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- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance
Whereas the for-profit capital markets provide transparent objective criteria for making early- and later-stage investment decisions, balance risks with return, and create a "performance-driving cycle" by rewarding improvements in the top... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues
recognized the opportunity—and necessity—to use their research to help leaders, companies, organizations, and governments navigate the challenges posed by the pandemic. This meant not only extending and reframing their research, but also... View Details
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
Participation, Pluralism, and Public Ethics. Ebrahim teaches the required MBA course Leadership and Organizational Behavior, and chairs the Executive Education program Governing for Nonprofit Excellence. Q: Mario, tell us about Venture... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
independent and dispersed contributors made highly interdependent contributions to the design of a single technical system (or sub-system). Based on a detailed analysis of the latter 28, we introduce the concept of actionable transparency... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
aggregation of citizens’ preferences, government preferences are present biased, resulting in over-accumulation of debt. Calibrating this parameter with values in the literature, the model can reproduce debt levels and frequency of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=46779 Working Papers An Analysis of Firms' Self-Reported Anticorruption Efforts By: Healy, Paul M., and George Serafeim Abstract—We use Transparency International's ratings of self-reported... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
firms large enough to finance their own laboratories could create a “virtuous cycle” where staying on the leading edge of science got them first to market with new products, in turn delivering higher profits to fund still more research. As universities opened their... View Details
- 19 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?
the time, as opposed to the stock market," says Froot. A reinsurer that acts more like an investor than a corporation is also going to be more transparent about how it does business—another plus. Froot likens this new form of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
depend on the ability of its independent regulators to provide for a level playing field between the government and private sector in areas such as insurance, civil aviation, telecom, and energy. Privatizations, tariff reform, an end to... View Details
- 26 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Evolving for Success [Part One]
Kanter, an authority on organizational change who advises major corporations and governments on these very issues, lays out a blueprint to help readers get a handle on work, and life, in an increasingly connected world. Here, in the first... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
present, the business of stem cells remains a fledgling enterprise. Spar says that figures for 2003 reveal that only ten U.S. private-sector firms were actively involved in embryonic stem-cell research, spending just $70 million. For its part, the U.S. View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
insurance (for such individuals, another function of the Connector is deciding “affordability,” that is, how much those individuals should be subsidized and how much they should pay out-of-pocket). This uninsured-care fund previously had been bankrolled by the state... View Details
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
of Buenos Aires’s population was foreign born, and it could be regarded as one of the world’s greatest global cities.” Today, the city is a decaying shadow of itself and Argentina as a whole has fallen prey to ineffective institutions, inconsistent View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Secondary Resources
Mortgage Debt on Homes Other Than Farm Homes at the Fourteenth Census, 1920 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1923). Ham, Arthur H. A Credit Union Primer; an Elementary Treatise on Cooperative Banking (New York City: Division... View Details
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
heterogeneity, we identify key country- and organization-level determinants of corporate environmental disclosure. We focus on institutional factors related to firms' global embeddedness to describe how external environmental pressures emanating from View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
which transparency can backfire. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55804 forthcoming PS: Political Science & Politics Informal Institutions and Survey Research in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq By:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Oct 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?
of distribution (more transparency across multiple organizations in inventory management, lower inventory to sales ratios, fewer stockouts, etc.). Just as important was the question of who could lead the effort. Not surprisingly, it came... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Business and government officials arrived in force to talk up India’s growth, exceeding an annual rate of 6 percent for the last fifteen years. GDP growth hit 7.6 percent in 2005... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 07 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 7, 2015
Business School Case 115-049 Statoil: Transparency on Payments to Governments No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/115049-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 28
Authors:Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim Publication:Business Strategy Review (May 2011) Abstract We are exploring the value of forcing corporations to issue sustainability reports, which provide information about corporate performance in terms of social,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne