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01/10/2021

Auditor Independence and Outsourcing: Aligning Incentives to Mitigate Shilling and Shirking

Firms use external auditors to monitor the quality of difficult-to-observe aspects of their business partners’ performance, including the working conditions of their suppliers. Firms can improve monitoring accuracy by having their own employees conduct some audits, and by rotating across third-par...

29/09/2021

Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy

For salespeople working harder than ever to stay ahead of customers' evolving buying habits, Frank Cespedes offers timeless advice in his new book, Sales Management That Works.

29/09/2021

Private and Social Returns to R&D: Drug Development and Demographics

Research and development (R&D) by pharmaceutical firms focuses disproportionately on medical conditions afflicting the elderly. The proportion of R&D spending targeting older age groups is increasing over time. Even though these investments in R&D prolong life expectancy and improve quality of life,...

27/09/2021

Examining Race and Mass Incarceration in the United States

HBS Working Knowledge: Business Research for Business Leaders

25/09/2021

Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring

Boris Groysberg and colleagues look at the tactics and techniques that business leaders are leaning on to manage stress during the COVID-19 pandemic.

25/09/2021

What History's Biggest Wars Teach Us About Leading in Peace

Deepak Malhotra shares how critical moments in the Peloponnesian War, both World Wars, and the Cuban Missile Crisis offer lessons for business—and life.

23/09/2021

Measuring Employment Impact: Applications and Cases

Employment impact-weighted accounting statements quantify the positive and negative effects of firm practices for employees and the broader labor community. This analysis of companies in different sectors shows how these statements are beneficial both at an aggregate and more specific level.

21/09/2021

Connecting Expected Stock Returns to Accounting Valuation Multiples: A Primer

This paper introduces a framework to investors and researchers interested in accounting-based valuation. The framework connects expected stock returns to accounting valuation anchors. It can be generalized to evaluate an enterprise's expected returns, and can be adapted to correct for the use of sta...

21/09/2021

What Does Remote Work Mean for Middle Managers?

Middle management was already the corporate scapegoat of choice before the COVID-19 pandemic. Will work-from-home policies make middle managers unnecessary or more critical than ever? asks James Heskett.

21/09/2021

Can Historic Social Injustices be Addressed Through Reparations?

HBS Working Knowledge: Business Research for Business Leaders

21/09/2021

The Tulsa Massacre: Is Racial Justice Possible 100 Years Later?

A new Harvard Business School case by Mihir Desai examines the Tulsa Massacre of 1921, and asks difficult questions about what reparations America owes to its Black citizens.

21/09/2021

A Family Business at a Crossroads: Scaling and Succession