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- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
investors and he’s the “flag,” the name. Given that case, that would inform a world view that has a high sensitivity to perceptions in what we call in real estate “the real economy.” Are the rooms full, and in which locations? Hotel people have a high sensitivity to... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
visions of what it means to retire. (We didn’t come up with a better word, although one member of the Class of 1958 referred to a state of “re-inspirement” in his 45th Reunion book.) What the five seem to have in common — aside from a level of View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
human-capital development that Khan finds himself turning to science fiction to try to make sense of it all. Meanwhile, financial backers such as the Gates Foundation, Google, and venture capital’s Ann and John Doerr (MBA 1976) are adding... View Details
- 14 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating a Global Business Code
others?" Phase 1 of the project looked for key similarities and differences in conduct guidelines and regulatory requirements from around the world: the Caux Round Table Principles, the Global Reporting Initiative, the UN Global... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 29 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is the “Service Sector Effect” on Productivity?
in productivity in the U.S. in recent years. In fact, a recent report by the McKinsey Global Institute has found that five of the top seven industries that have led productivity growth in the period of 2000 to 2003 are service industries... View Details
- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
When Reputation Trumps Regulation
Financial Economics, suggests that reputational bonding better explains the success and failure of cross-listings than legal bonding. This is largely due to the fact that the Securities and Exchange Commission, for a number of reasons,... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
today’s largest venture capital firms to focus “almost exclusively [on] chasing unicorns,” leaving companies that boast lower valuations and more modest risk/return profiles out in the cold. Indeed, data suggests that more money is pouring into fewer deals. According... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
Harvard Business School Case 107-035 Obadiah Vineyard's owners create financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) to help them obtain funding to plant more acreage. The owners grapple with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 5
Authors:Tiona Zuzul and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract Building on research in strategy formation and organizational innovation, this paper reports on a field study of a young company in the sustainable cities industry. We examine how company... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Executive Education Courses - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
responsible for overseeing care delivery Financial executives who direct cost management for health care delivery organizations HR executives from large organizations who manage health care for employees, collaborate with health care... View Details
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
Reporting and Regulatory Capital Edward J. Riedl, Suraj Srinivasan, and Sharon KatzHarvard Business School Case 111-041 This case introduces 1) financial statements for banks, 2) basic regulatory capital... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23
industrial production (Alfaro and Chen, 2014). Using a unique worldwide plant-level dataset that reports detailed location, ownership, and operation information for plants in over 100 countries, we construct a spatially continuous index... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
Course MaterialsBASIX Harvard Business School Case 207-099 BASIX, an Indian microfinance corporation, must decide whether to continue to sell weather insurance to its clients. A brand-new financial product, weather insurance pays if... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
learn. Executives can widen a manager's span of influence by redesigning her job—placing her on a cross-functional team, for example, or giving her an assignment that requires her to report to two bosses. They can also adjust a job's span... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 19 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems
twenty-first century, social responsibility, social entrepreneurship and hybrid for-profit/nonprofit organizations, the transformation of work, globalization, collective action, and the recent financial crisis. Among the papers presented:... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
businesses, the financial reporting problems, and governance breakdowns inside and outside the firm. The case offers students an opportunity to explore why Enron failed and to understand the systemic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
forthcoming PublicAffairs Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of the White-Collar Criminal By: Soltes, Eugene F. Abstract—From the financial fraudsters of Enron, to the embezzlers at Tyco, to the Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff, the failings of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Get Off the Dime!
accept new software as long as they suffered little inconvenience and little change except reduced costs. They wanted their financial reporting to have their traditional look and feel. They wanted to do... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter & Dan S. Cohen
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
tax-averse citizens. Turning over water operations to private companies that can offer economies of scale, financial resources, expertise, and efficiency is an attractive option. Privatization, however, troubles some consumer advocates... View Details
- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
accounting performance. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1964011 August 2013 Journal of Financial Intermediation Good Cop, Bad Cop: Complementarities Between Debt and Equity in Disciplining Management... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne