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- 26 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?
some companies hard-code ethical values—for example, the numerical value of a human life—into an algorithm. Others set up self-teaching AI to “learn” what risks the AV can take. Countries often want automated systems to adhere to local... View Details
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
Context: How States, Markets, and Civil Society Shape Adherence to Global Labor Standards By: Toffel, Michael W., Jodi L. Short, and Melissa Ouellet Abstract—Transnational business regulation is increasingly implemented through private... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
Experimentation By: Thomke, Stefan, and Jim Manzi Abstract—The data you already have can't tell you how customers will react to innovations. To discover if a truly novel concept will succeed, you must subject it to a rigorous experiment. In most companies, tests do not... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
with strong character and immoral behavior from a person of little integrity with weak character. Discussions of character typically hinge on the extent to which an individual believes in and adheres to the basic moral tenets of honesty,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Investor Protection: The Czech Experience
makes the costs of having weak institutions much more tangible. The desire of the Czech Republic to join the EU made it more willing to pay the settlement and adhere to the international standards of protections for foreign investors. An... View Details
- 16 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 16, 2007
business's key success factors and other important interests, and strictly adhering to "professional" compensation principles, which are useful standards to try to follow but they may not meet important personal and family... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
Nordgren, 2006), both modes of thinking have particular advantages: conscious thought can follow strict rules, whereas unconscious thought is better suited for integrating numerous decision attributes. Because most complex decisions require both View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2011
- What Do You Think?
Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?
Kahneman's diagnosis, but not his remedy Whether the decision is to be made by an individual, a team, or 'the bureaucracy', I would say that all would be well served by the discipline imposed by adherence to a rational process (which)... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
record health worker attendance and patient adherence to protocol, and they automatically prompt follow-up treatment. We combine data from surveys, independent field visits, and government registers to identify impacts on TB-control... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
he saw as far too slow a reaction to the threat among major space powers, Okada planned to develop a spacecraft capable of adhering to, and redirecting, that debris. By lowering the costs of debris removal, he hoped to make it routine,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
leaders are required to develop a business plan, adhere to agreed-upon performance metrics, and undergo regular progress reviews conducted by a peer-led oversight committee. The Center for Nanotechnology in Cancer, a new but crucial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
individuals at global companies around standards promulgated in the most prominent international ethical codes and (2) the level of adherence of companies to those standards. Second, with my colleague Andrew Molinsky, I am in the thick of... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
policy sovereignty for the UK and adherence to the “four freedoms” at the heart of the EUs Single Market. A “no deal” Brexit by default remains an option, despite the costs to UK businesses and the wider UK economy. Download working... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
tired of the way things work in their previous organizations and are determined to do things very differently. My findings suggest that for new firms in established industries, there is value to doing some non-technical, symbolic things in the manner that is widely... View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
adherence to the informativeness principle. However, 40% of firms—those that choose index-based benchmarks—retain substantial systematic noise in their rTSR metrics, which they could have substantially corrected by using their self-chosen... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
co-pays and deductibles on essential medications for chronic conditions can reduce adherence to therapy, leading to expensive hospitalizations, complications, and the like. Here, so-called consumer-driven health plans not only failed to... View Details
- 17 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 17, 2008
of management constitute the field organization: store, district, regional, and divisional heads. All these managers are responsible for meeting targets set by corporate headquarters and implementing strategy. To do so, they adhere to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
enterprises fuels anti-China sentiment. At Chambishi copper mine, a 2005 explosion, caused by management's shoddy adherence to safety standards, killed nearly 50 miners and sparked outrage among Zambians. The explosion marked the first in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating a Global Business Code
were asking, 'What standards are we supposed to be adhering to?' " Paine recalls, adding that she heard the same question from executives who, at the time, were facing pressures from many external groups to follow various codes of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
organizations in 20 countries, they and their interview team assessed how well manufacturers, schools, and hospitals adhere to three management basics: targets, incentives, and monitoring. They found that huge numbers of companies follow... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne