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- 26 Oct 2010
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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
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
isolated and abandoned to the wolves. This happens despite success, and sometimes because of how success was achieved. It happens to results-producing CEOs pushed out of companies; for example, Mark Hurd of Hewlett Packard, who fudged expense View Details
- 05 Apr 2011
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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
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
changing world, if your business is built on the assumption that diversity and inclusion is a ‘nice to have,’ it’s an unstable territory,” Ric Lewis (PMD 69, 1995), executive chairman and CIO of London-based Tristan Capital Partners, recently told the View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
LPO in August 2005. A week later, while guest conducting in Korea, he saw reports on CNN that New Orleans, though battered by Hurricane Katrina, had managed to avoid major damage. But constant email updates from an LPO member, which had... View Details
- 05 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
In Praise of Marketing
and don'ts. In fact, marketing is as much art as science, as much right brain as left brain. Many chief financial officers might still agree with John Wanamaker's famous adage: "Half my advertising is wasted. I just don't know which... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
plantations relied on hierarchical reporting and long-lived assets-quite literally human capital. Although innovations in plantation accounting did not necessarily cause the rise of quantitative management in the North, these discourses... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
financial "template" that could sustain the festival into the future? Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/jaipur-literature-festival-beyond-the-festival-template/an/712401-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 114-046 The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
McMuffin—as well as what has been called one of the most famous cross-sells of all time: “Would you like fries with that?” Yet by 2015, McDonald’s found itself in what reporters called the worst slump in a decade, driven by rising... View Details
- 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15
Innovation Authors:Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Publication:Journal of Financial Economics Abstract We find that VC-backed firms receiving their initial investment in hot markets are more likely to go bankrupt, but conditional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
about hitching their wagon to DFJ. But there’s strategic value to standing in a fountain for a company report photo shoot for the simple fact that it gets you noticed in a very crowded, loud world. “You’ve got to get above the noise... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 08 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 8, 2008
Paul M. Healy, and Yang Gui Periodical:Journal of Financial Transformation (forthcoming) Abstract Since 1949 Lehman Brothers has used an investment committee to select the top ten recommendations made by its analysts each year. We examine... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30
Telecom and Chorus. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/413081-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 913-036 Massachusetts Financial Services (Abridged) This case describes the compensation and performance evaluations at an... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
BEI helps alumni and other leaders by connecting them to resources or troubleshooting issues they’re facing in their companies, such as how to prepare the workforce to deal with sustainability and climate challenges, or questions involving ESG View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Taking Time to Make Time
takes a lot more than organizing your schedule to be productive. I wanted to discuss skills that have been critical in my own career. Communication is one—reading, writing, and speaking. Another is how you operate within your organization and deal with both those above... View Details
Keywords: Time management