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  • 24 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Building an IT Governance Committee

firms." Instead, they argue, directors need their own framework to develop IT policies. First step: Determine your current approach, or mode (support, factory, turnaround, or strategic), to IT. (See sidebar.) In this excerpt, Nolan... View Details
Keywords: by Richard Nolan & Warren McFarlan
  • 16 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 16, 2016

drives wealthy and powerful people to white-collar crime? I draw from extensive personal interaction and correspondence with nearly fifty former executives as well as research in psychology, criminology, and economics to investigate how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jan 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Quest for Better Layoffs

layoffs project, Malden Mills, describes how a leader handled a disastrous event: Two weeks before Christmas 1995, a fire destroyed three factory buildings at a textile company, one of the largest employers in the already economically... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing
  • 12 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions

caps. "These measures were not put in place because of the concentrated lobbying power of France's consumer lending sector," Trumbull says. Instead, French politicians worked closely with industry and family groups to develop regulations... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 24 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

When Reputation Trumps Regulation

whether revelations about weak enforcement history have hurt the market for cross-listing. The evidence from my two papers would suggest that investors should place greater trust in those cross-listed firms that have built up a reputation for good governance through... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 20 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

advancing her enterprise's goals and objectives through a faster and ever-larger-reaching set of media. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54007 Winter 2018 Journal of Economic Perspectives Frictions or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Mar 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid?

in Business, Energy and Environment, held in Harvard's Innovation Lab. "It's a question of who will make money and which business models are effective." Although the definitive answer to that question remains to be seen, Henderson helped students View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Energy; Utilities
  • 13 Oct 2015
  • First Look

October 13, 2015

Soviet Union fought in the shadow of the capitalist-communist clash. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49811 forthcoming Journal of Public Economics Does Front-Loading Taxation Increase Savings? Evidence... View Details
  • 12 Apr 2016
  • First Look

April 12, 2016

By: Agrawal, Ajay, Christian Catalini, Avi Goldfarb, and Hong Luo Abstract—Traditional innovation models assume that new ideas are developed up to the point where the benefit of the marginal project is just equal to the cost. Because... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 9, 2015

allowed by health authorities. Yet caries remained a significant threat to public health in many countries, both developing and developed. As Suzan Harrison, Colgate's president of Oral Care, prepared to launch CMCP+SAN in Brazil, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 4

http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/the-art-of-strategic-renewal/ August 2013 Journal of Development Economics Political Reservations and Women's Entrepreneurship in India By: Ghani, Ejaz, William R. Kerr,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
  • 25 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 25, 2006

  Working PapersA Gentler Capitalism: Black Business Leadership in the New South Africa Authors:Linda A. Hill and Maria T. Farkas Author's Abstract Through her efforts to recruit, hire, and develop minority executives at MTN, a South... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27

Publication:Quarterly Journal of Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We argue that social capital as proxied by trust increases aggregate productivity by affecting the organization of firms. To do this we collect new data on the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 22 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 22

Dharmapala Publication:The Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming) Abstract This paper investigates how dividend taxes influence portfolio choices, using the response to the distinctive treatment of a subset of foreign dividends... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jun 2020
  • What Do You Think?

Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?

Blacks. My concern is Hispanics which wield significantly more economic buying power, land ownership It seems to me that everywhere I look Hispanics are being left out.”), and more systematic mentoring (Paul, a graduate of HBS,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Education
  • 24 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care

value-added tax. We're the only developed economy that doesn't do it. We have state and local sales taxes, but we don't have any broad-based value-added tax. I think most tax economists have long thought it's a strange arrow to have kept... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Looking Behind Bad Decisions

African government take a stand against an effective AIDS treatment drug? The inability of government to make wise tradeoffs—give up small losses for much larger gain—has been investigated by HBS professor Max Bazerman and his research colleagues for years. Much of... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • July 2008 (Revised December 2009)
  • Case

Infosys' Relationship Scorecard: Measuring Transformational Partnerships

By: Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez, Robert S. Kaplan and Katherine Miller
This case analyzes Infosys' innovative approach to measuring performance in client relations. Infosys' strategy is evolving to build transformational partnerships from its original position as an outsourcer of end-to-end IT projects. A transformational partner helps... View Details
Keywords: Partners and Partnerships; Performance Evaluation; Attorney and Client Relationships; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Balanced Scorecard; Competitive Strategy; Commercialization; Competitive Advantage; Economic Growth; Growth and Development Strategy; Consulting Industry; Information Technology Industry; India
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  • 04 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Max Bazerman

Cone's property. After the seizure, Cone switched from sustainable forestry to massive clear-cutting on other parts of his land—a disastrous decision from both an economic and environmental perspective. An alternative to this inefficient... View Details
Keywords: Re: Max H. Bazerman
  • 23 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 23

NH, was keen to establish a hospital in the western hemisphere and believed that it was important to demonstrate the model to the U.S. Thus, when the Cayman Islands' government was interested in developing the island as a medical tourism... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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