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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
decision; we have to look at our values and find the right course based on that.” The board of directors and executive team have been chipping away at a list of commitments designed to strengthen governance and build in mechanisms for...
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- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
Karthik, David F. Drake, and Douglas Fearing Abstract—Mobile money systems, platforms built and managed by mobile network operators to allow money to be stored as digital currency, have burgeoned in the developing world as a mechanism to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
likely to perform effectively those functions. We describe the concept of integrated reporting and why integrated reporting could be a superior mechanism to perform these functions. Moreover, we discuss, through a series of case studies,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
a comprehensive sample of shareholder activism between 2004 and 2011, we find that directors are almost twice as likely to leave over a two-year period if the firm is the subject of a shareholder activist campaign. While it has been argued that proxy contests are an...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 21, 2009
desire for a product when sweatshop labor is present. Furthermore, we present evidence for a mediated moderation where beliefs about sweatshop labor use moderates the impact of desirability on purchase intention, and moral disengagement mediates this process. Motivated...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
the examples demonstrate ways in which market design can break barriers—physical, political, and/or metaphorical. Each example also illustrates one of four broader classes of ways that market design can create positive change: marketplace View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
and friendly employees. Mobil decided to focus its marketing efforts on building long-term relationships with such consumers. It developed loyalty programs, based on a new SpeedpassTM payment mechanism (an employee innovation stimulated...
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by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
of quantum mechanics and at which SEEQC’s chips become fully operational. Of particular interest to Levy, however, is the jumble of room-temperature hardware and wiring that sits next to the refrigerators and communicates with the quantum...
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- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
components—culture, systems and structures, resources, and mechanisms for managing stakeholders and the external environment—reinforce one another and support the implementation of the strategy across schools. When Perspective Taking...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
suggest that boards need to create mechanisms for learning the truth about what is going on in the firm. Consider how things might have gone differently for some failed firms like Washington Mutual and Lehman Brothers if the boards had...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
payload weight carrying a transmitter powerful enough to send signals to Earth independently. A program manager must therefore make calls on decisions that affect the overall system performance. The final area that requires coordination at the program level is related...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2016
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October 4, 2016
yield lessons for the management of creative workers and for the implementation of competitive procurement mechanisms for innovation. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49445 A Welfarist Role for...
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- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
most part, because committed mutual fund consumers are investors who hold portfolios of diversified securities and have long-term goals, they are less likely to engage in such frenetic trading. Instead, the Internet's real impact, according to Jay Light, will not be as...
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Garry Emmons
- 14 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 14
collected from users to suggest tailored coping mechanisms for avoiding relapse. In September 2016, six months after quitting her full-time job to focus solely on Addicaid, Frons struggled to transition what was once a passion project...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
I show that the scarcity of these coveted assets created by increased bank capital requirements can reduce overall bank funding costs and increase bank lending. I quantify this mechanism in a two-sector business cycle model featuring a...
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Carmen Nobel
- 23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23
Authors:Kathleen L. McGinn and Katherine L Milkman Abstract We develop an integrated theory of the social identity mechanisms linking workgroup sex and race composition across levels with individual turnover. Building on social identity...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007
strategic choices: geographic expansion, continued product innovation, serving MFIs outside of the OI network, and new distribution mechanisms to reach market segments beyond MFIs. Wholly owned by faith-based nonprofit OI, MIA must also...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
to translate their thoughts into English are at a distinct disadvantage in this situation. Without such feedback mechanisms in place, say administrators such as Pat Light, the School would miss important clues. "Some years back," she...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 19 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
Abstract—Emissions regulation is a policy mechanism intended to address the threat of climate change. However, the stringency of emissions regulation varies across regions, raising concerns over carbon leakage—an outcome where stringent...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
surprising that many retailers have adopted loyalty programs as a convenient mechanism of meaningful differentiation. Ultimately, loyalty programs should offer incentives for shoppers to reduce their store switching by offering them...
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