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- 01 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure
work also provides insights into how firms can create employment contracts that are in step with company goals. This e-mail interview is based on two working papers by Autrey and colleagues Shane Dikolli and D. Paul Newman: "Career... View Details
- 06 Apr 2007
- What Do You Think?
Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?
in open water that the polar ice caps still cover. The list goes on and on. Within the past few days, Thomas Friedman, the journalist and best-selling author of The World Is Flat, intimated in an interview with Tim Russert that he is... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/919013-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 319-054 Corruption and Business in Emerging Markets The case is built around video clips from top business leaders in emerging markets who were interviewed... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
countries. The book draws on literatures and archives that have previously only been available in Spanish, while the concluding chapter makes use of Harvard Business School's new project known as “Creating Emerging Markets,” which features lengthy View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 11, 2007
success and (b) develop a set of instruments to assess RE risk factors and to design, evaluate, and apply effective measures to mitigate those risks. The data collection consists of interviews with RE experts and other experienced... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
are increasingly examining the adoption and impact of ERM, but the studies are inconsistent and inconclusive, due, we believe, to an inadequate specification of how ERM is used in practice. Based on a ten-year field project, over 250 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
target of success in their new book Just Enough: Tools for Creating Success in Your Work and Life (Wiley, 2004). After conducting hundreds of interviews with high achievers, they developed a framework for thinking about integrating four... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
explores how language shapes the ways in which employees who work in global organizations communicate and negotiate linguistic and cultural differences. Bringing together 650 interviews conducted across Rakuten’s locations in Brazil,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
Change: The Expansion of Primary Education in India By: Mangla, Akshay Abstract—This article analyzes India’s recent enactment of universal primary education. This programmatic policy change is puzzling given the clientelistic features of Indian democracy. Drawing on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
people-oriented industry, attrition has special import. DeLong and Gabarro, of Harvard Business School, along with former Morgan Stanley and Ernst & Young executive Lees, argue that a PSF can gain a much-needed competitive edge by renewing its focus on mentoring.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Feb 2014
- HBS Case
Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines
platinum mine. Photo: Gautam Mukunda The authors' research for the case study comprised more than 50 hours of interviews on three continents, not to mention some applied experience; Mukunda flew to South Africa and spent a day in Anglo... View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
features designed to enhance safety and effectiveness had the unintended effect of changing how men enacted their masculine identities at work. Interview and participant observation data show that the major reorientation was away from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
linkages or externalities across industries. Regional economies and clusters are analyzed at various geographic levels including states, economic areas, and metropolitan areas. Access to top-level data on the CMP is free; more in-depth information is available for a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
In our January 2 update, we featured the first part of a two-part interview with HBS professor Michael E. Porter, an internationally influential expert on strategy and competition. (Porter was recently appointed to a University... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
Graves for the Education of Physicians in Early Nineteenth Century America. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co. Steiner, Philippe. 2006. "Le Don d'Organe : Une Typologie Analytique." Revue Française de Sociologie 47:479-506. -. 2009. "Economic Sociology... View Details
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
masculine workplaces, making their platforms an ideal site for investigating alternative processes of masculine identity-construction at work. Q: Tell us about your experience on the oil platforms. What was it like to visit and interview... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
You Won't Make It If You Fake It
salary. Had I tried to fake my leadership and knowledge of the appliance industry, I surely would have failed. In the research for Discover Your True North, we interviewed 170 leaders from 23 to 93 years old. Not one of them talked about... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 06 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 6
what still remained to be done. The case examines the evolving experiences of male and female MBAs over the decades through interviews with dozens of HBS alumni, as well as the experiences of female faculty at the School. The case... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 29 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Creating the Perfect Super Bowl Ad
advertisers ways to spend ad dollars more shrewdly. "They need to use entertainment judiciously," he says. "It's very expensive. They have to ask: Why do we need to entertain so much?" During an interview in his office, Teixeira, who has... View Details
- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Strength in Numbers
policy is the need to make that policy appear legitimate," he writes. In this excerpt from Chapter one, Trumbull discusses how collective interests can lead to a rapid collective response. Read an interview with the author. The Surprise... View Details
Keywords: Re: Gunnar Trumbull