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- 24 Apr 2014
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Online learning brings business basics to a wider audience
Professor and Chair of the MBA Elective Curriculum V.G. Narayanan explains the potential impact of three accounting courses he is developing for the School's new online learning platform, HBX. (Published... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
Press) Drawing from residents’ reminiscences, newspaper accounts, company newsletters and histories, and local records, Carlson looks at towns in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho and the impact that companies have had on them. Restructuring... View Details
- 11 Jul 2017
- News
The Right Thing to Do
and the other misdeeds of the mortgage crisis, remains the standard when it comes to unbridled corporate greed. Enron went bankrupt in 2001 after using a series of accounting schemes to exaggerate its bottom line and then bullying people... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Creating a mathematical method to understand consumer behavior in a digital world
homophily—the “birds-of-a-feather” tendencies of like-minded people? Only by understanding the relative impacts of these factors can companies develop effective marketing strategies. Studying the adoption of a mobile app in Japan, Gupta... View Details
- 16 Aug 2022
- News
HBS Club of Japan Event Highlights HBS Fellowship
featured a keynote address by HBS assistant professor Tomomichi Amano and a personal account by previous HBS Japan fellowship recipient Yasuhiro Sasago (MBA 2020). HBS assistant professor Tomomichi Amano Yasuhiro Sasago (MBA 2020) HBS... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Reinventing the Annual Report
types of narratives, and lots of pretty pictures. The amount of detail and the level of complexity in the financial section have grown considerably in response to the increasing onslaught of accounting rules and regulations. What’s more,... View Details
Keywords: Robert G. Eccles
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Wyss Celebrated for Career, Conservation
engineering institute. And in 2004, he gave $25 million to support the HBS Doctoral Programs. Wyss has also endowed several professorships at Harvard.) Last December, Wyss figured prominently in what news accounts hailed as the largest,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Eight Join HBS Faculty
Art by Brian Taylor As an HBS doctoral student and recipient of the Wyss Award for Excellence in Doctoral Research, George Serafeim (DBA ’10) coauthored the paper “The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Investment... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Balanced Scorecard and Beer Game Go High-Tech
Narayanan, the Thomas D. Casserly Jr. Professor of Business Administration and chair of the Accounting and Management Unit. Called the Balanced Scorecard Game, the complex simulation was the result of intensive research, development, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
HBS Records an “Excellent” Year
Program income. And an “extraordinary” jump in unrestricted giving accounted for $5 million in new revenue. In his summary statement, Melnick noted that “unrestricted current gifts are the School’s major source of funds for strategic... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
HBS Reverses Policy On Grade Disclosure
is inappropriate for HBS to dictate to students what they can and cannot say about their grades during the recruiting process,” Light wrote. “I believe you and your classmates earn your grades and should be accountable for them, as you... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
development, we strongly believe that the delivery of water and sanitation services to the city of Manila significantly affects the quality of life of the public, especially those in marginalized communities. This opportunity to have a developmental View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Five-Star Research
measurable impact on a business’s bottom line. For Luca, who has authored several studies on the topic—and is himself an occasional Yelp critic—online reviews are “one of the most powerful information sources that has emerged in decades,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Finance Conference Explores Research Methodologies
While HBS scholars have long appreciated the value of field-based research, the broader academic community in the field of finance has been slower to accept this method of inquiry. Field-based research, which closely studies the actions and decisions of one or a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?
happiest part of my day is normally in the evening when [I] sit down with my wife as we account for our day’s earnings from our different sources of income.” Since GiveDirectly launched, cash payments have become a growing, though still... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 17 Mar 2017
- News
Clare B. Hawthorne (MBA 2012)
Clare B. Hawthorne (MBA 2012) Clare B. Hawthorne (MBA 2012) took a rather winding path to HBS. She first travelled south to earn her undergraduate degree in engineering at Duke University and then to the West Coast for a master’s in View Details
- 23 Sep 2021
- News
Confronting Sustainability in Business; Pro-Bono Consulting for Black-Owned Companies
Series kicked off September 15 with HBS Professor George Serafeim, who talked about his Impact-Weighted Accounts Project at HBS. Impact-weighted accounts offer a tool for measuring a company’s external View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Meeting the Challenges of Third-World Development
even harder to help those in need. Lu, who began doing volunteer work at an early age, has a deep-seated interest in public-sector work. Rather than pursuing the traditional private-sector path the summer after her first year at HBS, Lu chose to serve as a financial... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Outsourcing for Radical Change
distinctive aspects of transformational outsourcing. First, senior management has the explicit intention of transforming the organization, and secondly, the impact of the change is measurable at the enterprise level. Why should HBS alumni... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Reimagining Capitalism In a World of Limited Resources
electricity—and research conferences, such as the Corporate Accountability Reporting Conference to be held in January 2013. "The fact that there is so much talent at Harvard that we can pull together enables us to coordinate programs in... View Details
Keywords: Dalai Lama