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September 2010
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Making Self-Regulation More Than Merely Symbolic: The Critical Role of the Legal Environment

Using data from a sample of U.S. industrial facilities subject to the federal Clean Air Act from 1993 to 2003, this article theorizes and tests the conditions under which organizations' symbolic commitments to self-regulate are particularly likely to result in improved... View Details

Keywords: Adoption; Code Law; Environmental Sustainability; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Organizations; Governance Compliance; Strategy; Motivation and Incentives; United States

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14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14

help-friendly organization has to be actively nurtured, however, because helpfulness among colleagues does not arise automatically: competition, pride, or distrust may get in the way. The trickiness of this management challenge-to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

are experienced, interpreted, and contested through practices of expression, performance, and self-presentation. It examined such topics as the deconstruction of the gender binary; the concept of the authentic self; and how social... View Details

February 1985
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Motivation and Creativity: Effects of Motivational Orientation on Creative Writers

By: T. M. Amabile

72 members of the college community who identified themselves as actively involved in creative writing participated in individual laboratory sessions, in which they were asked to write 2 brief poems, to investigate the hypothesis that intrinsic motivation is conducive... View Details

Keywords: Social Psychology; Creativity; Motivation and Incentives; Performance; Personal Characteristics; Situation or Environment

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Online Leadership Principles Course | HBS Online

Certificate of Specialization Learn More about what you earn Syllabus 4 Modules, 35-40 Hours Download full syllabus 1 hrs Prework 360° Emotional and Social Competency Inventory In the first two weeks after the course start date, complete... View Details

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Research Areas - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Edition by Michael E. Porter See All Publications Projects & Activities U.S. Competitiveness Project U.S. Cluster Mapping Project International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement Social Progress... View Details

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Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

article "What Drives Corporate Social Performance? The Role of Nation-level Institutions" (December 2012). Charles C.Y. Wang : Received the 2022 Charles M. Williams Award for Teaching Excellence. Charles C.Y. Wang : Winner of the European... View Details

15 Feb 2008
Working Paper Summaries

Embracing Commitment and Performance: CEOs and Practices Used to Manage Paradox

Keywords: by Tobias Fredberg, Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat, Nathaniel Foote & Flemming Norrgren

11 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

“ancient quest to measure.” Specific discontinuities in the practice of information science are identified that, the paper argues, have large consequences for the social order. The infrastructure that runs on big data is described as... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008

leadership is useful in identifying potentially effective spreaders of WOM among very loyal customers, it is less useful for the sample of less loyal customers. We suggest a measure of one's social network breadth may help to identify... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

achieve outstanding financial performance. Stay active by engaging in a new activity every three to five minutes and applying your knowledge through group exercises. Description of silent animated video... View Details

30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018

conventional logic of diminishing marginal social welfare. Moreover, these two views are linked: respondents who more strongly resist equalization are more likely to prefer the classical benefit-based principle. Though the Amazon... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Online Business Strategy Courses | HBS Online

leverage course concepts, vital tools and frameworks, and the diversity of your peers’ perspectives to analyze the problem and determine a path forward. Active Immerse yourself in a dynamic, interactive learning experience. You’ll engage... View Details

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Sustainability and Integrated Reporting

A sustainable strategy for a company is one that enables it to create value for shareholders over the long term while contributing to a sustainable society. In doing so, it must balance the needs of different types of providers of financial capital (e.g.,... View Details

Keywords: Sustainability; Sustainability Reporting

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

Florida. Mr. Dauten has been active with Lutheran Social Services of Illinois (past board chair), School District #29 (past president), Ascension Church (past president), and the Metropolitan Planning... View Details

19 Sep 2023
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2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

decarbonization, built environment, climate intelligence and insurance, and sustainable agriculture. Sadok's role prior to HBS was an Associate at Kearney and Strategy and Product Management at Siemens. Grace Lam (MBA 2024, Section F), Summer Internship: Co-Founder,... View Details

05 Oct 2020
Book

Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time

data. How do we free up time and improve our moods? Whillans says it starts with prioritizing activities that bring us joy—savoring a well-cooked meal with a spouse, taking a leisurely walk with a friend, reading a book to a child—and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

democracy being a substitute for economic IGOs, but a complement for social and cultural IGOs. July 2013 Article Ethnic Innovation and U.S. Multinational Firm Activity By: C. Fritz Foley and William R. Kerr... View Details

09 May 2017
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Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?

longer-term interests sufficiently well.” Not everyone spoke as one on the issue. Rob Jones, for example, commented that, “Theories abound, but owner still means owner Social and moral obligations make for fascinating discussion, but... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

29 Mar 2022
Book

5 Qualities That Help Companies Thrive for Decades—Even Centuries

Professors Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna, the book, which is available in India, includes interviews with dozens of business and social leaders culled around the topic of lasting leadership principles. The interviews were conducted by... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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