Transparency - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2008
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Social Enterprise Pioneer

HBS professor Kash Rangan talks about a new generation of business leaders and philanthropists who are experimenting with hybrid forms of social enterprises. And they are insisting that these enterprises operate with greater transparency... View Details

06 Jun 2017
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Is the Real Estate Market Going to Collapse?

tanking the market? Sultenic: The industry is capitalized and managed more transparently and thoughtfully than it has been historically, with less easy money floating around. Banks got smarter, equity sources got smarter and developers... View Details

09 Jun 2015
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Building change from the ground up

as the Taliban-influenced south, operating under a firm policy of cultural sensitivity and ethical transparency in a country ranked as one of the most corrupt in the world. When Roshan launched, police were called in to control the crowds... View Details

01 Dec 2009
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Letters to the Editor

suggestion I have is to increase transparency by requiring all companies that file a proxy statement to include a graph showing executive compensation for the top three or four officers and compensation for the average worker over a... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2015
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Research Brief: If State Pensions Clean Up Their Books, Who Pays?

that states with the largest pension deficits and those with heavy unionization were most likely to want to keep the status quo—even when the public and financial experts pushed for the opposite. It makes sense: “The most likely scenario of increased View Details

Keywords: Erin Peterson

13 Nov 2020
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Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students

rates, establish transparent benchmarks, and learn from other high-growth brands,” says Cartwright. Lillian Cartwright used her summer fellowship to work on startup she created as part of the HBS's Arthur Rock Center Accelerator program... View Details

27 Mar 2019
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Sharing the Road

transparently available to the car owner, we also rely heavily on insurance as a product. We today work with some of the largest insurance companies in the country to be able to ensure that every car user is able to pay only for the time... View Details

12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

the process, and I can’t wait to see the results. Barbara Littlefield (MBA 1988) Chairwoman and Lead Operating Officer, Resilient Infrastructure Group Collaborate Globally with Governments BIO “We all need to work to put together common to all, clear, fair, and View Details

01 Dec 2014
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Rethinking the Fashion Beat

The Business of Fashion's philosophy, says Amed, is transparency and inclusion. (Courtesy Imran Amed) It was more happy accident than business plan: Imran Amed (MBA 2002), a former McKinsey consultant, was between jobs in 2007 when he... View Details

Keywords: Alyssa Giacobbe; fashion; Retail Trade

03 Mar 2016
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3-Minute Briefing: Pamela Meyer (MBA 1986)

sabotage these moments through passive-aggressive behavior. What you need are the three Ts. Transparency for openly communicating your goals, concerns, disappointments, and expectations. Trust for the small, significant circle of people... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 1999
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Dan Fenn

various descriptions, resisted the classic temptation to make the Bulletin into a house organ, so transparently a mouthpiece for their perspectives that no one would ever read anything but the class notes. Their restraint was both a... View Details

Keywords: Dan Fenn

08 Aug 2018
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Getting Life Back in Balance

of networking and communicating with key stakeholders prior to any important decision being made is fundamentally the same,” he explains. “I have been pleasantly surprised at the maturity of the local-government governance processes and the level of View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Sep 2006
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East to West

“The case was very appealing because the CEO’s goal was to create a governance structure that would be transparent to investors and stakeholders anywhere in the world. The more we talked, the more it seemed like a way to understand the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Management

12 Apr 2011
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Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS

information from VIN numbers collected by mobile car shoppers. AI Exchange is a Boston-based technology financial services company whose mission is to reinvent hedge fund investing through disruptive technology, transparency and... View Details

Keywords: Multiple alumni

01 Jun 2010
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Get Well Soon

takeaway for students is the power of transparency as a mechanism for change,” says Tucker. “Another is the motivational value of benchmarking themselves to an internal standard of zero accidents instead of rationalizing poor perfor-mance... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

11 May 2020
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Better Than Cash

savings, security, and transparency for both the payer and the recipient, and they can serve as the spark for larger societal change, Goodwin-Groen explains. “Digital financial inclusion can build a foundation for achieving the United... View Details

19 Feb 2020
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Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change

sticker shock would carbon prices trigger?). Elizabeth Lewis (MBA 2006), engagement officer for climate and impact investing at the International Finance Corporation, also responded that government policies needed to require more View Details

Keywords: April White; photos by Jack Conroy

01 Dec 2018
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Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders

transparent spirit of Kickstarter with the rigors of Securities and Exchange Commission oversight. The world of so-called equity crowdfunding holds the promise of democratizing both ends of the earlystage investment game, its advocates... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg

01 Mar 2018
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Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers

struggled to determine if they were getting good deals,” Baron says. “They had to take their dealer’s word for it.” Years later, after spells at Google and HBS, Baron is now using modern tools—from cloud computing to machine-learning—to force View Details