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- 28 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Importance of ‘Don’t’ in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior
In trying to encourage good moral conduct, it's common for a company to come up with a list of don'ts—wording policies such that they focus on unethical behavior employees should avoid rather than on ethical acts they should strive to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008
answered the right question poorly (Study 2). Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-048.pdf Concentration Levels in the U.S. Advertising and Marketing Services Industry: Myth vs. Reality Authors:Alvin J. Silk and Charles King III Abstract This paper... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
changes in the marketplace. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54504 April 19, 2018 Harvard Business Review 4 Ways to Improve Your Content Marketing By: Cespedes, Frank V., and Russ Heddleston Abstract—In... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
handle the legal and political queries regarding its governance and finances in an era of increasing scrutiny of big businesses? How would changing Chinese government policies regarding Chinese investments... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 17
power, hard and soft, to protect American investments all around the globe. Why did the United States get into the business of defending its citizens' property rights abroad? The Empire Trap looks at how modern U.S. involvement in the empire business began, how... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Board
has been a tremendous shift to the better over the past 15 years” By the time he retired in 2002, the board-serving landscape had changed considerably. These days, serving on a few boards can comprise almost a full-time job. While... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 08 Jul 2015
- What Do You Think?
Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?
that, "It's very hard to change one's habit and society's perception. You may be the only executive strolling in the park with young mothers and playing kids. You feel completely out of place, and feel like 'getting back to... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits
may drive up health-care costs across the board. Then again, these actions by regulators may be in the public interest by furthering policies that lawmakers won't or can't enact. For future research, Heese plans on looking more closely on... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 26 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 26, 2008
him to drive significant change in an industry and Japanese society in the second half of the twentieth century. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=408039 Leadership in Energy: Jim Rogers at... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure
Increased financial disclosure standards on such issues as executive compensation should provide more useful information for investors, policy makers, and regulators. But do the companies themselves benefit? What researchers are now... View Details
- 02 Nov 2016
- What Do You Think?
Are Employees Becoming Job 'Renters' Instead of 'Owners'?
to which the trend is a product of nature (declining employee motivation, changing aspirations, shorter-term planning, etc.) or nurture (such things as leadership, hiring policies, organization, incentives, and the job environment they... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals
Starbucks on the main classroom floor. "We have to make it easy for our colleagues to show up," he said. "We can't put the blinds down and shut the doors if we want to change the culture." Sometimes the CEO needs to step in and handle a... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 30, 2007
pre-specified limit. Mr. Sattaiah, managing director of the BASIX's bank, considers a revised insurance policy for the coming season, weighing the costs and potential risks of expanding the product against the potential benefits. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2006
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First Look: August 22, 2006
current strategy or change its approach? Includes color exhibits. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=805067 New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc. Harvard Business School Case 606-094 Considers... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
As Harvard Business School professor Laura Phillips Sawyer sifted through historical documents to trace the history of competition policy in the United States, an interesting figure emerged: Edna Gleason, who became known as the “mother... View Details
- 15 May 2012
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First Look: May 15
show that optimal policy may simultaneously include substantial redistribution across income-earning abilities, as in the standard model, and reject three prominently proposed tags-gender, race, and height-as in actual policy. This... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 14, 2007
can increase use. We test this hypothesis in a field experiment in Zambia using door-to-door marketing of a home water purification solution. Our methodology separates the screening effect of prices (charging more changes the mix of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
and rejigger their lives.” How the pandemic has changed lift outs Team moves usually take place in four stages: a pre-hire “courtship” stage and three post-hire phases of integration—leadership, operational, and “full cultural... View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16
cumulative innovation. To make progress towards understanding implications of such policy changes we devised a large-scale field experiment in which 733 subjects were divided into matched independent... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008
download available at this time. Behavioral Aspects of Price Setting, and Their Policy Implications Author:Julio J. Rotemberg Abstract This paper starts by discussing consumers' cognitive and emotional reaction to posted prices.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace