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  • 28 May 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets

when big scandals happen, like Enron and WorldCom, the weak link often turns out to be auditors. Managers are mostly truth-tellers but have incentives to embellish and sometimes commit fraud. So we rely on auditors to mitigate that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Accounting
  • 09 May 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Where to Find Remote Work Now: 250 Million Job Postings Paint a Complex Picture

technology, management processes that they already have, and probably the culture.” Who’s in your talent pool? So what’s a remote job-seeker to do? Finding the right job depends on profession and, perhaps... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 08 May 2020
  • Blog Post

Building a World of Trusted Leaders: Taking the MBA Oath

discrimination and exploitation. I will protect the right of future generations to advance their standard of living and enjoy a healthy planet. I will report the performance and risks of my enterprise accurately and honestly. I will invest in developing myself and... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 29 Nov 2017
  • Research & Ideas

How to Succeed in Business (According to a 15th Century Trade Merchant)

down, his intelligence dims and his memory becomes less quick, so that he risks committing many errors in his business.” “In a sense, these are very early concepts of corporate social responsibility,” says Harvard Business School professor of View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 17 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook

Confined to specialist journals and books, business history research too often lacks the impact it should have on the research and practice of business management and the social sciences, according to the editors of the newly published... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

Banking on Success

Kennedy Stephen M. Waters James A. Stern William J. Kneisel Donald H. Layton Kevin W. Kennedy A managing director at Goldman Sachs, where he has spent his entire career, Kevin Kennedy has served the firm in a number of positions,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
  • 2017
  • Other Book

Good Work: The Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices

By: Matthew Taylor, Greg Marsh, Diane Nicol and Paul Broadbent
I was not the only person appointed to the Review. My fellow Review team members, Greg Marsh, Diane Nicol and Paul Broadbent have not only been an important source of ideas and wisdom throughout the process but have led in engaging with key groups of... View Details
Keywords: Future Of Work; Labor Relations; Marketplaces; Employment; Labor and Management Relations; Labor; Markets
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  • 08 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 8

  PublicationsProspects for the Professions in China Authors:William P. Alford, William Kirby, and Kenneth Winston, eds Publication:Routledge Studies on Civil Society in Asia. London: Routledge, 2010 Abstract Professionals are a growing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

How Female Stars Succeed in New Jobs

male-dominated industry realize that they are vulnerable, but men are vulnerable to bad management and cultural mismatches more than they realize. Q: What new questions has your research raised for you? What are you working on next? A:... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • News

Guy de Chazal: Changing Focus

"but it needs the support of a solid management team at a fairly early stage in the company's evolution." Having reached the top echelon of a profession that has been both financially and personally... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 03 May 2016
  • First Look

First Look, May 3, 2016

for "big teaming": intense collaboration between professions and industries with completely different mindsets. To explore the kind of leadership required to build the future, Edmondson and Reynolds tell the story of an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Industry Information - Alumni

for every state in the US + – Consulting Top-Consultant.com An aggregate of all the most recent news in the consulting industry. Consulting The primary news publication for the consulting profession featuring the latest information on... View Details
  • Web

Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Sociological Association Section on Organization, Occupations and Work for his book From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a View Details
  • 16 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?

belief that managers have internalized the values we care about, and trust them to act on those, particularly when they might come in conflict with their own interests. There are similarly other professions... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 06 Sep 2019
  • Blog Post

The Business of Medicine: MD/MBA Students Having an Impact

from Harvard Medicine's website. Troy Ameen Troy Ameen has set his sights on becoming a surgical administrator, a profession he thinks will well prepare him to one day run an urban hospital. In such a position, this rising fourth-year... View Details
  • 17 Dec 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Rise of Medical Tourism

first for-profit hospital in the southern city of Chennai in 1983. Today the Apollo Hospitals Group manages more than 30 hospitals and treats patients from many different countries, according to the case. Tarun Khanna, a Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • 15 Jun 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

business history conferences around the world, the touchstone of the profession is Alfred Chandler. What Max Weber and Emile Durkheim are to sociology, Chandler is to business history. He has decisively influenced scholarship around the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Jun 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Business of Life

unusual application of an economic term delighted Christensen, a management professor known around HBS and the globe as both a brilliant business thinker and a deeply religious man. For more than a decade he has been a go-to consultant... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Jan 2018
  • First Look

January 30, 2018

practice related to AI in developing countries. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52296 December 2017 Journal of Advertising Research Rethinking the Profession Formerly Known as Advertising: How Data... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne