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  • 21 Feb 2005
  • Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

requirement of passing a standard exam before being admitted to practice, nor are senior managers, investment bankers, or consultants required to participate in continuing education. There is no explicit obligation, for example, for... View Details
Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice
  • 28 Jun 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How to Avoid a Price Increase

manufacturers have been free to reduce quantity by small amounts ever since. Today, the standard tin may contain as little as eleven ounces of ground coffee. Consumers themselves report a greater sensitivity of price than of quantity. We... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 07 Jan 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty

at the societal benefit while at the same time taking care of the individual. That in essence is what we're trying to get at. McCaffrey: In a standard marketing situation, there's usually somebody who pays for it—such as a corporate... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • November 9, 2019
  • Article

Effect of Revealing Authors' Conflicts of Interests in Peer Review: Randomized Controlled Trial

By: Leslie K. John, George Loewenstein, Andrew Marder and Michael Callaham
Objective: To assess the impact of disclosing authors’ conflict of interest declarations to peer reviewers at a medical journal.
Design: Randomised controlled trial.

Setting: The study was conducted within the manuscript review process at the... View Details
Keywords: Conflicts Of Interest; Peer Review; Randomized Controlled Trial; Scientific Publication; Conflict of Interests; Journals and Magazines; Science
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  • October 2007
  • Article

The Influence of Financial Statement Recognition and Analyst Coverage on the Market's Valuation of R&D Capital

By: Michael D. Kimbrough
Statement of Financial Accounting Standards 141 (SFAS No. 141)'s requirement that an acquirer in a business combination estimate the fair value of the target's separately identifiable assets and liabilities (including research and development capital) provides a rare... View Details
Keywords: Information; Value Creation; Fair Value Accounting; Research and Development; Financial Statements; Capital
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  • Web

Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

big-name players in impact investing is an opportunity but also a risk. TPG Rise is defending against that risk by developing a detailed algorithm to forecast and “underwrite” impact using academic evidence. This raises many questions about rigor, comparability,... View Details
  • Forthcoming
  • Article

Variation in Batch Ordering of Imaging Tests in the Emergency Department and the Impact on Care Delivery

By: Jacob C. Jameson, Soroush Saghafian, Robert S. Huckman and Nicole Hodgson
Objectives: To examine heterogeneity in physician batch ordering practices and measure the impact of a physician's tendency to batch order imaging tests on patient outcomes and resource utilization.
Study Setting and Design: In this retrospective study, we used... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Operations Management; Productivity; Health Care and Treatment; Operations; Outcome or Result; Resource Allocation; Health Industry; United States
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  • April 2023 (Revised July 2023)
  • Case

Dena Almansoori at e&: Fostering Culture Change at a UAE Telco Transforming to a Global Techco

By: Emily Truelove, Michelle Zhang and Alpana Thapar
Dena Almansoori, the first female and one of the youngest members of the United Arab Emirates-based e&’s leadership team, joined in 2020 just before e& began a strategic transition from being a regional telecommunications company to becoming a global technology... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Culture; Transformation; Technology; Telecommunications; Employee Mobility; Talent; Leading Change; Human Resources; Telecommunications Industry; Technology Industry; Middle East; United Arab Emirates
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  • Web

Recommended Reading - Advancing Racial Equity

description of how American doctors think about racial differences and how this kind of thinking affects the treatment of their black patients. The standard studies of medical racism examine past medical abuses of black people and do not... View Details
  • 15 Dec 2023
  • News

Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem

Standard Bank Group. (You can read more about Williams’s work with NBA Africa in this recent article from the HBS Alumni Bulletin.) The panel was moderated by Naana Winful Fynn (MBA 2004), a former investment banker with Goldman Sachs,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • Web

McCollum Center | About

where he served as chairman from 1947 to 1972. Leonard McCollum (1902-1993) gained a reputation as a skilled oil industry leader during his early career with Standard Oil. He joined Continental Oil when it was a medium-sized company with... View Details
  • 11 Jul 2016
  • HBS Case

Neurodiversity: The Benefits of Recruiting Employees with Cognitive Disabilities

pieces with irregular shapes. “One of the things that we’ve done historically in human resource management is, we’ve asked people to trim away the parts of themselves that are irregularly shaped, and then we ask them to plug themselves into View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology
  • Web

Openings - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

mini-summaries during transitions can provide takeaways that complement or substitute for elements in the closing. Instructors should consider the connections among these core elements of the class session when preparing teaching plans. A View Details
  • 01 Oct 1997
  • News

L.E. Simmons

of bank teller to become chairman of Zions Bancorporation in Salt Lake City, with teaching him that ethical standards are an intrinsic part of doing business. "He measures his performance in terms of doing the right thing and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
  • 16 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

quickly. The shift has happened in days, not months. Businesses may be able to learn how to move faster, acting in more agile ways, as a result. Amy C. Edmondson (@AmyCEdmondson) is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management. Joseph B. Fuller: View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

Connecting Remotely to WRDS on Windows - Research Computing Services

Technical How-To’s & Notes Technical How-To’s & Notes Connecting Remotely to WRDS on Windows 1. STATA Members of the Harvard Business School community can access the WRDS platform via Stata. Stata connects to WRDS through ODBC, a standard... View Details
  • 20 Oct 2010
  • Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

They are critical but without an efficient transmission system of local industries, their value generation does not translate into a high standard of living for the broader population. While both parts of the economy are important, they... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
  • 03 Jun 2020
  • Blog Post

How to Thrive as a Remote Manager and Employee

projects to allow time for reflection and utilize meeting time most effectively Encourage employees to “unplug.” Set expectations for standard work times across time zones. Related Resources White Paper The New Rules for Remote Work:... View Details
  • 01 Jan 2004
  • News

D. Ronald Daniel, MBA 1954

PhDs." As McKinsey adapted to the new needs of the times, Daniel also focused on making sure it remained true to its founding principles, such as always seeking to have a significant impact on the client's performance; promoting uniform View Details
  • 13 May 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Company Reviews on Glassdoor: Petty Complaints or Signs of Potential Misconduct?

behavior bubbles below the radar An employee may not come forward right away to expose wrongdoing at a corporation for many reasons. In the absence of directly observing egregious behavior by a particular individual, an employee may not think that a general breakdown... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology