Publications

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

Keywords: Re: William R. Kerr; Technology; Computer

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

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

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

17 Oct 2008
Working Paper Summaries

Consequences of Voluntary and Mandatory Fair Value Accounting: Evidence Surrounding IFRS Adoption in the EU Real Estate Industry

Keywords: by Karl A. Muller III, Edward J. Riedl & Thorsten Sellhorn; Construction; Real Estate

16 Mar 2009
Research & Ideas

When the Internet Runs Out of IP Addresses

The basic idea is that some networks have ended up with more IPv4 addresses than they need, while others have less than they need (or will need in the near future). Why do some networks have more than they need? A variety of reasons: Some... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Telecommunications

05 Jul 2006
Working Paper Summaries

Promoting a Management Revolution in Public Education

Keywords: by Stacey M. Childress, Richard Elmore & Allen S. Grossman; Education

Teaching Interest

Overview

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

26 Jun 2007
Working Paper Summaries

Contracting in the Self-reporting Economy

Keywords: by Romana L. Autrey & Richard Sansing; Accounting

Teaching Interest

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

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

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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

Keywords: History; Cost Management; Activity Based Costing and Management; Financial Statements; Financial Strategy

04 Oct 2022
What Do You Think?

Have Managers Underestimated the Need for Face-to-Face Contact?

large crowds. Have the changes in the underlying behaviors affecting many industries become so ingrained in employees, consumers, and everyday life that they will not revert to what they were before? The evidence is mixed. One can argue that the View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising

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

June 1996 (Revised November 1996)
Background Note

Economic Gains from Trade: Comparative Advantage

By: Robert E. Kennedy and Nancy F. Koehn

How nations trade and whether they benefit from it are two of the oldest and most important questions in political economy. In the 170 years since David Ricardo formally developed the theory of comparative advantage, it has become one of the principles most widely... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Microeconomics; Trade; Cost Management; Business and Government Relations

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

Keywords: Financial Reporting; Reports; Financial Statements; Consumer Products Industry

29 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business Press Is a Watchdog that Bites

Miller, an HBS professor with expertise in financial communication, conducted in-depth research on whether and how the press digs up original information on accounting malfeasance—with surprising results. "The press is important in... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News; Publishing

April 1982 (Revised June 1985)
Case

Westinghouse Electric Corp.: Quality of Earnings Analysis

Westinghouse had just issued its annual report to shareholders for the year ending December 31, 1973. The report indicates that sales have increased to a record $5.7 billion but that net income is down almost 20% from its record level of $199 million in the previous... View Details

Keywords: Business Earnings; Financial Reporting; Corporate Finance; Electronics Industry