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09 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 9, 2008

independent social rating agency and avoids selection issues by taking advantage of a natural experiment that arose when the agency expanded the scope of its ratings. We find empirical support for our hypotheses and present implications for managers of rated companies... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Dec 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Against the Grain

What should Jim do? The array of ethical choices forms the basis of discussion in the MBA required course Leadership and Corporate Accountability. Supply And Demand "Corruption can be defined as paying for a good or service in... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Food & Beverage

13 Dec 2022
News

The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith

leaders to not only learn about the challenges unique to Appalachia, but also learn from the innovative initiatives happening across the states in economic development, education, public infrastructure, and the energy transition happening... View Details

19 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf

delivering the goods and services to our customers more effectively than our competitors. Once we decided it was strategic, we had to fix it or suffer the consequences; and no one was willing to suffer the consequences of gradual loss of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat & Derek Schrader

09 Mar 2021
News

Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges

Aubree Mills with students at the Ira A. Murphy Elementary School in Peoria, Arizona. Courtesy Aubree Mills Elementary school principal Aubree Mills had two dilemmas she needed to address: One was recruiting and retaining good teachers at... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

06 Dec 2021
Research & Ideas

The Popular Stock Metric That Can Lead Investors Astray

the company were liquidated. Market value reflects the total value of a public company’s outstanding shares based on the market price for a share. A stock with higher book-to-market ratio, such as when it is higher than 1, is considered... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

02 Apr 2010
What Do You Think?

Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?

are, at the same time, exercising cost-cutting efforts (such as low wages, poor benefits, no health insurance for many employees in the case of Wal-Mart, fines for safety violations in the case of BP) in dealing with their employees. Pfeffer cites a large body of... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Mar 2023
News

Enabling Students to Pursue Their Passions

David Velasquez (MBA/MPP 2023, MD 2024), right, at the GOTVax mobile clinic in greater Boston he helped to cofound. Photos courtesy David Valesquez David Velasquez (MBA/MPP 2023, MD 2024), right, at the GOTVax mobile clinic in greater Boston he helped to cofound.... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jan 2004
News

Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964

to children's furniture and toys. Upon leaving the Commission six years later, Franklin joined the Wharton faculty. However, her public service continued. She served four terms as a member of the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and... View Details

12 May 2011
Research & Ideas

The Difficult Transition from For-Profit to Nonprofit Boards

Both organizations can grow, transform, merge, or die. Success is not guaranteed for either type of organization, but requires sustained work. In both cases, cash is king. This for-profit focus is critical for a nonprofit board. In both settings, View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

04 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Max Bazerman

inefficiencies and waste we document in our book could be eliminated by the adoption of meaningful campaign-finance reform. Unfortunately, the majority of the public does not press its leaders on this issue. Q: You discuss a number of... View Details

Keywords: Re: Max H. Bazerman

Web

Data Tips & Toolkits - Research Computing Services

HuggingFace is a hub for open-source pre-trained models and provides a user-friendly approach to implement them. They have numerous informative and effective NLP tutorials . Topic Modeling Packages Gensim is often used for Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic... View Details

04 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: January 4

may be positive and is strictly lower than 1. We also investigate the possibility of platforms investing in "educating" unsophisticated users. In a competitive environment, such education is a public View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2006
News

The Hard Way

Australia’s leading public financial services companies with assets, investments, and loans under management of more than A$36 billion. Secure in her own success, Russo has made good on her desire to include... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

09 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch

"the top 200 chief executives at public companies with at least $1 billion in revenue got a big pay raise over last year," with a median 2012 compensation package of $15.1 million, up 16 percent from 2011. What's going on here?... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

11 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’

This statute also tells directors that they may delegate the actual running of the company to its officers. Court decisions related to director conduct are largely focused on matters of process-that is, on how boards are to carry out their duties. For example,... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Lorsch

01 Jan 2005
News

Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964

Indian Industry, which represents over 5,000 companies from India's private and public sectors. In that role in 1994-95, he chaired a blue-ribbon committee of twenty CEOs who wrote India's first report on the principles of View Details

19 Sep 2012
News

On a Sound Track

headquarters, where Skullcandy creates and markets high-quality, boldly designed headphones, earbuds, speaker docks, iPhone/iPod accessories, and clothing. What’s this first year as CEO been like? We went public in July 2011, a few months... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; audio equipment; fashion; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

03 Apr 2017
What Do You Think?

How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?

from public funding) to work with over 10 years. That’s enough to design a six-month $10,000 retraining program (focusing on skills defined by unfilled jobs) plus a $10 per hour wage funded by the government followed by six months of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Construction

16 Aug 2024
In Practice

Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?

vital infrastructure that keeps the economy—and goods and services—moving, including roads, bridges, ports, and freight trains. Businesses that want employees to return to the office know that commute times can depend on potholes and... View Details