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- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
adherence to the global labor standards embodied in codes of conduct imposed by multinational buyers. We find that suppliers are more likely to adhere when they are embedded in states that participate actively in the International Labour... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
relationship, Warren Buffett, arguably the world's most admired and successful investor, has decided to make such a significant investment in Goldman Sachs." He added that the deal "will further bolster our strong capitalization... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
PublicationsRepublic of China at 60-An International Assessment Author:William C. Kirby Publication:Harvard University Asia Center, forthcoming An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link:... View Details
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
a common non-linear incentive scheme at a leading enterprise software vendor. The empirical results demonstrate that salespeople are adept at gaming the timing of deal closure to take advantage of the vendor's accelerating commission... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 2, 2010
high: people make imperfect estimates of their level of control. By focusing on situations marked by low control, prior research has created the illusion that people generally overestimate their level of control. Across three studies, we show that when they have a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
attention to social values has played a part in ethical violations we are dealing with today? A: I'm not sure the lack of scholarly attention has necessarily played a part in ethical violations. However, my co-authors and I do suspect... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
Cash Register Company and was under indictment for criminal violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act. There was more than one raised eyebrow when he took over at C-T-R. Undaunted, Watson set about to build the company—which he re-named View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
from hospital turnarounds to policy implementation and consumer product development. And its international unit has been busy exporting services to countries such as China, Russia, and Saudi Arabia. Mediva and Platanus apply the... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
performance chemicals. Simultaneously, Dow had signed a joint venture agreement with Petrochemical Industries Company (PIC) of Kuwait, a deal that would generate $7 billion in cash that could be used to finance the all-cash offer to buy... View Details
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
wins were more frequently associated with the positive emotions and intrinsic motivation that in turn generated the creativity needed to develop innovative approaches to problems. That doesn't mean that managers don't have some control over the View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
her leadership style and philosophy. It examines her career strategies and rise through the ranks; strategies she used to deal with challenges faced as a woman in the military; how she turned around a troubled military unit; and how she... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
to regulate them, undercutting the original New Deal strategy of targeting such threats. As a result, the American financial system was left more vulnerable than ever to a major shock." Given this record of regulatory failure and neglect,... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
goals, what their internal and external constraints are, and where they can improve. Find the resources you need. Discuss the information, budget, tech, and networks that you and your teammates need to reach the team’s goals. If you don’t... View Details
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
taste. My name’s Ayr, I’m the founder and CEO of Clover. And, the way to think about this is it’s like an internal company process that you guys are all sitting in on. ... Julia: That Brussel sprout sandwich and every other item on... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
asserts Barry M. Salzman (MBA '89), president of the international division of New York-based DoubleClick, Inc. In just five years, DoubleClick has become the industry leader in a new business spawned by the Internet -- ad serving. The... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
He’d had a passion for art since his youth, and it continued during the 30-plus years he worked for Holcim, an international cement firm. He began to decorate the firm’s bare cement walls with art and held little art exhibitions at the... View Details
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
popular social network services such as Facebook and MySpace, LinkedIn had to decide whether to incorporate social networking into its value proposition. Third, in an increasingly global business environment, it had to weigh the option of merging with its leading View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
lays policies that have been proposed to deal with either the consequences or the causes of the crisis. These include policies for reforming the supervision of the financial system, changing bankruptcy rules and regulating mortgage... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
"A small percentage of students are intrigued by and support the complete meritocracy they see at Lincoln," DeLong notes. "But the majority rejects the piecework system, although international students do seem more familiar... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
good excuse to invite Levitt, who was not teaching in the AMP program, to dinner. “We became good friends,” she recalls, adding that she applied a number of Levitt’s insights over the years in her role as president and CEO of Estée Lauder View Details