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  • Fall 2020
  • Article

Climate in the Boardroom: Struggling to Reconcile Business as Usual and the End of the World as We Know It

By: Rebecca Henderson
How does one witness to businesspeople about climate change? Climate change is a problem for the collective and the long term, whereas business often requires a ruthless focus on the individual and the quarter. Climate change is an ethical catastrophe whose solution... View Details
Keywords: Sustainable Business; Climate Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability
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  • 01 Sep 2007
  • News

In Brief

counter basic assumptions. Several HBS professors consider the cost to organizations when dissent does not or cannot surface, and suggest ways to make sure it does. To the Rescue. In India, there’s no such thing as calling 911 in an... View Details
Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 25 Oct 2016
  • First Look

October 25, 2016

our sample alone. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51757 September 30, 2016 Arthroplasty Today Variation in the Cost of Care for Primary Total Knee Arthroplasties By: Haas, Derek A., and Robert S. Kaplan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Second- versus Third-party Audit Quality: Evidence from Global Supply Chain Monitoring

By: Maria R. Ibanez, Ashley Palmarozzo, Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel
Capitalizing on the superior credibility and flexibility and potential lower cost of external assessments, many global buyers are relying less on their own employee (“second-party”) auditors and more on third-party auditors to monitor and prevent environmental and... View Details
Keywords: Auditing; Audit Quality; Working Conditions; Sustainability; Empirical Operations; Empirical Service Operations; Sustainability Management; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Supply Chain Management
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  • 01 Dec 2003
  • News

Fall Reunions

corporate governance, to finding a job during difficult economic times. A seminar on “What Really Matters in Life,” organized by the School, was offered to the Classes of 1968 and 1973. Individual classes also arranged their own... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Sep 2014
  • News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2014

photography and reporting by Susan Young See full profiles and more photographs here. There’s a common thread among the stories of this year’s recipients of the School’s highest honor: every one of them answered a daunting challenge with an entrepreneurial solution.... View Details
  • 22 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 22, 2007

formal models and theory can account for important aspects of software design evolution in large-scale systems. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-081.pdf From Outsourcing to Global Collaboration: New Ways to Build... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Profile

Kevin Nazemi

leadership was more about being a facilitator driving implementation. Now I see a leader as someone who manages an ongoing give-and -take, who builds trust and moves people toward a common goal. Real leadership doesn’t just maximize the resources an View Details
  • 11 Jul 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The New International Style of Management

that has borrowed freely from others around the world. "With the United States accounting for approximately 30 percent of the world's GDP and as the home to 62 out of the 100 most valuable brands in the world, it's not surprising... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 09 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Education, Technology, and Business: What’s the Catch?

change" in accountability and the huge business need to offer services and programs to help teachers stay on top. Parents will also become more involved as consumers, he added, creating a push for overall school quality to rise.... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler; Education
  • 01 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 1

centers. It uses a transfer-pricing system designed to account for interdependencies between profit centers and to induce coordination. Further, profit center managers are incentivized with own-level residual income measures. The use of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • December 2004
  • Article

Market Valuation and Merger Waves

By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and S. Viswanathan
Does valuation affect mergers? Data suggest that periods of stock merger activity are correlated with high market valuations. The naïve explanation that overvalued bidders wish to use stock is incomplete because targets should not be eager to accept stock. However, we... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Valuation; Market Transactions; Value; Cash; Stocks; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Bids and Bidding; Market Design; Stock Shares; Accounting Audits; Performance Evaluation
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  • 26 Jan 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How Women Can Get More Venture Capital

women who will say, "You know what? All my personal needs and all my family's needs are taken care of, and if I'm no longer enjoying the environment or the work, I'm gone." If there are other demands on women that are really... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
  • 03 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 3

  Working PapersContracting in the Self-reporting Economy (revised) Authors:Romana L. Autrey and Richard Sansing Abstract This paper examines the effect of accounting on the use of intellectual property. We analyze the licensing of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Teams | New Venture Competition

care through entrepreneurship. Huddle Mariam Baqai (MBA 2024) Suleman KhanA platform for verified medical professionals to anonymously chat, ask, or vent. Lokale Farand Anugerah (MBA 2025) Addressing stunting, empowering community with... View Details
  • 13 Jul 2017
  • News

Making Friends with Mother Nature

years ago, the organization added a distinctive network of elevated walkways, known as Wild Walk, that gives visitors the unique opportunity to experience nature at treetop level. “Everybody loves Wild Walk,” Clifford says. “It’s been a... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

Hong Kong Club Thrives, Plans Next Global Alumni Conference

took place just months before Hong Kong's “handover” to China — has put Teo and the HBSA-HK into the limelight once more: The Hong Kong club has been selected to organize the upcoming GAC, to be held in Shanghai June 1720, 2003. “We have... View Details
  • 18 Jun 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups

policy, and Alexandra is a spectacular doctoral student. Like HBS, HKS and WAPPP care deeply about how to improve decision-making and find solutions to our bounded ethicality." Readers: The researchers have a question for you. How... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • Web

FAQs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

organization founded by Michael Porter and based at Harvard Business School in Boston, Massachusetts. For more information about the Institute, what we do and how we do it, please see About the Institute . Does the Institute provide... View Details
  • 30 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 31, 2006

This paper examines accountability processes in a nonprofit organization serving immigrants and refugees, with special attention to their impacts on mission-based activities. The research finds that upward... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne