International Accounting Standards - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

Managing Alignment as a Process

standard for workers in construction, farming, and other professions that require strenuous outdoor labor. SMI built a successful national sales base from its headquarters in Massachusetts by establishing channels with large department... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Consumer Products; Retail

08 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries

international negotiations, I've seen numerous promising deals fail because people ignored or underestimated the powerful differences in processes across cultures... . . . What are the informal influences that can make or break a deal?... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

27 Jun 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

challenging in the past, and remains so today, the book argues that one reason was how they have both been defined. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52778 forthcoming Journal of International Economics The... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Jan 2009
First Look

First Look: January 21, 2009

Case 709-017 Despite a tradition of high household savings, Japan has supported a dynamic and technically sophisticated consumer-lending sector. The high profitability of the sector has periodically attracted interest from domestic banks as well as View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?

make the first move. Health care institutions must lead the charge by updating technologies and internal incentive structures to protect providers and patients now and in the future. Susanna Gallani is the Tai Family Associate Professor... View Details

Keywords: by Susanna Gallani, Lidia Moura, and Katie Sonnefeldt; Health

07 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Negotiation and All That Jazz

Michael Wheeler Read An Excerpt Meanwhile, as you're trying to gain a better sense of the situation, your counterpart is also reading or misreading you. As one manager told Wheeler, "It sometimes feels like I'm dancing on a tabletop in the pitch dark." To take into... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

04 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon

Medical School professor, surgeon, and New Yorker staff writer Atul Gawande; and HBS professor Raffaella Sadun, who has led an international research project on the role of management in acute care hospitals and medical schools. David... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

22 May 2020
In Practice

Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

normal. Robert S. Huckman (@robert_huckman) is the Albert J. Weatherhead III Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and the faculty chair of the HBS Health Care Initiative. Virtual medicine will become a standard... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

February 2019 (Revised October 2022)
Case

Scandal at Steinhoff

By: Kristin Mugford and Phil Caruso

Keywords: Volatility; Borrowing and Debt; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financial Liquidity; Bonds; Corporate Accountability; Failure; International Finance; Restructuring; Business Conglomerates; Crime and Corruption; Retail Industry; South Africa; Austria; Netherlands

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16 Oct 2007
First Look

First Look: October 16, 2007

business's key success factors and other important interests, and strictly adhering to "professional" compensation principles, which are useful standards to try to follow but they may not meet important personal and family... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them

Harvard Business School Professor Regina Herzlinger. “This is not a field for mile-wide, inch-deep managers” On October 4-5, Herzlinger, the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration, hosted the international conference,... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health; Education

10 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook

the temptation just not to bother protecting people's privacy. But I would hope that the virtuous marketer would resist that temptation." To read more: For detailed accounts of research by Leslie John, Alessandro Acquisti, and George... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

29 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 29, 2007

analyses, specifically, to compute net present value (NPV) internal rate of return (IRR) and payback period. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207121 Vivaldi Food Concepts—The Start-up of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Jul 2020
Op-Ed

It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees

self-insured increased competition and choice. This union could be created by using a presidential executive order to designate the Public Option as a “qualified health plan” for purposes of Internal Revenue Code section 36B(c)(3)(A). It... View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger and Richard J. Boxer; Health; Insurance

29 May 2006
What Do You Think?

How Important Is the “Service Sector Effect” on Productivity?

than they otherwise might. Whether this leads to a higher standard of living than that of their European counterparts is debatable. But there is growing evidence that providing pleasant work environments, aided to some degree by new... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Service

01 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation

shows. Partisan divides exist even within specific professions. Democrats accounted for more than 50 percent of chief or general legal officers at firms, but Democrats made up only 27 percent of chief financial officers. Similar fissures... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

07 Aug 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018

recollection of how Howard revolutionized the field of negotiation and how those insights are now affecting broader areas of the social science. Raiffa received the 1999 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Association for... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

20 Aug 2007
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively

a broad view of the market and may be less optimistically biased than internal management, but on the other hand, they may not have the depth of knowledge to understand the long-term view. So MacLeod's goal was clear: get IR-generated... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities

08 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’

and international students were underperforming relative to their American male peers. As a result of a campuswide effort, HBS has closed that grade gap, a feat that drew applause in Burden Auditorium on Friday. Still, HBS Dean Nitin... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette

15 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

the company's direction in many locations over a long period. Peter Sands at Standard Chartered Bank worked with his immediate leadership team to define the bank's values and strategic direction and then engaged his top 300 staff in the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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