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  • 20 Dec 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular 'Cold Call' Podcasts

entrepreneur in the Deep South at the turn of the century, against all odds. Professor Nancy Koehn describes Walker’s inspiring real life story of making good on her own unique American dream.     Cold Calling Stella McCartney Anat Keinan... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • 14 May 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery

geographical area are asking lots of questions about the policy on taking gifts from certain ministers, then this would help compliance leaders appreciate that maybe it’s time to go back and make sure people... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 24 Nov 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes

in the black. "They underestimated the risk associated with paying bribes, but they also overestimated what they were going to make on profits," says Healy. "Most companies don't have the luxury of going back and saying what was the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 20 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20

mean compromising on your own. Often, the two complement each other and that is what makes a win-win solution for everyone. This book gives an inside look into what motivates exceptional companies and how they are a cut above the rest.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 23, 2016

D. KC, and F. Gino Abstract—Many models in operations management involve dynamic decision making that assumes optimal updating in response to information revelation. However, behavioral theory suggests that rather than updating their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 31

Policy Author:David Moss Publication:Chap. 2 in Shared Responsibility, Shared Risk: Government, Markets and Social Policy in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Jacob Hacker and Ann O'Leary, 22-38. New York:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Facing the New World Order

period. However, the Global Competitiveness Report does include an analysis of the short- or medium-term economic impact of these tragic events and it is cut with a number of specific policy recommendations. I wanted to draw your... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 15 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Funding the Design of Livable Cities

innovative design in the built environment. To create an environmentally sustainable built environment, design that focuses on maximizing natural resource efficiency, planning that fosters public health, business models that attract the capital to fund it, and public... View Details
Keywords: by Lisa Chase; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities
  • 15 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 15, 2015

the other parties and helps you strike a better deal, but in other situations, particularly those involving long-term relationships, it damages trust and goodwill and makes an impasse more likely. To avoid or defuse anger, take a break to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • September–October 2013
  • Article

The Role of Organizational Scope and Governance in Strengthening Private Monitoring

By: Lamar Pierce and Michael W. Toffel
Governments and other organizations often outsource activities to achieve cost savings from market competition. Yet such benefits are often accompanied by poor quality resulting from moral hazard, which can be particularly onerous when outsourcing the monitoring and... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Decision Choices and Conditions; Corporate Accountability; Governance Compliance; Policy; Management Practices and Processes; Demand and Consumers; Market Design; Market Entry and Exit; Market Transactions; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Business Processes; Organizational Structure; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Expectations; Practice; Transportation; Transportation Industry; Service Industry; United States; New York (state, US)
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  • 22 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 22

public research organizations, such as universities and hospitals, and private firms are an established policy tool around the world for the delivery of social or public services, and their use as a tool to foster the translation of basic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 26, 2006

Danner was about to make his first presentation to the board of directors of Codon Devices, a one-year-old biotechnology start-up based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After a month as the company's CEO, Danner was prepared to lay out his... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jun 2009
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Leading Change

there is a danger that commitment to an organization can undermine work-life balance. Successful CEOs are good role models. In addition to open and honest communication and continued investment in HCHP management practices, corporations need to develop an a priori set... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 22 Jun 2009
  • Research & Ideas

“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

issued a dissenting minority report. The partisan clash of views foreshadowed the political debate now echoing in the corridors on Capitol Hill. The Case For More Regulation Looking at the historical record, Moss makes a strong case that... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services
  • 18 Aug 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Have a Better Idea To Improve Health Care?

Several months ago, Harvard's Forum on Health Care Innovation surveyed industry executives, policy makers, academics, and doctors about the state of health care in the United States. Their report card was not encouraging. Only 14 percent... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 24 Feb 2003
  • Research & Ideas

In Troubled Africa, Botswana Flowers

commercial hub. Q: On the larger topic of Africa, which appears to have been left behind in the globalization movement, where do you see Africa heading over the next twenty years, in terms of economic development? A: Hopefully, the next few decades will allow Africa to... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 26 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind

examine whether it was important that you made the decision to bring the bags as opposed to a store policy that requires it," says Karmarkar, noting that some stores obligate customers to bring their own bags; others charge customers... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail
  • 07 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 7

deploy a manager to one of several possible contexts is endogenous to unobservable factors, and selection makes it challenging to disentangle the effect of workplace context on individual career advancement. We work around this problem by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jan 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]

go off on your own and create something different. With consensus decision making and shared responsibility for everything, nobody feels responsible. In our book, we discuss how Japanese companies need to adopt more business unit... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
  • 15 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: November 15

identifying possible forms of bias, and evaluating methods of verifying whether bias in fact occurs. I then consider possible legal and policy responses, and I assess search engines' likely defenses. I conclude that regulatory... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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