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- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
assurance to increase disclosure credibility in the case of South Africa, and increased propensity to adopt reporting guidelines to increase disclosure comparability in both China and South Africa. In contrast, treated firms in Denmark... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
received. Here, Intel had the edge. According to Davidow, “Intel had great customer service and support. We could assure a customer’s success with our device. By comparison, choosing the Motorola path clearly presented a risk to the... View Details
- 11 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
The New International Style of Management
multinationals toward organization-wide rationalization. Efficiencies and commonalities have emerged, particularly with certain production processes but also in backroom functions such as quality assurance and control. In addition,... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
with certain production processes but also in backroom functions such as quality assurance and control. In addition, multinationals have been increasingly pressed to move toward international norms in the area of stakeholder relations... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/Embrace/an/814001-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 914-412 Beidahuang Beidahuang is a major new Chinese player in global grain trading that in 2013 is seeking access to grain both to help View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
information about address value and assuring allocative efficiency. Download the paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=41297 Vulnerable Banks Authors:Greenwood, Robin, Augustin Landier, and David Thesmar Abstract When a bank... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
corruption, which increases managerial credibility. These effects are larger for countries with stronger law enforcement and more widespread assurance of sustainability reports. We conclude with thoughts about mandatory sustainability and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
force the short side of any financial derivative (i.e., those with the obligation to make delivery) to make a large deposit at the beginning of each deal to assure performance even if the market goes south. Third, the legislation requires... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
contemporary regulatory designs, which rely heavily on regulated entities to monitor and assure their own regulatory compliance. We investigate whether self-reporting, or the voluntary disclosure of legal violations, can serve as a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
regulation of new technologies across several centuries. In 1994, when I first started on Ruling the Waves, an MBA student asked me to do a project with him about the emergence of the Internet. Since I'm a political scientist, I said I'd do it only if we looked at the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 30 Mar 2017
- News
Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest
assurance that that outcome would actually be implemented and would go into force on the ground. The tools we used were what we called interest-based negotiation. So everyone would give my interests are these as opposed to my position is... View Details
- 12 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising
The Subcommittee: My name is Benjamin Edelman. I am an assistant professor at the Harvard Business School, where my research focuses on the design of electronic marketplaces, including designing online marketplaces to assure safety,... View Details
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
also assured O&M of a profit. The TSCC incented VM to streamline its distribution activities, since these would directly impact its fee. After beta testing the TSCC for one year, VM's Daniel Borunda and O&M's Michael Stefanic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
misinterpretation to assure that state and local governments can appropriately respond to the digital activities that impact physical realities. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53823 Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
countries with MCSR, corporate governance improves and on average, companies implement more ethical practices, bribery and corruption decrease, and managerial credibility increases. These effects are larger for countries with stronger law enforcement and more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
assurance that decision-making will be transparent and participatory, particularly for those that are marginalized in the domestic political process and (d) assessing the political risks faced by those who participate in its consultation... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
firms that have already joined the UN's Global Compact to promote social programs around the world. To put the WDC in place, a number of actions would be needed. First, the UN would draft a corporate charter to define the purpose of the new body and View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
pose a problem for the economy. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52111 Harvard Business School Case 917-012 Three Problems in Protecting Competition In three mini-cases, readers see a range of disputes in competition law—and apply... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
of a substantial anticipation effect that presents as a gradual decrease in operational performance beginning several months before the actual cohort turnover. We identify higher overall quality of nursing and increased intensity of potential quality View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
and resource-efficient development with the use of information and communication technologies to better manage complex urban systems. Book: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415893169/ Integrated Reporting Requires Integrated View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel