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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
of all professions." A few years later, in 1929, General Electric chairman Owen D. Young ad-dressed the complexities of achieving that goal: "[I]f you ask me to apply the golden rule to a bank rate, I find it amazingly difficult to do."... View Details
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
autumn 2005, the company had to weight its decisions in a controversy surrounding a nearly 6 billion euro profit. How did the company explain the profit to investors, customers, the public, and government? How much was the reaction... View Details
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
monitor their own regulatory compliance and voluntarily report their own violations. In this study, we examine how regulatory enforcement activities influence organizations' decisions to self-police. We created a comprehensive dataset for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2024
- News
The Musts of 2024
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. I love these end-of-the-year lists where you can get recommendations from smart people about things that are worth your time and money. It always sets me up really... View Details
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
architectural firm dedicated to being both client-oriented and environmentally responsible. The case uses a difficult design decision in a tsunami rehabilitation project to illustrate the challenges faced by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
efficient production,” Mahindra observes. “Ours, I think, will lead to more exciting innovation. Think of it as a giant brainstorming session. It’s difficult to do with too many rules. “India is one of the world’s greatest experiments,”... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
tempted to leave, but then I thought about the fact that I had so much riding on this decision to be here, and there were so many people who supported me. The next day when I arrived on the HBS campus, for a while I didn’t see any blacks... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
excites me. I love emerging markets.” Tom Tierney (MBA ’80) The Bridgespan Group www.bridgespangroup.org “The idea may have seemed irrational at the time, but I couldn't imagine not doing it,” recalls Tom Tierney (MBA ’80) of his decision... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
tax dispute in IRS history, settled in 2006 when GlaxoSmithKline paid the agency some $3.4 billion, a case that the IRS said sent “a strong message of our resolve” in dealing with transfer pricing. Says Wells, “The manipulation of transfer prices to evade taxes is a... View Details
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
long-term view. Our findings contribute to the literature on incentives for innovation by showing how contract structure can motivate unplanned employee-initiated innovation activities that are difficult to contract upon ex ante Download... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
both the exchange and the acceptance of ideas-people really hear your message and become open to it. Cultivating warmth and trust also boosts the quantity and quality of novel ideas that are produced. The best way to gain influence is to combine warmth and strength-as... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
cultural fit with JLL. Staubach paid its brokers with a commission model, which accelerated JLL's decision to let go of its long-standing salary and bonus approach. The merger also surfaced two interesting business opportunities. First,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
shifts in strategy with far-reaching consequences for the structure of industries, the way people behave, and the resources they use. Transformational reforms typically involve a decision to change a suite of institutional arrangements... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
far less open about revealing information about their activities. In many cases, it is extraordinarily difficult to find information about firms which are opaque to outsiders. In both countries, there is a particular distrust between the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
report their own violations. In this study, we examine how regulatory enforcement activities influence organizations' decisions to self-police. We created a comprehensive dataset for the "Audit Policy," a United States... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
about how they might want to change the rules of the game to get to outcomes that are good. I'll bet they'd come up with lots of great ideas. They would go out into the field and grapple with these difficult questions, and it would give... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 14 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2021
circumstantial. Love is an action and a choice made with intention each day. Choosing to be in a long-distance marriage with me attending HBS and Stephen attending Michigan Ross was one of the hardest decisions we’ve had to make together.... View Details
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
Conconi Abstract—In recent decades, advances in information and communication technology and falling trade barriers have led firms to retain within their boundaries and in their domestic economies only a subset of their production stages. A key View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
capital and demonstrates how technology—novel data sources, artificial intelligence, machine learning—will transform the small business lending market. This market has been plagued by frictions: it is hard for a lender to determine which small businesses are... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details