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  • January 2001 (Revised May 2001)
  • Background Note

State, The

By: Rawi E. Abdelal
Surveys approaches to understanding the state; highlights the relationships between the state, order, and property; and offers an analytical framework for how states vary from place to place and over time. View Details
Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Governance Compliance; Framework; Economic Sectors; Policy; Private Ownership; Public Ownership; Entrepreneurship; Development Economics; Equality and Inequality
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  • 03 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 3, 2008

and academics are focusing considerable attention on the concept of "corporate social responsibility" (CSR), particularly in the realm of environmental protection. Beyond complete compliance with environmental regulations, do... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 19, 2007

addition, firms with more KLD concerns have slightly, but statistically significantly, more pollution and regulatory compliance violations in later years. KLD environmental strengths, in contrast, do not accurately predict pollution... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Supplemental Financial Information | Annual Report 2024

consistent with fiscal 2023. Capitalization of endowment income—or cash used to purchase endowment units—was a $6 million use of cash in fiscal 2024, up $2 million from the prior year. In compliance with federal and state legal... View Details
  • 19 May 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy

process for consumers to inform online services that they do not wish their activities to be tracked, yet compliance is voluntary and major industry players have not adhered to the initiative or dropped out over time. Online services... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products
  • 18 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 18

undermine Hong Kong's position as a financial center in the long-term. Hong Kong's position as a global financial powerhouse was due in part to its rigorous emphasis on compliance and enforcement-allowing companies to report under Chinese... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 11, 2009

might warrant a reduction in regulatory scrutiny. We find that voluntary disclosures are associated with improvements in regulatory compliance and environmental performance, indicating that self-reporting is associated with effective... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

be an adequate coping response to an immediate crisis such as a pandemic, as it requires people’s strict compliance to a new set of rules, such as social distancing, to protect people against the virus. Hence, as a result of COVID-19,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 May 2020
  • In Practice

Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

now use familiar and ubiquitous platforms, such as Zoom, to assess and monitor their patients’ health status and their compliance with treatment protocols. Patients will be able to conveniently access clinical services that use... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 05 May 2015
  • First Look

First Look: May 5

likelihood that non-compliant practices are detected, and the likelihood that detected violations are punished. However, the type of regulatory regime-compliance-based or "pay-to-pollute"-and three important cost thresholds also drive firm response: i) the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 18, 2009

selection, and creating separate committees for professional practice, ethics, and compliance and operations; and enhancing its ethics and compliance program through human resource processes (e.g.,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

publicly listed firms ranges from comment letter (CL) reviews of firms’ reporting compliance to pursuing enforcement actions against violators. Prior literature finds that firm political connections (PC) negatively predict enforcement... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2020
  • Blog Post

6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

punishment and dominant leadership. Tightness seems to be an adequate coping response to an immediate crisis such as a pandemic, as it requires people’s strict compliance to a new set of rules, such as social distancing, to protect people... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 26 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 26, 2008

summaries of past environmental performance. In addition, firms with more KLD concerns have slightly, but statistically significantly, more pollution and regulatory compliance violations in later years. KLD environmental strengths, in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Apr 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now

by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity In the Wake of #MeToo, Should Corporate Boards Hire Compliance Officers? What do you think? How should organizations respond to sexual... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 22, 2008

their employers on the one hand, and the decision makers and their employers on the other. GLG CEO Alexander Saint-Amand needed to assess both whether the compliance mechanisms in place were adequate for all parties, and if so, how or... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

Bros Coffee: Leadership Selection No abstract available. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/119038-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 119-049 Accenture’s Code of Business Ethics Leaders of Accenture’s compliance and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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uploads. In some Programs, users may contribute by speaking or appearing on camera, and User Content may include transmissions or recordings of a user’s voice and/or image. You agree that you will use the Services in compliance with the... View Details
  • 29 Oct 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The COVID Gender Gap: Why Fewer Women Are Dying

health officials to consider targeting men when communicating recommendations around COVID-19 to attempt to increase compliance with safety regulations—for their own good and the good of society, Pons says. "You can imagine that some men... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health
  • 20 Jan 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind

the UK, licensed and insured vehicles, and full compliance with every applicable law and regulation. But Uber's “casual driver” model offered a perpetual cost advantage, and in October 2014 Hailo abandoned the US market. Uber's lesson to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Transportation; Insurance