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- 24 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 24
Publications February 2015 University of Chicago Press Political Standards By: Ramanna, Karthik Abstract—There are certain institutions underlying our modern market-capitalist system that are largely outside the interest and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
HBS Center Focuses on Europe
We also regularly send samples of cases and research work to faculty at European academic institutions. Dessain: All in all, we are off to a good start. In 2003, we were even named the year's most innovative intellectual R&D investment by the Paris-Ile de France... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
race and gender relations decides to study workers on an oil rig, an isolated setting with low gender diversity? In our research on gender, my colleague from Stanford, Debra Meyer-son, and I have written about how organizations often... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Path to Economic Revival
in the standard of living. An individual company, though, can move assets anywhere. So companies can reward their shareholders regardless of what happens to the national economy. As a result, the interest of companies and the country have... View Details
- 12 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 12
asymmetric information concerning the value of a new technology affect the strategies of the platforms and the market outcome. We find that the incumbent dominates the market by setting the welfare-maximizing quantity when the difference... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership
group The first two points are not as clear-cut as they might appear. While the leader's standard charge is to set direction, a leader also has to communicate a moral and strategic vision that actually... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
Reporting Standards (IFRS) in Europe. European IFRS adoption represented a major milestone towards financial reporting convergence yet spurred controversy reaching the highest levels of government. We find a more positive reaction for... View Details
- 10 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Cofounders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke
opportunity, Schoonbeek and van Poecke set about building a scalable, cost-effective, and automated software solution to enable companies to manage and improve their ESG performance. “There is no uniform set... View Details
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
building standard in the U.S. and increasing the proportion of building stock that met the LEED standard. The case provides background on the USGBC and the evolution of its LEED standard, including how the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
corporate standards in Brazil improved enormously, not only because the regulator became tougher and introduced more transparent disclosure standards, but also because there was a big movement to improve corporate governance led by... View Details
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
provide software developers in sectors ranging from video games to engineering simulation with training, tools, and support for application development tailored to exploit the unique capabilities of NVIDIA graphics processors.21 NVIDIA provides a significant View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 13 Jun 2014
- Op-Ed
World Cup Soccer: 770 Billion Minutes of Attention
overload. Using a standard cost of $25 per thousand viewers, which is generally charged by broadcast companies for a 30 second ad on primetime television in the United States (a value cheaper than Japan and more expensive than Brazil)... View Details
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
personally on diversity initiatives. That sets the tone for everyone and helps ensure that organizations attract and develop the best talent. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2013/09/great-leaders-who-make-the-mix-work/ar/1 August 2013... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2018
- News
Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure
environmental issues, a stance that had sparked protests at its annual meetings. This led the U.S. Congress to use its influence by demanding that the World Bank set environmental standards as a condition of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 26 May 2016
- News
W. James McNerney Jr., MBA 1975
hockey. One of his Frozen Assets teammates, who met him on the ice some 50 years ago, says McNerney remains the player who makes other people better. He sets them up for a shot and passes the puck at the right moment—sacrificing his own... View Details
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
a search in the context of a single well-known case: the Federal Radio Commission's (FRC) 1927 decision not to expand the broadcast radio band. The standard account of this decision holds that incumbent broadcasters opposed expansion (to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
the years, with the number of proposals filed doubling from 1999 to 2013. We use recent innovations in accounting standard setting to classify 2,665 shareholder proposals that address environmental, social,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
sets. To demonstrate the sets, he secured informal permission from his employer to string an electrical wire from a local hilltop to serve as an antenna for the reception of signals from Philadelphia stations. When customers who purchased TV View Details
- 03 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry
Jeffrey Wiesen, an attorney specializing in biotechnology, the standard routine was "more a work-for-hire model than a collaboration model, although we always called it collaboration." In a nutshell, it worked like this, Wiesen... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship
"I was disappointed not to be able to finish my degree at the university," reflects Andresen, "but my education and experiences at Nestlé and Pfizer gave me the inspiration and background to be able to set up and run any kind of... View Details