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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
have to know a fair amount of neuroscience. And if you’re a good neuroscientist today, you have to know a fair amount of social psychology and basic social science. These are crosshatched fields. About a... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 08 Jul 2015
- What Do You Think?
Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?
our thinking about work outmoded? What do you think? Original Article This question popped up in my mind last month after President Obama, exercising his authority under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, announced a change in labor... View Details
- 07 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Video: Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela
opportunity, to get engaged. At the Kumbh Mela there was a central administration for the festival, much as there would be for a big state fair in the United States. It worked in coordination with the smaller religious groups as well as... View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics
infrastructure make a case in point. The exorbitant cost of new structures, the limited number of opportunities for post-Games usage, and even the sometimes questionable quality of the construction are often lost in the excitement of bringing the Olympics to "our... View Details
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/709495-PDF-ENG Wal-Mart's Use of Interest Rate Swaps Harvard Business School Case 108-038 "Wal-Mart's Use of Interest Rate Swaps" recounts Wal-Mart's use of interest rate swaps to hedge the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Nov 2022
- Op-Ed
Feeling Separation Anxiety at Your Startup? 5 Tips to Soothe These Growing Pains
was fair game to chat about. A typical chat might go: Full Stack Engineer: “I’m thinking of moving the ‘Learn More’ button to the bottom right of the home page.” CEO: “Sounds good. What do you think about what that potential customer said... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- Blog
Understanding the Benefits of Our Virtual Programs
acclimate to. Trey Ford (TF): Just apply. Harvard knows a thing or two about education; skeptics are welcome. Fair warning: coordinate with those in your professional and personal circles and be ready-the program will require your full... View Details
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet
operations." Fair enough. But how can that actually be accomplished? With the help of Bart Blackburn (HBS MBA '97) of SupplierInsight, Paul Deninger (HBS MBA '84) of Broadview, and Ted Fischer of SCB Enterprise Solutions, Upton set... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue
Meanwhile, prospective African-American students attended a case discussion led by Professor Linda A. Hill. The day concluded with a career fair featuring representatives from major corporations. Saturday morning began with a seminar led... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Five Honored for Missions Accomplished
helped create Citigroup; and rescued Bank One. As a manager, you are known for cost cutting. Would you say that’s a fair assessment? I never call it cost cutting because that implies it is indiscriminate. I cut wasteful expenses, but I... View Details
- 10 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later
with the situation anybody else is in. For instance, Deloitte made major steps in the 1990s to address gender disadvantage—I actually wrote a series of cases and a Harvard Business Review article about it. The CEO saw they were losing many more women than men. He was a... View Details
Keywords: by Robin J. Ely
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
failed to address important measurement and valuation issues that have arisen in the past 40 years of practice. This gap is illustrated with missed opportunities in risk measurement and management and the estimation of the fair value of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
was one of the first days of his tenure, and already novice HBS Dean John McArthur was facing a group of fired-up students with a bone to pick. Where, the students wanted to know, was the Starting New Ventures course, listed right there in the MBA catalogue? It was a... View Details
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
as when a U.S. auto company builds a parts plant in Mexico, has come into prominence only in the past few decades. Cutting costs is fair enough, unless it is done by paying less-than-living wages, creating unsafe working conditions, or... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
- 14 Nov 2019
- News
Keeping Red Lobster Fresh
brand. Well-known, right. How do you change people's vision of what that is? KL: So that is a really terrific question, because our brand is 51 years old and there are a fair number of people who may not have been to one in the past 20... View Details
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
to handle changing workforce needs that make sparing use of staff reductions and ensure that if they do happen, the process feels fair and the affected parties have a soft landing. Most successful approaches begin with a philosophy that... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
FASB, particularly on the use of fair values in accounting. We find evidence that auditor lobbying is driven by prevailing standards of litigation and regulatory scrutiny and by support for fair-value accounting. But we find no evidence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
capitalization of firms in their coverage portfolio. Our results hold after Regulation Fair Disclosure, suggesting that these relationships are not based on selective disclosure. Overall, the evidence shows both the importance and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
made at the precision of $1 or $5 per share is associated with a $4 to $5 million higher expected transaction price than one made at a precision greater than one quarter. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50089 The U.S. Experiment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
David A. Frankel
what we will look like for a long time.” Ever modest, Frankel believes that good timing and a fair amount of luck has played a significant role in his success. He began his first company in the early 1990s, just as the internet and web... View Details