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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
of all professions." A few years later, in 1929, General Electric chairman Owen D. Young ad-dressed the complexities of achieving that goal: "[I]f you ask me to apply the golden rule to a bank rate, I find it amazingly difficult to do."...
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- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
and has a more positive relationship to performance for organizations that perform more complex tasks. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed. Download the paper:...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
giant and added to his growing expertise in what it takes to “compete for a share of the entertainment hour” — a talent his beloved hometown baseball team, in dire economic straits back in San Francisco, sorely needed. Bye-Bye Giants Top:...
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- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
2001 after his IT and consultancy startup, Mainspring, was acquired by IBM. Regardless of specialty, doctors complained of rushing through their days, too over- scheduled to fully comprehend patients’ lengthy and complex medical records,...
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Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
and pursue my personal passions of women's economic empowerment and education. I began at Merrill Lynch, but in pursuit of independence, I eventually became an entrepreneur, founding and building a venture capital firm. I still enjoy...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
access brings more knowledge and more value." —Julia Hanna Prescription: Leverage Human Nature A couple of years ago, HBS associate professor Nava Ashraf embarked on an ambitious economics experiment in Zambia, a place where close to one...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
compelled to focus on protective legal processes and box-checking exercises rather than on formulating company strategy, identifying risks, and evaluating executive performance. The increasing time commitment required of board members, the View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
approach will not work if it’s left to individual choice to come in when people feel like it; it must be structured, so that people are together in predictable ways for the parts of the work that present the most interdependence. So conceptual simplicity gives rise to...
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All Industries
- 09 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements
and politicians on its most popular shows. Fox News Channel had spread rapidly by the 2000 presidential election, its expansion fueled by the wealth accrued by Murdoch and his wildly successful media empire. The speed and breadth of this growth provided View Details
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Board Diversity: Pressure Leads to Action - Blog: RGE Report
for female representation are its impact on diversity throughout companies and a professionalization of board searches, according to Sandu, who also teaches at the Berlin School of Economics and Law. This professionalism comes in when...
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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
that were presented and discussed at the colloquium. Globalization’s complexities and nuances, compared with twenty years ago, were analyzed and debated with a rigor and enthusiasm that doubtless would have pleased Ted Levitt immensely....
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- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
increased when the rules were introduced. We conclude that managerial fiduciary duties affect equity-bondholder conflicts in a way that is economically important, has impact on ex ante capital structure choices, and affects welfare. Read...
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Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
the Routledge Companion to Critical Management Studies. She is currently working on a book on racial global capitalism. She also serves on the Nominating Committee of the Nobel Prize in Economics in Sweden. Rebecca Henderson Harvard...
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- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
http://amr.aom.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/content/early/2015/02/10/amr.2015.0042.abstract February 2015 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Liquidity in Retirement Savings Systems: An International Comparison By: Beshears,...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
natural resources of a similar kind - if, say, the money from tree harvesting were used to plant more trees. It's very difficult to achieve consensus on these issues." Richard H.K. Vietor, Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management, believes that given...
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- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?
be a good critic unless you understand. So the first thing is they could learn about the complexities of the actual business world, and its human aspects. Another thing that religious communities have not grappled with as well are the...
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by Martha Lagace
- 16 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.
accomplish something big together. Silverthorne: Why does group culture seem to matter so much when we thought economic interests dominate everything? Kanter: Modern bureaucratic life was built on the myth that people could come to work...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
increasingly scarce. How serious is the problem? It's a tale of two Americas, the best of times and worst of times if you're a consumer in the current U.S. housing market. On the plus side, thanks to the 1990s' economic boom, some...
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Garry Emmons
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
attracted the research attention of Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, a professor at Harvard Business School, and Andres Hervas-Drane, a PhD candidate in Economics at the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona and a Visiting Fellow at Harvard...
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- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
Structure in Small-Scale Finance Authors:Carpena, Fenella, Shawn Cole, Jeremy Shapiro, and Bilal Zia Publication:The World Bank Economic Review Abstract Microfinance, the provision of small individual and business loans, has experienced...
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Sean Silverthorne