Coding - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Nov 2016
What Do You Think?

Are Employees Becoming Job 'Renters' Instead of 'Owners'?

disposable as a BIC pen. Small wonder they’ll react as owners.” DRE added that job renting is code for job instability. “When you kill the opportunity to own a job, it is only a matter of time before the economic circle shrinks to (the)... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

05 Jul 2006
First Look

First Look: July 5, 2006

students to wrestle with the uncertainties of copyright compliance as they decide whether Black Duck should certify that their clients' code is non-infringing. It also raises questions about which growth opportunities Black Duck should... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 18

closed (low-power) poses, and then prepared and delivered a speech to two evaluators as part of a mock job interview, a prototypical social evaluation. All speeches were videotaped and coded for overall performance, hireability, and the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

LEED-ing by Example

while also bolstering private-sector demand for LEED buildings." Leading With Leed There are multiple environmental assessment tools available to governments and building developers in the United States, including the International Code... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities

23 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

COVID-19 Shines New Light on Working Conditions in Supply Chains

brands to the working conditions of the suppliers who produce their branded products. This has resulted in brands creating supplier codes of conduct, which is the first piece. Then those brands need to actually hold suppliers accountable... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Apparel & Accessories

25 May 2016
Research & Ideas

How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

too often still result in decisions that take scant account of public health and whether the health of individual citizens is being advanced. When worker safety is jeopardized by unenforced building codes or exposure to harmful industrial... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health

05 Jan 2009
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008

The story behind Dean Kamen's Segway scooter, and his combustive meeting with the kingpins of Apple and Amazon. Excerpt from Code Name Ginger. 5. Updating a Classic: Writing a Great Business Plan Harvard Business School professor William... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

12 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

The New Real Estate

Building codes are finally being rewritten, although the U.S. is still far behind Northern Europe. The real challenges will be in rewriting zoning codes, redensifying communities, and creating area-wide planning especially difficult in... View Details

Keywords: by Arthur I. Segel; Construction; Real Estate

02 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Companies Choreograph Earnings Calls to Hide Bad News

Cohen and his coauthors identified the name of the firm and call participants, in addition to matching analysts with the recommendations they gave before the call. Finally, they coded the entire text of each question and answer,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services

08 May 2013
Research & Ideas

A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity

the firm. She was thus familiar with its culture and practices. To ensure broad perspective, two "outsider" researchers—Ramarajan and McGinn—conducted the detailed coding of the inside data. "Our insider-outsider authorship... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

14 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Time that Government Reopens for Business

Mihir Desai and Michael Porter have pointed out, the United States has the highest corporate tax rate and the most complex tax code in the world. That combination undermines the growth of the economy and with it, the number of available... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

25 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry

and a set of well-specified functional "tests" of each module's performance. All systems built out of System/360 modules worked together as one and could run the same software. Furthermore, new modules could be added to the system and old ones upgraded... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Computer; Consumer Products; Technology

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

IT Links for Boundaryless Companies

you pay full price, and Adobe Limited Edition. It actually costs more to make that, because you've got to change the code to strip things out. But at least you've segmented the markets." Market Makers And Inter-business Processes The... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

07 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs

Singapore, and Kenya. “I’m interested in tracing the way violence develops: the ideological reasons behind it, the bureaucratic reasons, the legal codes that enable this, and then also how it moves,” Elkins says. “You can trace the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

22 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist

prices beyond those included in the original contract; and a statute that allowed for code-making authority in intrastate commerce. California’s codes included maximum working hours, minimum wages, and the outlawing of secret rebates and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Health; Legal Services

19 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard

have to respect this code of ethics. When media groups employ external private investigators, health-maintenance organizations hire outside medical doctors, and governments occasionally rely on private mercenaries, people can plausibly... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Journalism & News; Publishing

27 Mar 2007
First Look

First Look: March 27, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507058 The Remains of the Day Summary: Reasoning From a Moral Code Harvard Business School Module Note 607-071 No abstract available. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/217071-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 817-114 Flatiron School In late 2016, the founders of Flatiron School, a startup offering 12-week coding bootcamps, are formulating their growth... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

07 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits

a plan to curb foreign tax havens and end tax breaks for "companies that ship jobs overseas" in May, 2009.) One heated issue is the charge that the U.S. tax code provides incentives for companies to ship jobs overseas. It's... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

23 May 2019
Book

These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems

each year. One group of students successfully lobbied faculty to create a field-based course on poverty and inequality. Members of one graduating class crafted and signed an MBA Oath with a professional code of ethics. Another class... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Green Technology

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