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- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
foster organizations' normative motivations to self-regulate without compromising deterrence. We find that facilities with a demonstrated commitment to compliance are more likely to institutionalize self-regulation. We also find that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
India’s recent enactment of universal primary education. Given the clientelistic features of Indian democracy, this programmatic policy change presents a puzzle. Drawing on interviews and official documents, I find that committed state... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
Performance with New Core Values The leadership team at Atlantis Paradise Island, under new ownership, decided that better alignment of the core values with the vision and mission statement would create a more compelling and consistent organizational narrative that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
influence what will eventually happen in the boardroom. However, many open questions remain about the factors that enable even people with good intentions to commit unethical acts. What are the tools organizations and their managers can... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607075 UBS and Climate Change—Warming Up to Global Action? Harvard Business School Case 707-511 Marco Suter, Executive Vice-Chairman, UBS Board of Directors, carefully studied the chart on his desk. It... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
should also reduce the incentive and possibility to commit tax evasion. Overall, taxes do have a real impact on the business environment, and in most cases business is in favor of the simple and often low flat tax. Laura Alfaro:... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
tools used in specific situations, the same strong principle is at work: People cannot hide information or duck responsibility. The chance to be part of a winning team is a powerful motivator, and only those who meet all the standards—for character and View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
considerably more than one-off diversity trainings or publicity campaigns that too often tokenize women and people of color. It requires changing the practices that dictate who power flows to in organizations. This entails a serious View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 24 Jul 2018
- Op-Ed
4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World
primarily to C-suite executives. C-suite authority does provide access to one kind of agency, the freedom to act in the realm CEOs manage. But CEOs do not suddenly wake up and commit to activities that drive organizational resources to... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 15 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Free Software
Iansiti adds. As a measure of IBM's commitment to open source, the company announced its intent to invest $1 billion to the development and promotion of the Linux operating system. This new reality upends the classic rules of strategy and... View Details
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
founders sold their remaining shares shortly after the IPO. Two years later, Alantec was acquired for the equivalent of $70 per share. Following the sale, the founders sued, alleging that the venture capitalists had committed fraud and... View Details
- 14 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout
committed to buy hundreds of millions of doses of successful vaccines, providing a guaranteed market for the shots. "I couldn’t be on the front lines treating patients. But at least I could try to help with some of the market design... View Details
- 15 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding the Design of Livable Cities
less expensive for cities to maintain in the long-term. Macomber is putting his commitment to joining the fields of finance and design into practice through his research and HBS case studies, including exploring redevelopment options for... View Details
- 24 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 24
Program, a collaboration of multinational corporations requesting such information from thousands of suppliers in 49 countries. We find evidence that suppliers are more likely to share this information when requests from buyers are more prevalent, when buyers appear... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Researchers Cheat (Just a Little)
strongly rewarded for a positive result," says John, now an assistant professor of marketing at Harvard Business School. This system can drive researchers to bend the rules to get a desirable outcome. Sometimes researchers commit... View Details
- 02 Jun 2011
- What Do You Think?
Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?
sought could include aid from one country to another, the sale of national assets, and the deferral of commitments to allow time for a work out. A sizeable minority, however, took the view that lenders, because they helped contribute to a... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Work, Family, Private Life: Why Not All Three?
incredibly seriously. If you fear intimacy and you fear that if you commit someone better will come along, and if you fear that you'll get bored because the only thing that really engages you is work, then how can you fall in love?"... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding
challenging economic environments. However, they are entrepreneurs. So this is all they can do. They are not going back; they are not bunkering down and closing the shutters and saying 'It's too tough an environment.' They're going forward with as much passion and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational
employment commitments and the need to promote employees within the organization further encourage Japanese companies to expand operations at home while reaching foreign markets through zaibatsu-linked trading companies or offshore sales... View Details
- 04 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why Private Investors Must Fund 'New Nuclear' Power Right Now
Gates, and ThorCon Power, whose lead investor is Acadian Asset Management founder Gary Bergstrom, have publically committed to goals on cost (< $0.07/kwh), availability (full-scale demonstration by 2025) and deployment rates (ramping... View Details