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- 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24
long-term impact on the practice and thinking in this field will reach its full potential. From Counting Risk to Making Risk Count: Boundary-Work in Risk Management Author:Anette Mikes Publication:Accounting, Organizations and Society... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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How Alumni Can Recruit When They Aren’t Recruiters - Recruiting
creating an account in 12twenty or reaching out to our office . You Might Want to Read 26 Jun 2025 Partner with a Student Club 28 Apr 2025 How to onboard recently graduated MBAs 05 Feb 2025 Leadership with purpose: Redefining success and... View Details
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance
few years, venture philanthropy's overall impact is quite limited. On another front, The Pew Charitable Trusts undertook a new approach in 1997 by creating the Philadelphia Cultural Leadership Program, which demands View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
Issue Focus: Ideas & Impact Illustration by Timothy Cook An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance Pleasure in Progress Teresa Amabile It sounds so obvious: Employees who make meaningful progress in their work enjoy... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
New HBS, KSG Joint Degree
dedicated to making a difference in the world by taking leadership roles that will have a significant impact on corporate policy and public affairs,” commented HBS Dean Jay Light. The culmination of a multiyear effort by faculty and... View Details
- 10 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook
the temptation just not to bother protecting people's privacy. But I would hope that the virtuous marketer would resist that temptation." To read more: For detailed accounts of research by Leslie John, Alessandro Acquisti, and George... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
fruits, which she then sells at the local market. "The impact of these loans is extraordinary," says Barry. "Poor women have shown that they are the world's best customers, repaying their loans and using their increased income to feed,... View Details
- 15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15
As bottlenecks shift, students can explore several alternatives, each with different costs and trade-offs. Students may also reflect on the true cost of providing the extraordinary service, and whether management properly takes the impact... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Turning Point: Make Your Life Count
Rosita Najmi (MBA 2009) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Rosita Najmi (MBA 2009) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) We were refugees. Mom scraped together all we had (three suitcases and $3,000) and bundled my three siblings and me onto a plane bound for Idaho. My father... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Finding a Balance
of the product is identical by law. That was an interesting puzzle to me.” After focusing his study on antiretrovirals, Deshpandé saw other issues emerge. At the same time, he was asked to join the teaching team for Leadership and Corporate View Details
- 23 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
2024 Summer Internships in Business & Environment
than 75% of the average company's footprint. Their accounting standard has already enabled organizations to develop deep insights into their environmental impacts and will be of critical importance as... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
from college than middle-class and affluent kids. PELP demonstrates the immediate impact of a class gift. Funded by the 40th Reunion gift from the HBS Class of 1963, PELP was launched in 2003 to see if HBS could help narrow the urban... View Details
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
through a largely unguided process like biological evolution with a gradual impact upon the distribution of power among economic and political actors, the emergence of factor markets typically required fundamental reordering of power... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
older children remains essentially unchanged. To our knowledge, this is the first rigorous demonstration that one need not succumb to temptation in order for it to detrimentally impact one's economic productivity. The Dynamics of Social... View Details
- 13 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future
private firms differs.” So when Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Joan Farre-Mensa learned he'd been granted access to a database of accounting information on tens of thousands of private American firms, he knew it was an... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
performance. Publisher's link: https://hbr.org/2015/01/the-truth-about-csr Working Papers Auditor Lobbying on Accounting Standards By: Allen, Abigail M., Karthik Ramanna, and Sugata Roychowdhury Abstract—We examine how Big N auditors'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
of a large incumbent organization, with high personnel costs, crippling bureaucracy, lack of customer-centricity, a dull brand, and eroding profitability. Tsamaz was taking over the reins at a time of deep economic crisis in Greece, which would View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Misgovernance at the World Bank
of new rural roads. “With [more] information, non-board members could ask executive directors the hard questions of why some countries fared better than others." -Eric Werker Q: Your findings suggest fundamental unfairness that has a great View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
agents over eight weeks to examine how differing types of guidance and training impact the agents' inventory management. We find agents who are trained in person and receive an explicit, personalized, daily text message recommendation of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Jo Tan (MBA 2021) Draws on Experience
For Jo, illustration has always been a hobby. She started to illustrate more in her final year of undergrad at the University of Sydney to keep her food diary interesting. (If you follow her Instagram account she still frequently... View Details