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- 03 Mar 2003
- What Do You Think?
Are Conditions Right for the Next Accounting Scandal?
increased use of more narrowly focused professional accounting "boutiques," suggests that "what the industry really needs is more objectivity and innovation—not a larger tribe of 800-pound gorillas." In retrospect,... View Details
- 28 Oct 2024
- Op-Ed
Latino Voters Have Grown More Politically Divided. That’s Not Surprising.
published The Emerging Republican Majority, arguing that suburban growth and the professionalization of the economy would usher in a new age of Republican dominance in politics. It was not to be. The share of people living in the suburbs... View Details
- 11 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Saving the Planet
business case be made for acting in an environmentally sustainable way, defined as acting in any way that reduce a firm's environmental footprint. Understanding and Overcoming Roadblocks to Environmental Sustainability. Past Roads and Future ProspectsHistorians,... View Details
- 27 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Beware the Lasting Impression of a 'Temporary' Selfie
llSource: iStock Think that probably inappropriate Snapchat selfie is safe from leaking into your professional life because it disappears? Think again. Features on some communication apps like Snapchat and Instagram Stories allow you to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 12 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Marketing of a President
donors and volunteers but all citizens. From the imaginative campaign logo to the thirty-minute infomercial, Obama's communications were professional without being slick, attention-getting without being in-your-face. Fourth, Obama reached... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation What do you do when your rising professional career is cut short by an unexpected cancer diagnosis? Kathy Giusti shifted careers, built a new organization that transformed how cancer research is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
professional learning and development, which may be enhanced by informal routine interactions with colleagues. Some physicians, such as those in solo practice, may have less opportunity for peer interaction, negatively influencing their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2012
- What Do You Think?
Will Business Management Save US Health Care?
our system as if sickness is a necessity." There was little enthusiasm for requiring joint degrees in medicine and management. Kapil Kumar Sopory said that " some important aspects of good business management need to be practiced. These can be emphasized... View Details
- 12 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 12, 2008
PE-backed firms that are majority-owned by PE sponsors exhibit superior long-term stock price performance after they go public. These results stem from the professional ownership, tighter monitoring, and reputational considerations... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business
CEO of the Enterprise Foundation, a nationwide housing and community development nonprofit organization. Harvey explains that exorbitant housing costs encourage young, professional workers to look elsewhere for jobs, threatening the... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
is widely accepted that the conflict women experience between family obligations and professional jobs’ long hours lies at the heart of their stalled advancement. Yet research suggests that this “work-family narrative” is partial at best:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
Publications August 2013 The Accounting Review (forthcoming) Do Analysts Follow Managers Who Switch Companies? An Analysis of Relationships in the Capital Markets By: Brochet, Francois, Gregory S. Miller, and Suraj Srinivasan Abstract—We examine the importance of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Employee Analytics: Productivity Dream or Micromanagement Nightmare?
other fields, including professional sports. Artificial intelligence (AI) is also having its moment, with the rise of ChatGPT and the ripples through the tech and content worlds that it continues to generate. Some big data projects have... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS
behavior, the area where he has devoted his professional career at HBS. He also came to understand "how being an academic in many ways resembles being an entrepreneur, in that I have the opportunity to decide what ideas to... View Details
- 01 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls
particular challenge the company faced was about selling its line of prestigious, professional beauty tools to chain drugstores—risking dilution of the brand, losing existing core customers, and taking on financial commitments way beyond... View Details
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
HBS Working Knowledge readers want it all, judging by our all-time most popular articles. Here you'll find stories on everything from maintaining a professional image to writing a business plan, from how to market on social media to why... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2007
Consolidation and the Institutional Contingency of Professional Counter-Mobilization in US Banking Authors:Christopher Marquis and Michael Lounsbury Periodical:Academy of Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract In this paper, we... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power
freedom in personal and professional lives, and new modes of communication (cell phones, the Web, the blogosphere) while maintaining, indeed enhancing and modernizing, the authoritarian state. How long this balance can be sustained is of... View Details
Keywords: by William C. Kirby
- 15 Feb 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective
transaction processes of business to supporting individual professionals within the organization. In the mid-1990s, we entered the Network Era manifest by the Internet. Today my colleagues and I are at work on a set of case studies that... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 02 Aug 2024
- HBS Case
How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture
On a hectic Friday in October 2016, Josh Domingues wondered if he had made a mistake quitting the security of a well-paying job managing contracts for professional hockey players to start a new venture selling nearly expired groceries at... View Details