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- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Responsibility and the Environment: What is the Right Thing To Do?
conditions. Q: Some businesses assert that by "doing good" they are improving the bottom line through positive public relations. Does the research support this assertion? Are there concrete financial benefits to participating in environmental CSR? A: There is... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 15 Jan 2009
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Career & Life Balance
literature to look closely at issues of leadership. Here's an excerpt. Key concepts include: The hazards of success is one of the oldest and most perplexing themes in literature, and is at the core of the novel I Come as a Thief by Louis... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 21 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 21
(relative to the hiring manager) influences other organizational members’ support (or lack thereof) for who is hired through perceptions of the hiring manager’s motives and morality. We apply principles derived from the literature on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
the management and business history literatures that entrepreneurship needs incorporating more strongly as an explanatory factor. This working paper argues that Koç acted as both a Kirznerian and Schumpeterian entrepreneur to build his... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
relationship; (b) reviews the literature on antecedents, consequences, and integration of M&A in the context of innovation; and (c) identifies potential directions of further research on this topic that have both theoretical and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Lehman Brothers Deal Books | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
transactions including mergers, initial and common stock offerings, and debentures. The volumes contain agreements between the sellers and underwriters, prospectuses and other literature advertising an offer, filings of the U.S.... View Details
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Labor Practices | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
the steel industry. U.S. Steel presented its growing body of photographic work in public relations literature that focused on professional opportunities for those returning home from the war. Paths of Opportunity in U.S. Steel , for... View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?
Research to write this essay, I expected to find that consumer decision-making research grappled with the types of tough purchasing and investment decisions that were on my callers' minds. To my surprise, I found that this literature has... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
- Profile
Jason Sanders
encouraged by the Dean of Medicine at Oxford. "We looked at the intersection of medicine and literature in books by people like Roddy Doyle, Robert Coles, and Rita Sharon," Jason says. "It's not just a matter of art. Taking... View Details
- Student-Profile
Justine Murray
incredibly valuable in helping me refine my research questions.” Research While the literature related to professional calling has traditionally focused on high social impact, low-paying careers, Justine is interested in how people in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
The CEO and the Functions of Leadership
are performed to a high standard. There is a vast literature on the choices, structures, and supporting systems involved in modern management, including strategy, organization structure, planning and resource allocation, and management... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Church on Sunday, Work on Monday
managers and with clergy and laypeople from a variety of Christian denominations; case studies of relevant programs for businesspeople; a survey of seminarians; a review of existing literature on executive spiritual development; and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Books: Judo Strategy
Netscape research was documented in Competing on Internet Time, an earlier book by Yoffie and MIT colleague Michael A. Cusumano, and inspired Yoffie to pursue the concept further. After tracking references to judo in the management View Details
- 11 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’Entrepreneurship and Multinationals’
Yet this literature has had much more to say about international trade and institutional structures than about entrepreneurship and MNEs. Indeed, the story of the creation of the nineteenth-century global economy has been written about... View Details
Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones
- Student-Profile
Ta-Wei "David" Huang
coming from industry to graduate school, David particularly found the guidance from faculty especially helpful as the faculty formulate research ideas that contribute to existing literature and address the real-world challenges. As a... View Details
- 26 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 26
may be less effective at motivating employees than the literature suggests. Our quasi-experimental setting shows that two types of unintended consequences limit gains from the reward program. First, employees strategically game the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
publicly listed firms ranges from comment letter (CL) reviews of firms’ reporting compliance to pursuing enforcement actions against violators. Prior literature finds that firm political connections (PC) negatively predict enforcement... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 8, 2010
literature on willpower. Understanding how willpower develops can shed important light on time-inconsistent economic decision making, a topic that has received substantial attention over recent decades. In particular, we argue that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Accounting Information as Political Currency
process, with implications for the U.S. presidential election this November. Martha Lagace: What led you to think about accounting information as political currency? Karthik Ramanna: There is evidence in the academic literature that firms... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Making a Broader Impact with Multiple Disciplines
synthesize literature and convey complex concepts to engineers, surgeons, and CEOs. At HBS, I have been able to complement my background in science and engineering with marketing, finance, strategy, and leadership. Together, having an... View Details