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  • 14 Nov 2007
  • Working Paper Summaries

Accountability in Complex Organizations: World Bank Responses to Civil Society

Keywords: by Alnoor S. Ebrahim & Steve Herz
  • Research Summary

Job Market Paper

When to Take the Leap:
The Antecedents and Consequences of Leapfrog CEOs

Much of the prior research on CEO successions focuses on differences between CEOs appointed from within the firm and those appointed from outside;... View Details
  • February 18, 2022
  • Article

Transparency as a Solution for COVID-19 Related Hospital Capacity Issues

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Richard Boxer
In the initial phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, many U.S. hospitals could not provide an adequate supply of beds to meet demand. Solving the problem of hospital bed capacity is of great importance in the “new normal,” which requires recognizing that SARS-CoV-2 is but... View Details
Keywords: COVID; COVID-19 Pandemic; Health Care; Health Care Demand; Health Care Delivery; Health Care Industry; Health Care Operations; Health Care Policy; Transparency; Hospital; Hospital Management; Hospitals; Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Operations; Performance Capacity; Policy; Health Industry
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  • 12 Aug 2019
  • Research & Ideas

How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

but at this stage, if you don’t have the confidence and the right people to do things without you, it will be a rough ride. In fact, when founding CEOs don’t learn to step up into their roles and empower their leaders, investors and board... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin

    Richard L. Nolan

    Professor Nolan earned his B.A. from the University of Washington in Production and Operations Research in 1962, and his M.B.A and Ph.D. in 1963 and 1966, respectively. Upon graduation in 1966, he joined Boeing Commercial Airplane Company as an Information... View Details

    Keywords: aerospace; information technology industry; internet
    • Web

    Curriculum - Business & Environment

    political structures of the states that seek to support and nourish this system. For the full listing, click here . Corporate Governance and Boards of Directors (Spring 2025) Lynn Paine Throughout the course, we will explore differing... View Details
    • 18 Jun 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    What Is an "Essential" Purchase for a Low-Income Family?

    conditioning," Hagerty says. "It shows people do this across the board and even with very seemingly basic amenities. We seem to believe the poor have more basic basic needs." Implications The implications are unsettling.... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 01 Jan 2013
    • News

    Roger W. Sant, MBA 1960

    Hewlett-Packard, Financial Analyst 1974 Named Assistant Administrator, Federal Energy Administration 1981 Cofounds Applied Energy Services 1991 AES goes public 1991 Establishes The Summit Foundation 1994 Elected Chair, World Wildlife Fund–US 2001 Appointed to View Details
    Keywords: Susan Young
    • Web

    HBS Entrepreneurship Summit - Alumni

    Business Administration Leslie Feinzaig (MBA 2007), Founder & Managing Director, Graham & Walker Venture Fund; Founder, Female Founders Alliance Sarah Fay, Glasswing Ventures and All Raise Chapter Lea 10:15–11:45 a.m. Founders & Builders Track: Small Group Discussions... View Details
    • June 2023
    • Case

    Accounting for Loan Losses at JPMorgan Chase: Predicting Credit Costs

    By: Jonas Heese, Jung Koo Kang and James Weber
    The case examines the accounting for loan losses at a large bank, how a bank sets its Allowance for Loan and Lease Losses (ALLL) on its financial statements. ALLL, and the rules that set them, determine when banks would and would not extend loans, which significantly... View Details
    Keywords: Accounting Standards; Accrual Accounting; Financial Statements; Financial Reporting; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; Banking Industry; United States
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    • December 2017
    • Article

    Is There a Doctor in the House? Expert Product Users, Organizational Roles, and Innovation

    By: Riitta Katila, Sruthi Thatchenkery, Michael Christensen and Stefanos A. Zenios
    We explore the impact on innovation that professional end-users of a product have as inventors, executives, and board members in a young firm. In contrast to prior literature, which has emphasized technology roles, we put the spotlight on the executive and governance... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation; User Innovation; Healthcare; Innovation and Management; Entrepreneurship; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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    • December 2009 (Revised March 2013)
    • Case

    Woolf Farming and Processing

    By: David E. Bell, Laura Winig and Mary Louise Shelman
    Woolf Farming Company, a privately owned family farming business in California's Central Valley, found its business threatened by a lack of water, brought on by a combination of drought, poor quality well water and unavailability of surface water due to federally... View Details
    Keywords: Family Business; Resource Allocation; Quality; Business and Government Relations; Decision Choices and Conditions; Infrastructure; Investment; Growth and Development Strategy; Climate Change; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; California
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    Non-academic Talks and Lectures

    Non-academic Talks and Lectures

    1. Harvard Business School Entrepreneurship Conference, March 3, 2005
      Panelist on International... View Details
    • 21 Jul 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    What Does an ESG Score Really Say About a Company?

    Receiving more information can clarify the complex, but not when it comes to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores. A recent study shows that the more information a company discloses about its ESG practices, the more rating agencies disagree on how well... View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz
    • Web

    C. Roland Christensen - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

    in the globalization of the Harvard Business School, and Christensen was a member of IMEDE's board of advisors for three decades. He was also a visiting professor there during the 1963-64 academic year. The recipient of numerous awards,... View Details
    • Web

    General Merchants to Commodities Brokers | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

    Lehman to Lieutenant General Grant, February 1, 1865. Herbert H. Lehman Papers, Special Correspondence Files, Columbia University Library. View as PDF New York Cotton Exchange, Organization and Board of Managers, 1886-1887. Courtesy of... View Details
    • 13 Feb 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    Managing the Family Business: Leadership Roles

    requires that key stakeholders join together into one or more groups: A shareholders' council and an annual meeting of the owners to serve the governance needs of the owners. A board of directors to serve the governance needs of the... View Details
    Keywords: by John A. Davis
    • 01 Jun 2000
    • News

    Going Public: Margaret M. Crotty

    helped her get through her own sixteen-hour ordeal. While on a weekend vacation from Save the Children in 1995, Crotty boarded one of Indonesia's chronically overcrowded ferryboats. Several hours into the trip, as night was falling, the... View Details
    Keywords: Susan Young
    • 01 Mar 2024
    • News

    The War Within

    When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an education and rehabilitation... View Details
    Keywords: Janelle Nanos; illustration by Daniel Bejar
    • 12 Mar 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets

    other's participation on board the same platform in order to generate any economic value. In traditional one-sided markets, firms serve different types of customers, but they lack the interdependency: For instance, hair salons can choose... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology