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- 29 Jun 2009
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Leading Change
What Should Leaders Communicate? Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times As companies batten down the hatches, we need leaders who do not compromise on standards and values that are essential in flush times. Fortunately, such leaders do... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 14 Feb 2017
- Blog Post
Why I Love My Job: Leticia Tavares On Marriott's Management Acceleration Program
hotelier in the future. What is your most memorable moment on the job?In my first rotation I became very close with the housekeeping staff. They taught me how to clean a room to the Marriott standard and how to make each guest’s stay... View Details
- Profile
Daniel Serna
standards (and resolved the mystery of "missing" milk output — it turns out the gallon jugs were 1.5 ounces too big). Dan also spent time at AgriMark, a dairy co-operative of 1,400 farmers, where he worked on futures and... View Details
- Web
Domestic Students | MBA
banking institutions. Harvard University is committed to the highest standard of ethics and conduct, in all areas, including financial aid. Please review the Harvard University Student Loan Code of Conduct (pdf) . Trying to figure out how... View Details
- Web
Data Visualization for Analysis and Communication - Course Catalog
(or have equivalent expertise). Educational Objectives: Students will learn to use data visualization as a tool to gain actionable insights from data, and then communicate those insights to others. The format will be a departure from the View Details
- 21 Jun 2020
- News
Rooting out Racism
basic practices, such as acknowledging what constitutes third-degree racism so there is no hiding behind a lack of understanding; committing to diversity plans that meet a carefully considered standard of rigor; and delivering outcomes in... View Details
- 05 Sep 2012
- What Do You Think?
Will Business Management Save US Health Care?
Wittenberg put it, " management will never fix the health care system (it) can promote standardization and mass production (but) the actions of individual managers will have no effect on the overall system," one that as Barry... View Details
- Web
Latin America - Global Activities 2020
being able to repay their loans on the schedule required by the lender. Microfinance has evolved as this very standardized one-size-fits-all loan product you repay on a weekly, biweekly, or monthly basis. There may be some kinds of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Business History Gets a Boost
“HBS faculty members have long been recognized as pioneers in the creation of the field, and the Business History Review sets the standard for business history scholarship.” HBS professor Geoffrey Jones and research fellow Walter... View Details
- Profile
Linda Leung
standard work experience.” “Here, I’m exposed to smart, accomplished people from all types of backgrounds,” Linda says. “In my first semester, I sat next to the best downhill skier in Cyprus. In a case we discussed about business... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
William F. Connell (MBA '63)
to make them feel like owners. Connell also maintains a tight system of quarterly operations reviews and monthly financial reports, making frequent visits to plants and customers. In an ongoing commitment to the highest standards of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Class Day & Commencement
of community, family, trust, and giving back. “The path ahead may be difficult. It will be full of risk and great reward,” he told the graduates and their guests. “We need leaders who will make a difference in the world, leaders who are firmly grounded in the highest... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Making a Difference
Bridgespan Group — Jeff Bradach (PhDOB ’92) and Tom Tierney (MBA ’80) — pioneers in the application of data-driven strategy and consulting services to enhance the effectiveness of nonprofits and foundations. Founded a decade ago, Bridgespan has helped set new View Details
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from the Browser Wars
average person to access information on servers around the world. As a tool for exploring how standards are set when new technologies hit the market, the browser wars exhibit many features we like to study: competition between two viable... View Details
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders
themselves less for comparable work. But if there's a standard [that men and women know], then this result goes away. This entitlement effect is a little hard to understand. Some of it is linked to perceived deservedness: In ambiguity,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
HBS, founded the American Association of Collegiate Schools of Business in 1916 to set standards for the professionalization of business education. Years passed with no consensus, but the Great Depression revived interest in setting View Details
- January 2011 (Revised July 2011)
- Case
Accounting for Catastrophes: BP PLC and Union Carbide Corporation (A)
By: David F. Hawkins
The IASB and FASB propose new contingency loss recognition, measurement, and disclosure rules (A case). The B and C cases apply these proposals to British Petroleum's Mexican Gulf oil spill and Union Carbide's Bhophal gas discharge. View Details
Keywords: Financial Reporting; International Accounting; Trade; International Finance; Standards; Strength and Weakness; Natural Disasters; Crisis Management; Governance Controls; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Energy Industry; India
Hawkins, David F. "Accounting for Catastrophes: BP PLC and Union Carbide Corporation (A)." Harvard Business School Case 111-062, January 2011. (Revised July 2011.)
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Transparency Improves For Foreign Firms in U.S. Markets
in its annual financial statements, primarily the annual report. For this we use the recently released transparency-and-disclosure scores provided by Standard and Poor's. Q: What did you discover about the disclosure practices of foreign... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
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LaToya Marc
that startled her: statisticians claimed that they could forecast the number of future prison cells the nation would need based on the performance of 4th graders on standardized tests. At this point, LaToya had been volunteering as a math... View Details
- 23 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
How I Structured My Second Year at HBS
cross-registered for a class on Persuasion at the Kennedy School during the January term. I needed to be in Boston during January, and I thought the class would be a great way to experience a different part of Harvard while learning an important skill. The course had... View Details