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- 2009
- Article
Placing the Normative Logics of Accountability in 'Thick' Perspective
By: Alnoor Ebrahim
This article provides a critical reflection on the heavily normative nature of current accountability debates. In particular, it explores three streams of normative discourse on nonprofit accountability: improving board governance, improving performance-based...
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Fair Value Accounting;
Accounting;
Governance;
Performance Evaluation;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Goals and Objectives;
Management Practices and Processes;
Power and Influence;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Organizational Structure;
Relationships;
Accounting Industry
Ebrahim, Alnoor. "Placing the Normative Logics of Accountability in 'Thick' Perspective." American Behavioral Scientist 52, no. 6 (2009): 885–904.
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
restructuring as the process through which a company radically changes the contractual relationships that exist among its creditors, shareholders, employees, and other stakeholders. The goal of restructuring is to increase the overall...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
Venture capital firms based in locales that are venture capital centers outperform, regardless of the stage of the investment. Ironically, this outperformance arises from outsized performance outside of the venture capital firms' office...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
along with a camera and other features. By September 2007, just 74 days after the June launch of the iPhone, Apple and its mobile carrier partner AT&T Mobility had sold one million units. When Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the product in January 2007, he said...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs
distribution centers with the goal of improving operational performance and ultimately increasing profits and wages and offering a better work environment. The answer from my heart is that I would like to...
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- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
successful technological innovation—but whose mindsets often clash. The authors dub these two types stewards and creators. An organization's stewards are usually managers; their goal is the careful allocation of the organization's...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise Q4 - Course Catalog
series of powerful frameworks for navigating these critical moments in enterprise growth, will prove valuable to students who anticipate founding, managing, advising, or investing in any of a variety of companies—from category-creating startups to industry-leading...
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- 07 Oct 2021
- News
Bringing Light to the Fight
own businesses and is now director of the Auckland International Airport and chair of Spark, New Zealand’s largest telecommunications and digital services company. “Measuring performance in charity is as important as in a commercial...
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- 27 Oct 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits
words, the organization has as its main purpose the advancement of a set of social goals and the creation of social value. That obviously (by law!) includes nonprofit organizations, but it can also include the so-called new social...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 29
What Do Managers Do? Exploring Persistent Performance Differences among Seemingly Similar Enterprises Authors:Rebecca Henderson and Robert Gibbons Publication:In The Handbook of Organizational Economics, edited by Robert Gibbons and John...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
that entrepreneurship is believed to play in the process of economic growth, alleviating financing constraints for would-be entrepreneurs is also an important goal for policymakers worldwide. We review two major streams of research...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Jul 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?
decision-making and even to the future and viability of capitalism. One debate concerned the primacy of profit as a goal. Deaver Brown led this argument by saying, "Profit is the only legitimate goal of a corporation ," pointing...
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by Jim Heskett
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
on a standard set of demand-side product features. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-007.pdf A New Paradigm of Individual, Group and Organizational Performance Authors:Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, and The...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
evidence for the many benefits of remote work—wider geographical reach into different markets, more autonomy over one’s office set up, and the list goes on—studies also make very clear that remote workers’ feelings of professional isolation lead to reduced job View Details
- 24 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Who Sets Your Benchmarks?
pursuing your goals accordingly. In this excerpt, he discusses the unfortunate and all-too-common tendency to focus on extrinsic rather than intrinsic motivators. Who Sets Your Benchmarks? From, What You're Really Meant to Do: A Road Map...
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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2016
growing faster than expenses for the second consecutive year. The resulting growth in cash from operations enabled HBS to continue to make strategic investments in priority areas while still ending the year with a healthy unrestricted reserves balance. One of our...
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- 10 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Legacy of Boaty McBoatface: Beware of Customers Who Vote
public. Boaty blowback highlights the potential danger of giving consumers the power to vote, even though customer engagement is a primary goal of almost every social media strategy. The problem: Even though NERC never explicitly promised...
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- 16 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
Leading Change and Organizational Renewal
existing franchises to build those required for tomorrow's success. The goal for managers, then, is to sustain current success while simultaneously building new products, services, or processes for the future. To do this, organizations...
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by Staff
- 22 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
Why We Started the HBS Black Investment Club
Hedge funds are no different. Despite recent evidence showing hedge funds led by females or minorities performed better than their non-minority counterparts, the industry still suffers from a severe lack of diversity in ownership....
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- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
belief that to prepare managers well, we have to change. What we're doing in Asia has grown out of that belief. We need to create new intellectual capital to underpin our goals at HBS. Thus, we must deepen and extend the quantity and...
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Alejandro Reyes