External And Internal Reporting - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Mar 2003
What Do You Think?

Are Conditions Right for the Next Accounting Scandal?

auditors and audit committees whose mutual survival depends on each other, overly complicated accounting and tax systems, and the nature of the View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Accounting; Financial Services

05 Nov 2024
Research & Ideas

AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen

Choudhury and his team built a “CEO Bot” by providing a large language model with all internal and external communications from the real boss,... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Information Technology; Technology

13 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Create Winning Streaks

energy, etc.). 2. Confidence and winning is a cyclical process that feeds off of itself, as does lack of confidence and losing. These cycles involve both internal View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel

11 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Building a Better Board

catch-up-with-the-buddies lunch, meetings now span a day and a half and they happen up to six times a year. While reviewing relevant materials used to mean flipping through the annual View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

16 May 2016
HBS Case

Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer

Chipotle Mexican Grill’s ongoing struggle to win customers back months after a contaminated food crisis highlights the challenges companies face with keeping food safe. Chipotle has seen its shares tumble and recently View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

30 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company

external markets. In many companies, widening the span of influence counteracts the rigidity of organizational structures based on boxes and silos. For example, although global companies like Procter &... View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

04 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable

high impact. Filtering A Leader There are three factors that social scientists agree minimize the impact of leaders: An external environment in which responses of competitors limits the leader's discretion to act. View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

15 Nov 2004
Research & Ideas

Solving the Health Care Conundrum

of M&A activity must take place; mandatory public reporting must be required documenting experience and outcome information based on defined standards (just as the SEC requires View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

31 Oct 2004
What Do You Think?

Should the Wisdom of Crowds Influence Our Thinking About Leadership?

Article Are large groups of reasonably informed and motivated people able to make better decisions than a small group of experts? James Surowiecki, in his recent book, The Wisdom of Crowds, reports on a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 Jun 2004
What Do You Think?

How Important are Big Ideas?

big ideas guide us to put our brain to work." And Don Martin added, "Management concepts provide a benchmark against which the desired direction within a company both externally View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

An Organization Your Customers Understand

"When thinking about which customers to pay attention to, the wisest choice is to cast the net broadly. They are all important." According to these authors, everyone is a customer of someone else. There are internal customers... View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

27 Sep 2017
Research & Ideas

What Happens When Ordinary People Get Creative?

itself, but also the respondent’s internal response to the event. “It was like they often couldn’t talk about the event without talking about how it made them feel and what it made them think,” Amabile says.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

10 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures

impossible? These internal capital and product markets are growing in importance for these firms creating many opportunities and many obstacles. Our research shows that some... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

26 Aug 2008
First Look

First Look: August 26, 2008

contribute to citations listed in issued patents—and that this could complicate interpretation of findings in this literature. In 2001 the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) began reporting examiner... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It

although structure is undoubtedly an impediment to the process, an even bigger barrier is managers' outdated understanding of strategy. At the heart of the problem is a failure to recognize that although the past three decades have brought dramatic changes in both... View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

13 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

Corporate Venturing: Entrepreneurship on the Inside

timing and also how much they've tended to cannibalize internal businesses that exist. There's usually a lot of resistance to anything that seems to cannibalize, even though it may be obvious that the... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia

International Political Economy in Post-Soviet Eurasia," nationalism powerfully influences the world economy, particularly in post-imperial societies. National identities can—and in the case of the former Soviet Union, did—affect... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

13 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

Sharing News That Might Be Bad

key interests? In this case, the executive's interests are twofold: maintain a trust-based relationship with her reports and protect the integrity of the business. What are the interests of the many... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Michelman

05 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots

rethinking the way the work of the whole organization is organized. It requires challenging assumptions about customers, internal and external communication, decision making,... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

02 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Ray A. Goldberg

At the beginning of January, over two hundred senior executives and government officials from around the globe met at Harvard Business School for the fortieth annual Agribusiness Seminar. They represented every facet of the "global... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Agriculture & Agribusiness

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