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- 17 Jan 2023
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Good Companies Commit Crimes, But Great Leaders Can Prevent Them
to try to prevent those skeletons from emerging. “Ultimately, leaders need to make sure that the risk can be controlled.” Lambert: When you talk to executives and managers about corporate liability, what is your basic message? Soltes: You... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- Article
Preventing Fairness Gerrymandering: Auditing and Learning for Subgroup Fairness
By: Michael J Kearns, Seth Neel, Aaron Leon Roth and Zhiwei Steven Wu
The most prevalent notions of fairness in machine learning are statistical definitions: they fix a small collection of pre-defined groups, and then ask for parity of some statistic of the classifier (like classification rate or false positive rate) across these groups.... View Details
Kearns, Michael J., Seth Neel, Aaron Leon Roth, and Zhiwei Steven Wu. "Preventing Fairness Gerrymandering: Auditing and Learning for Subgroup Fairness." Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 35th (2018).
- September 2, 2020
- Article
What Really Prevents Companies from Thriving in a Recession
By: Ranjay Gulati and Mark Wiedman
Even in the best of times, many companies fail to fund and staff new opportunities. As decades of research have shown, leaders fear threats to their status and power and so become attached to existing businesses and budgets, regarding them as entitlements and as a... View Details
Gulati, Ranjay, and Mark Wiedman. "What Really Prevents Companies from Thriving in a Recession." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (September 2, 2020).
- April 9, 2014
- Article
Could More Women Auditors Help Prevent Another Rana Plaza?
Toffel, Michael W. "Could More Women Auditors Help Prevent Another Rana Plaza?" The Guardian (April 9, 2014). (Previously titled "Women Make More Rigorous Supply Chain Auditors.")
- November 18, 2008
- Article
There's a Better Way to Prevent 'Bear Raids'
By: Robert C. Pozen and Yaneer Bar-Yam
Pozen, Robert C., and Yaneer Bar-Yam. "There's a Better Way to Prevent 'Bear Raids'." Wall Street Journal (November 18, 2008).
- May 25, 2024
- Article
How to Prevent Silos from Becoming an Enemy of Collaboration
By: Ranjay Gulati
Gulati, Ranjay. "How to Prevent Silos from Becoming an Enemy of Collaboration." Inc.com (May 25, 2024).
- Article
Marketing Principles and the Future of Preventive Health Care
By: John A. Quelch
Quelch, John A. "Marketing Principles and the Future of Preventive Health Care." Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly. Health and Society 58, no. 2 (Spring 1980): 310–347.
- March 2009
- Background Note
Note on the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (BAPCPA)
By: Stuart C. Gilson
In 2005, new legislation was passed by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by the President that introduced a number of major amendments to U.S. bankruptcy law, affecting both business and consumer bankruptcies. This legislation, called the Bankruptcy Abuse... View Details
Keywords: Government Legislation; Restructuring; Personal Finance; Laws and Statutes; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Corporate Finance
Gilson, Stuart C. "Note on the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (BAPCPA)." Harvard Business School Background Note 209-133, March 2009.
- September 2022 (Revised November 2022)
- Case
The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act: Trade and Genocide in U.S.-China Relations
By: Jeremy Friedman and David Lane
On June 21, 2022, the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) went into effect, requiring companies to prove that goods imported from the People’s Republic of China were not made with forced labor. The bill was a reaction to reports of products being made with... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Government Legislation; International Relations; Labor; Wages; Law Enforcement; Law; Rights; Operations; Supply Chain Management; Business and Government Relations; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Mining Industry; China; United States
Friedman, Jeremy, and David Lane. "The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act: Trade and Genocide in U.S.-China Relations." Harvard Business School Case 723-001, September 2022. (Revised November 2022.)
- 26 Sep 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Playing Favorites: How Firms Prevent the Revelation of Bad News
- 02 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Signing at the Top: The Key to Preventing Tax Fraud?
cheat based on our lab and field studies; we thought it was now time to examine how to prevent people from cheating." The key, according to the researchers, lies in increasing ethical salience: inducing people to pay greater attention to... View Details
- June 2020
- Article
Overcoming Barriers to Early Disease Intervention
By: H. Hugo Caicedo, Daniel A. Hashimoto, Julio C. Caicedo, Alex Pentland and Gary P. Pisano
It is widely acknowledged that earlier intervention in many disease processes leads to better patient outcomes and lower treatment costs. To date, most efforts at early disease intervention have focused on "primary prevention" which focuses on preventing diseases in... View Details
Caicedo, H. Hugo, Daniel A. Hashimoto, Julio C. Caicedo, Alex Pentland, and Gary P. Pisano. "Overcoming Barriers to Early Disease Intervention." Nature Biotechnology 38, no. 6 (June 2020).
- January 2021
- Teaching Plan
Loss Prevention at Mac's Convenience Stores (A) and (B)
By: Francesca Gino, Katherine DeCelles and Olivia Hull
- Article
Moment-to-moment Optimal Branding in TV Commercials: Preventing Avoidance by Pulsing
By: Thales S. Teixeira, Michel Wedel and Rik Pieters
We develop a conceptual framework for understanding the impact that branding activity (the audio-visual representation of brands) and consumers' dispersion of attention have on their moment-to-moment avoidance decisions during television advertising. It formalizes this... View Details
Keywords: Advertising; Decision Choices and Conditions; Television Entertainment; Brands and Branding; Consumer Behavior; Mathematical Methods
Teixeira, Thales S., Michel Wedel, and Rik Pieters. "Moment-to-moment Optimal Branding in TV Commercials: Preventing Avoidance by Pulsing." Marketing Science 29, no. 5 (September–October 2010): 783–804. (Lead Article.)
- 24 Feb 2022
- Op-Ed
Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC
billing rule that hospitals had ignored, it imposed a tangle of new requirements and directed the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to help prevent excess out-of-network charges. And consider the HHS’s multimillion dollar... View Details
- February 24, 2022
- Article
Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Richard Boxer
During the initial phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, many U.S. hospitals could not provide enough beds to meet demand. Solving the problem of inadequate capacity is of utmost importance in the “new normal,” which requires recognizing the ongoing need for hospital-based... View Details
Keywords: COVID; COVID-19 Pandemic; Hospital Capacity; SEC Regulation; Health Pandemics; Crisis Management; Performance Capacity; Planning
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Richard Boxer. "Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC." Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (February 24, 2022).
- 1979
- Chapter
Preventive Health Care and Consumer Behavior: Towards a Broader Perspective
By: J. Quelch and S. Ash
- 2006
- Working Paper
Organizing to Strategize in the Face of Interactions: Preventing Premature Lock-in
By: Jan W. Rivkin and Nicolaj Siggelkow
- Article
Incidence and Preventability of Adverse Drug Events in the Nursing Home Setting
By: J. H. Gurwitz, T. S. Field, J. Avorn, D. McCormick, S. Jain, M. Eckler, M. Benser, A. Edmondson and D. W. Bates
Gurwitz, J. H., T. S. Field, J. Avorn, D. McCormick, S. Jain, M. Eckler, M. Benser, A. Edmondson, and D. W. Bates. "Incidence and Preventability of Adverse Drug Events in the Nursing Home Setting." American Journal of Medicine 109, no. 2 (2000): 87–94.
- December 1970
- Article
The Four Roles of Sampling in Auditing: Representative, Corrective, Protective and Preventive
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Yuri Ijiri
Kaplan, Robert S., and Yuri Ijiri. "The Four Roles of Sampling in Auditing: Representative, Corrective, Protective and Preventive." Management Accounting 52 (December 1970): 42–44.