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- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
John Dunn, Raymond Geuss, Gareth Stedman Jones, Michael Sonenscher, John Robertson, Keith Tribe, Pasquale Pasquino, and Peter N. Miller contribute original essays on themes Hont treated with penetrating insight: the politics of commerce, debt, and luxury; the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- September 2017 (Revised November 2017)
- Case
John Rogers and Ariel Investments
By: Steven Rogers and Greg White
The strong, public advocacy of a highly successful African American CEO has the potential to negatively impact his company. The CEO is deciding if he should listen to the advice of others who are urging him to “tone it down”.
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Advocacy;
Diversity;
Investment Management;
Affirmative Action;
Disruption;
Cost vs Benefits;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Fairness;
Moral Sensibility;
Values and Beliefs;
Corporate Accountability;
Leading Change;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Problems and Challenges;
Financial Services Industry;
Chicago
Rogers, Steven, and Greg White. "John Rogers and Ariel Investments." Harvard Business School Case 318-015, September 2017. (Revised November 2017.)
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
since both types of acquirer (and the target) can access misvalued debt markets. However, moral hazard and insurance effect differences between types of buyers interact with potential debt misvaluation debt, leading to a dominance of...
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Carmen Nobel
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
American Auto’s Troubled Road
plus only if consumers accept them. As an example, he cites an instance when GM and Ford customers rejected upgrades in the rear suspensions of Camaros and Mustangs because aficionados liked the feel of their "ride" just the way it was. The View Details
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
Working Papers Dirty Work, Clean Hands: The Moral Psychology of Indirect Agency Authors: Paharia, Karim S. Kassam, Joshua D. Greene, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract When powerful people cause harm, they often do so indirectly through other...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
experience. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50573 2015 Shaping Entrepreneurial Mindsets: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Leadership Development Design Thinking and Innovative Problem Solving By: Datar,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
between the FASB and the IASB would allow GAAP to better respond to market forces. Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1413775 The Effect of Market Leadership in Business Process Innovation: The Case(s)...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
institutional appropriateness was the stronger requirement; the lack of it prevented an otherwise informationally relevant risk control system from prevailing as an interactive control system. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-115.pdf A Randomized...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
your biggest buckets of cost and rethinking those strategically in ways that give your customers something they value," notes Frei, the UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management at Harvard Business School. Morriss (HBS MBA '04), the cofounder and managing...
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- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
control rights and cash-flow rights in the borrowing firms exacerbates potential tunneling and other moral hazard activities by large shareholders, thereby increasing credit risk and monitoring needs. Consequently, lenders form syndicates...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
specifically economic knowledge, in twentieth century America. We use the Wharton School as an illustration of the earliest trends and dilemmas (c. 1900-1930), when business schools found themselves caught between their business connections and their striving for View Details
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Anna Secino
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
business relations, and then reputation and regulatory relations. The impact on stock price has been much less significant, and this could be attributed to stock prices not reflecting the impact on employee morale and business relations...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
business model for decades. Shrewd observers knew it. The company did not transform itself because it could continue to coast along, living in the reflected aura of its past glory. GM's leadership acted in 2008 as if it were 1998 or 1988....
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- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
dignity and—as important—lays the groundwork to allow him/her to rebound and move on in a constructive way. Typically overlooked is that the task must be done in a way that enables the manager performing the deed to sustain his/her own well-being, ongoing...
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by Martha Lagace
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
“Having empathy in day-to-day interaction with employees, customers, vendors, investors, etc. is always an important leadership skill, but this empathy is dramatically heightened during a crisis that is impacting everyone personally and...
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by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
fertility is characterized by moral hazard due to the fact that most contraception can only be perfectly observed by the woman. Using an experiment in Zambia that varied whether women were given access to contraceptives alone or with...
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Carmen Nobel
- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
PublicationsThe Burden of Guilt: Heavy Backpacks, Light Snacks, and Enhanced Morality Authors:Gino, F., M. Kouchaki, and A. Jami Publication:Journal of Experimental Psychology: General Abstract Drawing on the embodied simulation account...
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Sean Silverthorne
- January 2023
- Case
Natura: Weathering the Pandemic at Brazil's Cosmetic Giant
By: Brian Trelstad, Pedro Levindo and Carla Larangeira
Brazil's Natura, a multi-brand cosmetics group, has taken several measures to safeguard the livelihoods of its thousands of employees and millions of sales representatives during the COVID-19 health and economic crisis. The company has also made strides in its efforts...
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COVID-19 Pandemic;
ESG Reporting;
Acquisition;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Decision Making;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Environmental Sustainability;
Environmental Management;
Climate Change;
Ethics;
Moral Sensibility;
Values and Beliefs;
Global Strategy;
Corporate Governance;
Health Pandemics;
Human Resources;
Human Capital;
Crisis Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Marketing;
Distribution Channels;
Supply Chain;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Mission and Purpose;
Organizational Culture;
Customer Ownership;
Relationships;
Business and Community Relations;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Networks;
Partners and Partnerships;
Science-Based Business;
Reputation;
Human Needs;
Social Issues;
Strategy;
Equality and Inequality;
Beauty and Cosmetics Industry;
Brazil;
Latin America
- 06 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Women MBAs at Harvard Business School
Radcliffe College, indicating a personal commitment to educating women well before they were officially admitted into the full two-year MBA Program. In 1965, the School hired an administrative assistant to the Dean, whose main responsibility was to recruit women and...
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- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
bank leadership knew it needed to innovate to maintain that reputation in the digital era. The bank's chairman, CEO, and EVP of digital banking unit were evaluating their options. Should they have a separate P&L for the digital...
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Sean Silverthorne