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  • 10 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook

A few years ago, when Leslie K. John was a doctoral student at Carnegie Mellon University, a classmate introduced her to a then-nascent website called Facebook. John took a look, scrolling through page after page of photographs, personal confessions, and ongoing View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

and French size and value portfolios, the market portfolio, bond portfolios, and the entire cross-section of stocks. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-060.pdf Testing a Purportedly More Learnable Auction Mechanism... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • March 2022 (Revised March 2024)
  • Case

DaVita Responds to COVID

By: Susanna Gallani and David Lane
Early in August 2021, DaVita CEO Javier Rodriguez was assessing the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on his firm, which provided life-sustaining kidney dialysis to roughly 240,000 people. Effective infection control practices and information sharing had ensured... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Change Management; Communication; Talent and Talent Management; Fairness; Values and Beliefs; Corporate Accountability; Health Care and Treatment; Health Pandemics; Human Resources; Employee Relationship Management; Retention; Wages; Working Conditions; Leadership Style; Crisis Management; Organizational Culture; Health Industry; United States
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  • Summer 2013
  • Other Article

The Roots of Our Tax Debates

By: Matthew C. Weinzierl
Our fiscal debates are endlessly frustrating. The outlines of a compromise seem clear, yet both sides remain incapable of agreement. But is the proper balance between spending less and taxing more really so obvious? A look at what underlies the political wars over... View Details
Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Debates; Taxation; Budgets and Budgeting; United States
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  • 01 Jun 1999
  • News

Joel Bines

offered by his parents, who, he says, "taught me the value of extending myself and working hard." Bines's forays into the unfamiliar began just after his graduation from Bates College. After serving as a student intern for the... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
  • July 2005 (Revised January 2011)
  • Case

Understanding Customer Profitability at Charles Schwab

By: Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez
Charles Schwab is transforming into a customer-centric organization. Central to this cultural and organizational change is the utilization of customer profitability at different decision-making levels. Examines several technical aspects of the ABC cost system, as well... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Motivation and Incentives; Customer Relationship Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Activity Based Costing and Management; Decision Making; Organizational Culture; Profit; Performance Evaluation; Budgets and Budgeting
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  • 30 Jun 2019
  • News

Alumni in France honor self-made entrepreneurs; Shih talks trade in Buffalo

trip was a treat and they really valued the visit. It was very gratifying.” HBS Club of France Honors Self-Made Entrepreneurs The HBS Club of France, in partnership with the global accounting firm, Mazars,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 01 Jun 2011
  • News

LME Fund Makes HBS Dreams a Reality

This year’s 34 recipients hail from the United States and nineteen other countries, including many from the developing world. They are among the 841 first- and second-year students at the School who receive support from a variety of HBS fellowships. Donor contributions... View Details
  • 13 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 13, 2016

institutional accounts (that are not subject to the reporting requirements) at the exact same quarter-end dates. Moreover, the returns to these cloaked trades continue to accrue over the subsequent quarter and do not reverse in the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • Web

Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

Elective Curriculum: Course Descriptions Last Updated: 21 Jul 2025 By Unit View by Unit | View by Course Title | View by Faculty | Print View Accounting & Management Course Title Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits The Anatomy of Fraud... View Details
  • 14 Nov 2006
  • First Look

First Look: November 14, 2006

improvement, and holding people accountable for results. The authors propose a holistic framework that district leaders can use to develop an improvement strategy and build coherent organizations to implement it. The framework is based on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Sports
  • 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
  • 06 Apr 2007
  • What Do You Think?

Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?

it, "When companies have to play by the same rules, then fair competition can take place terms and conditions for all concerned industries worldwide seems to be a must." The one question that is within the realm of management is... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities
  • 16 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 16

accountability reports can be used to determine whether and how those reports create or destroy value for shareholders and other constituencies. Read the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 23, 2007

Download the paper (purchase from NBER required: $5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13470 Accountability in Complex Organizations: World Bank Responses to Civil Society Authors:Alnoor Ebrahim and Steve Herz Abstract Civil society actors... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • August 2023 (Revised December 2023)
  • Case

Automating Morality: Ethics for Intelligent Machines

By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and Tom Quinn
As autonomy became a more significant part of modern life – most notably in autonomous vehicles (AVs), such as Teslas – ethical debates about whether and how to impart ethics to machines heated up. Utilitarians pointed out that autonomous vehicles crashed much less... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Judgments; Fairness; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Disruptive Innovation; Technology Adoption; Risk and Uncertainty; Cognition and Thinking; Technological Innovation; Auto Industry; Technology Industry; Africa; Asia; Europe; North and Central America; Oceania; South America
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1.6 Degree Requirements | MBA

detailed supervision, as outlined in the HBS Community Values and the MBA Honor Code — that the candidate is prepared to use this body of knowledge, skills, and techniques in a manner befitting a professional administrator and responsible... View Details
  • 18 May 2011
  • News

U.S. Manufacturing Comeback?

thousands of former U.S. manufacturing jobs, will all but disappear as Chinese wages and the value of the yuan continue to rise. “All over China, wages are climbing at 15 to 20 percent a year because of the supply-and-demand imbalance for... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Manufacturing
  • 06 May 2016
  • Blog Post

Make Social Media Work For You Abroad

expertise, people will quickly see your value and depth of knowledge. Putting your professional self out there in the public domain may help jobs come to you. Another way to use LinkedIn to grow your network is to take advantage of the... View Details