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  • 10 Mar 2021
  • News

New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts

on for years. Life in a growing frontier town that starts with six people and no buildings either demands frontier justice or unfolds its apparent willingness to assist the murderer's effort to avoid his fate. Indian troubles, vigilantes’... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 21 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 21

avoid information about their relative ability. August 2013 NBER Volume on African Economic Successes Evaluating the Effects of Large Scale Health Interventions in Developing Countries: The Zambian Malaria Initiative By: Ashraf, Nava,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 15, 2008

clear, immediate, and direct, 3) the tendency to ignore unethical behavior when ethicality erodes slowly over time, and 4) the tendency to assess unethical behaviors only after the unethical behavior has resulted in a bad outcome, but not during the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Resisting the Seductions of Success

with them. At first, Tony's crime and confession are hard to explain. With Tony Lowder, Louis Auchincloss draws on his extraordinary dual career to give us a strikingly contemporary perspective on the hazards of success and the ways leaders can View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing
  • 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007

backdated stock options, insufficiently independent corporate board members, poor responsiveness to shareholders concerns, and a lack of transparency in the activities and decisions of boards. The AFL-CIO believes that such problems were... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6

interrelated, and all of them affected by government policy. U.S. lawmakers must carefully consider the effects of interventions in at least 12 areas, ranging from capital markets to tax treatment to intellectual property to health care. Their View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Nov 2008
  • What Do You Think?

How Much Can You Ask of Your Customers?

constraints." M. J. Fleming cautioned, "If you (as a customer) have influence, you can lead in a horrible direction We should all be very careful of what we wish." To avoid these predicaments, Neil Jackson recommended,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 06 Mar 2025
  • Blog Post

IFC India 2025: Sustainability in Action: Inside Hindustan Unilever’s Public Sanitation and Plastic Recycling Facilities

productivity by reducing wait times, and restore dignity to women and children, who no longer skip meals to avoid unsafe toilet trips at night. By addressing sanitation holistically, HUL has created a blueprint for sustainable, inclusive... View Details
  • 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11

  PublicationsHow Much Is Sweat Equity Worth? Authors:Marquis, Christopher, and Joshua D. Margolis Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 12 (December 2012) Abstract The article presents a case study of a business decision related to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Commencement 2019 Address | About

would you choose? All of us, from time to time, will have lapses of competence. It is impossible to get every decision right. Even the best investors, for example, make some terrible mistakes. Although such errors are never to be taken... View Details
  • 12 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 12

psychological biases in cross-cultural perception, as well as potentially adapting "past" one's counterpart. [A close companion paper-"Assess, Don't Assume, Part II: Decision Making, Governance, and Political Economy in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007

services. In making strategic decisions around technology commercialization, managers often assume that the intellectual property environment and the architecture of the industry are beyond their control. This need not be so. This article... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 2

one where orders need to be made before demand is realized. In our analysis, the latter situation corresponds to a newsvendor model with the additional decision of choosing a sales effort to increase demand at a convex increasing cost... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 29, 2008

2007, Google responded by organizing the OpenSocial Initiative. OpenSocial provided an application programming interface (API) that was adapted by many of Facebook's social networking rivals, including MySpace and LinkedIn. Relying on a single API allowed developers to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?

well. Employee practices are notoriously discriminatory or conflict-avoiding [in a way] that can be very stressful on an employee. Businesspeople tend not to run away from those conflicts as quickly. They tend to be peacekeepers but not in a way that View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jun 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Rethinking Retirement Planning

nears port, greater and greater accuracy is required if it's to avoid running aground and miss achieving its goal. "We have your goal in mind and do the dynamic trading with the target vision to get you there," Merton explains.... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services
  • 05 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 5, 2007

change in the information set for employees when the incentives and decision rights remain unchanged. Also examines the tradeoffs front-line employees face as they divide their efforts between reaching new customers and increasing the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 24

Colgate. Policy Bundling to Overcome Risk Aversion: A Method for Improving Legislative Outcomes Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Mary Carol Mazza, Lisa L. Shu, Chia-Jung Tsay, and Max H. Bazerman Publication:Organizational Behavior and Human View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

point of focus and discipline. Some simple and pragmatic guidelines can be used to make the company's reporting as useful as possible to all stakeholders. By simplifying the language and avoiding the use of jargon or "legalese," the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 12 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017

2017 Harvard Business Review The Real Reason Uber Is Giving Up in China By: Kirby, William C. Abstract—The article examines the role of the Chinese government in transport firm Uber's decision to sell its China operation to a rival... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel