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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
- 04 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 4
undermined enforcement. Then we show how, in each of these dimensions, regulation and enforcement are becoming realigned or recoupled over time. We show how this results from (a) a change in national development strategy to focus more on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2017
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substantial improvements in child health as measured by child weight and height. Our key test of rational addiction is implemented by informing a subset of households about a future boost in monitoring or incentives. We find that (1) both... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2016
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August 2, 2016
to first dates, people frequently experience performance anxiety. And when experienced immediately before or during performance, anxiety harms performance. Across a series of experiments, we explore the efficacy of a common strategy that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 23
implement principles of open and distributed innovation. Working Papers Competing with Privacy By: Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Andres Hervas-Drane Abstract—We analyze the implications of consumer privacy for competition in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 16
Sonnenberg, Susan J. Barraclough, and Anne N. Thorndike Publication:American Journal of Preventive Medicine 43, no. 1 (September 2012) Abstract Background: Effective strategies are needed to address obesity, particularly among minority... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 25
Accountability and Span of Control to Implement Business Strategy By: Simons, Robert Abstract—This study focuses on the relationship between business strategy, organization structure, and diagnostic control... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16
networks of personal relationships: 1) Change agents who were central in the organization's informal network had a clear advantage, regardless of their position in the formal hierarchy. 2) People who bridged disconnected groups or individuals were more effective at... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Silent Killers: Overcoming Barriers to Organizational Learning
In their HBS working paper "Overcoming the 'Silent Killers' to Strategy Implementation and Organizational Learning," HBS professor Michael Beer and Russell A. Eisenstat, president of the Center for... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Feb 2002
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New Porter Prize Awarded in Japan
honors and highlights companies that have maintained superior profitability by implementing unique strategies based on innovation in products, processes, and management techniques. Matsui Securities was... View Details
Keywords: awards
- 01 Mar 2012
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Balanced Scorecard and Beer Game Go High-Tech
Narayanan, the Thomas D. Casserly Jr. Professor of Business Administration and chair of the Accounting and Management Unit. Called the Balanced Scorecard Game, the complex simulation was the result of intensive research, development, and evaluation. In the exercise,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
School Ties
from a cross-section of society. The group issued a plan that became the foundation for Delaware's winning entry for the Race to the Top program. Strategy implementation. Local business executives are lending their expertise to help... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
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The CEO and the Functions of Leadership
budgeting, management development, and performance reviews are needed to ensure timely implementation of the organization’s goals and strategy to the highest standards desired by its leadership. Selection:... View Details
- 23 May 2000
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Minding the Muse: The Impact of Downsizing on Corporate Creativity
pharmaceutical firms that rely on creativity," she says. "Today's fast-changing global markets place increased pressure on companies of every kind to continuously create new products, services, and competitive strategies if they... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
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Carole Carlson
Carole (HBS '98) has a wide ranging business background, with particular expertise coaching MBAs and executives. She has a passion for helping individuals develop their career vision and implement it via practical job search skills,... View Details
Keywords: Consulting; Education; Entrepreneurship; Government; Health Care; Hospitality; Real Estate; Social Enterprise
- 25 Apr 2014
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To create breakthrough strategies, harness creativity to the scientific method
team would generate options for implementation and then define what would need to be true for each option to prevail. Through identification of barriers and tests to see how they might be overcome, the team determines which View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Hands-on Simulations Complement the Case Method
During a hands-on simulation, first-year MBA students work in teams to design and implement a complex process to produce electronic circuit boards. During a hands-on simulation, first-year MBA students work in teams to design and View Details
Keywords: Educational Innovation
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Dafna Bearson
workforce and business performance? These are the kinds of questions that challenge and excite me,” she explains. Dafna first discovered her passion for business strategy while studying economics at UC Berkeley. She was drawn to the way... View Details
- 9 AM – 10 AM EDT, 20 Mar 2019
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HBS Online Management Essentials
Maximize your managerial effectiveness by shaping and influencing processes in the critically-important treetop level between 50,000 feet (strategy) and ground level (daily tasks and activities). Program Dates: March 20, 2019 - May 15, 2019 View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
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Books
www.mindedge.com. Performance Measurement & Control Systems for Implementing Strategy by Robert L. Simons (Prentice Hall) "This book is built around a number of tensions inherent in all business," declares... View Details