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- March 2013
- Article
Why 'Fair Value' Is the Rule: How a Controversial Accounting Approach Gained Support
By: Karthik Ramanna
For the past two decades, fair-value accounting—the practice of measuring assets and liabilities at estimates of their current values—has been on the ascent. This marks a major departure from the centuries-old tradition of keeping books at historical cost. It also has...
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Fair Value;
FASB;
Finance;
Politics;
Financial History;
Accounting;
Fair Value Accounting;
Financial Reporting;
Financial Services Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Ramanna, Karthik. "Why 'Fair Value' Is the Rule: How a Controversial Accounting Approach Gained Support." Harvard Business Review 91, no. 3 (March 2013).
- 04 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service
Hi all, my name is Rhea! I was lucky enough to work for the National Park Service this summer as a business management intern with the Submerged Resources Center (SRC). The SRC is the NPS national dive program, responsible for...
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Nonprofit / Government
- 05 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
The MBA Response: A Calling to Leadership & Service
COVID-19? There are so many small businesses, nonprofits, and organizations that could benefit from pro-bono MBA support and so the organization transformed into “The MBA...
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- 30 Nov 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
The Stock Market and Bank Risk-Taking
- February 2009 (Revised June 2019)
- Case
Cleveland Clinic: Transformation and Growth 2015
By: Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth O. Teisberg
The Cleveland Clinic's health care services are internationally renowned for quality. In 2008, The Clinic began to restructure the organization into teams defined around patient needs, rather than traditional medical specialties. "Patients First!" takes shape as the...
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Keywords:
Health;
Health Care Operations;
Health Care Quality;
Health Care;
Strategy And Leadership;
Strategy Development;
Health Care and Treatment;
Leading Change;
Goals and Objectives;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Measurement and Metrics;
Service Delivery;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Outcome or Result;
Health Industry;
Cleveland
Porter, Michael E., and Elizabeth O. Teisberg. "Cleveland Clinic: Transformation and Growth 2015." Harvard Business School Case 709-473, February 2009. (Revised June 2019.)
- 11 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service
listing for the internship with the National Park Service in October, and texting everyone I knew about it. “There’s no way this is a real job,” I joked with my friends. You get paid to live View Details
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My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service - Recruiting
felt like I needed to use that privilege to find the best opportunities I could. Rhea Choudhury (MBA 2024) I remember finding the listing for the internship with the National Park Service in October, and...
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- May 2022
- Case
What to Propose?
By: David G. Fubini
Two audit and financial services firms, one of which your consulting firm has supported extensively, have merged to create one of the largest audit firms in the world. The audit firm's Executive Team has requested proposals aimed at re-evaluating their internal...
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Keywords:
Consulting;
Professional Services;
Governance;
Presentations;
Organizational Structure;
Transition;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Consulting Industry
Fubini, David G. "What to Propose?" Harvard Business School Case 422-095, May 2022.
- December 2012
- Article
The Microwork Solution: A New Approach to Outsourcing Can Support Economic Development—and Add to Your Bottom Line
By: Francesca Gino and Bradely R. Staats
What's the best way to lift people out of poverty? The social entrepreneurs in the new "impact sourcing" industry believe the answer is providing work, not aid. Their organizations hire people at the bottom of the pyramid to perform digital tasks such as transcribing...
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Keywords:
Outsourcing;
Job Cuts and Outsourcing;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Partners and Partnerships;
Development Economics;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Welfare;
Cooperation;
San Francisco
Gino, Francesca, and Bradely R. Staats. "The Microwork Solution: A New Approach to Outsourcing Can Support Economic Development—and Add to Your Bottom Line." Harvard Business Review 90, no. 12 (December 2012): 92–96.
- 2022
- Article
Alleviating Time Poverty Among the Working Poor: A Pre-Registered Longitudinal Field Experiment
By: A.V. Whillans and Colin West
Poverty entails more than a scarcity of material resources—it also involves a shortage of time. To examine the causal benefits of reducing time poverty, we conducted a longitudinal feld experiment over six consecutive weeks in an urban slum in Kenya with a sample of...
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Keywords:
Time;
Subjective Well Being;
Administrative Costs;
Friction;
Poverty;
Well-being;
Money;
Perception;
Kenya
Whillans, A.V., and Colin West. "Alleviating Time Poverty Among the Working Poor: A Pre-Registered Longitudinal Field Experiment." Art. 719. Scientific Reports 12 (2022).
- 22 May 2020
- Blog Post
Reflections on Service - Armed Forces Alumni Association Student Profiles
the Navy, my brothers had both enlisted following high school, and military service ran deep throughout both sides of my family. With my decision to go to college, I had broken with this tradition View Details
- 15 Sep 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
State and Local Government Employment in the COVID-19 Crisis
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by Daniel Green and Erik Loualiche
- May 2022 (Revised June 2022)
- Case
Proposing to Redesign a Global Investment Bank
By: David G. Fubini
A major, NYC-based, global investment bank is looking to rethink its Systems strategy amid a rapidly evolving digital landscape. Your firm has served the client across most of its major geographies on a range of substantial Systems and IT efforts, but is facing...
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Keywords:
Consulting;
Professional Services;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Digital Strategy;
Presentations;
Competitive Strategy;
Consulting Industry;
New York (city, NY)
Fubini, David G. "Proposing to Redesign a Global Investment Bank." Harvard Business School Case 422-096, May 2022. (Revised June 2022.)
- 18 Jul 2023
- Interview
Jeffrey Rayport on Product Market Fit, Profit Market Fit and Whiplash, and More
By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Doug Levin
This episode of "Lessons from Startup Life" podcast features Jeffrey Rayport, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Jeffrey specializes in teaching and researching growth-stage technology ventures and their scalability. Prior to...
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Keywords:
Scaling And Growth;
Start-up;
Diversity;
Equity;
Inclusion;
Technology;
Business Startups;
Product Marketing;
Business Growth and Maturation
"Jeffrey Rayport on Product Market Fit, Profit Market Fit and Whiplash, and More." Lessons from a Startup Life (podcast), July 18, 2023.
- March 2000 (Revised November 2001)
- Case
Rosenbluth International and Biztravel.com
Rosenbluth, the third largest U.S. travel agency, uses the Internet to serve new customers with a high-service strategy. Rosenbluth acquires Biztravel.com and integrates the customer support and logistics aspects of service delivery.
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Keywords:
Horizontal Integration;
Internet and the Web;
Service Delivery;
Acquisition;
Travel Industry;
United States
Hallowell, Roger H. "Rosenbluth International and Biztravel.com." Harvard Business School Case 800-356, March 2000. (Revised November 2001.)
- 08 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated
around them. The circumstances of work have become more difficult. Their responses included: “Keeping morale and motivation up amongst employees while they are dealing with the stress of COVID-19 as well as parenting/schooling children...
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by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- Web
Research & Data Services for Faculty & Doctoral Students | Baker Library
Research & Data Services for Faculty & Doctoral Students We advance the intellectual ambition of HBS faculty and doctoral students by providing leading- edge services at every...
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- 04 Aug 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Private Equity and Financial Fragility During the Crisis
- Web
Educating Business Administrators - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
HBS Quick Links HBS Home MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions A Concrete Symbol The Exhibition Introduction Educating Business View Details