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  • 03 Aug 2016
  • What Do You Think?

How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?

Why Does the Leadership Industry Continue to Thrive? The unstated assumption underlying most of responses to this month’s column is that the leadership industry has done little or nothing to improve leadership behaviors View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Education
  • 14 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting

community activists? When and how does such reporting affect how managers make decisions in ways that increase or decrease shareholder value? What are the main welfare effects of corporate accountability... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting; Energy; Utilities
  • 18 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 18, 2009

and probabilistic delayed observation of agents' types. I derive conditions in which an advertising principal can set its payment delay to deter rogue agents and to attract solely or primarily good-type agents. Through the savings from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Mar 2021
  • Book

Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World

How do we develop concerns for coworkers’ welfare when we work remotely so that we can feel reasonably comfortable interacting with one another? One of the most powerful ways to develop emotional trust with people is by self-disclosure,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 17 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility

issues can be attributed to the dominant concern of business, namely economic performance. There is no villain or conspiracy here, but that's what makes it all the more important to be cognizant of the turn away from social View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 2009
  • Book

Supercorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Opportunity, Profits, Growth, and Social Good

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
Supercorp is based on a 3-year study involving more than 350 interviews in 20 countries to identify the leadership practices and operating methods of major companies seeking profitable growth through innovation that benefits society. For example, when the tsunami and... View Details
Keywords: Profit; Leadership; Mission and Purpose; Opportunities; Welfare
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  • 17 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 17, 2007

firm, or between an upstream and downstream firm. We claim that misalignment is costly both to the involved functions/firms and to the rest of the organization or supply chain, and focus the paper on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Dec 2011
  • First Look

First Look: December 20

formation, however, teams with a high average level of relationship orientation performed better than teams with a low average level of relationship orientation. Furthermore, a moderate degree of variance in relationship orientation among team members produced better... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

2018 Independently published Unlocked: Keys to Improve Your Thinking By: Zaltman, Gerald Abstract—What’s the best way to change your life? Change how you think, says marketing guru Gerald Zaltman. While most of us are accustomed to self-improvement via physical... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 20 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

Having a very long record of reinforcement in making good decisions, for anybody, that would make them think they’ll be expert in other areas, whether it’s aviation or welfare View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
  • January 2024
  • Article

Helping Children Catch Up: Early Life Shocks and the PROGRESA Experiment

By: Achyuta Adhvaryu, Theresa Molina, Anant Nyshadham and Jorge Tamayo
Can investing in children who faced adverse events in early childhood help them catch up? We answer this question using two orthogonal sources of variation – resource availability at birth (local rainfall) and cash incentives for school enrollment – to identify the... View Details
Keywords: Children; Outcome or Result; Welfare; Early Childhood Education; Weather
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  • 24 Mar 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Are Assets Only for America’s Wealthy?

enough money to prosper, low-income families' access to health benefits, their civic participation, family stability, and mental wellbeing are all diminished by their low success rate in building assets. Peter Tufano, Sylvan C. Coleman... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
  • 24 Jul 2014
  • Op-Ed

Reform Tax Law to Keep US Firms at Home

exclusively on advancing US welfare with particular attention on reforms that will improve American wages” While these transactions naturally attract growing attention, inversions are merely the most visible manifestation of these... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai; Pharmaceutical
  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Policy Bundling to Overcome Loss Aversion: A Method for Improving Legislative Outcomes

By: Katherine L Milkman, Mary Carol Mazza, Lisa L. Shu, Chia-Jung Tsay and Max H. Bazerman
Policies that would create net benefits for society but would also involve costs frequently lack the necessary support to be enacted because losses loom larger than gains psychologically. To reduce this harmful consequence of loss aversion, we propose a new type of... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Cost vs Benefits; Policy; Government Legislation; Outcome or Result; Welfare
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  • 20 May 2008
  • First Look

First Look: May 20, 2008

prescriptive suggestions for candidates to approach job negotiations as a two-level game and to minimize disadvantageous effects of gender on job negotiation outcomes. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-095.pdf Optimal Life-Cycle Investing with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Oct 2009
  • First Look

First Look: October 20

cost, but is also a function of the competitiveness of the upstream economy. Moreover, the presence of a gray market competitor may cause unintended social welfare consequences when domestic governments mandate the use of arm's length... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • August 2010 (Revised December 2016)
  • Case

Kaweyan: Female Entrepreneurship and the Past and Future of Afghanistan

By: Geoffrey Jones and Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Explores the challenges of female entrepreneurship in Afghanistan through the case of Kemeli Sediqi, who built a business under the Taliban, and founded a consultancy in 2004. The case positions Sediqi's experiences against the background of Afghanistan's turbulent... View Details
Keywords: Opportunities; Social Entrepreneurship; Problems and Challenges; Welfare; Gender; Afghanistan
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  • 30 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 30, 2008

are identified by exploiting random assignment and a separate instrumental variables procedure. Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1264038 Welfare Payments and Crime Author:C. Fritz Foley Abstract This... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Aug 2024
  • Op-Ed

What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago

welfare state. Restricting immigration would require budget cuts that would harm natives by reducing pension benefits or increasing the age of retirement, for example. “It’s thus impossible to conclude that... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
  • 23 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 23

and 3 show that the emotional rewards associated with giving to friends or acquaintances are greatest in situations that facilitate social connection. Thus, social connection may be important for turning good deeds into good feelings, and... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino

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