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- 02 Dec 2019
- News
A Long-Standing Commitment to Global Understanding
motivated him and his wife Patricia to make an ongoing investment in HBS’s global efforts through their support of the HBS Fund, the School’s research outposts, and an endowed fellowship for international students. The Value of Being Different “I became engaged in... View Details
- 23 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It’s Effective
statistical and survey measures. Those measures include not only hard statistics but also indicators from anonymous surveys of executives, on issues such as the level of corruption in the country, the quality of View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Corporate Governance Conference Addresses Global Challenges
In recent years, government and business leaders throughout the world have made governance issues a prime focus, as capital markets have increased their scrutiny of countries' and companies' corporate-governance structures, policies, and... View Details
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
a Highly Elusive, Marginal, and Illegal Practice" will be published in a forthcoming issue of Sociologie du Travail. Sean Silverthorne: What are homers and how prevalent is the practice? Can you give some examples? Michel Anteby:... View Details
- 02 Dec 2002
- What Do You Think?
How Will We Respond to the “Moment of Truth” in Option Plans?
options should be rethought in many organizations. First, there is the issue of whether options are the best means of promoting shareholders' best interests in established companies. While making an exception for "cash-poor start-up... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
important roles in the passage of child labor laws, union labor campaigns, and City Beautiful movements, for example. But Sawyer notes that Gleason is exceptional in that she didn’t participate in View Details
- 01 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making
technology side, they also have to think about the organizational side," she says. "Traditionally, technology is thought of as a tool that enables empowerment, but that's not always the case." Sadun discusses the issue in... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment
to support immoral enterprises. Hayes argued that an investor is in a better position to change a company's policies than an outsider, noting that his college investment committee used proxy materials to raise an issue about sexual... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Student-Profile
Talia Gillis
decision-making played a key role in how law is created and understanding law in action. My time as a clerk at the International Criminal Tribunal of Rwanda and at the Israel Supreme Court exposed me to judicial decision-making processes. Volunteering at the View Details
- 21 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases
made up 46.7 percent of the US labor force, and filled more than half of management, professional, and related occupations. If the strategy was to get more women in the workplace and let them naturally ascend to positions of upper... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
issues regarding tax harmonization within Europe and the integration process. Q: Could the flat tax only have been introduced in the context of other reforms that Slovakia was managing during its post-communism transition, such as View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
organizations tighten their belts by simply cutting travel across the board? “I think the core issue for everyone is the same, which is how do you buy time?” remarks HBS professor Bill Sahlman, coauthor with Jackie Donnelly Russell (MBA... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
20th century at best, if not the first half of the 20th century,” Eykher says. To address the issue of trust, the Open Mineral team verifies the identity of every member and only accepts companies with a good history; they require... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 16 Jul 2013
- News
Embracing Chaos
The issue of livelihoods, and creating jobs while solving local problems, like overflowing garbage in Bangalore. Venkatesan was just 50 when he left the corporate world in 2011, deciding that it was his time to make a difference in the... View Details
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
employed mothers are more likely to be employed, more likely to hold supervisory responsibility if employed, work more hours, and earn marginally higher wages than women whose mothers were home full time. The effects on labor market... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Feb 2022
- News
Hour by Hour
people who have had that training, to be able to use it to earn additional income.” HourWork also specializes in improving retention rates, surveying employees who leave a company and using that data to help businesses address issues that... View Details
- September 1997 (Revised October 1997)
- Supplement
Charles Veillon, S.A. (B)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Howard Reitz
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Rights; Organizations; Working Conditions; Social Issues; Management Practices and Processes; Service Industry
Paine, Lynn S., and Howard Reitz. "Charles Veillon, S.A. (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 398-010, September 1997. (Revised October 1997.)
- 24 Oct 2018
- News
Exploring the Future of Work for Women
Clubs News Clubs News The HBS Club of India recently hosted its first conference devoted to exploring gender issues in the workplace of the future. The Future of Work: Accelerating Gender Parity Conference, held on September 21 in Mumbai,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
leads the Athens-based multinational producer of cement and other building materials. He ticks through a long list of issues that have made Greece unfriendly to business, from thickets of overregulation and archaic View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 02 Mar 2016
- What Do You Think?
Is Apple’s Real Privacy Challenge Technology Innovation Itself?
terrorist is moot.” Several addressed the more specific issue of Apple’s dispute with the FBI. The question of what a government can demand in a democracy roughly split respondents down the middle. Taking Apple’s side, ZBV said: “The... View Details