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- 17 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom
company’s products, employee commuting, and business travel. Scope 3 also includes emissions generated by the company’s products. Lifecycle assessment: Companies can often calculate their Scope 1 and 2 emissions based on invoices that... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 23 Mar 2021
- Book
Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World
When the pandemic forced employees to flee offices and work from home in droves last year, many business leaders worried that productivity might take a dive. Would remote workers be too tempted by the lures of Netflix or too distracted by... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 23 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Corporate Responsibility is Changing in Asia
to outsource elsewhere, Ballinger said the number of Nike employees in Indonesia grew from 20,000 in 1988 to 110,000 in 1997. "(Nike) still thought it was a pretty good deal," he said. Even if the minimum wage rose to $5 a day,... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
with tools for identifying and solving these problems, engage their employees and suppliers in their improvement efforts. Q: Your book notes that typical stores experience staff turnover of 100 percent each... View Details
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
fulfillment drive work engagement. Employees have needs (e.g., a desire to be authentic) and they also have expectations for how their job or their organization will fulfill them. We argue that experiences at work that confirm employees’... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
foster a culture that aligns all employees around the shared goals of customer solutions. 3) Clout: redistribute power to "bridge builders" and customer champions. 4) Capability: develop employees' skills at tackling changing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
"going public" and "going private'" transactions. We then find that majority PE-backed private firms engage in less book-tax nonconforming tax planning than public years; nonetheless, they exhibit substantially lower... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind
get replacement coverage since any new insurer would learn the reason for the drop.” Thus, it makes practical sense for drivers to lie to their personal insurers, saying they weren’t engaged in TNC activity at the time of an accident. In... View Details
- 06 Jun 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Something Wrong with the Way We Work?
European countries where vacations are mandated, most employees take their prescribed amounts of time off. In America, where vacation time is not mandated, roughly half of workers last year had vacation time left over and failed to take... View Details
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
while full integration into stock valuation and engagement are considered more beneficial, but they are all practiced with equal frequency. Current practices of different ESG styles, especially screening, are driven by product and ethical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2012
- What Do You Think?
Will Business Management Save US Health Care?
for-profit health care organization led to better patient outcomes at the same time that "provider engagement and feeling of satisfaction have increased, our costs have fallen and our net profit has increased." One of the basic... View Details
- 28 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing
safety of the employees who make the goods that the retailer sells? No need to feel awkward if your answer is no. Most people do not think about the harms created by indirect actions, that is, behaviors that hurt others indirectly, such... View Details
- 23 May 2011
- Op-Ed
Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society
interest to shareholders and other stakeholders. The Internet can also be used to increase the degree of dialogue and engagement with all stakeholders. Integrated reporting is as much about "listening" as it is about "talking." Since... View Details
Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & George Serafeim
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
decide whether they want to try to restructure the nature of the engagement to better fit the firm's service model. Although young and small, the firm has grown successfully and is optimistic about its future prospects. Kutchins and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Saving the Planet
"The fact that the benefits of addressing the problem of climate change almost certainly outweigh the costs ... does not make concerted global action to address the problem easy." —Climate Change in 2018: Implications for Business If there is one positive... View Details
- 27 Jul 2019
- Op-Ed
Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?
unconcerned. Engagement on various applications on the Facebook platform is up. Users appear comfortable with the trade they make to give up privileged information in exchange for a range of convenient and free services. Without a push by... View Details
Keywords: by George Riedel
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
Bonuses Increase Employee Satisfaction and Team Performance By: Anik, Lalin, Lara B. Aknin, Michael I. Norton, Elizabeth W. Dunn, and Jordi Quoidbach Abstract—In two field studies, we explore the impact of providing View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
How to Tap the Talent Automated HR Platforms Miss
As the global staffing shortage grinds on, corporate recruiters everywhere are relying on their online hiring platforms and automated systems to deliver the candidates they need. Too often, these tools will fail them, sidelining many qualified workers in the process.... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller
- 22 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World
engaging in "venture philanthropy," rangingfrom The Entrepreneurs' Foundation in Silicon Valley to New Profit, Inc. inBoston. "Now we want to go further and ask, 'How can we look atthe Social Capital Markets more... View Details
Keywords: by Anne Kavanagh
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
effects more than doubled or had consumers' discount factor increased by fifty percent. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-031.pdf PublicationsIdentity Incentives as an Engaging Form of Control: Revisiting Leniencies... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace