Current Account - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]

relying on $500,000 in financing provided by family members, friends, and "angel" investors, recurred in accounts of what she was trying to accomplish. "This is by far the most challenging thing I've ever done," she... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

01 Jun 2013
News

Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?

his staff's recommendations to approve new schools, let current charters expand, or close those plagued by low performance or financial mismanagement. "We give them many years of warnings, and we publish a report every year that shows... View Details

Keywords: David McKay Wilson; charter schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2009
News

Model Patient

again: As the very first person to enroll in an innovative new health-care program in Massachusetts, she may be leading the way to medical coverage and care for the 47 million Americans who are currently uninsured. Rhenisch’s experience... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance

18 Nov 2020
News

Networking Goes Truly Global; Confronting Institutional Racism with Case Method Webinar

some time networking. Webinar Tackles Race and Mass Incarceration Using Case Method Nearly 2.3 million individuals are currently locked up in U.S. prisons, jails, and detention centers. Of these, 60% are Black or Latinx. Why the mass... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

21 May 2007
Research & Ideas

Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect

is organizational behavior/leadership. Part of the problem is the current corporate climate, in which questions of governance and financial purity dominate CEOs' and boards' attention. Additionally, boards, and even CEOs, have been lulled... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

12 Apr 2011
First Look

First Look: April 12

Universal Health Care Is the Best Solution Authors: Regina E. Herzlinger Publication: In Current Controversies: Health Care, edited by Noel Merino. Farmington Hills, MI: Greenhaven Press, 2010 Abstract The best way to achieve universal... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 3

historical account of their humble origins, lack of resources, and determined struggle against the odds. We identify two essential dimensions of an underdog biography: external disadvantage, and passion and determination. We demonstrate... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 10, 2007

Taxes: An Analysis Perspective Harvard Business School Note 107-047 Provides an overview of accounting for deferred taxes. The primary objective is to provide external users with a basic understanding of deferred taxes. A simple... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Nov 2010
First Look

First Look: November 2, 2010

Abstract A perennial question facing managers is how much decision latitude to give their employees at work. The current research investigates how decision latitude affects employees' perceptions of managers' personalities and, in turn,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Sep 2019
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019

surgeons, and Vanya hoping to solve the final puzzles of Einstein's elusive theory of relativity, can they bear to leave the homeland that has given them so much? Grounded in real history—and inspired by the solar eclipse of 1914—A Bend in the Stars offers a... View Details

09 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

intended to help address that imbalance. This note provides a roadmap for managers and employees to follow when instituting or facing layoffs. It aims to help managers consider the broader implications that should be taken into account... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2003
News

Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?

lead time has been reduced from eight to three weeks. Now we’re competitive at a completely different level.” The Future Is Now Between 1992 and 2000, manufacturing accounted for 22 percent of U.S. economic growth (28 percent if software... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Manufacturing

14 Jul 2006
Op-Ed

The Case for Consumer-Driven Medicaid

Carolina Governor Mark Sanford (R) has suggested an option that is worth serious consideration in other states. His plan gives Medicaid enrollees a choice: Every recipient would obtain catastrophic and preventive coverage as well as a personal health View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger

09 Aug 2013
Research & Ideas

Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!

"customer-orientation." That is a buzzword that is tiresome to hear when it comes from most organizations. Bezos and Amazon, however, believe it and practice it. Accounts of internal meetings and their obsession with the... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Journalism & News; Publishing

20 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Misgovernance at the World Bank

International Development Association (IDA). They meet at least weekly; the IBRD board currently has 24 members. (There is a separate board for the IBRD and the IDA, but the latter is basically a 95 percent subset of the former.)... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

28 Apr 2023
Blog Post

How Employers Can Support LGBTQ+ Employees

“Support from CEOs made me know that the wellbeing and success of LGBTQ+ talent was on their mind and a priority.” Paul Donaher (MBA 1981) echoed the point about senior leadership support and offered a suggestion on how to build that support if it does not View Details

Keywords: All Industries

06 Dec 2021
News

The Sparkles in Our Skies

carbon offsets to account for the energy used in transportation and logistics. “Our diamonds are carbon negative, but as a company we’re currently carbon-neutral,” Hagemann explains. He’s not content with... View Details

Keywords: April White; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade

01 Jun 1996
News

Reinventing Marketing

becoming the victim of its own success, according to the leaders of the Marketing unit at HBS. "Advances in technology and fundamental changes in how products and services are delivered are enabling other disciplines - such as manufacturing, sales, even View Details

Keywords: Mary Jane Higgins; Illustration by Peter Hoey

01 Dec 2008
News

Business at the Summit

Light noted. The current crisis, he continued, inevitably will lead to “an entirely new financial system with a new set of regulators, a new set of regulations, and frankly, a new set of firms quite unlike what we’ve seen before. These... View Details

Keywords: leadership; alumni events; Centennial; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance; Management

24 Nov 2014
Research & Ideas

Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes

counsel. "Sometimes they'll be a little more subtle and say, 'My wife's going to be in Hong Kong next week, and she's going shopping.' Either you say, 'That's nice,' and you pass on, or you say, 'What store is she going to, and can I give you an View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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