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30 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness

around the strategic direction that the company is taking would require giving different types of information to board members and having different discussions in board meetings, but the effort to revamp the meeting process and agenda... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan

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Cristina Ros Blankfein

set than the giant bank usually targets. Her final project, for example, involved the city of San Francisco working with Citibank to create college savings accounts for children starting in kindergarten. Integral to the assignment was... View Details

01 Oct 2000
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Faculty Retirements

a Ph.D. (1968) in economics, finance, and accounting from the University of Chicago. Alvin J. Silk Alvin Silk, the Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, is an expert on marketing. His recent research covers the... View Details

March 2021
Supplement

Facebook's Libra (B): The Privatization of Money?

By: Marco Di Maggio, Ethan Rouen, George Serafeim and Amy Klopfenstein

This case addresses the events that took place following the conclusion of the case “Facebook’s Libra (A): The Privatization of Money?” In October 2019, several months after the conclusion of the A case, multiple members of the Libra Association announced that they... View Details

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01 Dec 2011
News

HBS Contributors Report

Support from alumni and friends accounted for almost one-quarter of the School’s revenue in the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2011, according to the HBS Contributors Report, which was mailed to some 12,000 donors in November. All told,... View Details

29 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services

are, after all, employees not partners; the decision and accountability ultimately accrue to the chief executive. As for the board of directors, only a stream of wrong decisions is likely to stir its concern. In contrast, in a PSF, the... View Details

Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney

03 Feb 2011
What Do You Think?

Are We Going “Back to the Future” In Researching Management?

Summing Up Our forward projections often reflect what we have just experienced. Responses to the question, "What will be the single most promising area of research or study in the next 10 years?," reflect issues that fall into the same categories—management... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

01 Mar 2014
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Book Review: The Old West

Pinto calls on his experience as a financial advisor to governments, corporations, and entrepreneurs in the East and the West to explain why. It's not a result of globalization, he says, or even the 2008 economic implosion. Instead, Pinto offers a simple observation to... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

07 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends

Over the last ten years, technology has reduced entire catalogues of consumer goods to devices that fit in the palms of our hands. Phones are smarter, networks are faster, and more people have access to more information than ever before.... View Details

Keywords: Re: Josh Lerner; Financial Services; Banking

24 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

January 2017 Review of Financial Studies Being Surprised by the Unsurprising: Earnings Seasonality and Stock Returns By: Chang, Tom Y., Samuel M. Hartzmark, David H. Solomon, and Eugene F. Soltes Abstract—We present evidence consistent with markets failing to properly... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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CORe Final Exam Preparation | HBS Online

module deadline. Participants do not need to make appointments to take the final exam. The exam is divided into three parts — Business Analytics , Economics for Managers , and Financial Accounting — and you have 60 minutes to complete... View Details

12 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

capital-market or product-market benefits from inclusion. Status incentives contributed to the observed performance improvement. Back-of-the-envelope estimates suggest that JPX400 inclusion incentives accounted for 16% (20%) of the growth... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

21 May 2007
Research & Ideas

Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect

agencies, now they are delegating sales, distribution strategy, pricing, and product development to CMOs, who often lack overarching strategic responsibility. CEOs expect their CMOs to drive marketing decisions, but no one is singularly View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

which could falsely create the appearance that readmission rates are changing more in the treatment than in the control group. Accounting for the revised standards reduced the decline in risk-adjusted readmission rates for targeted... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

03 Oct 2016
Blog Post

What I Learned in the Peek Weekend STEM Cohort

Peek has changed a lot since its founding in 2015! Please visit the Peek website for the most up to date information on dates, registration, and program events. My name is Colby DeWeese and I graduated in 2016 with a degree in Chemical... View Details

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Find Books, Articles, & More | Baker Library

information on borrowing policies & procedures. Harvard Library: Borrow, Renew & Return Library Materials Proxy Accounts Faculty may sponsor up to three individuals to perform work on their behalf using a... View Details

07 Dec 2010
First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

variables are you tracking? How are you creating accountability for performance on those variables? (4) What strategic boundaries have you set? Does everyone know what actions are off-limits? (5) How are you generating creative tension?... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2007
News

To The Rescue

amazing for India. Falls are a leading cause of emergency calls, but traffic accidents are also a huge problem. India has only 1 percent of the world’s vehicles but accounts for 6 percent of the world’s traffic accidents. As the 108... View Details

Keywords: Garrett M. Graff; emergency response networks; Information; Information; Information; Information

01 Sep 2010
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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

15 Feb 2022
News

Charlotte Club Hosts Webinar to Mark 100 Years of the Case Method

developed our courses,” said Bower. “The field of marketing developed around case writing in retail and consumer goods companies. The field of management accounting developed from cases on the use of numbers for managers to use for... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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