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Research Summary

Financial reporting quality and its consequences

Does reporting quality have real economic consequences? Professor Yu addresses this question in her research, which examines the channels through which reporting quality affects the behavior of economic agents, namely managers and investors. Her particular focus is... View Details

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The New Social Contract: Contractors, Firms, and Agencies

The emergence of a 'new social contract' linking employees and organizations - perhaps most notable for the absence of a promise of lifelong job security - has been widely remarked. A related trend, less noted but potentially important, has been the emergence of a... View Details

08 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Building Effective R&D Capabilities Abroad

home-base-exploiting site, in which information flows to the foreign laboratory from the central lab at home. (See the exhibit, "How Information Flows Between Home-Base and Foreign R&D Sites.")The particular type of foreign R&D site determines the... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

08 Feb 2021
Book

How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect

more capacity than we realize to be better. I won’t expect you to share my values or priorities on issues that have ethical dimensions, such as vegetarianism. I don’t want to define a narrow set of societal rules for good behavior. I certainly won’t guide you toward... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

Web

Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Value of Business Education

political science and assistant vice president of finance. Monroe Davis Dowling HBS MBA 1931 Atlantic City, NJ Lincoln University, 1929 Upon graduation from HBS, Monroe Davis Dowling worked for the Colored Merchants' Association (CMA), a cooperative of stores that... View Details

04 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How Schmoozing with the Boss Helps Men Get Promoted

recruitment, hiring, and promotion processes and by conducting pay audits to evaluate salaries by gender. Yet Cullen’s research suggests that companies may need to consider more subtle underlying forces that are holding women back, View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

10 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Taking Advantage of Life’s (Few and Far Between) Inflection Points

waiting for a nudge that would push it from winter to spring. I loved these "walking meetings," which we had begun when I was a grad student and continued through our years of working together at the university. While we sometimes had a View Details

Keywords: Re: Howard H. Stevenson

31 Jan 2014
News

Body, Heal Thyself

explains the process to his two young children: Think of your body as needing a recipe book, with each page detailing the directions to produce specific proteins. When a protein goes haywire—as might be the case with diabetes, when... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon; biotech; Health, Social Assistance; Scientific Research and Development Services

TeachingInterests

Decision Making Under Uncertainty

By: David E. Bell

Many of the decisions we face are made complicated by having uncertain consequences: how should I set my inventory when I don’t know what demand will be, should I refinance my mortgage when rates might go lower, how big a bet shall I make in a new business, and so... View Details

05 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software

discern whether contributions to open source projects help specific employees become more productive at coding. He also hopes to examine whether adding highly skilled open source software contributors to a team has a significant effect on... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Computer

Web

Data Storage - Research Computing Services

needs may exceed the amount available. The storage location at /export/scratch is designed specifically for this purpose. Note: This is a shared area, so use Unix file permissions to change the accessibility if needed. Files older than 60... View Details

27 Mar 2024
Blog Post

Video: Inspirational Women in Business

a specific title. Meaning, what you say is what you do. Eunjin Lee (MBA 2025): Empathy, integrity— Aastha Bhardwaj (MBA 2025): Mentorship, effective delegation— Whitley Cargile (MBA 2025): High emotional intelligence— Briti Ghosh (MBA... View Details

19 Aug 2021
Op-Ed

Don't Ignore Your Employees' Misery—TAKE Control

How do my actions in areas of concern to my employees compare to the actions undertaken for specific business metrics that tie in to my own promotions and bonuses? Why is there a disparity? Why are people leaving my organization? How... View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson

22 Feb 2022
News

Breaking News

specific Colorado papers but also others that are ready for succession and a new path forward. There’s also an on-ramp for local owners who want to participate in the governance of these critical civic assets. We set this up as a public... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dana Smith; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

11 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Second Life: Reflections on Complementing Success with an Encore Career

“It was a big step up in commitment,” Kloeblen says, and that just grew bigger: in January 2019, Kloeblen migrated to a specific portfolio company, Velocity Technology Solutions, a cloud services provider, where he became CEO. Had... View Details

21 Nov 2015
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Stella McCartney Combines High Fashion with Environmental Values

is specifically relevant to our students, but also business managers in general. It’s about patience and persistence, and it also relates to the millennials who expect everything to happen fast, immediate gratification, to be successful... View Details

Keywords: by Brian Kenny; Fashion

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

America, who were identified with specific companies, railways, banks, and small-business history workshops, met regularly to discuss methodological problems and archival sources. The unifying theme in this new era of intense academic... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

19 May 2022
Blog Post

HKS Policy Analysis Exercise Showcase

consultant to a public or nonprofit sector organization and develop solutions to a policy or management issue. Students and their clients work together to define specific issues, design research strategies, gather data, formulate and... View Details

01 Mar 2018
News

Every Trick in the Book

come in looking for a specific title. “If they know what they want, [they are] going to buy it on Amazon,” Grantham says. They come in to discover something new. Grantham has been in the book store business before. In 1999, one of the... View Details

Keywords: April White

27 Nov 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of US Firms

Keywords: by Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr & William F. Lincoln

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