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  • 17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17

commitment toward corporate social responsibility since its founding days, Green Mountain faced an ethical decision point in 2007 as new information from the field uncovered a chronic dire problem facing coffee communities-seasonal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 21

of 21% p.a. growth to reach sales of $13.6 billion in 2000. But as Gap entered the new millennium, dark clouds were building on the horizon. While sales in 2000 were up nearly 18% over the previous year, operating profits fell by 20%, only the second profit fall since... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 23

http://hbr.org/search/113057-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 813-147 Affinity Labs, Inc. In November 2006, Chris Michel left Military.com, which he founded in 1999, to start Affinity Labs, a global network of online communities. That... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 26

particular mechanism to address those voids: minority state ownership. Due to their minority nature, such stakes are less affected by the agency distortions commonly found in full-fledged state-owned firms. Using panel data from publicly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 14

pervasive in the China business context characterized by heavy reliance on personal relationships or guanxi, it went against the founding principles of CDG-professionalism and service quality. Yang had to decide where to draw the line... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 May 2009
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First Look: May 27, 2009

prices for future consumption volatility but implies much greater predictive power of stock prices for future stock return volatility than is found in the data. Neither calibration can explain why movements in real interest rates do not... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?

(examining equity splits within the founding team) and "Golden Handcuffs" (examining the role of vesting terms). In the control realm, my 2003 paper in Organization Science on founder-CEO succession examined the factors that... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services
  • 11 Apr 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Services 24/7

advantage over the more established operations that tend to be less nimble. Founded in 1975, Schwab, the nation's pioneer discount broker, is frequently praised for its ability to reinvent itself. The pilot work for creating an easily... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
  • 01 Sep 2015
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First Look -- September 1, 2015

found even in the absence of any compensation-based incentives to improve performance. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49496 Budgeting, Psychological Contracts, and Budgetary Slack By: Gallani,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 28, 2015

handbags, accessories, and fragrances. Founded in 1996 in London by couture shoe designer Jimmy Choo and Vogue accessories editor Tamara Mellon OBE, the brand enjoyed immediate success and rapidly acquired a sophisticated clientele. The... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24

content, psychometric validity, and relationships to outcomes of interest. Data extraction. We identified relevant articles using the search terms team, teamwork, work groups, or collaboration, in combination with survey or questionnaire. Principal findings. We View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 4

supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/312038-PDF-ENG Earl Martin Phalen: Ready to ROAR? Noam Wasserman and Julia TaylorHarvard Business School Case 812-024 Earl Martin Phalen is in the midst of starting his second nonprofit organization, Summer Advantage, by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 2, 2010

2009: All Talk As They Prepare to Walk? Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria, and Dalia RahmanHarvard Business School Case 411-024 Max Anderson, HBS Class of 2009, founded the MBA Oath Initiative. The oath was a voluntary pledge "to create... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008

comprehensive field-based case study of the entire life history of a company, identity is found to be an important inertial force that operates in two ways. First, identity serves as a filter, such that organizational members notice and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility

analyzing research publications, we have found three basic trends. First, research has increasingly focused on economic performance. Second, research focusing on how organizations affect other dimensions of human welfare, beyond economic... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

undermines creative thinking in tasks that draw on knowledge from multiple cultures. Three studies (a network survey and two experiments) found that ambient cultural disharmony decreased individuals' effectiveness at connecting ideas from... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 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
  • 16 Feb 2016
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February 16, 2016

the Modern Administrative State, 1912–1925: Trade Associations, Codes of Fair Competition, and State Building By: Sawyer, Laura Phillips Abstract—From its founding in 1912 through the interwar years, the Chamber's history shows a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015

problematic. While firms are increasingly relying on private-sector "social auditors" to assess factory conditions, little had been known about the accuracy of those assessments. We analyzed nearly 17,000 code-of-conduct audits conducted at nearly 6,000... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 09 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

What Really Drives Your Strategy?

economic growth in industrial countries began to slow down. All of a sudden companies found that they couldn't do everything. They had to make some choices and needed a way to think about it. The economics of strategy seems to be a very... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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