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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
rising leaders in 120 companies and how they dealt with them. The challenges included handling rising pressure and recovering from mistakes; dealing with office villains; taking uncomfortable risks; and knowing when it’s time to find... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson
the community -- its outside stakeholders. You can have responsibility at the top of the company, but if it doesn't permeate the entire organization the stakeholders can't count on it. What about bottom-line responsibility to shareholders? Any senior manager today has... View Details
- 03 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Everyone Knows Innovation is Essential to Business Success—Except Board Directors
Open the Wall Street Journal on any given day, and you are likely to find at least one story about how technology is disrupting yet another industry, and the pressures companies face to innovate. And yet, for board members of companies... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
instruments (including price-setting) to implement desired outcomes. Non-price instruments were very much at the core of MSP strategies. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-061.pdf Platform Competition, Compatibility, and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
artificially lowers wages. In March 2004, the AFL-CIO filed a trade-dispute petition seeking U.S. government action to pressure the Chinese to abolish the dual-class citizenship system. Given the growing attention to corporate View Details
- 26 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 26, 2008
40%. Shareholder pressure (e.g., the voting outcome and the influence of the proponent) and the type of proposals are the main determinants of the implementation decision, while traditional governance indicators do not seem to matter.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Influence of the China Trade and the Heard Legacy - A Chronicle of the China Trade
Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business Research Associates View Details
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
founded a world-renowned animation studio. What do all of these people have in common? They love their jobs, they break the rules, and the world is better off for it. They are rebels. From an early age, we are taught to be rule followers, and the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
accountable? Nonprofit leaders tend to pay attention to accountability once a problem of trust arises-a scandal in the sector or in their own organization, questions from citizens or donors who want to know if their money is being well spent, or View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
how, all the way through the 1970s, the U.S. not only failed to resist pressure to defend American investments, but also remained unsuccessful at altering internal institutions of other countries in order to make property rights secure in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
local levels of government; (3) the Chinese electoral system; and (4) current pressures for change. Also includes a number of useful exhibits on Communist Party membership, political structure, and the administrative system. Can be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Mar 2017
- News
Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest
would happen away from the table? Eamer: It's like romance-- 90% of the romance is before the last 10 minutes, or it better be. Morrell: Socializing seems like it was an important part of the process, right? Eamer: Well, it was. That's... View Details
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
they can adapt and adopt institutional practices already legitimized by counterpart industries in other parts of the world. The paper builds on existing community ecology and social movement perspectives on industry emergence and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
heterogeneity, we identify key country- and organization-level determinants of corporate environmental disclosure. We focus on institutional factors related to firms' global embeddedness to describe how external environmental pressures... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
For decades, the U.S. auto industry ruled America’s economy, shaped the country’s development, and influenced American culture and social mores. Now, buffeted by globalization and other powerful forces, it faces a moment of truth. The... View Details
- 06 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 6, 2008
supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708491 Microsoft's Unlimited Potential Harvard Business School Case 508-072 In April 2007, Bill Gates announced Microsoft Unlimited Potential. Its mission was to enable View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
standardized, and centralized repository, it mitigates information costs for buyers and sellers and, thus, facilitates transactions in the market for ideas. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53959 forthcoming The Oxford Handbook of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
more of a global scope, which can be helpful in applying international pressure or embarrassment for having this person in prison. Basically, we're trying to raise the costs of keeping this person in prison versus the benefit of keeping... View Details
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
Publications August 2013 California Management Review What Impact? A Framework for Measuring the Scale & Scope of Social Performance By: Ebrahim, Alnoor, and V. Kasturi Rangan Abstract—Organizations with View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
Case 713-447 In 2012, GREE was one of the world's most profitable mobile social gaming companies. Its success in Japan was due both to its in-house games and to the development platform that it offered to third-party game developers. Its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne