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  • 07 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 7

corporate environmental ratings that guide investors to select "socially responsible," and avoid "socially irresponsible," companies. We examine how several hundred firms respond to corporate environmental ratings issued by a prominent independent... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2004
  • News

Retirement's Changing Face

(with varying degrees of success, by his own account). Lately, he’s been trying to scale back. “It’s an evolution that’s felt very normal and comfortable,” says Bemis. “There haven’t been any big differences because I’m a... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
  • 15 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 15, 2015

grounded in the competitive dynamics that may otherwise drive a race-to-the-bottom. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50203 forthcoming Journal of Business Ethics Corporate Governance and Executive Compensation for Corporate View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 4

explaining why monetary policy was tight during the Great Depression. The paper shows that the evolution of policy was much more gradual and flexible after the Volcker disinflation, when the Fed was not generally deemed to have made an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
  • 01 Jun 2025
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books

tendencies that can cloud our financial judgment, explains why index funds are a savvy choice, and reveals secrets like why it’s better to wait until age 70 to receive Social Security benefits―along with the calculations that make this... View Details
  • 12 May 2022
  • News

Onboarding

filing proposals for companies to add women and minorities to boards. Those proposals never got a majority vote, but they did spark the conversation. And that conversation, as you know, picked up as there was more social activism, more... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

In Review

places like HBS that can create a unique sense of social intimacy even more in an increasingly digital world. How did you approach the evolving challenges last spring, when the School suddenly shifted to remote learning at mid-semester,... View Details
  • 20 Aug 2013
  • First Look

First Look: August 20

challenge to centuries-long traditions in design and construction that green building represents. The contributors consider the changes associated with green building through a sociological and organizational lens. They discuss shifts in professional expertise created... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
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Commencement 2017 Address | About

I’ve witnessed the lives led by our graduates. Many of our alumni currently lead some of the most admired and most valuable companies on the planet. They have been crucial to the creation and evolution of entire industries, including... View Details
  • 02 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 2

http://www.people.hbs.edu/lalfaro/SurvivingGlobalFinancialCrisis.pdf Picking Green Tech's Winners and Losers Authors:Clayton M. Christensen, Shuman Talukdar, Richard Alton, and Michael B. Horn Publication:Stanford Social Innovation Review... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 31

Authors:Geoffrey Jones and Asli M. Colpan Publication:Chap. 3 in The Oxford Handbook of Business Groups Abstract Business groups—collections of legally independent firms interconnected by multiple economic and social linkages that exhibit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 4

interpretation of and response to these challenges, but external and internal changes may require corresponding changes in a group's core identity. In a qualitative study of longshoremen in San Pedro, California, we observe an evolution... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

Administration I study business leaders, government leaders, religious leaders, social activists, and other individuals — past and present — who exercise real, worthy impact. As a historian, I don’t see huge differences among political... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
  • 26 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 26

increase the impact of a mailed communication on conversion rates to lower-cost, therapeutically equivalent medications, even when the testimonial is presented as coming from a more socially proximate peer. Publisher's link: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Aug 2022
  • News

September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

resources, or finance. By exploring the emergence and evolution of these positions, the authors examine the ways in which power at the apex of complex organizations is structured through roles and relationships, in response to diverse... View Details
  • 16 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer

This fact plays an important role in our analysis. If one considers the original Napster network and its evolution over time, congestion worsened as the user base grew. At its peak, Napster's waiting queues were long and downloads slow... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music
  • 01 Jun 2018
  • News

June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

business entrepreneur Mancuso tells the tales of the most remarkable people he has met in the business world who have been involved with the CEO Clubs. From Wall Street to Bay Street: The Origins and Evolution of American and Canadian... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2010
  • News

Dean Nohria Looks Ahead

that you have published on leadership and management, which one speaks most directly to the challenges you face as Dean? I’d say In Their Time because it highlights the importance of the broader context and how profoundly it shapes the View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
  • 11 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 11

evolution of multinational enterprises (MNEs) in host countries over time. We argue that a change in the policy environment in a host country presents an MNE with two sets of interrelated decisions. First, the MNE has to decide whether to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 29

Transfers usefully move resources from lowest- to highest-valuation networks, but transfers tend to cause socially costly growth in the Internet's routing table. We propose a market rule that avoids excessive trading and comes close to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne