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- 19 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 19
available requests for tender, "crowd-sourcing," and volunteer experts to discover, expose, and encourage prosecution of corrupt dealings by the Russian government. These efforts made Navalny a cause célèbre in Western media and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
into the business to the day the product departs the shipping dock. The researchers encouraged businesses to think of that order as the actual customer, and watched as they routed that person here and there among departments, perhaps...
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by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Build a Better Board
their time by providing directors with better information. As we mention in the book, encourage directors to get out and do things between the meetings to learn more about the business. Provide them with interim reports about what's going...
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by Martha Lagace
- 03 Sep 2009
- What Do You Think?
Are Retention Bonuses Worth the Investment?
encourage employees in an acquired company to "preserve and internally disseminate the knowledge that made the smaller (acquired) company attractive to the larger one." Vladimir Pavelko expressed his support for such a bonus,...
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by Jim Heskett
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
Enlist ‘witnesses’ to report or handle harassment Companies should openly encourage people to speak up when they notice a problem. “There are times when plenty of people know about it, but don’t do anything about it, maybe because they...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
what seemed to work in the past, and build on that,” he says. At the time there was intense debate about companies that were deemed “too big to fail,” and how they could be regulated in a way that limited excessive risk-taking, rather than View Details
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by Michael Blanding
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
deliberation. The Bank should also encourage debate on the project or policy reform in national legislatures prior to board discussion; The Implementation, Supervision, and Completion stage should use participatory monitoring and...
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by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 25 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
It’s All in a Name: Reputable Investors Help Startups Shine
important to get off the ground,” says Bernstein. For job seekers, the VC connection might encourage them to apply to companies they’ve never heard of—even with the knowledge that most startups fail. “It is worth noting that being backed...
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by Rachel Layne
- 21 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing
investors lose. The idea has garnered much discussion in the United States since President Obama proposed spending up to $100 million on social impact bond pilot programs when announcing the 2012 budget in February. While the idea of a government payback might View Details
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Education, Technology, and Business: What’s the Catch?
being used to its potential, argued Fishman. Schools must also break down the ways they teach, encouraging team teaching in the classroom and other constructivist models that sometimes use technology to build meaning in the classroom....
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- 01 May 2000
- What Do You Think?
Can You Hard-Wire Performance?
technicians, was legendary. Xerox hard-wired its success to results achieved for customers. Then the lure of improved cash flow combined with competitors' practices led to the decision to encourage machine purchases by users. Within a...
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by James Heskett
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
clearer in the second half of the nineteenth century. In the United States, the building of the railroads after 1850 led to the development of mass markets for the first time. Along with improved access to capital and credit, mass markets View Details
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by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
Stakeholder engagement leads to better mutual understanding. Clear and consistent communications about a company's financial and nonfinancial performance will be the basis for a constructive two-way conversation. Q: What challenges do managers face by View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis
encouraged and instructed teens how to safely dispose of unused prescription medications in their homes. “Several thousand teens participated online or watched replays,” Langford says. SUD treatment providers are also searching for ways...
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- 10 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 10
under these conditions. After describing these foundational perspectives and more recent work that addresses this paradox, we outline several promising directions for research in this domain. We encourage researchers to develop...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?
viewers who tuned in—especially if it was known that Americans performed well in popular sports such as swimming and gymnastics. The network also harnessed social media to increase buzz about the Games and viewership, including View Details
- 07 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Video: Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela
restrict the religious groups' acreage and make the roads even wider to control foot traffic—and land disputes-even more? What about expanding the festival site northward, thereby creating the equivalent of urban sprawl? Or will you View Details
- 18 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups
"This paper has potential in academics and for the world of practice because it has insights that could be implemented by organizations tomorrow if they so choose." The researchers encourage businesses to consider the benefits...
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by Maggie Starvish
- 26 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 26
Authors:Desai, Mihir A., C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines, Jr. Abstract This paper analyzes the extent to which firms use trade credit to reallocate capital in response to tax incentives. Tax-induced differences in pretax returns View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2005
- What Do You Think?
Can an Organization’s “Deep Smarts” Be Preserved?
organizational leaders should insist on and practice greater transparency in management decision making." In a U.K. bank, David Physick relates that "we encouraged knowledge sharing through "lunch 'n' learn' sessions."...
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by James Heskett