA 2004) and Shannon Matthiesen Independently published Most of us know how to balance the immediate needs of a checking account or to invest long term for our retirement plans. But financial advice falls... View Details
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
practices have on the long-term stability of the economy and the interests of beneficiaries in financial, social, and environmental sustainability. This volume provides a global and multi-faceted commentary on the evolving standards... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
with employees across the company. Reflect, diagnose, and develop a plan of action. What policies and practices should be in place for the post-COVID world? Make yourself and your senior team accountable to the organization and its... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
so maybe that's why. They're always on to the next thing. There are things that we have verified with our data, such as accountants and consultants tend to be very detail oriented. OK, well, we didn't need pymetrics to tell us that. But... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
quarter. Overall, the unit now accounts for 38 percent of the company’s business, according to its financial statements, with IBM spending more than $5 billion in acquisitions in the first half of 2016 to nourish cloud businesses like... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
consumers, and labor around the world in a way that they simply didn’t half a century ago. At the same time, business has become responsible for much more than simply “selling high and buying low” and “delivering a healthy return for shareholders.” Today, companies are... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- Web
Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
everything from stomach pains to coughs to kidney disease, “Sagwa” was in reality Healy and Bigelow's own formulation. They not only told fictional accounts of its origins but likely invented its name to make their product sound more... View Details
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
restaurants have declined in market share as Yelp penetration has increased. This suggests that online consumer reviews substitute for more traditional forms of reputation. I then test whether consumers use these reviews in a way that is consistent with View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
have important benefits in workplace settings. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55598 Diagnostic Bubbles By: Bordalo, Pedro, Nicola Gennaioli, Spencer Yongwook Kwon, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract— We introduce diagnostic expectations into... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman