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the corporate and public sectors. The individuals profiled here—Andrew F. Brimmer, James I. Cash Jr., Linda A. Hill, and David A. Thomas—have demonstrated their dedication to the School's ideals and core mission through their active... View Details

01 Dec 2004
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Finding a Balance

of the product is identical by law. That was an interesting puzzle to me.” After focusing his study on antiretrovirals, Deshpandé saw other issues emerge. At the same time, he was asked to join the teaching team for Leadership and View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

November 2012 (Revised July 2013)
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Gerry Pasciucco at AIG Financial Products

By: Gautam Mukunda and Thomas J. DeLong

Gerry Pasciucco was appointed to lead American International Group's Financial Products (AIGFP) group after the government bailout of AIG in 2008 and charged with the task of shutting down the division while minimizing the government's losses. AIGFP's failed trades had... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Accountability; Ethics; Crisis Management; Financial Crisis; Management Teams; Business and Government Relations; Financial Services Industry; United States

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Fall 2020
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Climate in the Boardroom: Struggling to Reconcile Business as Usual and the End of the World as We Know It

By: Rebecca Henderson

How does one witness to businesspeople about climate change? Climate change is a problem for the collective and the long term, whereas business often requires a ruthless focus on the individual and the quarter. Climate change is an ethical catastrophe whose solution... View Details

Keywords: Sustainable Business; Climate Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability

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05 Jul 2011
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and threats to organizations and conclude with a research agenda that more fully accounts for the potential of community forms to be a creator (and a possible destroyer) of value for organizations. Download the paper:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Jun 2008
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Rethinking Retirement Planning

trust was no doubt engendered in an earlier day when defined benefit (DB) pension plans were offered by lifelong employers like IBM and General Motors. Today, that system is all but extinct. Merton explains that employers underestimated the cost and risk of DB plans... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services

03 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 3, 2007

models predict that the division of stock returns into dividends and capital appreciation does not affect investor consumption patterns, while mental accounting and other economic frictions predict that investors have a higher propensity... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Mar 2023
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Insights and Inspiration: A Look Back at the Summer Venture in Management Program

Tony Nguyen is an Accounting and Management Information Systems student at the University of Houston, and a Summer Venture in Management (SVMP) 2022 alum. Why did you want to attend SVMP? I am a huge advocate for diversity and inclusion,... View Details

10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016

May 2016 Journal of Accounting Research Gathering Data for Archival, Field, Survey, and Experimental Accounting Research By: Bloomfield, Robert, Mark W. Nelson, and Eugene F. Soltes Abstract—In the published... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Apr 2000
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Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti

package-shipping outfits. They operate call centers and computer-tracking systems that can summon up your account immediately and give you the information you need right away. That's the level of service we'd like to provide for our... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

October 1999
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Royal Dutch/Shell in Transition (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine

After the Brent Spar episode and the 1995 events in Nigeria, Shell undertakes an intensive review of its values and business principles. At the same time, it conducts the largest multi-stakeholder consultation in its history in an effort to better understand society's... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Issues; Public Opinion; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Transformation; Environmental Accounting; Energy Industry

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Digital Archival Resources - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HOME RESEARCH LINKS POLAROID FILMS SITE CREDITS Polaroid Corporation Annual Reports, 1937-1952 Annual reports typically include a letter to shareholders written by Edwin... View Details

01 Jun 2003
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Books

Press) In the past decade, as technological developments raced forward, large corporations with a history of scientific leadership like AT&T, IBM, and Xerox ironically found themselves struggling to keep up. Their problem, says HBS... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Laura Singleton; Donald; Sull; Henry; Chesbrough; Rob; Austin; Leslie; Perlow; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Joan Colligan Oral History - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

of an organization that would allow them to move into the corporate world, or the not-for-profit world, as it is today, and function perfectly well." Joan Colligan serves as an independent consultant to View Details

01 Jun 2007
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KPMG for Mayor!

Corporations could do a good job of running corrupt Third World governments. Corruption rules in too many of the world’s democratically elected governments. From Achocalla, Bolivia, to Mayuge, Uganda, voters pick their leaders through the... View Details

Keywords: Eric Werker; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

10 Jan 2018
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Working for a Shamed Company Can Hurt Your Future Compensation

iPhoto In the blink of an instant, a corporate brand can turn from sterling to tarnished. Just ask Volkswagen or Wells Fargo—two prestigious names that have become associated with scandal in recent years, and now become synonymous with... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

11 Jul 2017
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The Right Thing to Do

and the other misdeeds of the mortgage crisis, remains the standard when it comes to unbridled corporate greed. Enron went bankrupt in 2001 after using a series of accounting schemes to exaggerate its bottom... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Mining (except Oil and Gas); Mining

01 Jun 2024
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Action Plan: Role-Play

having complete images in your head for whatever story you’ve invented. “When you’re telling people about something that never happened, you can’t do that with a blank slate in your mind; you have to have a picture.” Lay off the social media. “If I’m in some company... View Details

Keywords: Christine Speer Lejeune; photo by Christina Gandolfo; detective; private investigator; undercover; acting

01 Dec 1996
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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

February 2002
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Strategy of the Firm Under Regulatory Review: The Case of Chilectra

By: Rafael M. Di Tella and Alexander Dyck

Discusses the largest electric distribution company in Chile and one of the five largest private Chilean companies. Introduces the exercise of operating control in order to improve the profitability of the investments, privatization, and international expansions. View Details