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- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
http://sloanreview.mit.edu/the-magazine/articles/2010/fall/52118/how-to-do-well-and-do-good/ Corporate Governance When Founders Are Directors Authors:Feng Li and Suraj Srinivasan Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We examine CEO... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
industrial complex that limits healthy competition in order to promote its continued growth and caters to the power and profit-driven demands of its best customers instead of the broader public interest. During the 2016 election cycle,... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers
used prior to reforms but also transfer new technology to reforming countries. We did not identify any specific facets of IPR that are magic bullets when it comes to promoting technology transfers. In fact, the reforms we studied appear... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #6: Climate Change, Peacebuilding, and Business: Lise Grande and Dr. Teagan Blaine, USIP.
1984 to promote a more peaceful, inclusive world. When she learned that USIP had begun working with a consortium of global NGOs to craft an Environmental Peacebuilding Framework, she began learning more about the confluence of climate... View Details
- 24 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 24
Publications March 2015 Partners or Creditors? Attracting Foreign Investment and Productive Development to Central America and Dominican Republic Foreign Direct Investment: Effects, Complementarities, and Promotion By: Alfaro, Laura... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’
helps to promote is a keen focus on driving business value and a more effective approach to strategic alignment. Leaders who power their organization through conversation-based practices will not always "dot" all four of these I's. But as... View Details
Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg
- 19 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?
through Vermont, because they have diversified their own risk across the possibility of hurricanes in Vermont, floods in England, and earthquakes in California. "One relies on the insurance sector to promote risk sharing," says... View Details
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building a Powerful Prestige Brand
started their business, their product line enjoyed little consumer awareness outside New York City. But the couple was determined to build a large market for premium cosmetics. One of the earliest and most important decisions that the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
care, access will become more difficult, and existing suppliers will raise their prices.” With her years of work on consumer-driven health care, Herzlinger argues that no reform can succeed unless it centers on the consumer’s needs and concerns. She has been... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
tend to focus their energies more intensively on one of these goals at a time." On and Off Buttons In Bulletin interviews with nine HBS alumnae, many of whom attended the Charting Your Course program, a variety of reasons were mentioned as contributing to the View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
money in the bank, Bridgespan has shared its reports, case studies, and other content freely in the interest of promoting knowledge in the social sector. When your clients are nonprofits and foundations, Bradach and Tierney reasoned, the... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
at certain points in my career but only in hours, never in responsibilities. My advice is to always take the promotion or new job and then figure out how to make it work. Once you have the job, you can redefine it as needed. Women in... View Details
- 14 Nov 2019
- News
Keeping Red Lobster Fresh
much in our interest. Indeed, it's the right thing to do. Clearly, it's also in or interests, too. In fact, it's mission critical to promote sustainability. Otherwise, how would we be around 50 years from now? It is mission critical for... View Details
- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
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
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
adaptability. In this work Christenson has drawn from several disciplines, including sociology, cybernetics, decision theory, and psychology. Christenson spent one year away from HBS in 1962 when he was asked to come to Washington, D.C.,... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
immortality... LARGER THAN LIFE: Hamilton (left) and Gallatin are the only two treasury secretaries to be honored with statues at the US Treasury Building in Washington, DC. After Hamilton left Washington's headquarters, his moment of true glory came in the fall of... View Details
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
require construction of broader coalitions of policymakers, place more constraints on executive decision making, and have more competitive selection processes. As a result, there are stronger political motivations for Vietnamese leaders... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
2014 to simultaneously promote more sustainable agricultural methods and educate others about indigenous culture—the seed, if you will, for an alternative to the high-yield, soil-depleting cycle of tilling, pesticides, and fertilization... View Details
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Growth of the Social Enterprise
with very specific practices and identifiable cultures. For example, City Year, the national youth service organization, has programs in fourteen cities across the country. Its founders made a strategic decision from the start to spread a... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
Education in Brazil, 1889-1930 Authors:Musacchio, Aldo, Andre Martinez-Fritscher, and Martina Viarengo Abstract In this paper, we examine the role of trade shocks in promoting the diffusion of elementary education in subnational units in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne