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- 11 Feb 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Goals Gone Wild: The Systematic Side Effects of Over-Prescribing Goal Setting
- November – December 1996
- Article
What Is Strategy?
By: M. E. Porter
Today's dynamic markets and technologies have called into question the sustainability of competitive advantage. Under pressure to improve productivity, quality, and speed, managers have embraced tools such as TQM, benchmarking, and reengineering. Dramatic operational...
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Porter, M. E. "What Is Strategy?" Harvard Business Review 74, no. 6 (November–December 1996): 61–78.
- September 2010 (Revised September 2013)
- Case
Accounting for the iPhone at Apple Inc.
By: Francois Brochet, Krishna G. Palepu and Lauren Barley
Apple initially recognized revenue associated with its iPhone product using subscription accounting. However, in 2008, the company started providing non-GAAP supplemental numbers where substantially all of the revenue was recognized upfront. Market participants'...
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Brochet, Francois, Krishna G. Palepu, and Lauren Barley. "Accounting for the iPhone at Apple Inc." Harvard Business School Case 111-003, September 2010. (Revised September 2013.)
- February 10, 2009
- Editorial
Rethinking Our Rules of Organ Donations
Essay argues for presumed consent as a method for reducing wait times for patients undergoing solid organ transplantation.
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- 16 Sep 2015
- Op-Ed
The Real Duty of the Board of Directors
ownership of modern corporations is a central point of our new paper, Materiality in Corporate Governance: The Statement of Significant Audiences and Materiality. Aiming to improve corporations’ public disclosures, we argue that the board...
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by Robert G. Eccles & Tim Youmans
- 29 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Uber Is Worth Saving and How To Do It
love didn’t last, though, especially when Kalanick defied those same cities when they tried to enforce local laws or when Uber would start a service without municipal permission. (Uber argued it was a technology company connecting riders...
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- 30 Oct 2012
- News
Q&A: U.S. Should Focus on Fostering the Right Kind of Manufacturing
- 20 May 2016
- Op-Ed
World Health Organization Lacks Leadership to Combat Pandemics
making a commercial case for the new funding. The Commission estimates pandemics could cost $60 billion per year and argues that the extra funding recommended is a worthy, preventative investment. However, the WHO's track record hardly...
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- Mar 2012
- Article
Green Rules to Drive Innovation
Incoherent U.S. energy and climate policies have cast a pall over the entire economy and are putting U.S. companies at a serious global disadvantage. The authors offer 10 prescriptions for reforms, two of which they describe in detail. First, they View Details
- 20 Mar 2015
- News
Big Pharma Needs to Get Busy in the Lab
- 14 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
5 Lessons I Hope Marketers Don’t Learn from Donald Trump
If marketing is a profession, and I hope it is, then I suggest there are five rules that marketers should not follow in the interests of self-respect and respect for the profession. It pays to pander. No it doesn’t. It’s unethical, but also unwise, to exploit the...
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by John A. Deighton
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
For too long, scholarship in the field of management has looked at economic performance rather than social welfare, argue HBS professor Joshua Margolis and colleagues James P. Walsh, of University of Michigan Business School, and Klaus...
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by Manda Salls
- 27 Sep 2011
- News
Harvard's Pozen: U.S. Would Profit From Changing Tax Code
- 29 Sep 2011
- News
The trouble with superheroes
- 29 Jul 2013
- News
A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Capitalism
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
skeptics argue that ethics cannot be taught, that by the time a person is an adult, their value system is set. Yet, by way of comparison, consider how business schools inculcate in students the belief that providing value to the customer...
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by Carla Tishler
- 03 Sep 2020
- Op-Ed
Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC
Employers, insurers, taxpayers, and individual consumers pay widely varying prices for treatments, medical technology, and for digital information of fluctuating quality. One patient may receive a small charge for a treatment, while another patient’s bill soars through...
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- 22 Mar 2018
- News
Sustainability: A New Way of Doing Business
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think
No one knows how much it will cost to keep the risks of significant climate disruption to a reasonable level. One commonly cited estimate puts the cost at roughly 1 percent of world GDP a year, or about $840 billion. This is a large number, but it seems smaller when...
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- 08 Jun 2012
- News