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  • 20 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

through the New Deal era. This history of American capitalism argues that business associations partnered with regulators to create codes of fair competition that reshaped both public and private regulatory power. Rather than viewing the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jun 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Why Uber Is Worth Saving and How To Do It

from ordinances regulating limos and taxis. The company even allegedly built a digital tool that would alert staff when code enforcers were on the way.) Kanter says the same disrespect shown for authorities on the outside seemed to seep... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation
  • November 2008
  • Article

Chartering New Territory: Diversification, Legitimacy and Practice Area Creation in Professional Service Firms

By: Heidi Gardner, N. Anand and Timothy Morris
Diversification into innovative domains through new practice area creation is a critical imperative for professional services firms. Using theories of organizational territoriality and corporate charters, we conceptualize professional firms as federations of distinct... View Details
Keywords: Diversification; Lawfulness; Code Law; Management Practices and Processes; Service Operations; Innovation and Invention; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques
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  • 03 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 3, 2008

China‘s income inequality has risen rapidly over that same time frame, Vietnam‘s has only grown moderately. Structural and socio-cultural determinants fail to account for these divergent pathways. Existing political variables are also unhelpful. China and Vietnam are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders

several years ago in Asian Business magazine's annual most admired companies survey, Siam Cement Group (SCG) was one of the first firms in Thailand to develop its own written code of ethics. SCG's philosophy is rooted in the Buddhist... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
  • 28 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy

dangerous working conditions in overseas factories. So the company launched an initiative to reduce the negative environmental impact of its entire supply chain and established a code of conduct focused on compensating employees fairly... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 10 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis

insurance, the US economy is doomed. More generally, at all levels, government has given away the future to buy votes in the present—a truly bipartisan effort over decades. On the revenue side, we will need to increase taxes, broaden the tax base, and reform the tax... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • November 2010
  • Technical Note

Technical Note: An Abridged History of the American Corporation

By: Rakesh Khurana, Andrew David Klaber and Eric Baldwin
This note examines the development of the corporate form in the United States from the eighteenth century to the present, focusing primarily on legal issues. It identifies several major trends in the history of the American corporation: the transition of corporations... View Details
Keywords: Accounting; Corporate Accountability; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; History; Code Law; Managerial Roles; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Private Ownership; United States
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  • 02 Mar 2016
  • What Do You Think?

Is Apple’s Real Privacy Challenge Technology Innovation Itself?

nutshell, admittedly from a layman’s viewpoint. The Apple phone is designed with a security feature that makes it difficult for an unauthorized user to get to the contents. A four-digit code controls access. Ten incorrect attempts to open... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology
  • 15 Oct 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem

the consumer's name, credit card number or security code because Apple uses a fingerprint reader on its recent iPhones to confirm identities. And when consumers add a credit or debit card with Apple Pay, the card number is not stored by... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Technology; Retail
  • 10 Jan 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Working for a Shamed Company Can Hurt Your Future Compensation

Reading: Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal Lessons from the Lance Armstrong Cheating Scandal Creating a Global Business Code What do you think about this research? Have you been unjustly punished for the sins... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 02 Feb 2002
  • What Do You Think?

Will the Societal Effects of Enron Exceed Those of September 11?

of corporate profits? Will the work of business-related professions, with or without outside oversight, adhere more closely to relevant codes of ethics? Will directors reassess the seriousness of their roles and act more responsibly? In... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 02 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Stuck in Gear: Why Managers Don’t Act

book. The success formula becomes public and is harder to amend later. Your top executives look alike. Look around. Your company won't stretch itself when all the managers think alike and see the business in the same way. Your competitors all have the same zip View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 29 May 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play

and required careful management of capital. GE Capital, Plastics, Medical Systems, and NBC were areas of growth, whether organic or through globalization or acquisitions. By coding our GE managers' resumes, we were able to determine their... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Andrew N. McLean & Nitin Nohria; Employment
  • 09 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 9

and then prepared and delivered a speech to two evaluators as part of a mock job interview. All interview speeches were videotaped and coded for overall performance and hireability, and for two potential mediators: verbal content (e.g.,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Nov 2016
  • What Do You Think?

Are Employees Becoming Job 'Renters' Instead of 'Owners'?

disposable as a BIC pen. Small wonder they’ll react as owners.” DRE added that job renting is code for job instability. “When you kill the opportunity to own a job, it is only a matter of time before the economic circle shrinks to (the)... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • November 2005 (Revised November 2007)
  • Case

Meisterchef.com

By: Henry B. Reiling
Two underperforming companies are seeking to combine on terms that will preserve the net operating loss of one for use against their combined future profits or at least against the future profits of the company that generated the losses. The questions are whether the... View Details
Keywords: Code Law; Corporate Governance; Mergers and Acquisitions; Cost Accounting; Taxation; Corporate Strategy; Profit; Crisis Management; Financial Management; Legal Services Industry; Service Industry; United States
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  • 18 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 18

closed (low-power) poses, and then prepared and delivered a speech to two evaluators as part of a mock job interview, a prototypical social evaluation. All speeches were videotaped and coded for overall performance, hireability, and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 14

Promoting Political Mobilization By: Short, Jodi L., and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—Codes of conduct indicate that working conditions are improving overall at the factories being monitored by multinational corporations, and that these the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 20

and a little understood provision in the federal tax code that is implemented at the state level, the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC). The relationship is complex because, while the federal government uses the CRA to control bank... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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