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- 17 May 2016
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May 17, 2016
working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51060 Harvard Business School Case 516-079 Fair & Lovely vs. Dark Is Beautiful Women of Worth (WOW) is an organization that seeks to empower women through training and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Neuroeconomics: Eyes, Brain, Business
The children's classic The Polar Express tells the fanciful story of a young boy's journey to the North Pole on a train filled with chocolate and candy. But when Warner Brothers released a $165 million computer-animated version of the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 09 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 9, 2007
his 22-year career at Goldman Sachs chaired the firm's senior leadership training efforts and co-chaired its partnership committee, identifies seven areas for self-reflection: vision and priorities, managing time, feedback, succession... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jul 2016
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July 19, 2016
training has a greater impact on improvement when coupled with a cooperative approach than with external compliance pressures. These findings suggest key considerations that should inform the design and implementation of monitoring... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
prices. These stores kept their costs down partly by moving into low-rent commercial spaces and hiring unskilled, low-wage workers, rather than trained pharmacists. Against predatory pricing Although these competitors didn’t sell... View Details
- 30 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 30
lawsuit: training systems, selection systems, and a career posting center. By 2010, Sodexo, North America was continuing to gain traction on its diversity strategy, and a global diversity initiative for the group was underway. In... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
public response.” Most of the cost of a subway system comes from the guideway—digging tunnels, building stations, laying track. And when you look at that track, it's usually empty. Every ten minutes a train sweeps by, and then the track... View Details
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
countries generally lack a solid technology base of trained scientists and world-class research universities. 2. Companies in developing countries must manage to eke out a profit while serving customers with low disposable income; per... View Details
- 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
costly for both employees and employers, in terms of direct medical costs as well as costs stemming from lost productive time and missed days at work. Resilience training has been shown to improve workplace functioning for employees,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Meeting China’s Need for Management Education
Companies are sufficiently convinced of their need for much more training of their managers, and their respect for their leading universities is such that they are very willing to pay market rates for their executives to attend programs... View Details
- 16 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
in innovative capabilities, and increased employee engagement as a result. The programs vary but have seven major elements in common. Companies should 1) team with governments or nonprofits experienced in working with people with disabilities, 2) use noninterview... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
governments interested in improving conditions. “It suggests that development agencies looking to improve workplace conditions should be thinking not only about training workers at particular factories, but also [about how they] might... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
excellence in these areas; designing management systems that help employees to succeed at their jobs; and training their customers. Q: To be a great service company, do you have to be equally good at all of those? A: Frei: We usually... View Details
- 12 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 12
management practices. Using data for 58 countries, we show that after the adoption of mandatory sustainability reporting laws and regulations, the social responsibility of business leaders increases. We also document that both sustainable development and employee View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
high-status people who have gained a wide-ranging knowledge of the business based on long, varied experience across clients and even industries, as well as their formal training and education. Customer-specific experts know their client... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 03 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment
students make and more about improving the returns they achieve. Related Reading: Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'? Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business... View Details
- 15 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 15, 2008
network, which would increase its patient population but at rates much lower than it currently charges by only taking private patients. Dr. Wheelis is also pondering whether to start a non-profit foundation as a way of getting money to support its teaching and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 4
LNG trains on Nigeria's Bonny Island but, before the final train came on stream, became entangled in a widening corruption probe triggered by an unrelated accusation against an employee of Technip, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Financial Reporting Goes Global
global accounting. As V.G. Narayanan and I were discussing the work on international accounting issues, it became clear that India was a very interesting case of many of these forces coming together. For example, while India's capital markets are still emerging, they... View Details
- 10 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 10
School Case 314-108 China Vanke: Supplement At China Vanke, the assistant to the Chairman asks whether a business model posted in an online discussion thread correctly explains Vanke's rapid growth over the previous two decades. He uses the post, which emphasized... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne