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- 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016
agents, and this tension presents a boundary condition for when a group decision is superior to an individual decision. We test the implications of the model for a particular phenomenon in venture capital: private angel investments by the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
participants who were hired before the Roth introduction. In essence, once an employee joins a 401(k) she becomes passive/inattentive, thereby reducing the likelihood of reacting to the introduction of a new Roth option. Conditional on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
closed down flows of trade and capital across borders. Yet firms were rarely able to wholly dictate events. Their ability to transfer technology was constrained by the institutional, educational, and cultural conditions of host economies.... View Details
- 30 Apr 2021
- News
Revealing the Rules
Courtesy Gorick Ng Courtesy Gorick Ng A first-generation college student and professional, Gorick Ng became a self-taught master of trial and error from an early age. When he was 14, his mother—a single parent—lost her job at a sewing-machine View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
in emissions is enVerid’s Sorbent Ventilation Technology. Commercial buildings contribute 17 percent of US carbon emissions, and heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) is responsible for 36 percent of commercial-building energy... View Details
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
traditional organizations for coordinating the collective efforts of creative workers. However, it is surprising that they result in any productive output as individuals often work without direct monetary incentives while collaborating with unknown others. In this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
Promoting Political Mobilization By: Short, Jodi L., and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—Codes of conduct indicate that working conditions are improving overall at the factories being monitored by multinational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2015
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First Look: May 19
Abstract—The prominent but unproven intuition that preference heterogeneity reduces redistribution in a standard optimal tax model is shown to hold under the plausible condition that the distribution of preferences for consumption... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
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
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
voluntary programs-such as certification regimes, codes of conduct, and social monitoring-that seek to enforce global standards governing business practices. But little is known about the conditions under which companies are more likely... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
Teams: Managing SPLIT to Bridge Social Distance No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/416011-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 516-014 Rana Plaza (C): Primark and Victim Compensation On April 24, 2013, the Rana Plaza... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
private governance of working conditions, initiated and implemented by companies, labor unions, and non-governmental activist groups. Whether these codes represents a substantive or merely symbolic approach to governing working conditions... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
profitability. He notes that Xerox Corporation, for example, is currently implementing a plan to reclaim its equipment, refurbish it, and resell it - without having any waste leave the plant in the process. "They not only hope to achieve zero product and View Details
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
future research on the joint pursuit of financial and social goals in organizations. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55763 forthcoming Organization Science Coupling Labor Codes of Conduct and Supplier Labor Practices: The Role of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
that normative or preconceived beliefs about the functioning of the social world may guide social behavior in children. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54387 Coupling Labor Codes of Conduct and Supplier Labor Practices: The Role of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
Fisher write that "well-designed incentives are a necessary condition for rocket science retailing to work." What are some typical sources of incentive misalignment? How can incentive misalignment be reduced or overcome? A: We... View Details
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analyze the conditions under which each measurement method is most relevant. We also recommend an integrated model of impact measurement by drawing upon the best practices found in our study. Download report - Measuring the "Impact" in... View Details
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
priorities. Many years ago labor conditions in Asian contract factories prompted Nike board member Jill Ker Conway to lobby for a board-level corporate responsibility committee, which the company created in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
sink or swim,” Hamermesh says. “If they’re good at what they do, they’re given even more administrative tasks. In the meantime, they continue to see patients. “The good news is that doctors today can reliably diagnose and treat conditions... View Details
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
downstream party's optimal sales effort and, as a consequence, lead to different order quantities. We provide a formal characterization of both effects, insight into how these effects interact, and information on which conditions the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace