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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Action Plan: Fruit of the Vine
Knudsen Cowles: building for the future at the family vineyard in Oregon’s Willamette Valley (photo by Hilary Bobel Cronon) When they inherited the family vineyard a decade ago, Page Knudsen Cowles (MBA 1983) and her three brothers knew they’d been entrusted with a... View Details
Keywords: Ryan Jones
- March 2011 (Revised March 2014)
- Case
The IASB at a Crossroads: The Future of International Financial Reporting Standards (A)
By: Karthik Ramanna, Karol Misztal and Daniela Beyersdorfer
What are the major challenges to the continued growth of IFRS worldwide? Should countries be encouraged to pursue "full adoption" of IFRS or should each country determine its own IFRS "convergence" strategy? Given the limitations of governance and... View Details
Keywords: International Accounting; Emerging Markets; Financial Reporting; Global Strategy; Fair Value Accounting; Corporate Governance; Standards; Adoption; Growth and Development Strategy
Ramanna, Karthik, Karol Misztal, and Daniela Beyersdorfer. "The IASB at a Crossroads: The Future of International Financial Reporting Standards (A)." Harvard Business School Case 111-084, March 2011. (Revised March 2014.)
- 21 Apr 2014
- News
Spirit of philanthropy advances Executive Education
also extends to HBS, which received a $50 million gift to fund a new residential learning center for its Executive Education Program. Tata—recalling that his studies at the School’s Advanced Management Program were “the most important 13... View Details
- 2014
- Discussion Paper
The Promise of Microfinance and Women's Empowerment: What Does the Evidence Say?
By: Dina D. Pomeranz
The microfinance revolution has transformed access to financial services for low-income populations worldwide. As a result, it has become one of the most talked-about innovations in global development in recent decades. However, its expansion has not been without... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship In Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Women's Empowerment; Entrepreneurs; Saving; Savings; Credit; Credit Supply; Insurance; Development Economics; Development Finance; Behavioral Economics; Gender; Microfinance; Social Entrepreneurship; Developing Countries and Economies; Banking Industry; Public Administration Industry; Financial Services Industry; Insurance Industry; Latin America; Kenya; Chile; India; Asia; Africa
Pomeranz, Dina D. "The Promise of Microfinance and Women's Empowerment: What Does the Evidence Say?" EY Thought Leadership Series, February 2014.
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Growth of the Social Enterprise
expansion. In contrast, across all organizational structures, the benefits from both brand and organizational learning were considerably greater than our survey respondents anticipated at the outset. This finding was particularly striking... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
both a lot of hope and a lot of rage and frustration and confusion intermixed. Yet the American people and the economy have come through those crises, more often than not, both stronger and sounder."... View Details
- June 2001
- Article
Organizational Differences in Rates of Learning: Evidence from the Adoption of Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
By: Gary P. Pisano, Richard Bohmer and Amy C. Edmondson
Pisano, Gary P., Richard Bohmer, and Amy C. Edmondson. "Organizational Differences in Rates of Learning: Evidence from the Adoption of Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery." Management Science 47, no. 6 (June 2001): 752.
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Intellectual Debate: The Business of Business
economics overlap and highlighted the key implications this has for management and management education. When the afternoon was over, differences of opinion on the topics notwithstanding, participants agreed that they had View Details
- 08 Jun 2011
- News
George Yeo: A Matter of Degrees
Singapore, I remember the cases I did on energy deregulation in the U.S., the whole theory of marginal pricing, and so on. It was very helpful.” Summing up his HBS experience, Yeo told the Times, “I learned... View Details
- January 2019
- Article
The ABCs of Financial Education: Experimental Evidence on Attitudes, Behavior, and Cognitive Biases
By: Fenella Carpena, Shawn A. Cole, Jeremy Shapiro and Bilal Zia
This paper uses a large-scale field experiment in India to study attitudinal, behavioral, and cognitive constraints that can stymie the link between financial education and financial outcomes. The study complements financial education with (1) financial incentives on a... View Details
Carpena, Fenella, Shawn A. Cole, Jeremy Shapiro, and Bilal Zia. "The ABCs of Financial Education: Experimental Evidence on Attitudes, Behavior, and Cognitive Biases." Management Science 65, no. 1 (January 2019): 346–369.
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
The True Value of a Tweet
So instead of using it to persuade and project your message onto people, Twitter can be a tool to learn about your customers, as another way to get information about what they’re thinking. SG: And also new... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 15 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Unspoken Messages of COVID-19 Restrictions
interpret that to mean that it’s safe.” Luca and Glaeser teamed with University of Maryland Professor Ginger Zhe Jin and Benjamin T. Leyden, an assistant professor at Cornell University. They detailed their findings in View Details
- Winter 2021
- Article
Dealmaking Disrupted: The Unexplored Power of Social Media in Negotiation
By: James K. Sebenius, Ben Cook, David A. Lax, Isaac Silberberg and Paul Levy
While social media has had profound effects in many realms, the theory and practice of negotiation have remained relatively untouched by this potent phenomenon. In this article, we survey existing research in this area and develop a broader framework for understanding... View Details
Sebenius, James K., Ben Cook, David A. Lax, Isaac Silberberg, and Paul Levy. "Dealmaking Disrupted: The Unexplored Power of Social Media in Negotiation." Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence, Technology, and Negotiation. Negotiation Journal 37, no. 1 (Winter 2021): 97–141.
- 10 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Taking Advantage of Life’s (Few and Far Between) Inflection Points
Editor's note. Although he doesn't officially hold the title, Howard H. Stevenson is considered the father of entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School. After all, he invented the definition most in use today: "Entrepreneurship is the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Howard H. Stevenson
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster
sales. Tensions escalated: Komatsu saw Dresser as backward and unresponsive; Dresser complained of learning about key Komatsu decisions after the fact. As the situation worsened, executives from both... View Details
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Around the World of Entrepreneurial Ventures
learning and teaching about the assessment of opportunities, deal structuring, and incentives. (Metallization refers to a thin layer of metal that covers the CDs before... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Amager Bakke: A Look into the Future of Waste Incineration
essays posted on the HBS Business and Environment Initiative’s Blog that highlights their reflections. Learn more about this IFC course on Decarbonization and Sustainable Production by watching this five minute video summary. Visit Date:... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
we could wrestle with and articulate, what this case method was all about,” observes Willis Emmons (MBA ’85, PhDBE ’89), director of the C. Roland Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning at HBS. “We... View Details
- 2021
- White Paper
Go Out and Innovate! Perspectives on Educating Health Care Leadership in the Time of Innovation
By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Anthony Stanowski, Edward Schumacher, Eugene Schneller, Kaveh Safavi, Quint Studer, Andrew Jay, Tom Robinson and Kevin Mahoney
The CAHME Innovation Council unanimously believes that education is essential. In evaluating the competency domain of management and leadership, and learning from programs that prioritize innovation, we ask how do we develop competencies in future leaders to succeed in... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Health Care Industry; Health Care Entrepreneurship; Innovation; Innovation ＆ Entrepreneurship; Health Industry
Herzlinger, Regina E., Anthony Stanowski, Edward Schumacher, Eugene Schneller, Kaveh Safavi, Quint Studer, Andrew Jay, Tom Robinson, and Kevin Mahoney. "Go Out and Innovate! Perspectives on Educating Health Care Leadership in the Time of Innovation." White Paper, Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education (CAHME), November 2021.
- Web
1.11 Leaves of Absence | MBA
their treatment providers) so that a professional assessment about the student’s productivity during their time away and readiness to return can be shared with the School. In addition, if the School learns View Details