Enterprise Resource Planning - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2012
News

Alumni, Faculty, and Other Experts Offer Career Advice

Three HBS alumni will present online seminars in this fall’s Career Management Webinar Series, a resource offered by Alumni Career & Professional Development. Mark Chussil (MBA 1979) will discuss creating your ideal life; Jill Miller... View Details

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

01 Sep 2015
News

Clubs: Capital Improvements

When he began planning the event, HBS Club of Washington, DC, president Antonio Alves (PLDA 15, 2013) envisioned the club’s first annual Leadership Gala as a modest outing that would boost awareness of the club in the Greater DC area. By... View Details

Keywords: April White

25 Oct 2024
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows

executive leader in corporate philanthropy, brokering partnerships that bring the resources and influence of enterprise to the causes and people that need them. She said, “I believe that to cause meaningful... View Details

16 Apr 2013
News

A Walkabout to the Ocean

the air outside New York City's JFK airport and eventually hitchhiked across the country." Merkl fell in love with California and decided to stay. Enrolling at the University of California at Santa Cruz, he studied environmental science, regional View Details

Keywords: Ocean; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government

01 Mar 2009
News

Inciting Wonder

ROGERS: State dinners and Easter eggs. Stephen J. Serio/Crain’s Chicago Business As the social secretary for the new administration in Washington, Desirée Rogers (MBA ’85) will have a discreet hand in shaping the personal image that the Obama White House presents to... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

07 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

The Quest for Better Layoffs

3,100 employees were displaced. Company president Aaron Feuerstein immediately announced plans to rebuild the company—and to keep all the displaced employees on the payroll in the meantime. The media hailed him as a mensch. But in making... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

01 Mar 2013
News

We Invest in HBS Because...

vision, how to course correct, and the criticality of people in the equation. We want to make sure that a broad spectrum of current and future leaders has access to an HBS education, especially those who don't have the resources to... View Details

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Why Do Pro Forma and Street Earnings Not Reflect Changes in GAAP? Evidence from SFAS 123R

By: Ian D. Gow, Mary E. Barth and Daniel Taylor

This study examines how key market participants—managers and analysts—responded to SFAS 123R's controversial requirement that firms recognize stock-based compensation expense. Despite mandated recognition of the expense, some firms' managers exclude it from pro forma... View Details

Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Employee Stock Ownership Plan

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10 Nov 2020
News

Learning to Fight

that Susan had inoperable brain cancer. She was given three years to live. Nothing had prepared Sontag for the experience of being a caregiver to a terminal oncology patient and making the life-or-death decisions he and his wife faced, and there weren’t many View Details

Keywords: April White

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Questions for Evaluating Company Culture and Community - Alumni

Careers Questions for Evaluating Company Culture and Community Careers Questions for Evaluating Company Culture and Community In Fall of 2020, HBS presented a Plan For Racial Equity . Working in partnership with HBS, CPD View Details

31 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It

leaders were trained, sophisticated strategic-planning systems were supposed to help senior managers decide which businesses to grow and which to harvest. 1 Unfortunately, all the planning and investment were unable to stop the... View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

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DEC - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business Research... View Details

17 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

How ‘Hybrid’ Nonprofits Can Stay on Mission

For those who like to view things in black and white, it's tempting to divide the working world into two camps. There is the for-profit sector, primarily driven by the prospect of financial success. And then there's the not-for-profit world, which eschews the almighty... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

16 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs

performance—and the issues about how top executives seem to be getting a different kind of deal than employees get, there is a fundamental cynicism about the free enterprise system. The closed CEO labor market and the consequences it has... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2003
News

“Culture Is Everything”

large crowd of students in Burden Auditorium and those who watched a simulcast in the overflow area in Spangler. What successful enterprises have done in the past has worked, he noted, using IBM as an example, so it’s difficult for such... View Details

Keywords: IBM; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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Archival Collections - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

and Harvard University Professor of Economics Frank W. Taussig as well as the records of the Harvard Corporation, Harvard Board of Overseers, and the University’s Office of the Recording Secretary. Property Information Resource... View Details

25 Jan 2018
News

Investing in India’s Nonprofits to Overcome Poverty Sustainably

underprivileged kids in skills and program in life management, so that they come out of poverty sustainably. We have about 4,000 kids graduating every year. And we have plans to do about 1 million people by 2020. “People have tried doing... View Details

01 Dec 2008
News

Alumni Books

Breakthrough Marketing Plans: How to Stop Wasting Time and Start Driving Growth by Tim Calkins (MBA ’91) (Palgrave Macmillan) Most marketing plans are a waste of time — too long, complicated, and dense — and end up unread and unrealized.... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing

21 Nov 2016
Research & Ideas

It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales

strategic objectives,” he says. “Selling divorced from the firm’s goals may be good for individual salespeople and their compensation, but it’s not good for the enterprise and its investors.” The value of selling MBA finance courses often... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

07 Sep 2021
News

Embracing Activism for Social Change

communities. Everyone was scrambling to direct resources to places where they could do the most good.” “We wanted to place behavioral health professionals in situations where their expertise would make a critical difference in resolving... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

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