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- 10 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 10, 2008
benefit allied politicians. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-100.pdf Coming Clean and Cleaning Up: Is Voluntary Disclosure a Signal of Effective Self-Policing? Authors:Michael W. Toffel and Jodi L. Short Abstract As... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Investment Strategies - Course Catalog
pay heed to the signals they are sending. Investment Strategies is most directly applicable to students interested in pursuing careers in finance including mutual funds, hedge funds, pension funds, endowments, wealth management, financial... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Jen Wong (MBA 2004)
When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Time Inc. as president of digital operations in 2016, the internet cheered. With stints at AOL and PopSugar, Wong was a respected veteran of the young digital media industry, and her hire signaled the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 Jun 2018
- News
Incubating Ideas for the ‘Water Economy’
technologies––things like data analysis, using the internet to carry signals of information, advanced treatment technologies––things like that, and how to build sustainable businesses that improve the way water and wastewater are managed.... View Details
- 31 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Climate Change Puts Heat on GMs
What is the responsibility of business regarding social issues? And how does that jibe with maximizing profits? In "UBS and Climate Change—Warming Up to Global Action?" Associate Professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Professor Forest Reinhardt present the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: Cents and Sensibilities
rising dramatically over the past several decades. If rising inequality is a signal that more people are falling too low, the minimum wage feels like it is a way to provide a floor below which no family can fall. But that’s not always... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
How to Take a Stand On UBS and Climate Change
if an NGO or activist organization like Greenpeace wants to reward the companies that contribute to the greater good, it won’t know how to ‘read’ this company,” he observes. “To send credible signals to the public, you need to do things... View Details
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
firms strategically respond to government signals regarding appropriate corporate activity. We integrate institutional theory and research on corporate political strategy to develop a political dependence model that explains (a) how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Q&A with Janet Cahill
example, gifts under $1,000 to the HBS Fund added up to $1.8 million. Gifts of any size signal donors’ pride in and gratitude for their HBS experience, demonstrate their commitment to the HBS mission, and serve as a tangible vote of... View Details
- 11 Mar 2020
- News
Making It Rain
to gather weather data in an entirely new way—by extracting information from things like cell phone signals. When wireless signals hit atmospheric conditions like rain, for example, they lose strength. “We can reverse engineer the View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System
must have built-in tests that signal problems immediately. And it is the continual response to those problems that makes this seemingly rigid system so flexible and adaptive to changing circumstances. The Experiments Of The Toyota... View Details
- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
the sweet spots. A systematic application of such a method also helps create a credible signal to the other side of the market that provides entrepreneurial capital. Such signals are essential for the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
lower concentration or expected firm-level demand, which reduces the value of having control and pushes in the direction of increased autonomy. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-009.pdf Coming Clean and Cleaning Up: Is Voluntary Self-Reporting a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Supplying Demand
calling all the signals and plugging the holes," he says he has now learned to "let go of the nitty-gritty and let people do their jobs. " He adds, "The most rewarding thing in business is stepping back and watching other people do what... View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
State of the Unions
out a contract. “The auto industry is a top-of-the-food-chain type of employer,” says Silvers, explaining that most labor organizations look to the UAW as a role model for negotiations across the country and a signal about the direction... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
A New Path for Alumnae
practices, most felt they were professionally sidelined. The women who elected to leave the paid workforce altogether felt even more disadvantaged when they later chose to return to it. For Hart, this signaled an opportunity for HBS to... View Details
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Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise - Intensive - Course Catalog
In each class, we ask students to prepare by understanding what is happening and why. What are the proximate and root causes of why this company is facing the situations articulated in the case? What signals are appearing that suggest the... View Details
- 28 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Capital Rules: The Tensions of Global Finance
the exceptions that scholars and policymakers had historically reserved from their embrace of open capital markets were ruled out of bounds. The norm of capital mobility was to be universal and unqualified. Deviation was a powerful signal... View Details
Keywords: by Rawi Abdelal
- Profile
Folafolu Folowosele
Mesoamerica Energy, helped land owners obtain titles before the company leased property from them and gave them a fair share of the revenue generated from the wind turbines on their property. “To me, that was a strong signal on how to... View Details
- 28 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.
Because you may be competent and compatible, but if you don’t send signals that you are committed, your manager could worry that you will quit. Or you may be compatible and committed, but if you can’t do the job, none of that matters. Ng... View Details