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- 10 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley
Widely deemed the most important piece of security legislation since formation of the Securities and Exchange Commission in 1934, the landmark Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 was born into a climate still reeling from the burst of the high-tech bubble and fraud scandals at... View Details
- 01 Feb 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?
which concerns itself with research in supply chain management. The paper attempts to provide some context for those addressing issues of sustainability. Its intent is to get us beyond questions such as, Is sustainability desirable? or... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 11 May 2021
- Blog Post
IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future
their companies before committing to VC funds. "WHAT'S MORE IMPORTANT THAN THAT IS THE STRUCTURE OF THE RELATIONSHIPS OF YOUR MOST VALUED ADVISORS, WHICH, IN MANY WAYS, ARE THE VCS." “Whether you go into this agreement with the intention... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
- Web
Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier - Race, Gender & Equity
in stewardship and a blatant refusal to process how our work impacts the people that interact with it (and those that won’t be able or willing to). Accepting that intent does not supersede impact equips us to design more humanely and to... View Details
- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
Fixed—It’s Time for Regulators to Shut It Down By: Edelman, Benjamin G. Abstract—I argue that Uber's intentional malfeasance is its comparative advantage. But having grown through intentional illegality,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Giving Advice
establishing your intent as a donor, setting strategic priorities, hiring staff, and managing compliance, administration, and governance. It typically makes more sense for families looking to invest millions of dollars over many years to... View Details
- 05 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2006
intentions to help such victims. Overall, participants believed that outgroup victims experienced fewer secondary, "uniquely human" emotions (e.g., anguish, mourning) than ingroup victims. The extent to which participants did... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Setting Interns Up for Success at Your Startup
around what the output is going to be is key to success for both the intern and for the company. The team at Mori has also found it important to be intentional about integrating interns into the company, whether they are joining remotely... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Q&A: Wrestling with the Unthinkable
well. Terrorism is probably as old as civilization. Is it useful to demystify it? What's useful is to delegitimize it, to say that no matter what the cause is, nothing justifies the intentional killing of innocent civilians as a way to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
a market that was impacted just as hard but received less assistance.” Camino is also intent on expanding education opportunities for borrowers. With an extensive library of bilingual content and video workshops on topics ranging from... View Details
- 06 Jan 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?
Summing Up The title of this wrap-up and the one that accompanied this month's original column basically just deletes "Wikileaks." The original title was my mistake. The intent was not to direct attention to Wikileaks in a... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Becoming an Ethical Negotiator
codified in law. Fraud, for example, is defined as a "material misrepresentation of fact on which someone reasonably relies to his or her detriment." Each of those words carries weight. The notion of misrepresentation implies View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
HBS Pilots First Impact Investing Fund
with the intent of scaling BIPOC-led and owned small businesses. The team believes that HBS students are uniquely positioned to support these kinds of investments, which typically have smaller ticket sizes, because they can bring down the... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Clicks and Mortar
seeing companies build more intentional friction back into the buying process. What might that look like in a retail space? JA: It could be on the inventory side or in the way the physical experience is designed: making you wait for a... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963
art of the deal, replicated the Hazleton model, acquiring twenty companies and amalgamating the industry to create a global capability for the world's pharmaceutical makers. In 1987, with the industry for all intents and purposes... View Details
- 08 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Handgun Waiting Periods Prevent Hundreds of Homicides Each Year
the weapon, if the only intention for making the purchase was to do harm within a certain period of time. “The most plausible explanation as to why waiting periods work is this: People have visceral states, such as anger or suicidal... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 14
momentum during the transition, corporate leaders were intent on continuing to use Gillette as a catalyst of change. Purchase this supplement: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/309032-PDF-ENG View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 20, 2007
capitalist, author, and co-founder and chairman emeritus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, announced his intention to build a PC so cheap as to make it possible to provide Internet- and multimedia-capable... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Growing CEOs from the Inside
Siemens, maybe Boeing—I'm not close enough to know. But those boards went outside to demonstrate the seriousness of the problem and their intent to resolve it. It may also be essential when there has been a real breakdown in competence at... View Details
- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
viable product, in order to real-world test Gallop's "business of the future" concept while development was ongoing. IWRTW was conceived to bring together human good intentions with corporate good intentions, to activate both... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne