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- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
African people, businesses, and nations are becoming increasingly stressed by climate-related perils like droughts, river flooding, extreme heat, and rising sea levels. This is leading not only to the destruction of assets but also challenges to lives and... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.
On September 4, the US Energy Information Agency (EIA) published its 2014 International Energy Outlook. Earlier this year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released its latest World Energy Investment Outlook. Both watchdogs tell us the same story. Energy... View Details
- 02 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 2
better CSR performance face significantly lower capital constraints. Moreover, we provide evidence that both of the hypothesized mechanisms, better stakeholder engagement and transparency around CSR performance, are important in reducing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 7
Economics Fear of Rejection? Tiered Certification and Transparency By: Farhi, Emmanuel, Josh Lerner, and Jean Tirole Abstract—The sub-prime crisis has shown a harsh spotlight on the practices of securities underwriters, which provided too... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments
From a leadership perspective, social networking is making authentic leadership a reality and a necessity for 21st century leaders. You can't hide on your social network when you're revealing who you are and what you really believe. View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 20 May 2016
- Op-Ed
World Health Organization Lacks Leadership to Combat Pandemics
for bureaucrats. A sample recommendation is that the WHO should “devise a regular, independent, transparent and objective assessment mechanism to evaluate country performance” against precise benchmarks defined in conjunction with member... View Details
- 03 Nov 2008
- HBS Case
Economics of the Ethanol Business
think these things are unimportant and uninteresting, but that's never been true." Greater transparency may be brought about through the introduction of carbon trading markets, Reinhardt suggests—an area he is exploring in a future... View Details
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
If you ask any given environmentalist to identify the biggest threat to the planet, you may expect to hear about man-made climate change, consumerism, or overpopulation. But if you ask Harvard Business School's Joseph B. Lassiter, he'll toss in another: single-issue... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- Op-Ed
The Real Duty of the Board of Directors
significant audiences for the corporation’s vitality and long-term success. This clearly includes shareholders, but it could include other stakeholders, such as employees. This is simply about transparency in the purpose the board sees... View Details
Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & Tim Youmans
- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
open collaborative sample. Based on a detailed analysis of the cases in which the mirroring hypothesis was not supported, we introduce the concept of actionable transparency as a means of achieving coordination without mirroring. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Jul 2019
- Op-Ed
Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?
the transparency front, it is publishing quarterly reports across nine categories of content, showing how much they take down before users see it. Last May, the European Union passed the General Data Protection Regulation, which places... View Details
Keywords: by George Riedel
- 10 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Become a Value Creator
you're a non-team player and it's all about you, it becomes obvious. People are not very self-aware about how transparent it is. But if you think you're getting away with it, you're not. People know." And if you're not well liked and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 28
enhanced stakeholder engagement through CSR, and reduced informational asymmetries, due to increased transparency through non-financial reporting. Using a large cross-section of firms, we show that firms with better CSR performance face... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50612 Surfacing the Submerged State: Operational Transparency Increases Trust in and Engagement with Government By: Buell, Ryan W., Ethan Porter, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Three... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2013
Cuddy, operating a relatively large device inspires more assertive behavior than working on a small one. Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity Ethan S. Bernstein explains why decreasing workplace transparency can increase... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 04 Mar 2009
- Op-Ed
Credit is Not the Bogey
afford the payments—indeed, to buyers who have no "rainy day" savings. Underwriting must once again deserve the name. Micro-print contracts must be transparent and protect the consumer. Lenders must take responsibility not just... View Details
- 13 May 2002
- Op-Ed
A Cure for Enron-Style Audit Failures
account for transactions under generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) while reducing transparency and aggressively maximizing earnings and debt. Creative accounting is part of the competition among auditors that has led to lower... View Details
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
how these institutions affect one another. This expertise—combined with better institutional transparency and the banks' new lower—risk practices-leads to a more stable system than the one that existed five years ago. But for the... View Details
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
have a rigorous and transparent procurement process—help landlords, investors, and tenants alike to optimize the whole asset, and not be bogged down by those otherwise competing interests," he says. Assessing The Paper's Results Toffel... View Details
- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
transparency while masking their true performance; other firms' disclosures, in contrast, are more representative of their environmental performance. What deters selective disclosure? We hypothesize that selective disclosure, a novel... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne