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  • 29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50648 2016 New York: Oxford University Press Consumers, Corporations, and Public Health: A Case-Based Approach to Sustainable Business By: Quelch, John A. Abstract—The public health footprint... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times

Commitment, High Performance: How to Build a Resilient Organization for Sustained Advantage describes organizations that, Beer says, "are diametrically opposite to the firms we saw fail on Wall Street. The book's perspective also... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 10 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor

alongside the official engine productions. Many craft industries, specifically metal industries, have traditions of homer making. In a recent survey conducted in France, 28 percent of male factory workers reported that on the job they... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing
  • 18 Oct 2016
  • Op-Ed

Why Business Should Invest in Community Health

corporate attention than employee, consumer, and environmental health. In a survey of more than 80 companies attending the Building a Culture of Health conference at Harvard Business School in April 2016, a lower percentage of respondents View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch, Howard Koh, and Pamela Yatsko; Health
  • 29 May 2007
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First Look: May 29, 2007

years to become sufficiently established to operate as an independent entity. Yousry Makar, HFHE's national director, faces several key issues. How can he ensure that as HFHE's partnership network grows, his own office and staff can View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off

pay-for-performance is an opportunity to make it more fair. They think they can outperform whatever pay they get; they usually assume they will benefit in terms of higher pay. In his working paper co-authored with Mark D. Cannon of Vanderbilt University, Promise and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 18 Jun 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’

sustaining an innovative organization? A new book written with three coauthors attempts to answer the question of why some companies, such as Pixar, are able to invent continuously, while others aren't. “Conventional leadership won't get... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 11 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Four Ways to Create Lasting Change

activities aimed at reshaping the organizational context, including a redefinition of roles and reporting relationships as well as new approaches to monitoring, measurement, and compensation. These four processes represent critical... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 04 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

regions. Especially informative was the issue of bureaucratic risk. Although interviewees in both regions reported having to dedicate significant time to navigating government regulation, interviewees in South Asia frequently View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 21 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 21, 2006

leadership development, and sustainability of leadership. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=406125   PublicationsWintel: Cooperation and Conflict Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and David... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009

implications for how policymakers should evaluate the financial reporting environment facing firms. A real-world tax shelter is dissected to illustrate how tax shelter products enable managers to manipulate View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008

Sustainability through Partnering: Conceptualizing Partnerships between Businesses and NGOs Author:James E. Austin Publication:Chap. 3 in Partnerships, Governance and Sustainable Development: Reflections on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way to Go to Market

the chosen channel is an expedient short-term solution, often not well suited to sustain sales and profitability in the long run. But once a channel is up and running it is very hard to shut it down and construct a new one. So the channel... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 18

Controlling for these effects and other determinants, we find that firms with lower residual ratings have relatively higher subsequent media allegations of corruption. They also report higher future sales growth and show a negative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20

likely as younger children to assign themselves the good prize by reporting winning the coin flip more than chance would dictate. Overall, the results of these experiments suggest that as children grow older they become increasingly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 12, 2008

business. It asks if the cultural and other factors behind its rapid growth can sustain the company as it seeks growth much further as a top-five beauty company. Purchase the case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind

report their preliminary findings in their working paper BYOB: How Bringing Your Own Shopping Bags Leads to Treating Yourself, and the Environment. (The collaborative effort addresses each of their particular interests. Karmarkar, an... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail
  • 30 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 30

sustainability of nominal debt in developing (volatile) countries. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/05-053.pdf The Price of Capital: Evidence from Trade Data Authors:Laura Alfaro and Faisal Z. Ahmed Abstract We use... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 9

  PublicationsOne Report: Integrated Reporting for a Sustainable Strategy Authors:Robert G. Eccles and Michael Krzus Publication:John Wiley and Sons, Inc., forthcoming An abstract is unavailable at this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 18, 2009

all-time low. And the Tax Practice, the source of the problems, was the fastest growing such practice in the Big Four accounting firms at 18%. Purchase this supplement: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=409075 Londolozi:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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