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  • 2019
  • Article

Creativity from Paradoxical Experience: A Theory of How Individuals Achieve Creativity while Adopting Paradoxical Frames

By: Goran Calic, Sébastien Hélie, Nick Bontis and Elaine Mosakowski
Purpose: Extant paradox theory suggests that adopting paradoxical frames, which are mental templates adopted by individuals in order to embrace contradictions, will result in superior firm performance. Superior performance is achieved through learning and creativity,... View Details
Keywords: Cognition and Thinking; Creativity; Learning
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  • 15 Apr 2015
  • News

How To Take The Sting Out Of Tax Day

    Jonas Heese

    Jonas Heese is a Professor of Business Administration in the Accounting & Management (A&M) Unit at Harvard Business School.He serves as a course head of Financial Reporting and Control in the MBA core curriculum and teaches The Anatomy of... View Details

    • Research Summary

    Growth and the Quality of Foreign Direct Investment: Is All FDI Equal? (joint with Andrew Charlton)

    By: Laura Alfaro
    In this paper we distinguish different qualities of FDI to re-examine the relationship between FDI and growth. Establishing the quality of FDI, however, is a difficult concept. Quality, that is the effect of a unit of FDI on economic growth, is a combination and... View Details
    • August 1972 (Revised September 2000)
    • Background Note

    Introduction to Accumulated Value, Present Value, and Internal Rate of Return

    A simple, intuitive introduction to the usually-difficult topics of discounting and present value. While the mechanics of computing present value and internal rate of return are covered well, the emphasis is more about how to think about these concepts (for example,... View Details
    Keywords: Accounting
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    • 25 Apr 2025
    • News

    Alberto Cavallo: Tracking the Price Impacts of US Tariffs

    • January 2004 (Revised April 2004)
    • Case

    Ford Motor Company: Quality of Earnings Growth Analysis (A)

    By: David F. Hawkins and Jacob Cohen
    Even though Ford Motor Co. reports improved profitability, an equity analyst issues a sell recommendation and Standard & Poor's downgrades long-term debt. View Details
    Keywords: Quality; Business Earnings; Valuation; Investment Return; Profit; Financial Statements; Revenue; Auto Industry; Consulting Industry
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    • 07 Dec 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends

    and believe in. Consider that one of those tools, crowdfunding, is on track to account for more investment money than venture capital itself by 2016, rising from just $880 million in 2010 to an estimated $34... View Details
    Keywords: Re: Josh Lerner; Financial Services; Banking
    • 12 Jul 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care

    to Choice. Under positive-sum competition, all restrictions to choice at the disease or treatment level would disappear, including network restrictions and approvals of referrals. Reasonable co-pays and large deductibles combined with... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health
    • 07 Dec 2016
    • Blog Post

    Marketing Reimagined: A Recap of the 2016 Marketing Innovation Conference

    On Sunday November 6, over 350 people flocked to the Harvard Business School campus to attend the Marketing Innovation Conference. This year’s theme, “Marketing Reimagined”, drew a wide range of attendees from top marketing professionals... View Details
    Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports
    • 10 Aug 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal

    They collected application data using the US Department of Education’s Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System database, and when data for a particular college wasn’t available, they contacted the school’s admissions office for... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education
    • Web

    Corporate Governance and Boards of Directors - Course Catalog

    guests in a number of sessions. What are the course requirements? The basic learning for the course takes place through preparation and participation in class discussion. Thus class participation quality as well as frequency will count... View Details
    • 07 Jul 2020
    • News

    ‘It’s a matter of fairness’: squeezing more tax from multinationals

    • Web

    Manuscript Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade

    available as networked resources: George Heard, Diary on board the U.S.S. Hartford , 1860. (v. JP-2) John Heard, An Account of His Life and the History of Augustine Heard &... View Details
    • 01 Dec 1996
    • News

    Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World

    human brain is defective," says Jensen, whose life's work has reached out beyond his research in economics, finance, and accounting to include psychology, sociology, neuroscience, and history. Jensen explains that upsetting information... View Details
    Keywords: Susan Young
    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    Shareholder Activism and Firms’ Voluntary Disclosure of Climate Change Risks

    By: Caroline Flammer, Michael W. Toffel and Kala Viswanathan
    This paper examines whether—in the absence of mandated disclosure requirements—shareholder activism can elicit greater disclosure of firms’ exposure to climate change risks. We find that environmental shareholder activism increases the voluntary disclosure of climate... View Details
    Keywords: Shareholder Activism; Climate Risk; Corporate Accountability; Climate Change; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Shareholder Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Natural Environment; Environmental Sustainability; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    • 08 Feb 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp

    77 percent of the possible variation for income. By contrast, other measures such as race and education only account for 25 percent of variation. Even more interesting, the... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products
    • May 2004 (Revised August 2004)
    • Case

    Enron Odyssey (A), The: The Special Purpose of "SPEs"

    The board has asked Ron Tolbert, an employee in the Risk Assessment and Control Group, to analyze three SPE transactions executed by Enron executives: the Destec, Rhythms, and Fishtail/Bacchus transactions, which were prominently featured in the Examiner's Report in... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Management; Financial Instruments; Analysis; Accounting; Financial Strategy; Energy Industry
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    • 11 Oct 2016
    • News

    Seven Years Inside The Minds Of Four Dozen Corporate Criminals

    • Web

    Related Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade

    operating museum in the United States, with strong collections of Asian art, culture, and history that illustrate the relationship between East and West. The Library’s research offerings include books, newspapers, logbooks, View Details