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  • 27 Mar 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Should I Pay the Bribe?

frustrated by the "explanations" offered for the country's economic and social problems. One of the more standard arguments was that corruption was the cause of all... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia D. Churchwell
  • 11 Oct 2010
  • Research & Ideas

It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t

domestic Korean companies that did employ senior female managers, particularly but not exclusively in the apparel and publishing industries, also appeared to benefit financially from doing so.) The idea of exploiting the social divide is... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • September 1991
  • Case

All American Pipeline

By: Timothy A. Luehrman
Goodyear is nearing its first major capital commitments for the largest investment project in its history, the All American Pipeline. The pipeline will transport heavy crude oil from California to Texas. It is the centerpiece of a major program by Goodyear to diversify... View Details
Keywords: Capital; Financial Strategy; Business Startups; Diversification; Valuation; Standards; Supply Chain; Resource Allocation; Cash Flow; Mining Industry; California; Texas
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  • September 2004
  • Article

Trust in Agency

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell
Existing models of the principal-agent relationship assume the agent works only under extrinsic incentives. However, many observed agency contracts take the form of a fixed payment. For such contracts to succeed, the principal must trust the agent to work in the... View Details
Keywords: Trust; Agency Theory; Relationships; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Contracts; Business Model; Emotions; Forecasting and Prediction; Ethics; Standards; Risk and Uncertainty
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  • 28 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 28, 2008

an important occupational category, and, in return, we will ensure that the members of our profession are worthy of your trust—that they will not only be competent to perform the tasks entrusted to them, but... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Jun 2021
  • Blog Post

Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 1: HBS/HKS Faculty Reflections

slender sprout that was planted in the midst of the Great Recession has given flower to a strikingly successful, robust program that sets the standard globally for joint degree programs integrating business... View Details
  • 27 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 27

variables, we find that government procurement rules produce spillover effects that stimulate both private-sector adoption of the LEED standard and investments in green building expertise by local suppliers.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Oct 2024
  • Research & Ideas

What Happens in Vegas Could Shape the Metaverse

grand vision for the unified metaverse, the developers of the proto-metaverses will need to agree on a common set of standards for interoperability.” Building a virtual world... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Nover; Computer; Information Technology
  • 24 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 24

Canadian regulators' decision to adopt International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). The Canadian decision in 2005 to adopt IFRS is particularly interesting because Canada had well-developed domestic accounting View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 24, 2007

  Working PapersPoverty, Social Divisions, and Conflict in Nepal Authors:Quy-Toan Do and Lakshmi Iyer Abstract We conduct an econometric analysis of the economic and social factors which contributed to the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 19, 2009

structured approach to managing the quality of clinical care. This case describes Intermountain's system for improving clinical performance that makes use of the organization's extensive set View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 May 2010
  • Research & Ideas

What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection

practices. Once many corporations adopt strong investor protections in their bylaws, others have to follow. Q: Why did you subtitle the book "Experiments in Financial Democracy"? A: During the late 19th century, Alfred Neymark, a French statistician, View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Banking; Financial Services
  • 01 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

Science (forthcoming) Abstract This paper contributes large-sample evidence to an emerging discussion on open innovation and firm strategy. We ask why a startup should participate in an open standards community. We propose four ways that... View Details
  • 10 Dec 2020
  • Blog Post

A New Case at Harvard Business School Highlights the Real-World Issues for Latinx Considering an MBA

elite educational institutions add to the complexity of Latinx underrepresentation. The inherent vulnerability of those issues makes them difficult to broach in standard... View Details
  • January 2022 (Revised December 2022)
  • Case

TotalEnergies’ Investment in Hyzon Motors

By: Vikram S. Gandhi and David Lane
In November 2021, Girish Nadkarni, the head of TotalEnergies’ corporate venture capital arm (TEV) was considering whether, and on what terms, to exit an investment in Hyzon Motors, a start-up supplier of hydrogen-powered trucks. TEV had invested $4 million in Hyzon,... View Details
Keywords: Business Units; Communication Intention and Meaning; Renewable Energy; Venture Capital; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Design; Standards; Commercialization; Investment Portfolio; Market Transactions; Energy Industry; Financial Services Industry; Transportation Industry; Europe; New York (city, NY)
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  • 09 May 2018
  • Research & Ideas

A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety

Americans could avoid food poisoning each year simply by reducing the number of establishments an inspector visits on a single day. Often, inspectors will cluster their schedule to conduct inspections on two... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Service
  • 27 Oct 2021
  • Blog Post

HBS Impact Investing Fund Course: An Experiential Education in Social Financing

course of the semester, each group will conduct financial, commercial, and operational diligence on prospective investments. The diligence is intended to be mutually beneficial: students will gain investing... View Details
  • 20 Jan 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Risky Business with Structured Finance

this product was so superior to other channels of financing. We also started hearing the phrase, 'These structures create yield out of thin air.' It implies magic, or a violation View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services
  • 24 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

Bird, Yanhua Z., Jodi L. Short, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—Exploitive working conditions have spurred companies to pressure their suppliers to adopt labor codes of conduct and to conform their labor... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 16, 2016

views on distributive justice are shown to differ in two specific, related ways from what is conventionally assumed in modern optimal tax research. A large share of respondents, and in some cases a large majority, resist the full... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne