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- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
http://www.amazon.com/Can-China-Lead-Reaching-Limits/dp/1422144151 August 2013 Princeton University Press The Empire Trap: The Rise and Fall of U.S. Intervention to Protect American Property Overseas, 1893-2013 By: Maurer, Noel... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work
work, Tucker and Singer assigned each suggestion a priority score based on importance, likelihood, severity, and difficulty of correction. Identifying the hospitals with the most improved safety scores turned up some surprising findings. For one, management View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has said, "Nations talk. Cities act." D: Demand Management. Many policy suggestions include blanket restrictions on activity (let's have mileage caps) or pure supply-oriented interventions... View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
program became a HBS case study, published by professors Gary Pisano and Robert Austin. It was also honored by the United Nations on World Autism Day. Fieldhouse is currently piloting a work-experience initiative for college students on the autism spectrum and a... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
(like 2008) but a depression (like the 1930s.) Accordingly, we must be prepared to act in ways we’ve never done before. Second, just as doctors in overburdened hospitals, we need to triage with iron discipline. Our support must go to programs delivering proven View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
shareholders of Turkcell, and how its management vied against increasing regulatory intervention and market competition in the absence of a fully functioning board. The battle for control of the Turkish telecom giant led to several years... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
for Pentax into a hostile cash tender offer. A surprising sequence of events had caused a friendly merger agreement to fall apart, resulting in a boardroom coup at Pentax and the intervention of the Sparx Group, an indigenous activist... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
Democrats don’t like ‘standards.’ ” Ignore history at your peril: HBS professor Niall Ferguson, an economic historian, declared that a global economy is more likely to create economic crises than a nonglobal one, and that government View Details
- 13 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down
intervention on an issue or situation, he explained, he would "review the process used by the 'lower court' to determine if it followed the rules. If so, the decision stands." He did not review cases de novo and substitute his... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020.... View Details
- 26 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 26
designed an intervention in which senior managers worked with frontline staff to identify and solve safety-related problems over an 18-month period. On average, the 20 randomly selected treatment hospitals identified 17.3 problems per... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-104.pdf Stretching the Inelastic Rubber: Taxation, Welfare and Lobbies in Amazonia, 1870-1910 Author:Felipe Tâmega Fernandes Abstract This paper examines the effect of government intervention via... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence
together answers to some puzzling questions, like why men and women alike believe that men will perform better than women in some domains and what interventions can be considered to close this gender gap in self-confidence. “Stereotypes... View Details
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Unlocking Your Investment Capital
There are, however, important structural offsets: oversight and interventions by government and industry overseers, and most importantly, collateral posting. As we know, in the case of contracts traded on exchanges, the daily required... View Details
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
research that points to remedies for these biases, illustrating that organizational practices can be sites for intervention and change. The chapter concludes with methodological and substantive recommendations for future research on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
on the short-term movement of that money. Kanter: When that kind of intervention takes place, however, we hear cries that the tax system is being used for social engineering. But I certainly have the sense now that without some degree of... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart
apart, and that's been both a sort of macro issue but also in so many of our personal lives as well. Morrell: Casey, part of this intervention and this conversation that you're starting with this book comes from your experience, and these... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
function,” said Roundtable president John Castellani. Skeptics of government intervention are quick to point out that more than two decades of well-meaning attempts to constrain ever-soaring corporate pay and to reform governance through... View Details
- 26 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 26
government intervention persists as the biggest threat to private minority shareholders in these firms. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2217627 Cases & Course MaterialsOcean Mist Farms Bell, David E., Jose B. Alvarez,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
How the U.S. Army Develops Leaders
dilemma.) Q: What are you working on next? A: Following up on this research, I am currently studying how both life experiences and designed interventions contribute to our development as leaders. At this point it seems clear that it's not... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace