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- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53461 2017 Making Research Matter: A Psychologist's Guide to Public Engagement Government and Organizations: Transforming Institutions Using Behavioral Insights By: Dalton,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
and Entrepreneurship Institutional Innovation: Novel, Useful, and Legitimate By: Raffaelli, Ryan, and Mary Ann Glynn Abstract—This chapter advances the theoretical construct of institutional innovation,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2007
- What Do You Think?
Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?
with a good track record but an "outsider" with limited knowledge of the business. The cycle is begun again. Sound familiar? It should. It's unfolding in two of the largest financial institutions in the world, Merrill Lynch and... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 07 Sep 2007
- What Do You Think?
Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?
in September, From Higher Aims to Hired Hands, by one of my colleagues, Rakesh Khurana, may help explain it. Khurana traces the development of business schools from their early days in a small number of "elite" institutions (his... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 10 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Governance in India and Around the Globe
of capital markets in fostering such convergence through, for example, cross-border listings and global institutional investor activism. The software industry offers a unique setting to test the role of global product and labor markets... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Challenges of Investing in Science-Based Innovation
question: What are the best business management processes and practices needed by executives heading up companies that incorporate science-based innovation? A Different Management Strategy Sato believes that the challenges particular to businesses and View Details
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
will require a new institution that can harness the capabilities of global corporations and, helped by loans from development agencies, directly attack the root causes of poverty. The need for corporate involvement in the fight against... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship
I want to show my support for an institution that has made and will continue to make a valuable contribution to management practice all over the world," says Andreas Andresen (69th AMP), a retired German industrialist who recently became... View Details
- 15 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 15, 2015
2015 Research Handbook on Shareholder Power Thirty Years of Evolution in the Roles of Institutional Investors in Corporate Governance By: Coates, John C. Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
Evidence from Social, Environmental and Governance Scores Authors:Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim Abstract We investigate the institutional drivers of Corporate Social Performance (CSP) by focusing on its three fundamental components:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
Brookings Institution Press, 2011 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/asunderam/Economics_of_Housing_Finance_Reform_Brookings.pdf Negotiating with Iran: Cultural and Historical Insights... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
is needed. So how did Houghton, who would become renowned for his inclusive, team-oriented, nice-guy leadership, get everybody’s attention? “I hit them over the head with a two-by-four and said, ‘Here’s what we’re going to do,’” Houghton recalls with a smile. That... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
microfinance banks join forces to face the new challenges of globalization, competition, and politics while common shareholder ACCÍON investments considers its options. From an initial project to share costs in the revamping of their IT... 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
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
fields. A sponsor is someone who advocates for a protégé, and in doing so, takes a stake in her success. We use a laboratory experiment to explore two channels through which sponsorship has been posited to increase advancement in a competitive workplace. In our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
fees, brand globalization, the rise of holding companies, client obsessions with shareholder value, the digital and Internet revolutions—and outlines the steps senior agency executives need to take to restore health to their organizations... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
and resells it at market rates to consumers. Working Assets takes the equivalent of 1 percent of each person's phone bill and enters it into a nonprofit donation pool that goes each year to a rotating roster of sixty nonprofits voted on... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 11 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
The New International Style of Management
an expectation that differences will be set aside in order to advance with common purpose toward a larger goal—getting the task at hand done right. Common Ground This convergence among a new generation of international business practitioners has a parallel at the View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
goal — getting the task at hand done right. This convergence among a new generation of international business practitioners has a parallel at the institutional level: International businesses increasingly are conducting themselves on... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
congressional bailout than Wall Street? No. The reason Congress voted in October to allot $700 billion for financial institutions was the risk that multiple bankruptcies would place the economy in jeopardy.... View Details