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  • 02 Dec 2015
  • What Do You Think?

What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?

make it happen? There are several kinds of responses to this question. The first is the “do it yourself” response, characterized by Sheryl Sandberg’s now-famous argument in her book, Lean In. Among other things, she challenges women to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 06 Dec 2004
  • What Do You Think?

Why Do Managers Fail to Act on Their Predictions?

assessment of, and response to, predictions, particularly those involving substantial future risks? What role should corporate boards play in this process? Is such assessment the first step toward the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • Web

Doing Business with China 2035: Navigating Uncertainty - Course Catalog

Strategies for protecting and developing intellectual property The emergence of an increasingly powerful middle class and its impact on the consumer market and corporate social responsibility Audience This... View Details
  • 11 Oct 2010
  • Research & Ideas

It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t

Call it corporate alchemy. New research finds that multinational companies can spin gender bias into gold by recruiting and hiring well-educated female managers in countries that traditionally discriminate against women. Employing women... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 06 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 6

August 2013 Management Science The Impact of Corporate Sustainability on Organizational Processes and Performance By: Eccles, Robert G., Ioannis Ioannou, and George Serafeim Abstract—We investigate the effect of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Jocelyn Goldberg-Schaible

professional estrogen. I've built a career using market research as the legwork for the strategic planning process, with 28 years' worth of clients across the technicolor spectrum of global corporate and not-for-profit organizations. Why... View Details
  • 16 Aug 2013
  • News

Women's Business Leader

Vice Chairman of Wealth Management and Senior Client Advisor at Morgan Stanley where she is responsible for increasing revenue generation and client connectivity and penetration across the Wealth Management, Investment Banking and Sales... View Details
Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Government
  • 17 Nov 2015
  • First Look

November 17, 2015

forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Introduction: New Perspectives on Corporate Capital Structure By: Acharya, Viral, Heitor Almeida, and Malcolm Baker Abstract—The National Bureau of Economic Research held a symposium titled... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • September 2009 (Revised May 2011)
  • Supplement

Acumen Fund: Measurement in Impact Investing (B)

By: Alnoor Ebrahim and V. Kasturi Rangan
As Acumen Fund, a global venture philanthropy firm, moves forward with an investment portfolio exceeding $22 million, it runs into two critical measurement problems. First, how should it track the performance of each investment when its interest is not just the bottom... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Investment Portfolio; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Standards; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance Evaluation; Social Enterprise; Competition; Financial Services Industry; Kenya
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    Rudina Seseri

    Previously, Rudina was a Senior Manager in the Corporate Development Group at Microsoft Corporation. In this role, she led a number of successful acquisitions including iView Multimedia, Massive Interactive, Bungie Studios restructuring... View Details
    Keywords: Software/App;#75;#Venture Capital
    • 01 Mar 2004
    • News

    Drug Imports a Hot Topic at Alumni Health-Care Conference

    Canada for prescription drugs as a form of civil disobedience. This kind of grassroots response is an important preliminary step toward addressing the rising costs of medicine, he said. Other speakers included Raytheon Chairman Daniel P.... View Details
    Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
    • 16 Jun 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

    new opportunities. Empires of Profit: Commerce, Conquest and Corporate Responsibility Author Daniel Litvin presented his evidence that modern companies find it difficult to operate on foreign soil. Big... View Details
    Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
    • 02 Apr 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019

    comment-letter reviews (CLs) on firms’ financial reporting. We exploit a major change in the SEC’s disclosure policy: in 2004, the SEC decided to make its CLs publicly available. Using a novel dataset of CLs, we analyze the capital-market View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • April 2009 (Revised January 2015)
    • Case

    Dr. Benjamin Hooks and Children's Health Forum

    By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Charles J. Ogletree Jr, Howard Koh, Abbye Atkinson, Carmel Salhi and Aldo Sesia
    "Dr. Benjamin Hooks and Children's Health Forum" charts the many different career paths of Hooks, a civil rights activist and pioneer. Hooks' positions ranged from lawyer, judge, preacher, entrepreneur to the first African American commissioner of the Federal... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Health Care and Treatment; Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Personal Development and Career; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Issues
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    • 01 Feb 2000
    • News

    New Releases

    Environmental Management, Associate Professor Forest Reinhardt argues that managers should treat environmental management as an integral part of corporate strategy rather than merely as an exercise in public relations. "Social View Details
    • 03 Jun 2015
    • What Do You Think?

    Is the Time Right for Self-Management?

    Summing Up When and Where Will Holacracy Work Best? Holacracy, or self-management, is an interesting concept and not entirely new. It can work, but only under the right conditions. And its applications will be limited. That's what one might conclude from reading View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail
    • Web

    MBA Program at Harvard Business School: 1963 - 1970 | Baker Library

    School faculty voted for women to be directly admitted to the first year of the full MBA program. Dean Teele had argued, "that the young woman with an MBA will be given more responsibility and more pay than our Harvard-Radcliffe Program... View Details
    • 26 Jan 2016
    • First Look

    January 26, 2016

    erroneous expressions. Calls that have greater use of non-plain English and more erroneous expressions show lower intraday price movement and trading volume. The capital market responses to non-plain English and erroneous expressions are... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 30 Jan 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds

    corporate governance. “When you think of the factors that have made capitalism such a successful model for economic growth, the separation between management and ownership, with the ability to disperse ownership and risk over many... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
    • 01 Jun 2000
    • News

    Professors Fox, Mace Remembered

    L. Mace, a pioneer in the study of entrepreneurship and corporate governance, died on March 24. He was 88. Mace, a Minnesota native and graduate of the University of Minnesota (1934) and St. Paul College of Law (1936), was a member of the... View Details