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- 02 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Signing at the Top: The Key to Preventing Tax Fraud?
pledge of honesty is a way of effectively linking identity to morality." Testing Honesty The research team conducted a series of experiments in which participants could benefit... View Details
- 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... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18
be further reviewed by a quasi-governmental oversight board. By the time of the financial meltdown, most major financial institutions were SOX compliant-but that didn't stop... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
extremely encouraging, questions about raising his next venture round and the overall environment has made him question the wisdom of this plan. This case provides students an opportunity to explore the true View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
explores many issues in the construction of large-scale buildings: how to envision such a project, how to manage the architects, how different designs add value, and what criteria matter in resolving a dispute between designers. The case... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: Ruling the Waves
onset of creative anarchy and the activities of "pirates" who commandeer the new technologies for their own profit, "even the pioneers begin to realize the costs View Details
- 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009
Combining supermarket scanner data with firm-level financial data, we find evidence that differs from prior literature. Instead of reducing expenditures to boost earnings, soup manufacturers roughly double... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8
findings. First, non-financial rewards are more effective at eliciting effort than either financial rewards or the volunteer contract and are also the most cost-effective of the four schemes. Second,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23
knowledge of a technical system to gain strategic advantage. The strategy involves, first, identifying "bottlenecks" in the existing system, and then creating a new architecture that isolates the bottlenecks in modules. An... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 1, 2008
of potential funding sources to solve social problems, much of it stemming from an intergenerational transfer of wealth and new wealth from View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
Customers of a financial intermediary, in contrast, provide financing in exchange for a specific set of services and do not want the fulfillment View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
twenty years, particularly in high tech, made the decision to move manufacturing offshore where costs are lower. You have argued that the location decision should involve much more than simple financial... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009
when compared to defense and healthcare expenditures, not to mention the costs incurred recently rescuing failing banks and automakers, among others. But the picture changes when we consider the long-run consequences View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Truth Be Told
whistleblower incentives; it isn’t a reward. Is there abuse of these statutes? Dey: The debate is about whether it is frivolous, disgruntled employees going to regulators for financial motives, or whether... View Details
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
conditions. In this case, Western consumers were taking responsibility not for their own health but for the health and safety of workers in a foreign land thousands of miles away. Consumer power has not been... View Details
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
- 03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015
point, which translates into an elasticity of Catholic school attendance with respect to tuition costs of -0.19. Our subgroup results suggest that a voucher program would... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2022
- News
Expanding the Power to Prosper
paradigm via an open infrastructure that breaks down walled gardens and creates a strong, collaborative foundation for the future of global financial services. Millicent offers lightning-fast money transfers... View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
think, “How can we help each other?” You’d expect someone like this to be very transactional, with a very high sensitivity to perception of current events, with a very high sensitivity to perceived financial... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19
robust evidence that market leaders were significantly more likely to adopt the incremental innovation of e-buying but commensurately less likely to adopt the more radical practice of e-selling. The findings... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne