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- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
Inclusion at Royal Dutch Shell Sandra J. Sucher and Elena CorsiHarvard Business School Case 610-056 Royal Dutch Shell has been among the early players to implement diversity and inclusion policies in the 1990s, first in the U.S. and then... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support
I’m not going to say those standards are arbitrary, but they contribute to an artificial shortage of qualified candidates that employers complain about despite policies creating that shortage. A second is, understand that all your... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 2023
- Working Paper
Do Third-Party Guarantors Reassure Foot Soldiers?
By: Natalia Garbiras-Díaz, Michael Weintraub, Leopoldo Fergusson, Juana Catalina Garcia Duque and Laia Balcells
Since the end of the Cold War, international third parties such as the United Nations (UN) have become frequent guarantors of peace agreements. Existing studies document that third parties provide assurances that help maintain peace, yet these studies nearly... View Details
Keywords: United Nations; Colombia; Peacemaking; Peace Process; Peace; Civil Unrest; Civil Society; Political Leadership; Policy; Civil Society or Community; Governance; Government and Politics; Economy; Economic Growth; Latin America; South America; Colombia
Garbiras-Díaz, Natalia, Michael Weintraub, Leopoldo Fergusson, Juana Catalina Garcia Duque, and Laia Balcells. "Do Third-Party Guarantors Reassure Foot Soldiers?" Working Paper, August 2023.
- October 2007
- Teaching Note
Rovna Dan: The Flat Tax in Slovakia (TN)
By: Laura Alfaro, Rafael M. Di Tella and Renee Kim
Teaching Note to 707043. View Details
- December 1999 (Revised December 2012)
- Background Note
Measuring Interim Period Performance
By: David F. Hawkins
Covers interim period accounting objectives, theories, and practices. Special financial analysis concerns related to this topic are discussed. A rewritten version of an earlier note. View Details
Keywords: Accounting; Business Ventures; Policy; Management Practices and Processes; Measurement and Metrics; Performance Evaluation
Hawkins, David F. "Measuring Interim Period Performance." Harvard Business School Background Note 100-002, December 1999. (Revised December 2012.)
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
Australia. The country's national government has recently instituted changes to its foreign direct investment (FDI) policies that could affect Tavistock's goals for its long-term investment in AACo. The changes happened in response to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
committed to a 10-year oil supply to Sinopec in exchange for a $10 billion loan from CDB. The case study describes the deal and its importance to both countries. The case also discusses CDB's evolution from a policy bank to more of a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
improvement strategies, highlighting promising directions for future research. The Determinants of Analyst-Firm Pairings Authors:Edward J. Riedl, Lihong Liang, and Ramgopal Venkataraman Publication:Journal of Accounting and Public Policy... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
hand. You cannot resolve design issues—such as whether to adopt a direct or an indirect channel or, if indirect, how many levels are appropriate—without a sense of how distribution policies and practices are translated. Similarly, you... View Details
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
the 1980s. Nationalistic policies and instability made Turkey an unattractive place for most foreign firms, and despite more stability and liberalization over recent decades, the role of foreign business remains quite limited. This... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2019
- Book
Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business
challenges and opportunities facing small businesses, the rise of fintech innovation, and the policy implications for regulation. Martha Lagace: How do you define small business? Karen Mills: Small businesses are all different, of course.... View Details
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
are robust to alternative model specifications and sample selection procedures. We demonstrate that an optimal pricing policy should take into consideration the potential costs of two types of strategic customer behavior: opportunistic... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
tax-deferred investing, and the size of the implicit government subsidies made through this channel, make this question a first-order policy issue. There has been a vigorous and contentious debate about which one of these effects, in... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 31 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss
Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19 Should state and local governments receive a bailout from Congress? What can they do to generate more revenue? Share your insights below. View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 22 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Name Your Price. Really.
Years ago, when I was a student in New York (and like many students, perpetually broke), I would often go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for entertainment. The museum had a policy that visitors could pay whatever they wanted, so for as... View Details
- 19 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Marijuana
Administration, holds a joint appointment at Harvard School of Public Health as Professor in Health Policy and Management. Creating Demand One big open question is the degree to which illegal demand will be significantly diminished by the... View Details
- 08 Apr 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?
little of the policy issues, product discussions, and even general news coming out of the tech world. That's my problem. I need to fix it by doing what Jack Welch asked all of his senior colleagues at GE to do: find a mentor no older than... View Details
- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
art." Choudhury recently teamed up with colleague Tarun Khanna, the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at HBS, to examine and highlight the history of herbal patent applications. From a policy perspective, they wanted to challenge a common... View Details
- 12 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 12, 2008
selective annexation using a specific policy rule, I find that areas which experienced direct rule have significantly lower levels of access to schools, health centers, and roads in the post-colonial period. I find evidence that the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
311-088 A board's decision making and process in investigating and terminating a company's CEO are explored, and the company's policies and contractual obligations considered. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne