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- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Accidental Innovator
do. In their recent working paper "Accident, Innovation, and Expectation in Innovation Process," authors Robert D. Austin and Lee Devin explore the concept of accidental innovation, how it works or doesn't, and how good... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 16 Aug 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
The International Politics of IFRS Harmonization
Nien-he Hsieh
Nien-hê Hsieh is the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration in the General Management Unit at Harvard Business School. His research and teaching aims at helping business leaders and organizations determine and deliver on their responsibilities. He... View Details
- 30 Sep 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Does Mandatory IFRS Adoption Improve the Information Environment?
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By: Aiyesha Dey
Financial Reporting and Control
Throughout their careers, business leaders are required to measure and evaluate their organization's economic performance, improve resource allocation and strategy implementation within their organizations, and build accountability... View Details
Throughout their careers, business leaders are required to measure and evaluate their organization's economic performance, improve resource allocation and strategy implementation within their organizations, and build accountability... View Details
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Financial Reporting and Control
By: Paul M. Healy
Throughout their careers, business leaders are required to measure and evaluate their organization's economic performance, improve resource allocation and strategy implementation within their organizations, and build accountability for performance through effective... View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Promoting a Management Revolution in Public Education
- 22 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China
investment facilities in their home countries. Q: Does your research have implications for U.S. policy? A: One implication concerns immigration levels. It is interesting to note that while immigrants account for about 15 percent of the... View Details
- April 1993 (Revised September 1996)
- Case
General Mills, Inc.: Analyzing an Annual Report
By: William J. Bruns Jr. and Marc H. Zablatsky
A directed analysis of the General Mills 1992 Annual Report. Focuses on the basics of reading an annual report including analysis of financial statements, calculations of financial ratios, and study of the layout and message of an annual report. View Details
- 14 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Key to Managing Stars? Think Team
naturally become increasingly concerned that they attract, leverage, and retain the best knowledge workers. In addition, our culture is very enamored of stars and with the idea that extraordinary talent accounts for individuals'... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- TeachingInterests
Financial Reporting and Control
Throughout their careers, business leaders are required to measure and evaluate their organization's economic performance, improve resource allocation and strategy implementation within their organizations, and build accountability for performance through effective... View Details
- 13 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Improving Public Health for the Poor
course with HBS professor V. Kasturi Rangan on business serving the so-called "base of the pyramid" sector. Chu says microfinance is one of the few effective responses to poverty that he is aware of, and its concepts and... View Details
- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
not take a great deal of capital nor technological expertise to launch an entrepreneurial venture in many beauty products—although for such a venture to have any hope of success, high levels of imagination and creativity have always been required. If you have a View Details
- 15 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Search vs. Display Advertising Quandary
advertising agency on how much money was spent and how the funds were allocated. In addition, he received data on how many consumers "converted" after clicking on search and display ads. Because a decision to open a bank account is... View Details
- 26 Jun 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Contracting in the Self-reporting Economy
- 27 Oct 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
The Intensive Margin of Technology Adoption
Keywords: by Diego Comin & Martí Mestieri
- October 2023
- Article
Matching Mechanisms for Refugee Resettlement
By: David Delacrétaz, Scott Duke Kominers and Alexander Teytelboym
Current refugee resettlement processes account for neither the preferences of refugees nor the priorities of hosting communities. We introduce a new framework for matching with multidimensional knapsack constraints that captures the (possibly multidimensional) sizes of... View Details
Keywords: Refugee Resettlement; Matching; Matching Markets; Matching Platform; Matching With Contracts; Algorithms; Refugees; Market Design
Delacrétaz, David, Scott Duke Kominers, and Alexander Teytelboym. "Matching Mechanisms for Refugee Resettlement." American Economic Review 113, no. 10 (October 2023): 2689–2717.
- January 1996 (Revised December 1997)
- Case
Colgate-Palmolive Company: Analyzing an Annual Report
By: William J. Bruns Jr.
A directed analysis of the Colgate-Palmolive Co. annual report. Focuses on the basics of reading an annual report including analysis of financial statements, calculation of financial ratios, and study of the layout and message of the report. Industry financial ratios... View Details
- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
influencing the cost and availability of money, goods, and services. Macroeconomic forces can conspire to make business more difficult, but they can also present opportunities to executives who know how to, for example, read a country's national income View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne