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  • November 2012 (Revised April 2013)
  • Case

Perspectives on the Great Depression

By: Julio J. Rotemberg
The case assembles texts giving perspectives on the Great Depression by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John Maynard Keynes, Milton Friedman, Anna Schwartz and Ben Bernanke. This should allow for a discussion of the role of fiscal and monetary policies in reaching and... View Details
Keywords: Great Depression; Keynesian Multiplier; Monetary Policy; Zero Lower Bound Of Interest Rates; Role Of Expectations In Macroeconomics; Performance Expectations; History; Policy; Interest Rates; Macroeconomics
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  • 03 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 3, 2008

private governance of working conditions, initiated and implemented by companies, labor unions, and non-governmental activist groups. Whether these codes represents a substantive or merely symbolic approach to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jul 2008
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Balanced Scorecard in Action

reduce the gap between strategy and execution? Does the BSC work in testing strategy? How Can The Balanced Scorecard Improve Corporate Governance? Working Paper: Improving Corporate Governance with the Balanced Scorecard The authors... View Details
  • 05 Jun 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Fixing the ‘I Hate Work’ Blues

under intense operational pressure is nearly impossible. In addition, the heavy burden of compliance with government regulations and internal corporate requirements is taking a toll on people, limiting their creativity, and causing them... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 22 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon

we can design and manage our most imminent environments—our neighborhoods, may they be of physical, social, or intellectual nature—to best support knowledge creation, diffusion, and performance outcomes.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 13, 2009

new rules are inadequate to treat the performance problems that they encounter most often; 2) The refusal to see governance as a performance element that can be improved may be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jul 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Looking for CEOs in All the Wrong Places

"Three-Party Exchanges: The Case of Executive Search Firms and the CEO Search," he describes how the function of search firms in CEO recruiting differs from the role they perform when recruiting executives at other levels. Given... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Employment
  • July 2007
  • Teaching Note

Rwanda: National Economic Transformation (TN)

By: Michael E. Porter and Michael Patrick McCreless
Teaching Note to 706491. View Details
Keywords: Economy; Problems and Challenges; Development Economics; Policy; Poverty; Transformation; Performance Evaluation; Political Elections; Rwanda
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  • November 2004 (Revised July 2005)
  • Case

Messier's Reign at Vivendi Universal

By: Rakesh Khurana, Vincent Dessain and Daniela Beyersdorfer
Focuses on a crisis in the board at Vivendi. Highlights the difficulties that arise when dramatic pressure from outside the boardroom affects boardroom dynamics. In this case, there are two events. The first is an unexpectedly large financial loss and a pending cash... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Crisis Management; History; Cash Flow; Acquisition; Performance; Telecommunications Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry
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  • 24 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 24

George Serafeim, and David Wood Abstract—A new generation of corporate reporting-integrated reporting-is emerging that will help investors and other key stakeholders such as employees, customers, suppliers, and NGOs develop a deeper and more comprehensive appreciation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 2017
  • Article

Impact Evaluation Methods in Public Economics: A Brief Introduction to Randomized Evaluations and Comparison with Other Methods

By: Dina Pomeranz
Recent years have seen a large expansion in the use of rigorous impact evaluation techniques. Increasingly, public administrations are collaborating with academic economists and other quantitative social scientists to apply such rigorous methods to the study of public... View Details
Keywords: Practice; Public Sector; Research; Policy; Performance Evaluation
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  • 01 Aug 2019
  • News

Investing for Good

arrangement to deliver social value and financial value. “The social impact bond allows government to transfer the risk of performance of particular social programs to the investors. So in the event of a... View Details
Keywords: Finance
  • 17 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility

For too long, scholarship in the field of management has looked at economic performance rather than social welfare, argue HBS professor Joshua Margolis and colleagues James P. Walsh, of University of Michigan Business School, and Klaus... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 13 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 13, 2007

Describes the challenges of using the Balanced Scorecard to implement a triple-bottom-line strategy for delivering excellent economic, environmental, and social performance. The owners and senior executive team of Amanco, a producer of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • September 2011
  • Teaching Note

Japan: The Miracle Years (TN)

By: Louis T. Wells
Teaching Note for 702-014. View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development; Policy; Performance; Economic Growth; Governance Controls; Japan
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  • June 2011
  • Article

Watch What I Do, Not What I Say: The Unintended Consequences of the Homeland Investment Act

By: Dhammika Dharmapala, C. Fritz Foley and Kristin J. Forbes
This paper analyzes the impact of the Homeland Investment Act of 2004, which provided a one-time tax holiday for the repatriation of foreign earnings and thereby reduced the cost to U.S. multinationals of accessing a source of internal capital. Lawmakers and lobbyists... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Performance Effectiveness; Code Law; Taxation; Cost; Capital; Financial Strategy; Research and Development; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Shareholder Relations; United States
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  • 21 Apr 2005
  • Keynote Speech

Value Shift: Is Compliance a Catalyst for Sustainable Business Performance?" Panel moderator. "Frontlines Forum: Shift to Value

By: Lynn S. Paine
Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Business Ventures; Performance; Governance Compliance
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  • 06 Jan 2011
  • What Do You Think?

How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?

exactly what everyone else is doing does seem to be where we're heading." Antidotes to these challenges are reasonably clear: In addition to greater transparency and support for "whistle blowers," several of you suggested the possibility of View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
  • July 1993 (Revised December 2003)
  • Case

Sears Auto Centers (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Michael Santoro
The CEO of Sears must decide how to respond to allegations that the company's auto repair division has been misleading consumers and charging them for unnecessary repairs. View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Corporate Accountability; Ethics; Organizational Culture; Compensation and Benefits; Management Teams; Employees; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Performance Improvement; Auto Industry
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  • 01 Dec 2016
  • News

How DC is Taxing the Country

performance has been waning since at least the late 1990s. In Problems Unsolved and a Nation Divided, Professors Michael Porter, Jan Rivkin—cochairs of the School’s US Competitiveness Project—and Mihir Desai, with program director Manjari... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs