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11 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 11, 2007

approach thus runs counter to the idea that globalization is a homogeneity-producing process and the view that society is moving from particularism to universalism. With globalization, not only has the local remained important, but in... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Jan 2012
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to financial performance, a long-term approach towards maximizing inter-temporal profits, and an active stakeholder management process. Societal concern about sustainability, at both the level of the firm and society as a whole, has been... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

19 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

state initiative from above, civil society mobilized from below, using the judiciary to hold the state legally responsible for policy implementation. Reforms exposed acute gaps in service delivery,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

convert it into actionable initiatives. From founding the Program for Research and Outreach on Gender Equity in Society (PROGRESS), whose mission is to develop tools to teach women and girls how to harness the power of negotiation, to her... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

19 Jan 2021
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Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm

said: Julie Battilana: Put people and the planet at economy's core My hope is that President Biden and his team will help all of us rebuild strong democratic foundations, and place human beings and the planet back at the core of our economic system. The COVID pandemic... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

streaming of sports content. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/719429-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 719-041 Civil Society No abstract available. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008

Conceptualizing Information and Accountability in NGO-Funder Relations Author:Alnoor S. Ebrahim Publication:In Reconceptualising NGOs and Their Roles in Development: NGOs, Civil Society and the International... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

February 2021
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The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations

By: Mihir Desai, Ruth Page, Suzanne Antoniou and Leanne Fan

How should historic social injustices be addressed? Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and their descendants, including Representative Regina Goodwin of Tulsa, believe they should be addressed through reparations and have consequently continued to push the government... View Details

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The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations

By: Mihir A. Desai and Suzanne Antoniou

How should historic social injustices be addressed? Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and their descendants, including Representative Regina Goodwin of Tulsa, believe they should be addressed through reparations and have consequently continued to push the government... View Details

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07 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 7

progressively extending them across the country. These incremental reforms supplied the institutional blueprint for India’s universal primary education program in 2000. As policies were introduced from above, civil View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

emerged with a "fortress balance sheet" and an improved position in the banking league tables. Nevertheless, the bank faced pressure from many directions, including large civil fines to settle, analysts' arguments about its... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20

can navigate host governments. Our 'core-periphery' framework posits that the actions that an MNC takes with actors in what we call the 'periphery'-comprised of state, quasi-state, and civil society... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Dec 2012
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Publication:Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization (forthcoming) Abstract We discuss the birth of a new economy in a society that has only recently emerged from a 22-year-long civil war. The pace... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

16 Nov 2009
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The Times Captures History of American Business

larger forces that, taken together, have helped fashion business and society today. Overarching themes of her book tackle the corporation writ large, the changing nature of work, and defining moments in technology. What can business... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News

13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009

American Civil War, Maggie Lena Walker did her best to actively effect change by finding solutions to the social and economic problems facing blacks and especially black women. Taking charge of the flailing Independent Order of St. Luke... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

September 2019 (Revised September 2019)
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Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World

By: John R. Wells, Carole A. Winkler and Benjamin Weinstock

In August 2019, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, was surrounded by controversy. The first major storm of protest followed the surprise election of Donald Trump as President of the United States on November 8, 2016; many put the blame at the door of fake... View Details