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    Controlling Versus Enabling

    Many firms can choose between an employment mode, in which the firm controls service provision by employing professionals, sales representatives or other types of agents, and an agency (or platform) mode, in which these agents take control... View Details

    • October 2008
    • Article

    It's Time to Make Management a True Profession

    By: Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana
    In the face of the recent institutional breakdown of trust in business, managers are losing legitimacy. To regain public trust, management needs to become a true profession in much the way medicine and law have, argue Khurana and Nohria of Harvard Business School. True... View Details
    Keywords: Competency and Skills; Education; Ethics; Corporate Accountability; Management; Trust; Value Creation
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    • 06 Oct 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Updating a Classic: Writing a Great Business Plan

    right mixture of people, opportunity, context, and deal. They anticipate what can go wrong, what can go right, and they try to balance risk and... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 14 Mar 2023
    • In Practice

    What Does the Failure of Silicon Valley Bank Say About the State of Finance?

    single day, leaving the bank with a $1 billion negative balance, according to a regulatory filing by the company. While financial regulators have announced that the US will guarantee all deposits at SVB, its collapse has spooked customers at other banks View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking
    • 30 May 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Racial Bias Might Be Infecting Patient Portals. Can AI Help?

    online in a more widespread way, and use of secure portals has largely stabilized at that new, higher level. The platforms place new stresses on doctors and their teams, who... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand; Health
    • November 2009
    • Article

    Is it Fair to Blame Fair Value Accounting for the Financial Crisis?

    By: Robert C. Pozen
    When the credit markets seized up in 2008, many heaped blame on "mark to market" accounting rules, which require banks to write down their troubled assets to the prices they'd fetch if sold on the open market - at the time, next to nothing. Recording those assets below... View Details
    Keywords: Cost Accounting; Fair Value Accounting; Financial Crisis; Assets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Crisis Management; Standards; Banking Industry
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    South Asia - Global

    construction products. The interactive discussion delved into critical questions about Aashiyana’s potential, Tata Steel’s digital transformation journey, and execution challenges. It sparked insightful perspectives on View Details

      Maya Roy

      Maya Roy is a doctoral student in the Business Economics program. Her interests include labor and health. She graduated from MIT in 2020 with a B.S. in Computer Science, Economics, and Data Science. View Details
      • March 2012
      • Article

      Fixing What's Wrong with U. S. Politics

      By: David A. Moss
      In America today there's a growing sense that the political system is broken and that its ineffectiveness is a major threat to U.S. competitiveness. Why do so many think the political system is not working? Research shows that in Congress, Republicans and Democrats are... View Details
      Keywords: Government and Politics; System; Conflict Management; Performance Productivity; Policy; Public Administration Industry; United States
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      • March 2006
      • Module Note

      Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World: Module 4: Sensing Opportunity

      By: Alan D. MacCormack
      Describes the fourth module of the 30-session Harvard Business School elective course Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World. The course helps students understand the challenges that uncertainty implies for innovation and how to overcome them. The course emphasizes... View Details
      Keywords: Innovation and Management; Problems and Challenges; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Projects; Opportunities; Risk and Uncertainty; Perspective; Value Creation; Networks; Alignment
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      • 2018
      • Working Paper

      Show or Tell? Improving Agent Decision Making in a Tanzanian Mobile Money Field Experiment

      By: Jason Acimovic, Chris Parker, David F. Drake and Karthik Balasubramanian
      When workers make operational decisions, the firm's global knowledge and the workers’ domain-specific knowledge complement each other. Oftentimes workers have the final decision-making power. Two key decisions a firm makes when designing systems to support these... View Details
      Keywords: Employees; Decision Making; Training; Performance Improvement; Money; Mobile Technology; Developing Countries and Economies; Financial Services Industry
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      Fatima Albassam

      realized that this is what I want to do the rest of my life, run a social business,” says Fatima. “But I felt that the nonprofits I was working with were limiting their impact because of a lack of management and finance skills.” A... View Details
      • 22 Aug 2005
      • Research & Ideas

      Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980

      balance of trade in the 1960s, and the devaluation of the U.S. dollar and the end of its convertibility into gold in 1971, provided symbolic signs of the ending of an era.... View Details
      Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
      • 2024
      • Working Paper

      Does the Case for Private Equity Still Hold?

      By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Philipp Chvanov
      Private Equity (“PE”) received a 10-fold increase in capital flows since the Great Financial Crisis (“GFC”) Investors sought higher nominal returns relative to those they could obtain in the public capital markets. This paper questions the fundamental assumptions... View Details
      Keywords: Private Equity; Investment Return; Investment Portfolio; Financial Markets
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      • 16 Feb 2023
      • HBS Case

      ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?

      The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details
      Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Financial Services
      • 01 Dec 2023
      • News

      Wide Horizon

      stabilized family life. “When you have a child with severe autism, it can be a tough home life. For the first five or six years, my wife and I were just hanging on.” There were daily tantrums View Details
      Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
      • 18 May 2022
      • Research & Ideas

      Are Banks the ‘Bad Guys’? Overdraft Fees Are Crushing Low-Income Customers

      down accounts, which often happens if a customer fails to repay overdraft fees and other outstanding balances for two months. That black mark can prevent a consumer from opening a bank account elsewhere for... View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
      • 21 Aug 2013
      • Research & Ideas

      What Went Wrong at J.C. Penney?

      After successful stints at Target (vice president of merchandising) and Apple (senior vice president of retail operations), it seemed Ron Johnson could do no wrong. But the winning streak came to a well-publicized end during his two-year... View Details
      Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Retail
      • 29 Nov 2021
      • News

      How Bonuses Get Employees to Choose Work Over Family

      • 04 Feb 2002
      • Research & Ideas

      How To Do Business in Islamic Countries

      Islamic finance and an emeritus professor of investment banking at Harvard Business School. Hayes, who continues to travel regularly to Islamic countries for research and consulting, offered advice to HBS... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace