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  • 10 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

Responsibilities to Society This note outlines a framework to help managers discern and deliver on their responsibilities to society that has been taught in the “Responsibilities to Society” module in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015

point. To help them establish a commercialization strategy, the Hövding board had prevailed upon the founders to hire a professional CEO. But surrendering management control was an emotional process for Haupt and Alstin, while the CEO... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 12

ESG dimensions should be mandated by regulation, and if yes, what form such regulation should take. The underlying debate, of course, relates to the broader issue of the role of the business organization within civil society and whether... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 12

new product, a firm may decide to preannounce untruthfully in order to deter competitors. We examine an incumbent's preannouncement strategy when there is uncertainty regarding the commercial viability of a new product opportunity and a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

products are developed. This article introduces a fundamental tension between incentives and improvement in the provision of feedback. Using a sample of 4,294 commercial logo design tournaments, I show that feedback reduces participation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

With cross-sector collaborations on the rise, a new book exploring partnerships between business and social organizations in the Americas comes at just the right time. Social Partnering in Latin America: Lessons Drawn from Collaborations of Businesses and Civil View Details
Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team
  • 10 Oct 2007
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First Look: First Look: October 10

detail, and supporting economic data is provided. By enabling an analysis of how long and how aggressively an artist should be supported before commercial success is achieved, serves as a vehicle for contrasting different approaches to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How Can Start Ups Grow?

is in the interest of entrepreneurs to grow their firms to a size that sufficiently improves their chances of survival and success. Moreover, large firms are a source of employment, and hence new venture growth is important to society as... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising
  • 23 Sep 2014
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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
  • 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28

insights on the resolution of disputes in global trade while contributing to our understanding of the evolving role of modeling at international organizations. Nations' Income Inequality Predicts Ambivalence in Stereotype Content: How View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

Lehman Brothers Harvard Business School Case 409-042 Explores how two senior Wall St. executives created a successful commercial opportunity for Lehman Brothers that focused on building relationships with minority- and women-owned... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 7

progressively extending them across the country. These incremental reforms supplied the institutional blueprint for India’s universal primary education program in 2000. As policies were introduced from above, civil society mobilized from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Apr 2011
  • Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities
  • 16 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 16

http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/aknin%20et%20al%202013.pdf 2006 American Economic Review A Note on Fairness and Redistribution By: Di Tella, Rafael, and Juan Dubra Abstract—In an influential paper, Alesina and Angeletos (2005)-henceforth, AA-argued that a preference... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

software—is similar to constant social influence: it increases mean performance but decreases exploration Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54901 August 19, 2018 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 07 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 7

to the special role reinsurers have played in the capitalist system. As the industry developed, it had a vested interest in preventing excessive risks, while also providing complex societies with a mechanism to limit the damage that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018

organizations’ impact on society are effective at improving disclosure quantity and quality as well as corporate value. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54148 The Real Exchange Rate, Innovation and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008

that captures all users and earns more than under compatibility. Our model allows a detailed analysis of social efficiency, and we show that entry by developers is socially excessive (insufficient) if competing platforms are compatible (incompatible). We conclude that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

complicate any process of reconciliation. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55564 forthcoming Historical Studies in Computing, Information, and Society: Insights from the Flatiron Lectures An Archetype for Outsiders in Technology View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

forthcoming Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press The Academy of Fisticuffs: Political Economy and Commercial Society in Enlightenment Italy By: Reinert, Sophus A. Abstract—The terms “capitalism” and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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