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  • March 2015 (Revised August 2020)
  • Case

Putting the Guiding Principles into Action: Human Rights at Barrick Gold (A)

By: Rebecca Henderson and Nien-he Hsieh
In 2010, Human Rights Watch, a well-regarded international NGO, approached Barrick Gold asserting that members of the company’s security force at the Porgera Gold Mine in Papua New Guinea had on multiple occasions raped women who were trespassing onto the mine’s waste... View Details
Keywords: Human Rights; Business And Society; Rights; Policy; Leading Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Government Relations
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  • 23 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

How to Brand a Next-Generation Product

won't be buggy and there won't be a learning curve.” A follow-up experiment reversed the task. Participants learned that the firm Garmin had adopted a sequential naming approach for the first five generations of its in-car GPS receiver,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 26

find that GPs are associated with higher expected acquisition premiums and that this association is at least partly due to the effect of GPs on executive incentives. However, we also find that firms that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

grappling with three questions. First, should GPS create its own mobile app for credit card customers or leverage the bank’s already successful mobile banking app? Second, if a separate app was developed, then who should manage it? View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 16 Nov 2010
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation

Innovation happens fast and slowly. The GPS applications so prevalent today to guide us from Point A to Point B took their first baby steps nearly three decades ago when President Ronald Reagan encouraged the release of military View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology
  • 19 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Why Privacy Protection Notices Turn Off Shoppers

says John. “When people weren’t presented with a privacy notice, their purchase interest was about twice that of those who had been shown the privacy notice.” In another experiment involving a car GPS system, the researchers showed some... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail
  • 28 Aug 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

Mao, Antoinette Schoar, and Nan R. Zhang Abstract— This paper undertakes a comprehensive analysis of alternative investment vehicles in private equity, using unexplored custodial data about 112 limited partners over four decades. We differentiate between alternative... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 5, 2009

be investing alongside a Brazilian private equity firm, GP Investments, and must decide how to structure the investment. Especially, he must decide how to align his interests with those of GP. GP has... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Jan 2014
  • Research & Ideas

How Government Can Restore the Faith of Citizens

release data on public works requests for repairs such as potholes, graffiti, and broken streetlights. Using a cell phone application developed by the mayor's office, citizens can request service by snapping a photo of the problem and uploading it to the city... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 18 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

equity, using unexplored custodial data regarding 112 limited partners over four decades. We differentiate between alternative vehicles that are GP directed versus those where the LP has some discretion. Of the roughly 5,500 distinct... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Apr 2016
  • First Look

April 19, 2016

operating in environments with weak state institutions; to examine the challenges of implementing voluntary frameworks, such as the GPs or VPs, and their potential as alternatives to state institutions; to learn about the field of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jan 2004
  • Research & Ideas

What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation

ideas. This isn't traditional benchmarking, since managers don't simply copy something they see elsewhere. Rather, they take pieces of practice or technology that they find and recombine them in novel ways to solve customer problems. The CEMEX team that developed the... View Details
Keywords: by Donald N. Sull, Alejandro Ruelas-Gossi & Martin Escobari
  • 03 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 3

The case explores the kinds of influence company management can, and should, have in the sale process. The case also explores issues at the PE firm level, including the fact that the firm has recently been spun off out of its large parent financial services firm, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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