Fair Value Accounting - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Dec 2015
News

The Year in Ideas 2015

Flavr Savr tomato, introduced more than 20 years ago. The decision was driven by the economics of bringing a value-added product to consumers, Baker says of the marketing of the White Russet. The fresh market would place the most value on... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White

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Commencement 2013 Address | About

sure all of you have some amazing memories of your FIELD 2 excursion 16 months ago. I have my own vivid memories of that time. Each evening, I’d wait and watch my email inbox for a simple message: “All students accounted for. Everyone is... View Details

20 Feb 2006
HBS Case

Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive

rejections personally because their requests were merely a few among the thousands of pieces of mail that Harpo Productions received every week. The experience also taught them the value of teamwork and the necessity of not allowing each... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation

30 May 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship’s Wild Ride

you." The final attribute is rewards based on value created rather than position in a hierarchy. Q: When you use this lens to look at the phenomenon of entrepreneurship, what insights does it provide? A: One insight is that... View Details

Keywords: by William Mahoney

01 Dec 1996
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Laurel without Hardy? A Lesson for Business

these initiatives is to promote applications that push the limits of processing power. Upgrading to Intel's latest chip becomes a necessity, not a luxury. There is a hundred-year-old analogue to Intel's strategy. At the turn of the century, the car was a technological... View Details

01 Feb 1998
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Not Your Typical Business Conference

conference organizer Karen A. Page (MBA '89) put it, to "tell their stories, discover they're not so different from one another, and learn some useful ideas for making their lives and careers more successful and satisfying." It was a simple formula, and one that... View Details

August 2023 (Revised January 2024)
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Arla Foods: Data-Driven Decarbonization (B)

By: Michael Parzen, Michael W. Toffel, Susan Pinckney and Amram Migdal

The case describes Arla’s history, in particular its climate change mitigation efforts, and how it implemented a price incentive system to motivate individual farms to implement scope 1 greenhouse gas emissions mitigation measures and receive a higher milk price. The... View Details

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09 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy

position to do something about it. Money for new enterprises had been restricted, they believed, by the New Deal's onerous tax system, and by the increasing prominence of ultraconservative investment trusts. Investment trusts and life insurance companies View Details

Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante

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Lara Hodgson

it. She, along with her co-founder John Hayes, who years earlier had founded Peachtree Accounting Software, created her own solution by founding NOW Corp in 2010. The concept is simple: A small business with a bill out to any business or... View Details

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Working at Harvard Business School | Employment

levels, and personal experiences to their work, creating an environment based on the shared values of respect for the rights and dignity of others. Diversity Affinity Groups A Distinct Part of Harvard University Harvard Business School is... View Details

11 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 11, 2008

Management (forthcoming) Abstract Broad waves of investor sentiment should have larger impacts on securities that are more difficult to value and to arbitrage. Consistent with this intuition, we find that when an index of investor... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 28, 2008

course in order to accommodate both the value-creating impetus of the shareholder value concept and the accountability inherent in the stakeholder approach. View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

journal. Accounting scholarship, in particular, has underinvested in research about innovative practices or the emerging accounting issues faced by contemporary organizations (Kaplan, 2011), likely because... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17

million to $15 million. During this phase, you can self-finance or establish a search fund to recruit potential investors. Strike a deal. When you’ve settled on a target, do preliminary due diligence to confirm the business’s viability and arrive at a View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments

made a series of changes and created a process for analyzing bias. Had the executives considered how to account for unintended consequences in their outcome metrics—and perhaps engaged a diverse user group to understand their... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8

the way that, for more than a century, it has articulated and shaped for the larger society a set of ideas, aspirations, and norms concerning business and management. Moreover, the visions and values animating the university-based... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2017
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017

has allowed the West’s growing prosperity, but this ideal is now being challenged by governmental bodies that were founded on this very principle. Wagnière examines the dangers that arise when governments push toward collectivism and ignore individual freedom. He... View Details

10 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later

time, because the time horizon is in minutes. Whereas in managerial roles, you have to think in longer time horizons, and you're not always thanked for your work. Ely: What about the structures, as opposed to roles? Kanter: What would View Details

Keywords: by Robin J. Ely

01 Dec 2000
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Books

enhancing economic value and developing organizational capability as ends and means of change." HBS Press Books in Brief (Harvard Business School Press) The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life, by Rosamund... View Details

Keywords: Rogelio Fussa; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jan 2006
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Ann S. Moore, MBA 1978

what's important to you and what you stand for; values are critical to success and happiness. Get yourself a compass and forget the clock. It is far more important to know in what direction you are headed than how fast you are going."... View Details

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