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- 10 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting
decipher what kind of company they are buying into. The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) is an NGO established in 2011 with designs on cutting through that noise. Much the way the Financial View Details
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Re: George Serafeim
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Reinvigorating Democracy: A Vote for Change
together to solve our problems in a sustainable, scalable way.” See more from the online-only September Alumni Bulletin IMPACT section’s exploration of democracy-related issues. Making Democracy Work See more from the online-only...
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Young, Susan
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
Tracking Performance Indicators By: Beveridge, Christiana, Sofia Warner, Greg Leya, and Thomas W. Feeley Abstract—Given that accountable care organizations (ACOs) have not achieved the degree of cost reductions and quality improvements...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
newer technologies have been adopted faster than old ones. The cross-country variation in the adoption of technologies accounts for at least a quarter of per capita income differences. Download the paper:...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 24, 2007
account for such agglomeration have been proposed. We note that these theories make different predictions about which pairs of industries should be coagglomerated. We discuss the measurement of coagglomeration and use data from the Census...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
making many small bets is actually much riskier. That's why Hollywood will keep making blockbuster bets even if the returns over the summer were rather disappointing. Anyone with a smartphone and a computer is now a content provider. How has new technology View Details
- 22 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs
University. In the United States, the immigration of skilled workers is particularly prevalent among firms in the technology fields. In 2008, immigrants represented 16 percent of the US workforce with a bachelor's education, and they View Details
- 30 Jun 2019
- News
Alumni in France honor self-made entrepreneurs; Shih talks trade in Buffalo
Clubs News Clubs News Buffalo Alumni Explore the Future of Manufacturing Amid Global Turbulence The HBS Club of Buffalo hosted HBS Professor Willy Shih as a guest speaker in April for a talk on the impacts of global trade disputes on...
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Margie Kelley
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
SEOs are disproportionately conducted by Capital Purchase Program (CPP) recipients, and this is not explained by CPP recipients' economic and regulatory capital needs. SEOs in 2009 and 2010 by CPP recipients alone account for 27% by...
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Sean Silverthorne
- February 2022
- Case
Business Roundtable 2019 Statement: A New Paradigm or Business as Usual?
By: Charles C.Y. Wang and Amram Migdal
This note focuses on the antecedents of, reactions to, and clarifications about The Business Roundtable’s August 19, 2019, “Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation.” The note includes background information on corporate governance as practiced in the United States in...
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Corporate Accountability;
Corporate Governance;
Business History;
Mission and Purpose;
Agency Theory;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
United States
Wang, Charles C.Y., and Amram Migdal. "Business Roundtable 2019 Statement: A New Paradigm or Business as Usual?" Harvard Business School Case 122-023, February 2022.
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Examining Climate Change From a Business Perspective
with Amram Migdal (a former research associate) and Mike Lynch (MBA 2017) for the Business, Government, and the International Economy class to help students explore the impact of policymaking on business around climate change. The case...
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- 09 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Actions Organizations Can Take to Communicate Their Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging
organization stand for and what are you willing to commit to and hold all members of your community accountable for? Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) are important because they bring individuals together in the workplace based on shared...
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All Industries
- 10 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on HBCUs
think critically and has allowed me to identify and reflect on my core values. Ashley Reid (MBA 2023) Where is your hometown? Chicago, Illinois. Which HBCU did you attend? Spelman College. What was your pre-MBA industry and role? I was in tech at Google working in...
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- 15 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives
the case materials, lectures, guest speakers, and application workshops: First, you must understand the externals in your business and their impact on required sales tasks. Value is created or destroyed in the external marketplace, not in...
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- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
One explanation for these patterns is that U.S. firms are organized in a way that allows them to use new technologies more efficiently. A model of endogenously chosen organizational form and IT is developed to explain these new micro and macro findings. Fluid Tasks and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Want People to Save More? Send a Text
Surprisingly, the higher-interest rate option had little impact on savings, neither with the amount saved nor by inspiring participants to move over savings from preexisting accounts. "Our survey evidence suggests that many...
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by Kim Girard
- 05 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Developing Black Talent for Leadership
Let’s show the nation the impact that organizations focused on black talent have made on the business leadership pipeline and our broader economy!...
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- 10 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 10, 2008
Working PapersAccounting Information as Political Currency Authors:Karthik Ramanna and Sugata Roychowdhury Abstract We test whether accounting can be used as political currency. Our setting is the US congressional election of 2004,...
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Martha Lagace
- October 1999
- Case
Royal Dutch/Shell in Transition (B)
By: Lynn S. Paine
This case describes the decisions made by Shell in response to the situation presented in the (A) case.
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Governance;
Corporate Accountability;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Social Issues;
Public Opinion;
Moral Sensibility;
Values and Beliefs;
Transformation;
Energy Industry
Paine, Lynn S. "Royal Dutch/Shell in Transition (B)." Harvard Business School Case 300-040, October 1999.
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
innovations might impact—and be impacted by—workers, consumers, organizations, and society. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55845 March 2019 Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Choice...
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Dina Gerdeman