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- 02 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies
A dozen years ago, Harvard Business School Professor George Serafeim wondered why some companies operated with an eye toward the greater good, while most did not. Back then, he always got the same response: Corporate leaders thought social and environmental practices... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
employer that presents itself as valuing diversity, minority job applicants engage in relatively little résumé whitening and thus submit more racially transparent résumés. Yet our audit study of how employers respond to whitened and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Knowing What Your Boss Earns Can Make You Work Harder
could convince some companies to rethink the equity of their own compensation plans and the level of salary transparency they wish to maintain. For example, it may be more effective to structure pay raises... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
research and technological innovation, this approach is misguided and potentially risky. This article argues that researchers need to pay close attention to issues such as biases in data collection and spurious correlation. Publisher's... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Role of Emotions in Effective Negotiations
A simple view of negotiation presents a cold transaction between what one person has and what the other person is willing to pay for it. If the price is right, the deal gets done. As anyone who has recently bought a car or sold a house... View Details
- Web
Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research
better stakeholder engagement and transparency around CSR performance, are important in reducing capital constraints. The results are further confirmed using an instrumental variables and a simultaneous equations approach. Finally, we... View Details
- 03 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion
US and Canadian stores, it also announced it had “committed to pay all Starbucks US and Canada retail partners for the next 30 days whether or not their store is closed, or they are otherwise unable, or even uncomfortable, coming to work.... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- Web
Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
Runner-Up SaferTaxi takes a successful concept from the US/Europe to Latin America. The company provides a smartphone application that allows consumers to book, pay rate taxis with added convenience as well as transparency. SaferTaxi aims... View Details
- 11 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car?
incentive to add more transparency on things like invoice markups and service costs? Myriad consumer websites help car buyers overcome that asymmetry with information on what dealers pay for cars, vehicle... View Details
- Web
From C-Suite to CEO - Alumni
responsibility management. To build these skills consider these paths forward: Ask, and Ask for More Be transparent with your current CEO and Board Members about your career goals in order to gain insight into succession planning and... View Details
- 18 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?
assets even if you understand precisely what they are." There needs to be much more transparency and better messaging and clearer definitions of the different asset classes. Everything from taxation—it’s still really difficult to figure... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips
taking a less transparent route by selling less product in the same package and perhaps hoping the consumer doesn’t notice. Here, HBS faculty members John Gourville and Alex MacKay discuss the ups and downs of the practice of... View Details
- 30 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides
their products and downplay risks, fearing that any negative sentiment might hurt demand. But research led by Ryan W. Buell, a professor in the HBS Technology and Operations Management Unit, and doctoral student MoonSoo Choi found that warts-and-all View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 06 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters
transparent communication. Embracing a program that is Unrelenting and iterative. Setting Concentrated and focused steps to serve as a guiding set of goals. Driving Action by accepting uncertainty as the new normal. Embracing Agility and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?
transparency through data sharing in order to better track the chain of subcontractors. THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS More Business-Related Pandemic Coverage from Around Harvard and Beyond How to Manage Coronavirus Layoffs with Compassion... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Tipping Point: Investing in the Women of Kenya’s Coffee Farms
experimenting with using blockchain for transparency in the tipping process. It also is exploring whether cryptocurrency might allow for more efficient tipping in a café setting. The cost of transferring money between currencies makes... View Details
- 12 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Design Enables Discrimination: Learning from Anti-Asian Bias on Airbnb
post-doctoral researcher at the Université Paris-Dauphine, and Michelangelo Rossi, assistant professor at Télécom Paris. In a political environment where racial injustice draws plenty of attention from all sides, companies that want to lead on the issue need to View Details
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
clear instructions about what they can do, and designing transparency into why their partnership will make a positive difference for everyone involved, business leaders can improve interactions among their customers and employees, and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset
Finance II, students learn about the Rule of One Price, or why two people do not always pay the same. Students learn what professor Peter Tufano calls the "Matrix of Imperfections" in the capital markets, such as transaction... View Details
- 24 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach
compensation to performance, as they often fail to rein in pay when performance suffers. · Expectations placed on board members have increased. Most notably, Sarbanes-Oxley and the new listing requirements of the public exchanges have... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu