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    William M. Allen

    In 1945, when Allen was appointed CEO, Boeing faced cancellation of $1.5 billion in wartime contracts. Under Allen’s leadership, Boeing kept course and later prospered. In 1952, Boeing’s B-52 was chosen by... View Details
    Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
    • 07 Dec 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Towards an Understanding of the Role of Standard Setters in Standard Setting

    Keywords: by Abigail Allen & Karthik Ramanna; Accounting
    • 01 Jan 2015
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Lobbying Behavior of Governmental Entities: Evidence from Public Pension Accounting Rules

    Keywords: by Abigail M. Allen & Reining Petacchi
    • 23 May 2018
    • News

    Abigail P. Johnson, MBA 1988

    to online investment guidance and cryptocurrency. Upon earning her BA, Johnson moved to New York and worked as a research associate at Booz Allen Hamilton. The experience influenced the rest of her life. She met Chris McKown, her future... View Details
    Keywords: Susan Young
    • 12 Feb 2015
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Auditor Lobbying on Accounting Standards

    Keywords: by Abigail M. Allen, Karthik Ramanna & Sugata Roychowdhury; Accounting
    • 16 Apr 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Auditing Oligopoly and Lobbying on Accounting Standards

    Keywords: by Abigail M. Allen, Karthik Ramanna & Sugata Roychowdhury; Accounting; Banking
    • 05 Jul 2006
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Promoting a Management Revolution in Public Education

    Keywords: by Stacey M. Childress, Richard Elmore & Allen S. Grossman; Education
    • 04 Feb 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?

    colleagues measured how the big firms lobbied on proposed accounting regulations. His paper, coauthored with HBS doctoral student Abigail M. Allen and Boston College accounting... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting
    • 27 Apr 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: April 27

      PublicationsRethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads Authors:Srikant M. Datar, David A. Garvin, and Patrick Cullen Publication:Harvard Business Press, 2010 Abstract : "Business Schools Face Test of Faith."... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 30 Oct 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: October 30, 2007

    interpretations or recognitions that are new to each of them, thereby helping them recognize problems that are genuinely new. We also show that when communication is too intense, its beneficial aspects give way to the pathologies of "groupthink." We conclude... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Publications - Faculty & Research

    "Productivity Beliefs and Efficiency in Science." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-063, June 2025. 2025 Working Paper Public Displays of Alignment: Firm Speech in Autocratic Regimes By: Joris Mueller, Jaya Y. Wen and Cheryl Wu Political speech View Details
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    Placement - Doctoral

    Business, Information Technology Management Department Dissertation: Essays on Open Science and Open Software in Firm Innovation Advisors: Shane M. Greenstein (Chair), Karim R. Lakhani , and N/A 2023 Ryan View Details
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    Spangler Center | About

    interaction. The 122,000-square-foot, red brick and limestone building, which complements McKim, Mead & White’s 1920s master plan for the campus, was designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects and is considered the main student center for... View Details
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    Strategy - Faculty & Research

    Tom Clay Randolph B. Cohen Jacob M. Cook Srikant M. Datar Robert J. Dolan Wenxin Du Benjamin Enke Chiara Farronato Alexandra C. Feldberg Mattias E. Fibiger Frances X. Frei Jeremy S. Friedman William E.... View Details
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    Research - Global

    Autocratic Regimes By: Joris Mueller, Jaya Y. Wen and Cheryl Wu Political speech by firms is increasingly common around the world. This paper examines the government as an important, yet understudied, audience for such speech, focusing on... View Details
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    Podcast - Business & Environment

    imagery, AI, and systems design to enable more targeted insurance underwriting and disaster preparedness. She also explains how Bellwether is creating geospatial AI infrastructure and tools to support natural disaster response by the... View Details
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    General Management - Faculty & Research

    and Composition, a manual of corporate governance published by the NYSE and J.P. Morgan. In our chapter, we outline six key decisions every board must address: What is the board’s purpose? Who should serve on it? How should the board be... View Details
    • 2014
    • Working Paper

    Lobbying Behavior of Governmental Entities: Evidence from Public Pension Accounting Rules

    By: Abigail Allen and Reining Petacchi
    We examine the lobbying behavior of state governments in the development of recently issued public pension accounting standards GASB 67 and 68. Consistent with opportunistic motivations, we find that states' opposition to the liability increasing provisions embedded in... View Details
    Keywords: Accounting; Accounting Industry; United States
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    Allen, Abigail, and Reining Petacchi. "Lobbying Behavior of Governmental Entities: Evidence from Public Pension Accounting Rules." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-043, December 2014.
    • September 2022
    • Article

    A Spanner in the Works: Category-Spanning Entrants and Audience Valuation of Incumbents

    By: Rory M. McDonald and Ryan T. Allen
    Previous work has examined how audiences evaluate category-spanning organizations, but little is known about how their entrance affects evaluations of other, proximate organizations. We posit that the emergence of category-spanning entrants signals the advent of an... View Details
    Keywords: Emerging Industries; Industry Dynamics; Organization And Management Theory; Technology Strategy; Technology And Innovation Management; Entrepreneurship; Information Technology; Strategy; Management; Theory; Innovation and Management
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    McDonald, Rory M., and Ryan T. Allen. "A Spanner in the Works: Category-Spanning Entrants and Audience Valuation of Incumbents." Strategy Science 7, no. 6 (September 2022): 190–209.
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    Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

    and Michael W. Toffel. "Hurtigruten: Sea Zero." Harvard Business School Case 625-100, March 2025. More Publications Faculty V. Kasturi Rangan George Serafeim Michael W. Toffel Rosabeth M. Kanter James E. Austin Julie Battilana Lynn S.... View Details
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