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- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
sector. But this research leads me to believe that the right kind of regulatory framework and institutional policies are fundamental to making it possible. Shon R. Hiatt, Assistant Professor Of Business Administration In the US, states and View Details
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Challenge of the Multi-site Nonprofit
operations. The problem, according to Harvard Business School professors Allen Grossman and V. Kasturi ("Kash") Rangan, rests in inevitable tensions and battles for power that arise between national headquarters and local... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 7, 2016
closed question–based surveys. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50727 June 2016 Journal of Finance Local Currency Sovereign Risk By: Du, Wenxin, and Jesse Schreger Abstract—We introduce a new measure of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers
very reluctant to share ownership of advanced technologies with local partners in countries with imperfect IPR. Governments of more advanced countries also should be interested in our findings since they... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
effective care teams and good management of local operations (clinical microsystems). Clinicians influence both, and local clinician leaders will have several key tasks. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 1999
- Research & Ideas
From Spare Change to Real Change: The Social Sector as a Beta Site for Business Innovation
to government and nonprofit agencies. Businesses have little involvement in how these donations are used. In fact, this model actively discourages companies from taking an interest in results. Companies receive their benefits up-front... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Geography of Corporate Giving
generate homogeneity within communities in regard to corporations' social activities. We suggest that there are three main factors that influence corporations to follow locally established patterns: what the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
health than for the other three components of their health footprint. One reason may be the greater difficulty of measuring return on investment for community health initiatives. Companies also tend to lump community health programs under View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
investments in green building expertise by local suppliers. These findings suggest that government procurement policies can accelerate the diffusion of new environmental standards, which require coordinated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
in which the responsibility for environmental policy-making is divided or shared between the central government and the (member) states. The attribution of decision-making power has important policy implications. This chapter compares the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
a question related to whether the poor should be helped by the government or if they should help themselves, while the measure of luck is the share of the oil industry in the state's economy multiplied by the price of oil. The correlation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Aug 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Built for Global Competition from the Start
Thanks to the Internet, entrepreneurs are no longer confined to a local geography when building a new business—the world can be their market from day one. But building a startup as a global business requires managers with skills and... View Details
- 08 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?
relatively cost efficient and scalable source of electricity. The reviews will happen across the world and each country will consider their own energy mix characteristics together with local sentiment." Todd was one of several... View Details
- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
urban development at the national level and in three cities in a single Chinese region. The study reveals that the initial liberalization of land was reversed after China's first contemporary real estate bubble in the early 1990s and that property rights arrangements... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
Japanese government model had profound costs that were unrecognized. Protecting local industries such as the construction industry or agriculture seemed pretty innocuous, but it had huge costs that were... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
entrepreneurship, innovation, and economic growth; exploring the relationship between business and democracy; and the role entrepreneurs and firms, not governments or markets, have played in driving globalization. "Important subjects... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 20 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers Value Global Brands
breakthrough technologies faster than rivals. Global brands "are very dynamic, always upgrading themselves," said an Indian. An Australian added that global brands "are more exciting because they come up with new products all the time, whereas you know... View Details
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
urban landscapes to anchor growth, generate land-lease revenues, and display a capacious administration, Chinese urban governments exhibit varying levels of control over land. This article uses a paired comparison of Dalian and Harbin in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?
as important as rewarding investors is using the power of business to build a better society. Roundtable members committed to building up local communities, investing more in employees, fostering diversity and inclusion, embracing... View Details