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- 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008
a unique aspect of our research setting allows us to test who is responsible for the earnings management. While firms appear unable to increase the frequency of display promotions in the short run, they can reallocate these promotions...
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Martha Lagace
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Medium of Artistic Expression - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Land, "Chairman's Letter," Polaroid Corporation Annual Report 1976, 5. Polaroid advertisements featured the testimony of Polaroid users who claimed their cameras had made them "the life of the party." 78 "The entire process of pose, exposure, anticipation, and View Details
- 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008
25-year history. The protagonist, Yvonne Murray, is a group program manager at Adobe and responsible for coordinating the integration of her business unit's product—Device Central—in Creative Suite 3. Murray is copied on an email that...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
the companies being rated. We hypothesize that ratings are particularly likely to spur responses from firms that receive poor ratings, and especially those that face lower-cost opportunities to improve or that anticipate greater benefits...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
treasure trove of information for the entrepreneur, and accompanying the book is an interactive website, www.midasand1000cows.com, which opens the door to more great resources. Orthopedic Emergencies edited by Melvin Makhni (MBA 2012),...
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- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
blocking ourselves from new challenges. This response hurts us and our organizations, but we fear making ourselves even more vulnerable by committing mistakes while learning something new. In Flying Without a Net, Thomas DeLong explains...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
Examination at the USPTO The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is the federal government agency responsible for evaluating and granting patents and trademarks. In 2015, the USPTO employed approximately 8,000 patent examiners who...
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Sean Silverthorne
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HBS - Financials | From the CFO
attended virtual faculty research symposium. Innovation across the MBA Program continued in fiscal 2021, as the School delivered the first year of the new joint MS/MBA in Biotechnology: Life Sciences (a joint degree with the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
defense internally and in the public spotlight. Along with reports of players' pharmacological and off-field transgressions (behaviors also found in other professional sports leagues), the NFL has had to address new medical research into...
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- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
121-year old mission-driven organization for a world of accelerating digital convergence and decreasing magazine sales. Historically a proponent of evolutionary change, he is considering a radical move: creating a senior management position View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
form of corporate social responsibility (CSR) through a sustainable business model that also generates superior financial performance. Read the paper: http://www.europeanbusinessreview.com/?p=4538 An Exploration of Optimal Stabilization...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 14
Padraic Kelly became the firm's new managing director (MD). One of his first initiatives was "Aim for Growth," which was intended to help the firm grow beyond its current size, wherein it was constrained by a structure of having each of the firm's founding...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
some of the most important ideas to emerge in a collaborative process are unrelated to any stated goal; that creativity requires an inherently iterative structure (trying and trying again); that “wrong” choices are necessary to make real...
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- 01 Apr 2000
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Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
customers. To me, it seemed like a very interesting challenge. How do you view your mandate as commissioner? There is one overriding mandate emerging from the IRS Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998: we've got to rewin the confidence of...
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Garry Emmons
- 07 Sep 2011
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First Look: Sept. 7
responsibility of individual firms. The authors call for business to be both innovator and activist in protecting and strengthening market capitalism. Instead of seeing themselves as narrowly self-interested players in a system that is...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
organization, as opposed to the characteristics of single plants. Rather than limiting the responses with multiple choice or yes/no questions, the interviewers kept the questions open-ended to get a complete picture of the actual...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
This fall marks the launch of the first capital campaign in Harvard Business School's 94-year history, with a goal of raising $500 million by the end of 2005. In the following interview, Dean Kim B. Clark talks about the current state of the School, the View Details
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster
silently shift in response to actions taken, even though no overt negotiation takes place. Of course, if costly misunderstandings are to be avoided, it's normally in the parties' best interests to make their expectations explicit and...
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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
banker, for instance, who authored "A New World for Women" in 1936, concluded, "It is inevitable that more and more women will occupy places of responsibility in our country's banks." Indeed, the Bulletin provides a window on the...
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- 20 Sep 2016
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September 20, 2016
staggered boards can be beneficial for early-life-cycle firms, which exhibit greater information asymmetries between insiders and investors. These results are validated using a larger sample of firms from the Investor Responsibility...
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Sean Silverthorne