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- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
interests. I leverage the positive accounting literature's current understanding of properties of financial reports to develop three hypotheses on corporate accountability... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
live and work. "Cross-sector partnering between business, government, and nonprofit sectors will be the collaboration paradigm of the 21st century," he asserts. Teaching Millions One customer with a $500 savings account is not very... View Details
- 25 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #1: Kameale C. Terry
be better stewards of the Earth. Whether we succeed or not, the Earth will always be here. The real question is whether we humans will exist on this Earth.” Just the Facts: Transportation is the largest source of overall US greenhouse gas emissions, View Details
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
institutional accounts (that are not subject to the reporting requirements) at the exact same quarter-end dates. Moreover, the returns to these cloaked trades continue to accrue over the subsequent quarter and do not reverse in the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
think, “How can we help each other?” You’d expect someone like this to be very transactional, with a very high sensitivity to perception of current events, with a very high sensitivity to perceived financial prices, if not the inner... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
between domestic employment conditions and the growth of foreign operations by American firms have led to calls for increased taxation on foreign operations—the so-called "end to tax breaks for companies that ship our jobs overseas." At the same time, the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?
featuring less product-centered and more information-centered economic activity.” It highlighted opinions at the time that “Growing ratios of market-to-book value that resulting stock prices produce can be justified as the monetization of valuable information assets... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick
modernization of the ecosystem, not just one enterprise. This often requires structuring a special purpose vehicle that can manage shared risks and returns. Buy-in. The company must obtain buy-in of regional managers by adjusting performance goals to View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 13 Jul 2016
- News
From Money to Ministry
bank, “on the ground floor,” first as a teller, then accounts clerk, safety deposits clerk, and bookkeeper. “All of these roles helped me understand the guts of the organization,” he says. “It was humbling, but I am forever grateful,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 22, 2006
Reviews John Moran's 25-year career in the orthopedic industry and his current decision whether to start a hand and foot surgery company. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=805026 Molecular... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
few miles from the factory. “Jeannette was to become a textbook case, so there was no choice: I had to succeed.” About 24,000 madeleines, with a shelf life of 50 days, pop out of Jeannette ovens every week. Sales from the company’s factory outlet store alone View Details
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
current users of core products is introduced: "brand immigrants" who claim to be part of the in-group of core users of the brand and "brand tourists" who do not claim any membership status to the brand community. A... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
city's Mission Bay neighborhood.) In addition to a current portfolio of 60 companies, Rock Health organizes industry events such as its annual Health Innovation Summit and offers aspiring entrepreneurs free access to its online Startup... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- What Do You Think?
Should More Transparency Extend to Education for Management?
. . Before revealing grades, academics should reveal the utility of grades!" Deepak Alse commented: "Accountability and transparency have no areas for exceptions. Real learning cannot happen in the absence of these two factors. However, View Details
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
treated for cancer out of the patient experience," says Feeley, who still serves as head of MD Anderson's Institute for Cancer Care Innovation. The bundles represent the treatments clinicians select for patients and take into account... View Details
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Innovating in Health Care - Course Catalog
technology-commercializing, cost-controlling, and consumer-facing. Evaluating Starting Scaling Exiting It is entirely taught through current field-based cases in all aspects of health care—digital, technological, service, and insurance.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Q & A: Gustavo Herrero
persistent market imperfections -- the WTO has yet to make its mark, and industrialized countries have been slow to dismantle their protectionist schemes -- unemployment and current account deficits continue... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 11 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 11, 2006
significantly narrowed the range of variation in beauty and hygiene ideals. Paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/06-056.pdf Nationality and Multinationals in Historical Perspective Geoffrey G. Jones This paper provides a historical perspective to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
working was critical. So we literally wrote down our unwritten rules and created a handbook for onboarding. I was a bit skeptical about the idea; it felt like a very old-school HR effort. But the results were tangible. It instantly gave us a common language and allowed... View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)
everything. I would get in at 6 a.m. to clean the office and make coffee, and then just do whatever needed to be done in order to move the ball forward, from sales and marketing to finance and accounting (top of my mind during the first... View Details