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  • 30 Nov 2021
  • In Practice

What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?

The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman
  • 09 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 9

  Working PapersOperational Failures and Problem Solving: An Empirical Study of Incident Reporting Authors:Julia Adler-Milstein, Sara J. Singer, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Operational failures occur in all industries with consequences... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Mar 2023
  • Research & Ideas

When Showing Know-How Backfires for Women Managers

stereotypes can shape their allocation of attention—and, therefore, their work performance. “Managing people’s impressions—thinking about how people view you because you need to get subordinates to follow your directives—is a huge part of... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Retail; Consumer Products
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What Do Nongovernmental Organizations Do?

By: Eric D. Werker and Faisal Z. Ahmand
Nongovernmental organizations are one group of players who are active in the efforts of international development and increasing the welfare of poor people in poor countries. Nongovernmental organizations are largely staffed by altruistic employees and volunteers... View Details
Keywords: Non-Governmental Organizations; Growth and Development; Welfare or Wellbeing; Poverty; Service Delivery; Crime and Corruption; Social Entrepreneurship; Decision Making; Resource Allocation; Product Development; Framework
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  • 11 Apr 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Is Amazon a Retailer, a Tech Firm, or a Media Company? How AI Can Help Investors Decide

managers wanted to hedge that risk. Well, how can I hedge my risk against a portfolio that has retail stocks and technology stocks? If you have put Amazon into the retail, you're not putting the right notional risk allocation towards that... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Consumer Products; Real Estate; Financial Services; Retail
  • 05 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 5

Michael T. Braun, and Deepak Malhotra Publication:Discourse Processes Abstract The study used Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count and Coh-Metrix software to examine linguistic differences with deception in an ultimatum game. In the game, the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Oct 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

by allocating rewards and resources for both traditional performance and for learning activities. What has changed and what hasn’t? The four drives themselves, fundamental to human psychology, have not changed. The COVID-19 pandemic has... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
  • 08 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 8

to sell condoms are randomly allocated to four groups. Agents in the control group are hired as volunteers, whereas agents in the three treatment groups receive, respectively, a small monetary margin on each pack sold, a large margin, and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 23

problems (and the ways they reinforce each other), this paper offers a new approach to community transformation which calls for leaders to use technology to inform and connect people. We need to convert the social safety net into a social... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What Is an "Essential" Purchase for a Low-Income Family?

research team to give away. While 53 percent chose the (objectively more valuable) Best Buy gift card for the higher-income recipient, only 25 percent of the participants did so for the lower-income person. The implication? Study participants effectively View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 22 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: November 22

MaterialsThe Wen Group John A. Davis and Matthew G. PillarHarvard Business School Case 812-034 Three brothers who own and lead a second-generation family business in Hong Kong encounter problems of nepotism and governance and endure... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Mar 2009
  • Research & Ideas

When the Internet Runs Out of IP Addresses

using combinations of four integers, about 4 billion possible combinations. The problem: Internet growth is so dramatic that potential IPv4 addresses are running short on supply. A new standard called IPv6 will solve the problem with... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Telecommunications
  • 16 Feb 2023
  • HBS Case

ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?

The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Financial Services
  • 23 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 23, 2008

  Working PapersSecuring Online Advertising: Rustlers and Sheriffs in the New Wild West Author:Benjamin G. Edelman Abstract Read the news of recent computer security guffaws, and it's striking how many problems stem from online... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 23

leads to the possibility of strategic delay by decision participants who differ in their preferences and are limited by the resources they can allocate to influence decisions. We focus on sources of delay caused by the strategic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Mar 2022
  • Book

5 Qualities That Help Companies Thrive for Decades—Even Centuries

Group, formed in 1945 as a builder of utility vehicles and now a conglomerate spanning a number of industries, helps educate 90,000 girls in schools each year. “That's a very important thing,” says Jones, “that a company can allocate... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 May 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?

But the ascendancy of agency theory—the idea that shareholders are owners of the corporation and managers their agents in a quest to maximize shareholder value—need not be one of them. Agency theory will not be a problem if we bend it to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 04 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival

also find important insights into how to motivate people, allocate resources, and act with great integrity in moments of crisis. I firmly believe that the template for business education can be very broad. As soon as that ship was frozen,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 08 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 8

among intermediaries intensifies these problems by increasing the magnitude of their effects and broadening the circumstances in which they arise. We show similar results arise when intermediaries provide matching benefits, namely... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jul 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Understaffed and Overworked: What Now?

decide what has to give" when there is a loss of staff, says Parlance Training's Parlett. "So everyone plays corporate hot potato, passing the problem down the line until someone ends up as the scapegoat for not pulling off a... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman

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