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  • 15 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 15

Practices of Trade: Jurisdictional Disputes in the U.S. Commerce in Cadavers Author:Michel Anteby Publication:Administrative Science Quarterly 55, no. 4 (2010) Abstract This study examines the U.S. commerce in human cadavers for medical education and research to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

Business derives its legitimacy from ideology—the ideas of property rights and marketplace competition, for example. In the 1980s, Professor Ezra Vogel of Harvard and I compared the ideologies of nine... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 08 Mar 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

expressing frustration about their country’s recurring crises, and describing a business class lacking cohesion. While Chilean business leaders have secured legitimacy for... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Sep 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Status: When and Why It Matters

like to believe that people pay for status for purely symbolic reasons, but the empirical evidence for that has been weak at best," says Harvard Business School's Daniel Malter, an assistant professor in the Strategy unit who studies... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 13 Dec 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Sharing News That Might Be Bad

This scenario, inspired by a Harvard Business School case, may ring familiar. It raises an increasingly prevalent, and difficult, management issue: how much information to share and when to share it. You look up to find the concerned face... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
  • 14 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting

tackle if reporting is to achieve legitimacy in the system of market capitalism, says Ramanna. "One of the things we hope the conference does is bring to bear some of our research methods to address this central question of whether... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting; Energy; Utilities
  • 09 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 9

Social Legitimacy and Global Capitalism Authors:Rawi Abdelal and John G. Ruggie Publication:Chap. 7 in New Perspectives on Regulation, edited by David Moss and John Cisternino, 151-162. Cambridge, Mass.: The Tobin Project, 2009 Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 6

crisis gives a new life and legitimacy to the European vision. This essay explores how this European vision, often referred to as 'managed globalization,' has been conceived and implemented and how the rules that Europe fashioned in trade... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28

attributable to comparability. Together, the findings are consistent with mandatory IFRS adoption improving comparability and thus leading to capital market benefits by reducing insiders' ability to exploit private information. Epistemic Contests and the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

business units. As each unit sees its role in a broader context and begins to better understand the consequences of its decisions on other units, better decisions that craft and reinforce a sustainable strategy will be made for the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 20 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 20

between the management scores of autonomous government schools and regular government schools is accounted for by differences in the principal's leadership and better governance. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/rsadun/Management_Schools_November2014.pdf... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Nov 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Corporate Venturing: Entrepreneurship on the Inside

for those who want to help them reinvent themselves. "We think about all these great large companies that have failed," said HBS professor Michael Roberto, who moderated the discussion. "But there are lots of great examples of new View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
  • 24 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Can Obamacare Be Saved?

many carriers may have to develop a fundamentally different business model—the commercial segment model is not viable for the public exchanges.” INGREDIENTS FOR SUCCESS From consumers: Consumers need to learn how to make smarter choices... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch and Emily Boudreau; Insurance; Health
  • 28 May 2008
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First Look: May 28, 2008

real-world relevance. This relevance-rigor gap affects the quality of our teaching as well as the institutional legitimacy of our business schools. We argue that executive education is an underutilized... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Nov 2015
  • Lessons from the Classroom

How Activist Investors Became Respectable

(Editor's Note. Carl Icahn is in the news again. On Monday, SEC filings revealed the militant investor has sold his entire stake in eBay, after successfully pushing the company to spin off its PayPal operation. Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Financial Services; Banking
  • 19 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 19

supported. The political perspective we develop contributes to organizational theory by showing (a) the importance of government signaling as a mechanism of political influence, (b) how different types of dependency on the government expose firms to different types of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?

directors accountable to company owners." Major business groups lost no time denouncing the reform measures as vehicles for ceding enormous power to a small number of special-interest investors, namely, unions and public employee... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
  • 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20

economic actors. Capitalist competition takes place in markets that exist in legal and regulatory frameworks and are governed by a political authority with the power and legitimacy to empower as well as regulate behavior and punish... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 27, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507058 The Remains of the Day Summary: Reasoning From a Moral Code Harvard Business School Module Note 607-071 No abstract available. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 30, 2008

management may motivate managers to operate with insufficient labor levels, which, in turn, degrades profitability. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-040.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsGlobal Talent Management at Novartis Harvard View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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