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- 2006
- Chapter
Corruption and the Demand for Regulating Capitalists
By: Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch
Di Tella, Rafael, and Robert MacCulloch. "Corruption and the Demand for Regulating Capitalists." Chap. 12 in International Handbook on the Economics of Corruption, edited by Susan Rose-Ackerman, 352–380. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006.
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
HBS, HMS, and Harvard’s School of Public Health. Two case protagonists were in attendance: Dr. Paul Farmer, an HMS professor and the subject of the best-seller Mountains Beyond Mountains, and Dr. Agnes Binagwaho, executive secretary of the Rwandan National AIDS View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Diagnosing DC’s Dysfunction
Washington isn’t broken. It’s thriving. The real problem is that our political system benefits the major political parties and their industry allies—not the people it was designed to serve. That’s according to “Why Competition in the... View Details
- 03 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Social Responsibility in a Downturn
the firm's business practices. We have built a simple classification system that when combined with an "assessment" model could yield powerful diagnostics on how to migrate and manage a company's... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
You Are What You Eat
Writing in the magazine Pig Progress (September 23, 2010), Austria-based John Hodges (AMP 52, 1967),an expert on genetics and ethics in agriculture, food, and the environment, warned that the current system of agribusiness is untenable.... View Details
Henry S. Dennison
In 1916, Dennison Manufacturing established the first employer-initiated unemployment insurance system in the United States. Dennison also initiated a program to end absentee stockholder control over company... View Details
Keywords: Wood, Paper & Forestry
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
Working PapersOrganizational Design and Control across Multiple Markets: The Case of Franchising in the Convenience Store Industry Authors:Dennis Campbell, Srikant M. Datar, and Tatiana Sandino Abstract Many companies operate units... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
sharing system recording employees’ creative work—a control system often used to promote local experimentation—on the quality of creative work, job engagement, and financial... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational
structure, social history, and educational system, companies developed under a system of family management that emphasized personal relationships more than formal structures, and relied more on broad-gauged financial View Details
- September 2022
- Article
Regulatory Spillover and Workplace Racial Inequality
By: Letian Zhang
This paper suggests that affirmative action bans in the U.S. public sector may influence racial inequality in the private sector. Since the 1990s, nine states have banned affirmative action practice in public universities and state governments. Though these bans have... View Details
Keywords: Inequality; Regulation; Law; Organizational Norm; CEO; Affirmative Action; Organizations; Private Sector; Equality and Inequality; Diversity; Race; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
Zhang, Letian. "Regulatory Spillover and Workplace Racial Inequality." Administrative Science Quarterly 67, no. 3 (September 2022): 595–629.
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
now give to the overall benefits of globalization. As practiced today, Ricardo's classic system results in win-win exchanges when both trading partners are either (1) industrialized nations with modern impulse/check/balance governments,... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
perpetrator. Finally, I examine how these factors are associated with the impact on competitiveness and find that internally initiated bribery from senior executives is more likely to be associated with a significant impact on firm competitiveness. Bribery detected by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Essentials for Enlightened Experimentation
R&D systems for performing experiments that will generate the information needed to develop and refine products quickly. The challenges are managerial as well as technical: Organize For Rapid Experimentation Examine and, if necessary,... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke
- November 2010
- Teaching Note
Saudi Arabia: Modern Reform, Enduring Stability. Dubai: Global Economy (TN)
Teaching Note for 709042 and 709043. View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
weapon called life experience. Just Change: How to Collaborate for Lasting Impact by Tynesia Boyea-Robinson (MBA 2005) (Advantage Media Group) Equal access to opportunities for all citizens is the key to a sustainable national economy. To address View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Capturing Human Capital
corporations rely on information planning and control systems and processes that are designed to help management make sound strategic choices and ensure efficient implementation of those decisions. "They do... View Details
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
insurance crisis of 2002-2003. The study tracks the promotion and use of a set of accounting and risk controls put in place to control the troubled insurance division and discusses how and why particular... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Lessons from a Megacity
The first step in researching the public transportation system in Buenos Aires: send the private driver home. “How could we be there studying public transportation and not use it?” asks Eryn Schultz (MBA 2015). She was one of 39 students... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
U.S. consumers more power over decisions related to health care. Those who advocate consumer-driven health care - including conference chair Professor Regina E. Herzlinger - believe that shifting control of health-care purchasing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Entrepreneurial Unit Travels to China
While China’s Communist Party still controls the country’s political machinery, the nation’s booming economy is increasingly in the hands of savvy entrepreneurs, with an estimated 70 percent of the nation’s GDP now produced by the private... View Details