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- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
code law countries, consistent with investors' concerns over enforcement of IFRS in those countries. Finally, we find a positive reaction to IFRS adoption events for firms with high-quality pre-adoption information, consistent with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
Under Sicilian tradition enforced by her iron-willed father, she was expected to live at home until the right young man came along and proposed marriage. Desperate for independence, at age 26 she broke free of her parents and moved into a... View Details
- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
criteria and approximately maximizes medical efficiency, i.e., life year gains from transplant, while simultaneously enforcing selected fairness constraints. Among the several case studies we present employing our method, one case study... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
frequently a win-lose exchange between nations which are unequal either in their power or in their willingness to enforce basic standards of human rights, worker safety, and environmental impact. Another golden opportunity for people... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
- 02 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Women, Work, and the "M" Word
education. Fostering a safe space for open conversation helps smash the taboo. Menopause is not shameful, and having an open dialogue about it, along with other women’s health issues, will help enforce that. From entry-level to the... View Details
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
multi-tasking problems. Contracts often specify provisions that are unobservable or difficult to verify, suggesting a role for expected litigation as an enforcement tool in contract design. Network Effects in the Governance of Strategic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
pressure for antitrust revision came from the states. A perhaps unlikely leader, Edna Gleason, organized California's retail pharmacists and coordinated trade networks to monitor and enforce Resale Price Maintenance (RPM) contracts, a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
of the business model as decisions enforced by the authority of the firm; this definition enables the analysis of business models through the analysis of individual firm choices. We situate negotiation outcomes within the strategy... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
state-owned firms, to bring them more into line with Chinese interests. China's accounting system had already undergone significant reforms during the two decades when its economy had grown to become the fourth largest in the world. However, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
firm; whereas in California, they don't exist. You can debate on whether or not they're enforceable in Massachusetts—quite often they're not. But in some states, you just don't have them at all. So that factors into a manager's practice... View Details
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
supply contamination, etc.), as long as production takes place in a state or other legal jurisdiction with a history of sensible oil and gas production regulations and regulatory capacity in-place to enforce those regulations. “Cleaning... View Details
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
affiliate marketing programs in which merchants oversee thousands of affiliates they have never met. Some merchants hire outside specialists to set and enforce policies for affiliates, while other merchants ask their ordinary marketing... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
time. But they know when they have to enforce their will on the organization. And there's lots of antibodies that want to push back. Skydeck is produced by the External Relations department at Harvard Business School and edited by Craig... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
clauses are only narrowly enforced in the state of New York, making it relatively easy for an employee of a large financial services institution to leave and found a startup. This puts it ahead of Massachusetts, which takes a stricter... View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
The Burning Man Project
Nevada, where Burning Man is hosted. We also provide infrastructure for the city. There has to be emergency services. There's, obviously, porta potties. There's a health center. And there's also law enforcement that we have to provide to... View Details
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
management. After controlling for the materiality of the restatement, firms from weak rule of law countries are more likely to opt for less visible restatement disclosure methods. We interpret these findings as home country enforcement... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
"preliminary" agreement can have binding effect. This note explores the circumstances under which MOUs may give rise to binding and enforceable agreements. Purchase this note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/312018-PDF-ENG... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
property regimes; procurement policies that favor new firms; standards that allow competition by component rather than by system and—sometimes—antitrust enforcement that forces large, well-established firms to share the market. I'm firmly... View Details
- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
accountability at the project and policy levels, particularly through the establishment and enforcement of social and environmental safeguards and complaint and response mechanisms. But they have been much less successful in changing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
with a small group to see whether we can tighten some of the enforcement or provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the OECD treaty on corrupt payments. View Details