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  • 19 Jan 2017
  • News

Finding Purpose in Profit

redefine the meaning of success in business. B Lab’s mission is to assemble a global community of Certified B Corporations, which are companies that meet certain prescribed standards of social and environmental performance, public... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; B corporations
  • 03 Apr 2012
  • News

Just Compensation

years, we developed a model—the Alignment Model—that provides a market standard against which to analyze a company’s pay relative to its performance,” Ferracone says. “So, for a given company, in terms of its current revenue size, its... View Details
Keywords: executives; executive compensation; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 22 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore

clients' campaigns. This practice was institutionalized by an arrangement known as the "recognition system" between agencies and publishers, and administered by a set of trade associations. Among other things, the system supported View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising
  • 24 Aug 2009
  • Research & Ideas

SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System

principles of this sort not only speak to high standards of conduct but also stretch the enterprise beyond its own formal boundaries to include the extended family of customers, suppliers, distributors, business partners, financial... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • 12 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

produces slower learning in human subjects than the standard second price auction mechanism. Our results also serve to highlight differences in behavior between simulated agents and human bidders that mechanism designers should take into... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 16, 2016

firm’s net protection sellers. Capital fluctuations of sellers account for 10% of the time-series variation in spread changes, a significant amount given that observable firm and macroeconomic factors View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

including suggestions for future research. The Many Faces of Nonprofit Accountability Authors:Alnoor Ebrahim Publication:Chap. 4 in The Jossey-Bass Handbook of Nonprofit Leadership and Management. 3rd ed., edited by David O. Renz,... View Details
  • 11 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 11, 2008

between customized and standardized approaches to care and challenges students to examine their preconceived notions of the social role of a health care delivery organization. Dr. Heidi Behforouz, PACT's director, must decide whether a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Articles - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

delivery organization. Better Accounting Transforms Health Care Delivery ACCOUNTING HORIZONS (June 2014) Robert S. Kaplan and Mary L. Witkowski The paper describes the theory and preliminary results for an... View Details
  • 27 May 2009
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First Look: May 27, 2009

increases. Lastly, it is argued that the common practice of announcing price increases in advance is much easier to rationalize with regret concerns by consumers than with more standard approaches to price rigidity. Download the paper... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 24, 2007

account for such agglomeration have been proposed. We note that these theories make different predictions about which pairs of industries should be coagglomerated. We discuss the measurement of coagglomeration and use data from the Census... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 12

management decisions, with consequences for aggregate economic activity. This article discusses the role of investment banking and investment management industry veterans on the Financial Accounting View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2012
  • News

Rebel with a Cause

environmental sustainability efforts, serving as executive director of Ceres, a coalition of environmental groups and institutional investors; initiator of the Investor Network on Climate Risk; and cofounder of the Global Reporting Initiative, the world’s leading View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; social activism; Health, Social Assistance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • 18 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018

beliefs. However, introducing some specificity and clarity to the standards of assessment (Experiment 1) or to the trait’s definition (Experiments 2 and 3) reduces or eliminates this bias in judgment. We find stronger support for a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jul 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off

nonetheless offer a host of principles (the Reverend Louis Sullivan's Global Sullivan Principles), management standards (the Institute of Social and Ethical Accountability's AccountAbility 1000), best... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
  • 27 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 27

SEOs are disproportionately conducted by Capital Purchase Program (CPP) recipients, and this is not explained by CPP recipients' economic and regulatory capital needs. SEOs in 2009 and 2010 by CPP recipients alone account for 27% by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Systems for Scaling Ventures (SSV) - Course Catalog

organizations prioritizing innovation and employee empowerment, rather than standardization and tight monitoring of rote processes. This is not a course about launching a startup or financing it, nor a course about highly stable,... View Details
  • 23 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 23

  Publications September 2014 Research in Organizational Behavior The Governance of Social Enterprises: Mission Drift and Accountability Challenges in Hybrid Organizations By: Ebrahim, Alnoor, Julie Battilana, and Johanna Mair Abstract—We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 5

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=15-001.pdf   Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 414-078 The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board In 2014, as the Sustainability... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jan 2018
  • What Do You Think?

In the Wake of #MeToo, Should Corporate Boards Hire Compliance Officers?

Sam agreed: "This should be standard business practice." He asked, "Why do these boards not have a member who truly understands Compliance/Governance?" John would go even further. "Yes to a compliance officer This... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett