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Two-Year Action Plan Update: Q+A with Terrill Drake, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Harvard Business School
development work for the foreseeable future, not just the next half-year. As a community we need to understand what we need to know in order to prompt the behavioral change that is necessary for inclusive excellence. That’s where we need to focus more. I also think we... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
Accountability Increase Diversity? Evidence from IPOs By: Koning, Rembrand, and John-Paul Ferguson Abstract— Does public ownership improve employment diversity? Organizational researchers theorize that increased transparency to regulators... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 May 2011
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corporations' environmental transparency. We also focus on the extent to which corporate environmental disclosure is symbolic and, in particular, what leads corporations to selectively disclose relatively benign environmental impacts to create an impression of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
how these institutions affect one another. This expertise—combined with better institutional transparency and the banks' new lower—risk practices-leads to a more stable system than the one that existed five years ago. But for the... View Details
- 19 Nov 2012
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LEED-ing by Example
have a rigorous and transparent procurement process—help landlords, investors, and tenants alike to optimize the whole asset, and not be bogged down by those otherwise competing interests," he says. Assessing The Paper's Results Toffel... View Details
- 21 Aug 2012
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transparency while masking their true performance; other firms' disclosures, in contrast, are more representative of their environmental performance. What deters selective disclosure? We hypothesize that selective disclosure, a novel... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 26, 2008
interests behind their investments. Many SWFs also lacked disclosure or transparency regarding their activities or investment goals. Countries such as the United States felt that some kind of international regulation had to be imposed,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2004
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Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf
surprising how few corporate leaders make a genuine effort to foster candor within their companies. Sadly, they lose any chance at building organizations in which speed and transparency contribute to the vitality of their enterprise.... View Details
- 17 Apr 2023
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Climate Stories Episode #14: Bonita Stewart (MBA 1983) – A Career Devoted to Creating the Future
activities. Last year, Deckers was named one of the Top 100 ESG companies by Investor’s Business Daily, a ranking based on both ESG performance and stock performance for investors. Bonita explained: “For Deckers, being transparent and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
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Coming Full Circle
rigorous research in areas with a clear connection to practice. For example, to study the conditions under which workplace transparency improves performance, Bernstein embedded Harvard undergrads on production lines at a Chinese mobile... View Details
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Maggie Sanchez (MBA 1990) on Purpose-Driven Board Leadership - Blog: RGE Report
and challenges, Sanchez has consistent values that guide her leadership style. Transparency and open communication matter tremendously, she says, because it’s people who drive businesses. And Sanchez consistently looks for ways to make a... View Details
- 14 Nov 2019
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Keeping Red Lobster Fresh
organization [about] what needs to be done. But at the end of the day, with all change, the number one thing is building and maintaining trust with the organization. And, you know, I've found it's important to be transparent about what's... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
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Cynthia Carroll
Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), launched by Prime Minister Tony Blair in 2002, seeks greater disclosure of what companies pay, and what countries receive, for oil, gas, and mining. Will it discourage corruption and help... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
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https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=46779 Working Papers An Analysis of Firms' Self-Reported Anticorruption Efforts By: Healy, Paul M., and George Serafeim Abstract—We use Transparency International's ratings of self-reported... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2012
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Most Popular Articles of 2011
good CSR performance are likely to report their CSR activities, thus increasing their overall transparency. Higher levels of transparency ease the fears of potential investors, making them more likely to invest. Driven by Social... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 12 May 2022
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Onboarding
to this trend are studies linking greater board diversity with higher levels of board performance. And last year, in a move that should at least bring greater transparency to corporate governance, the SEC approved Nasdaq’s new listing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
didn’t judge me.” “Why would I?” Marietta asks, sputtering with incredulity. “You could have been me.” That attitude, coupled with a penchant for transparency and consensus-building, helped Marietta earn much-needed goodwill as he set... View Details
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A Culture of Innovation | Baker Library
scene. 12 Viewing Vectograph prints and transparencies with polarizing glasses recreates the depth of the original scene. At Smith, Muller had helped Kennedy in his research on Vectographs, and she wrote her senior thesis on the process.... View Details
- 06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50612 Surfacing the Submerged State: Operational Transparency Increases Trust in and Engagement with Government By: Buell, Ryan W., Ethan Porter, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Three... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
render their brick-and-mortar formats unable to earn their cost of capital. A few retailers face the challenge of successfully capturing the opportunities ecommerce presents to increase the productivity of their existing brick-and-mortar stores. The vast majority of... View Details