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  • 28 Aug 2008
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: History Matters

industrial districts, business groups, business culture, business education, skills training, accounting and information systems, design, and engineering. Historical knowledge helps us to truly understand... View Details
Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones & Anthony Mayo
  • Web

Site Credits - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

SX-70 Introducing One-Step Photography TAKING THE PRODUCT TO MARKET Impact of the New Medium Medium of Artistic Expression A NOBLE PROTOTYPE OF INDUSTRY Harvard Business School and Polaroid Innovation and Entrepreneurship TIMELINE... View Details
  • 19 Dec 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Public Education Goes to School

and local governments will reach approximately $450 billion. Although per-pupil spending has more than doubled in real dollars over the last thirty years, student achievement has remained stagnant. U.S. students look mediocre, or worse, in comparison to students in... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark; Education
  • Web

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

Library Visionary, Innovator, Educator D uring the 1930s, in addition to his classes at HBS, Doriot taught at the US Army Industrial College where he trained officers in the preparation of adequate military supplies and equipment. At the... View Details
  • July 1990 (Revised October 1997)
  • Case

Siemens Electric Motor Works (A) (Abridged)

By: Robert S. Kaplan
Explores how a cost system can help support a firm's decision to change strategies. In the process, the students are introduced to a simple activity-based cost system. Siemens Electric Motor Works found itself facing an increasingly competitive environment and so made... View Details
Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Cost Accounting; Cost; Adoption; Cost vs Benefits; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Production; Business Strategy; Electronics Industry; Electronics Industry
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  • 05 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 5

and threats to organizations and conclude with a research agenda that more fully accounts for the potential of community forms to be a creator (and a possible destroyer) of value for organizations. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 24

Journal of Law & Economics Deregulation, Misallocation, and Size: Evidence from India By: Alfaro, Laura, and Anusha Chari Abstract—This paper examines the impact of the deregulation of compulsory industrial licensing in India on firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Courses by Faculty - Course Catalog

Tech Ventures Entrepreneurial Management Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 ^ back to top C Course Title Area Term Quarter Credits Dennis Campbell Strategy Execution Accounting & Management Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Ramon Casadesus-Masanell IFC: Japan;... View Details
  • 21 Dec 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer

Most books about the nation's financial crisis tell us what happened. In his new book, HBS senior lecturer Robert Pozen tells us how to fix the system. A financial industry veteran and chairman of MFS Investment Management, a Boston firm... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services
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Courses by Title - Course Catalog

Industry General Management Michael S. Kaufman , Andy Pforzheimer Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders Accounting & Management, General Management, Organizational... View Details
  • July 2000
  • Case

Aerospace Technologies, Inc.

By: Paul M. Healy and Jacob Cohen
Ben Galil's privately held engineering consulting firm represents aerospace products manufacturers in Israeli government biddings. The company incurs expenses for years before getting paid. This case deals with the alternative methods for booking revenues and expenses... View Details
Keywords: Accrual Accounting; Accounting; Revenue; Cost; Business or Company Management; Profit; Engineering; Bids and Bidding; Government and Politics; Private Ownership; Consulting Industry; Israel
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  • 01 Mar 2017
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017

members—$500 each. They were simply told to go out and do good in God’s world. What happened next was amazing. The authors tell how this church community was transformed by the startling truth that money can buy happiness, so long as you spend it on others. View Details
  • 06 May 2016
  • Blog Post

Make Social Media Work For You Abroad

both Exec Ed and MBA, based on geographic location, where they work, what industry they work in, their skill set and your degree of connection. If you find that you have connections in common, explain you’re looking to make a move and ask... View Details
  • 21 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 21

multinationals (MNCs), this paper is the first empirical analysis to describe the size and composition of MNC headquarters and to account for differences among them. Read the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • June 1985
  • Supplement

Citibank Indonesia 1: Background Information, Video

Provides information that is useful for addressing the budget issue. Among the topics discussed on the tape are the economic conditions and regulatory environment in Indonesia, the Citibank planning system, degree of decentralization, and management compensation plan. View Details
Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Banking Industry; Indonesia
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  • 01 Dec 2003
  • What Do You Think?

Is This the Twilight Era for the Managed Mutual Fund?

savings, particularly in a future in which Social Security will account for a smaller share of retirement income. How can their options best be preserved? Is the managed mutual fund worth saving? If so, what needs to be done? And how fast... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Dec 2004
  • News

One-on-One with William H. Donaldson

by the industry we regulate. So this was a historic moment to come into this job. In addition, the SEC itself recently had been through some tough times, so it seemed like the agency was in need of new leadership. Not long after you... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government
  • July 2017
  • Article

What Do Measures of Real-Time Corporate Sales Tell Us About Earnings Surprises and Post-announcement Returns?

By: Kenneth A. Froot, Namho Kang, Gideon Ozik and Ronnie Sadka
We develop real-time proxies of retail corporate sales from multiple sources, including approximately 50 million mobile devices. These measures contain information from both the earnings quarter (within quarter) and the period between that quarter's end and the... View Details
Keywords: Announcements; Business Earnings; Sales; Retail Industry
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  • May 2015 (Revised December 2016)
  • Supplement

Generating Higher Value at IBM (B)

By: Benjamin C. Esty and E. Scott Mayfield
Keywords: Dividends; Share Repurchases; Earnings Guidance; Financial Statement Analysis; Financial Ratios; Payout Policy; Earnings Per Share (EPS); Value Creation; Financial Statements; Corporate Finance; Computer Industry
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  • 19 Nov 2015
  • Blog Post

What to Expect During Your Second Year at HBS

classes became the first order of difficult business. Should I take classes along my career track? Oh wait, I don’t have one just yet. Should I continue my foray into accounting and finance classes? Practice makes perfect, I’m told, and I... View Details