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- 11 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?
financial chicanery or unethical dealings. “Often what you are trying to do is create a sense of loyalty or trust in the firm, but that can make people so loyal that when they see something wrong they don’t bring it up” That dichotomy...
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by Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Pilgrimage to the Museum: Man’s Search for God Through Art and Time By Stephen Auth (MBA 1985) Sophia Institute Press In Pilgrimage to the Museum, author-curator Stephen Auth takes you on a colorful journey through the history of...
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- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
Yu Abstract We provide one of the first tests of recent macro global-game crisis models that show that the precision of public signals can coordinate crises (e.g., Angeletos and Werning 2006; Morris and Shin 2002, 2003). In these models,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
deteriorated and the financial crisis intensified. [ ] In March and April 2008, when [Abercrombie & Fitch] was making operational plans (for example, sourcing raw material and planning production),...
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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
York Times, the Financial Times, the Daily Beast, and CNN.com, among others. Through experiences like this in Afghanistan, as well as in Rwanda and Bosnia, Lemmon has become a forceful advocate for the economic and human rights of girls...
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- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
ongoing debate about the impact of using financial incentives for donors or their families to encourage anatomical donations (Clay and Block 2002; Delmonico et al. 2002; Harrington and Sayre 2006; Obermann 1998). Similarly, surveys of...
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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2024 Commencement Remarks | About
disturbing acts of antisemitism globally in the months since. Some of you have been deeply affected by the war between Israel and Hamas and the humanitarian crisis and death toll in Gaza that has ensued. At...
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- 28 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 28
externally hired CEOs increase the likelihood of providing guidance. Complicated Firms Authors:Lauren Cohen and Dong Lou Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We exploit a novel setting in which the same piece...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
managed and that senior managers' key responsibilities should center around its acquisition, allocation, and effective use. For the vast majority of companies, that assumption simply is no longer true. Without denying the need for prudent use of View Details
- 24 Jul 2014
- Op-Ed
Reform Tax Law to Keep US Firms at Home
along partisan lines, from overhauling the US corporate tax to punishing companies who choose to move elsewhere. On July 22, 2014, Mihir A. Desai, Miuzho Financial Group Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School, testified before...
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- 19 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems
twenty-first century, social responsibility, social entrepreneurship and hybrid for-profit/nonprofit organizations, the transformation of work, globalization, collective action, and the recent financial crisis. Among the papers presented:...
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by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
the Economy Is Wrong by Edward Conard (MBA 1982) (Portfolio/Penguin) To explain the causes of the US financial crisis, conventional wisdom blames Wall Street and the mortgage industry for using predatory tactics to seduce homeowners into...
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- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
An Ever Closer Union? In 2010, the European Union faces the challenges of the global financial crisis. With 27 member states, each facing different challenges, can new EU institutions respond effectively?...
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Anna Secino
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
To Educate Leaders Who Make a Difference in the World
his focus to the future as he outlined the key themes that are driving the historic, $500 million capital campaign: increasing the School's global impact and outreach, deepening the learning experience through technology, increased View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
Gamble, and other consumer-goods businesses. "Create or identify the need, and then fulfill that need in a big way." Lopez arrived at Starbucks in 2004 to lead its global consumer-products division and, over time, expanded his...
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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2023 Commencement Remarks | About
boys and men. For Raymond McGuire , acts of courage include pursuing a career in investment banking at a time when there were no role models who looked like him, and quitting his job to run for mayor of New York City. As the prime minister of Greece after the 2008...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
many other matters that should be possible to handle easily becoming intractable.” For Bok’s benefit, McArthur reviewed problems with the School’s appointment processes. He listed faculty areas that had grown unproductive and suggested “emerging fields” that the School...
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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
the best books of the year by Publishers Weekly. Her other books include: So How's the Family?, The Managed Heart, The Second Shift, The Time Bind, The Commercialization of Intimate Life, The Unexpected Community and the co-edited Global...
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- 08 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 8, 2010
persistent effects that explain clear differences in investor protections and financial development around the world today (La Porta et al., 1998, 1999 and passim). This paper examines the persistence of the effects of legal origins by...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2018
- What Do You Think?
In the Wake of #MeToo, Should Corporate Boards Hire Compliance Officers?
"Corporate boards should hire more women." Would more women in leadership help mitigate #MeToo concerns? What do you think? ORIGINAL COLUMN One of the most important global management stories in 2017 was the #MeToo movement, a...
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by James Heskett