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- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
Paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/shanson/Issuer_Quality_2013_RFS_Final.pdf The Cost of High-Powered Incentives: Employee Gaming in Enterprise Software Sales Authors:Larkin, Ian Publication:Journal of Labor Economics Abstract This paper...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
competitiveness fundamentals to productivity and prosperity outcomes. On these indicators Sweden is compared to a peer group of other advanced EU and OECD countries. The Scorecard finds Sweden's competitiveness to be solid overall, supporting the current state of the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?
within a set of constraints, both direct and indirect (For example) (A) recent Labor Department proposed rule just reiterated that the duty of (ERISA retirement) plan fiduciaries is to maximize investment returns.” Rather than hold CEOs...
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by James Heskett
- 29 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play
"Is talent management portable?" That's the question asked and answered in a recent Harvard Business Review article discussing issues surrounding how top managers can transfer their skill sets to a new company. The...
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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
places like HBS are fortunate,” she says. “We have a responsibility to take on issues we see around us. Wherever I am, I like to identify problems — or voids — and work with others to create structures and channels for addressing them.”...
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- 08 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity
Emerita Deborah Kolb. "Despite bodies of knowledge about social institutions and social issues at the institutional and organizational levels, we know very little about how individual organizations experience and internalize gradual...
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- 09 Jan 2014
- News
Tapping into Opportunity
between Florida and Georgia, and some are among water districts within a single state, such as California. Shankar has worked on this issue as well, coauthoring the water policy paper that has driven California's water conservation...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
keep a written record of the interactions with the patients and also do research to understand the scientific, socioeconomic, and cultural issues that influence the patients’ experience. They come away with a newfound appreciation for all...
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- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
strongest predictors of entry, with labor laws and household banking quality also playing important roles. Looking at the district-industry level, we find extensive evidence of agglomeration economies among manufacturing industries. In...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
are very different consumers from the more affluent. What kind of business models are needed? A: There are three major challenges. First, there is the issue of cultural distance between corporate decision makers and the poor. Let's face...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
would expect that the temptation would be to continue to play your strong suit and try and express your own taste and your ideas because it’s worked for you for 50 years. The second issue you’d expect of anybody in this situation would be...
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by Christina Pazzanese
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Books
A Vision for Venture Capital: Realizing the Promise of Global Venture Capital & Private Equity by Peter A. Brooke (MBA ’54) with Daniel Penrice (New Ventures) This book chronicles the career of Peter Brooke, who has been called “the Johnny Appleseed of venture capital”...
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closely with a group of senior faculty members on faculty issues and with the senior associate deans who have oversight over major areas of the School. The executive directors and heads of all administrative departments report into the...
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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
management methods in American business," finished fourth, followed by IBM's Thomas J. Watson, whose "computers enabled the automation of well-informed decision-making, allowing business and the work force to migrate from manual labor in...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals
exchange of ideas. And next year we’ll hold a follow-up conference on whether leadership can be taught. Are leadership qualities the same as they’ve always been? The world is crying out for a different type of leader. The challenges we face to address big View Details
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
"Many people want to spend their productive years doing something that they care about, and one way to do that is to work through the social sector on issues that markets alone don't always address," Childress says. A Two-Way Street While...
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- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
How can managers better identify, describe, and confront the issues of environmental and social sustainability that their companies increasingly encounter? One answer is One Report, a method of integrating information about financial and...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Gazprom Goes Global
A Russian Giant Grows, Despite a Bad Rap THE BIG CHILL: Russia and Ukraine’s gas wars give Europe the shivers. In a virtual replay of events this past January, in 2006 Russia’s energy giant Gazprom cut off its supply of natural gas to Ukraine’s energy company in the...
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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
moral issue in the end. But to solve the problem, we first have to define it properly. Then it’s for the American people and their leaders to decide what they want to do with the findings.” America has written and spoken widely about his...
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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
“In my senior year,” Massie explains, “I questioned many things, including the existence of God. I issued a challenge, saying, ‘God, if you are out there, I'd like to feel you more in my life.' And God responded with grace and...
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