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07 Dec 2010
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division. But now, the Development Banking team is contemplating going to the board to take the concept one step further: pro-actively investing in PSL-qualifying activities not as a matter of regulatory compliance but as business. Should the bank devote significant... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008

30,000 megawatts of power, would change the face of European energy networks, use new technology, and help several European countries meet their Kyoto targets for reducing CO2. The issues are whether a small company like Airtricity has the View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Jan 2005
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Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

potentially hazardous for human health or the environment. In this scenario, it would make sense for such a company to become part of the solution, and engage in programs aimed at solving these issues, thus the interest of the beverage... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team

31 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

products to have adverse events reports. These data may inform proposals for review of high-risk devices. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52136 in press Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

10 Mar 2015
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Abstract—Can a business case be made for acting sustainably? This is a difficult question to answer precisely, largely because there is no generally accepted definition of the term "sustainability." Is it acting sustainably to protect the View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

12 Feb 2013
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Behavior and Human Decision Processes Abstract The present research investigated the dual role of cognition as either an enabler of moral reasoning or self-interested motivated reasoning for endorsing sweatshop labor. Experiment 1A showed... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Nov 2008
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human resource functions. Pentagram's second principle was generosity. All partners were equal shareholders in the firm. Pentagram branched out to New York in the early 1980s, and in the late 1980s, Hinrichs established a San Francisco... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Nov 2006
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Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale

life when he was a child was a life and death matter in the most literal sense. We're not talking about the life and death of a firm. We're talking about the physical survival of a human being and of his parents and of their extended... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

December 2023 (Revised July 2024)
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Boortmalt: The Master Maltster

By: Forest Reinhardt, Jose B Alvarez, Damien McLoughlin, Lena Duchene and Emer Moloney

By May 2023, Boortmalt was the world’s leading producer of malt, with a production capacity of 3 million tonnes, 15% of global market share, and 27 malting plants across five continents. It had recently acquired a major competitor and had sustained an EBITDA growth of... View Details

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27 Sep 2016
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of different constituents; (4) balancing opportunities and attention; and (5) balancing the motives of human behavior. Management control systems are essential tools used by all managers to achieve their desired profit goals and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Mar 2016
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March 8, 2016

new external partners and could move quickly into experimentation to accelerate learning and innovation. This case also shows how two very different organizations managed to team across boundaries. Doing so, it emphasizes the human side... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Jul 2008
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in cancer; building an RNAi Consortium to better understand the role of every gene in the human body; creating an integrated database that mapped the connections among drugs, genes, and diseases; and cataloging inherited genetic... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

November 2019
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Kids & Company: Entering the U.S.

By: Boris Groysberg, Sarah Mehta and Matthew Preble

This video supplement pairs with “Kids & Company: Entering the U.S.” (case no. 418011). It contains eight individual clips that range in length from 5 to 12 minutes. Instructors can use the videos, either in whole or in part, as an additional teaching... View Details

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30 May 2000
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Market Makers Bid for Success

whereas if you're a kind of a single-purpose performer, if you change the play, you're in trouble. Sahlman: It's an interesting human resources strategy to try to make sure that you don't have people who define your strategy and make it... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Web Services; Technology

08 Aug 2017
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its infrastructure for societal uses, or whether to exploit a commercial opportunity related to launching small, handheld cubesats. The case explores the basis for ISRO’s cost advantage vis-à-vis western entities, as well as its resource constraints and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 7

with the project at hand. Specifically, we study an academic researcher’s (1) personal background (gender and country of origin economic advancement), (2) professional development (time since PhD completion and editorial review board (ERB) membership), and (3) ad-hoc... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 May 2015
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been recorded in history over and over again. The question that Keith and many other climate scientists wanted to answer was, could humanity learn how to design, deploy, and manage similar cooling effects to manage the threats from... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Oct 2013
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among adults around the world, and the warm glow of giving can be detected even in toddlers. These benefits are most likely to emerge when giving satisfies one or more core human needs (relatedness, competence, and autonomy). The rewards... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Sep 2004
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How Leaders Build Winning Streaks

Kellner (soon to succeed Bethune as CEO), Deborah McCoy, and others. Akin Ongor had Saide Kuzeyli, executive vice-president of human resources, as his sidekick-in-chief; she shared the duties of coaching the people of Garanti Bank to... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

07 Feb 2017
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deployment to a challenging context is associated with human capital development. Managers initially deployed to more challenging contexts were not, however, more likely to break into the upper echelons of the organization. Publisher's... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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