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  • 28 Jul 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing

hypothetical fires. A garment factory in a Third World country with minimal governmental regulatory oversight burns down, killing half of the three hundred women and children employed there; it subsequently becomes clear that the... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman; Retail
  • 03 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

program design under which codes and monitoring are more likely to go beyond mere symbolism and to be associated with improvements in supply chain working conditions. At the institutional level, we find that suppliers improve working conditions more when they face... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy

some risks and its politics will remain opaque and confusing to outsiders attempting to do business there." Is Foreign Investment Enough? NAFTA offers another insight into the economies of Mexico and other developing nations. In the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 01 Mar 2016
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016

Alumni Books The Crimson Emperor: A Tale of Imperial Byzantium by Wim Baren, i.e., Barry Wemple (MBA 1973) (Amazon Digital Services) In this romantic tale, a weapon-maker’s son becomes a deadly warrior and military commander, rising to power as ancient View Details
  • 26 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 26, 2008

communication technology sector in the United States, and find empirical support for the four hypotheses developed here. The research presented in this paper has implications for our understanding not only of who adopts advanced... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Apr 2002
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught

personality characteristic, it is a learned skill. Entrepreneurs try to deal with uncertainty explicitly by running experiments, by not taking risks. An entrepreneur doesn't seek risk; he or she tries to minimize risk. By stressing... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 10 Mar 2021
  • News

New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts

balance both dimensions—and we needn’t seek perfection to make a real difference for ourselves and the world. Better, Not Perfect provides a deeply researched, prescriptive roadmap for how to maximize our pleasure and minimize pain.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 10 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Hard Numbers on Social Investments

a willingness to accept a social discount to financial returns. However, some in the social investing community believe that this is simply untrue. Because of the increased risk associated with investing in early-stage social ventures,... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 01 Jun 2011
  • News

The House that Howard Built

notion that all entrepreneurs were born geniuses genetically predisposed to be creative, even reckless, visionaries. He insisted that it was more perspiration than inspiration: find an existing need that demands a product or service solution, conduct research and due... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 03 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 3

institutional requirements, especially when institutional arrangements are incomplete. This chapter examines what follows if managers recognize two kinds of duties of forbearance in their decision making that are commonly held to be among the most View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Improving Accountability at the World Bank

costs, benefits, and risks from the proposed policy or project in a just and equitable way and Accountability mechanisms, including penalties or sanctions for failure to comply with the standards, coupled with guarantees of access to... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
  • 22 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 22, 2008

a non-manufacturing setting we move beyond the artifacts and gain insight into the principles that may lead to improved performance. Combining a detailed case study and empirical analysis we document the internal processes that the lean... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

  • 17 Dec 2024
  • News

Solving the Underemployment Crisis

credential—the challenge with that is, without further nuance, there’s risks that you have, growing underemployment on the one hand, and at the same time, even though more people are getting credentials, there’s a persistent percentage of... View Details
  • 12 Dec 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

key themes and related topics determined by the Journal of Service Management (JOSM) Service Operations Expert Research Panel. By offering a good number of such research questions, this article provides a broad range of ideas to spur conceptual and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 31

repetitive in nature. We introduce the concept of a restart effect—task and temporal disruptions that stimulate worker productivity—as a means of addressing challenges of repetitive work. For our empirical analyses, we use two and a half... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 10

article theorizes and tests empirically the conditions under which organizations' internal compliance structures are particularly likely to shape their compliance practices and outcomes. We argue that the institutionalization of these... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 11, 2009

profit from their private information relating to a specific financial reporting element, goodwill impairments, prior to its incorporation by the equity market or recognition by the firm's accounting system. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 22

most effectively stabilizes fluctuations under real external shocks. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=13-074.pdf Patent Trolls By: Cohen, Lauren, Umit G. Gurun, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—We provide theoretical and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

the "opportunistic behavior" hypothesis, private equity firms have higher quality accruals and a lower propensity to manage income than public equity firms. We further find that public equity firms report more conservatively, in line with their greater... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace