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Measuring Audit Quality

By: Shivaram Rajgopal, Suraj Srinivasan and Xin Zheng
In this paper, we document 45 specific allegations related to audit deficiencies based on GAAS, as detailed in 141 AAERs and 153 securities class action lawsuits over the violation years 1978–2016. Next, we use these allegations to validate existing popular proxies of... View Details
Keywords: Audit Quality; Audit Deficiency; AAER; Securities Class Action Lawsuits; Enforcement; Accounting Audits; Quality; Measurement and Metrics
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Rajgopal, Shivaram, Suraj Srinivasan, and Xin Zheng. "Measuring Audit Quality." Review of Accounting Studies 26, no. 2 (June 2021): 559–619.
  • July 23, 2019
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Is the U.S. on Its Way to Becoming a Cashless Society?

By: Shelle Santana
The rise of digital payments, including credit cards, debit cards, and mobile payments systems, have contributed to the steady shift in payment practices among consumers. According to the FDIC, cash represented just 30% of all payments in 2017, and the percentage of... View Details
Keywords: Payment Methods; Cash; Credit Cards; Consumer Behavior; Change; United States
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Santana, Shelle. "Is the U.S. on Its Way to Becoming a Cashless Society?" Harvard Business Review (website) (July 23, 2019).
  • January 2018 (Revised May 2018)
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AT&T Managing Technological Change and the Future of Telephone Operators in the 20th Century

By: Daniel P. Gross and William R. Kerr
By the 1930s, AT&T dominated the American phone industry, serving 10 million telephones and employing over 100,000 switchboard operators. But beginning in the mid-1910s, the company began changing from manually operated switchboards to mechanical switching systems that... View Details
Keywords: AT&T; Bell Telephone; Phone Lines; Phone Operators; Mechanical Switching; Layoffs; Technological Change; Transition; History; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Disruption; Change Management; Communications Industry; Telecommunications Industry; United States
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Gross, Daniel P., and William R. Kerr. "AT&T: Managing Technological Change and the Future of Telephone Operators in the 20th Century." Harvard Business School Case 718-486, January 2018. (Revised May 2018.)
  • September 2017
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The Advocacy Trap: When Legitimacy Building Inhibits Organizational Learning

By: Tiona Zuzul and Amy C. Edmondson
This paper describes a relationship between legitimacy building and learning for a new firm in a nascent industry. Through a longitudinal study of a new firm in the nascent smart city industry, we found that the firm failed to make progress on important internal... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Learning; Advocacy; Organizations; Learning; Organizational Culture; Entrepreneurship
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Zuzul, Tiona, and Amy C. Edmondson. "The Advocacy Trap: When Legitimacy Building Inhibits Organizational Learning." Academy of Management Discoveries 3, no. 3 (September 2017): 302–321.
  • December 2013
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Land Politics and Local State Capacities: The Political Economy of Urban Change in China

By: Meg Rithmire
Despite common national institutions and incentives to remake urban landscapes to anchor growth, generate land-lease revenues, and display a capacious administration, Chinese urban governments exhibit varying levels of control over land. This article uses a paired... View Details
Keywords: China; Land Politics; Urban Planning; Local Government; Northeast China; Property Rights; Urban Development; Property; Government and Politics; China
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Rithmire, Meg. "Land Politics and Local State Capacities: The Political Economy of Urban Change in China." China Quarterly, no. 216 (December 2013): 872–895.

    Land Bargains and Chinese Capitalism: The Politics of Property Rights Under Reform

    Land reforms have been critical to the development of Chinese capitalism over the last several decades, yet land in China remains publicly owned. This book explores the political logic of reforms to land ownership and control, accounting for how land development... View Details
    • 14 Dec 2009
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    Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?

    problems from (in)convenience to price to congestion, he says. “Robust computer control is at the core of a successful PRT.” The concept is well known—you have likely encountered automated, driverless people movers in cities such as... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Transportation
    • December 2016 (Revised February 2019)
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    Kurt Summers: Investing in Our Chicago

    By: Joshua Margolis and Michael Norris
    In 2016, Kurt Summers, the Chicago City Treasurer, faced a decision with potential personal and political ramifications: whether or not to ask the city’s Mayor to join a class action antitrust suit against the city’s creditors for actions they took during the Global... View Details
    Keywords: Personal Development; Career Journey; Leadership Development; Career; Leadership; Government and Politics; Personal Development and Career; Public Administration Industry; United States; Chicago
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    Margolis, Joshua, and Michael Norris. "Kurt Summers: Investing in Our Chicago." Harvard Business School Case 417-023, December 2016. (Revised February 2019.)

      Cultural Entrepreneurship in NYC

      During weeklong January-term trips to New York City in 2013 and 2014, students from across Harvard University studied cultural entrepreneurship: new ventures in fashion, food, fine arts, and design. Students explored how such ventures are launched, and how proximity... View Details

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      Entrepreneurs-in-Residence - Entrepreneurship

      Unusual Ventures; Nextdoor San Francisco, CA Shirish Nimgaonkar Founder and CEO eBlissAI Carlos Reines Gonzalez Co-Founder RubiconMD Brooklyn, NY Kenneth Salas COO nuDesk Anthony Soohoo Venture Advisor AI Fund Jon Staff Getaway New York View Details
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      Technology & Operations Management - Faculty & Research

      of Chinese suppliers, we find that suppliers in cities with more wage-related activism increased compliance with MNEs’ wage-related standards but tempered improvement in occupational health and safety. This tradeoff is more pronounced in... View Details
      • September 2024 (Revised March 2025)
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      Burn the Gondolas? Venice, the Ghetto, and the Seasons of Capitalism

      By: Sophus A. Reinert, Charlotte Robertson and Robert Fredona
      This case uses the history of Venice—from the driving of the first pylons in the lagoon to the abdication of the city’s last doge, across the ages of Marco Polo and Vivaldi—to explore the invention and global diffusion of capitalism, as well as the cyclical rise and... View Details
      Keywords: Transformation; History; Power and Influence; Prejudice and Bias; Economic Systems; Italy
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      Reinert, Sophus A., Charlotte Robertson, and Robert Fredona. "Burn the Gondolas? Venice, the Ghetto, and the Seasons of Capitalism." Harvard Business School Case 725-006, September 2024. (Revised March 2025.)
      • 20 Aug 2020
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      How has the pandemic changed working lives?

      • 13 Jul 2016
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      How Uber, Airbnb, and Etsy Attracted Their First 1,000 Customers

      business by finding customers who needed rooms in cities hosting popular events. Source: GoodLifeStudio “If you don’t have a supply of houses and apartments, people are not going to come,” says Teixeira. The problem was, where to find... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail; Service; Transportation
      • March 2017
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      CIC: Catalyzing Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (A)

      By: William R. Kerr, Sari Kerr and Alexis Brownell
      CIC creates "entrepreneurial ecosystems," renting out office and co-working space to start-ups and related companies and providing basic business needs like Wi-Fi and legal advice. Founder Tim Rowe refers to the CIC as "innovation infrastructure," bringing together... View Details
      Keywords: Start-ups; Boston; Cambridge; St. Louis; CIC; Cambridge Innovation Center; Co-working Space; Entrepreneurial Ecosystems; Innovation Ecosystems; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Business Offices; Innovation and Invention
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      Kerr, William R., Sari Kerr, and Alexis Brownell. "CIC: Catalyzing Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (A)." Harvard Business School Case 817-126, March 2017.
      • December 1996
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      Cleveland Turnaround: Leadership in Action

      By: James E. Austin, Jaan Elias and Andrea L Strimling
      Consists of three separate parts. Part 1, The Cleveland Turnaround, describes Cleveland's decline until its bankruptcy in 1978. This is followed by the remedial actions taken by community leaders, starting with the election of a new mayor, the formation of new... View Details
      Keywords: Leading Change; Business Cycles; Development Economics; Urban Development; Social Issues; Business and Community Relations; Cleveland
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      Austin, James E., Jaan Elias, and Andrea L Strimling. "Cleveland Turnaround: Leadership in Action." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 797-501, December 1996.
      • January 2006 (Revised December 2006)
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      Wal-Mart's Business Environment

      By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee
      In 2004, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. proposed to build a new supercenter in Inglewood, a low-income community near Los Angeles. The proposal was a part of Wal-Mart's strategy to bring its supercenter format to California. Introduced in the late 1980s, supercenters added a... View Details
      Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Expansion; Market Entry and Exit; Corporate Strategy; Labor Unions; Conflict and Resolution; Retail Industry; Los Angeles
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      Oberholzer-Gee, Felix. "Wal-Mart's Business Environment." Harvard Business School Case 706-453, January 2006. (Revised December 2006.)
      • 26 Apr 2024
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      Deion Sanders' Prime Lessons for Leading a Team to Victory

      the city of Jackson was estimated at more than $30 million, Gibson says. In December 2022, Sanders moved to the University of Colorado Boulder (CU) to lead its struggling football program, which had achieved only one winning season in 15... View Details
      Keywords: by Avery Forman; Sports
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      Help - Alumni

      precise location. Search by job title: Filter your search to find alumni in a specific position. For example, try searching for alumni who self-identify as a CEO located in New York City . Again, click on the “View as Map” link to see... View Details
      • April 2019
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      American Ballet Theatre

      By: Anita Elberse, Tsubasa Nakajima and Melissa Rodman
      Kara Medoff Barnett, executive director of American Ballet Theatre (ABT), widely regarded as one of the world’s premier ballet companies, faces several challenges. It is June 2018. Despite its prestige, the company’s $45 million annual budget and $22 million endowment... View Details
      Keywords: Performing Arts; Superstars; Talent; Talent Development; Non-profit; Contracts; Labor Economics; General Management; Arts; Entertainment; Media; Talent and Talent Management; Nonprofit Organizations; Marketing; Strategy
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      Elberse, Anita, Tsubasa Nakajima, and Melissa Rodman. "American Ballet Theatre." Harvard Business School Case 519-085, April 2019.
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