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- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
transparency in the food industry, and the iterative process that created Clover’s different look and feel. READ MORE Julia Hanna: So how would you describe Clover Food Lab to someone who’s never been there before? Ayr Muir: At its most... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
independent and dispersed contributors made highly interdependent contributions to the design of a single technical system (or sub-system). Based on a detailed analysis of the latter 28, we introduce the concept of actionable transparency... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 7, 2015
segments to existing products, lowering price by removing features, failing to think through all the technical requirements, neglecting stakeholders, and refusing to believe products created for low-income markets could have global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?
suggest that the link between reduced taxes and shareholder benefits is tenuous. Specifically, my coauthors and I have examined a crackdown in tax enforcement in Russia that was accompanied by an increase in share prices of those... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
oversees a transparent award. Fourth, projects can be planned and sequenced to optimize cumulative benefit. While it’s tempting to spread infrastructure spending around for political reasons, that can lead to disconnected and unrelated... View Details
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
Liquidity Dean Jay Light began his introductory remarks by characterizing the crisis and collapse of housing prices as a test that has exposed how fragile the recently evolved U.S. financial system is. "Leverage, transparency, and... View Details
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
If you ask any given environmentalist to identify the biggest threat to the planet, you may expect to hear about man-made climate change, consumerism, or overpopulation. But if you ask Harvard Business School's Joseph B. Lassiter, he'll toss in another: single-issue... View Details
- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
A&P lost that position. This fact it learned the hard way in 1972 when it launched a price war. The hostilities were conducted under the banner of WEO, which was supposed to stand for "Where Economy Originates." This ugly, clumsy... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
organizations impact people and the environment, but we are making very significant progress. With transparency comes accountability and eventually the opportunities for entrepreneurship, investments, and creation of business solutions.”... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=46138 Forthcoming Accounting Review An Analysis of Self-reported Anticorruption Efforts By: Healy, Paul M., and George Serafeim Abstract—We use Transparency International's ratings of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
were being purchased, with each factory having its own suppliers and price points. While this revelation was itself startling, the manager maximized its impact by inviting the company's division presidents into a boardroom where samples... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Hierarchy's Last Stand
meeting with critics. One CEO of the new, humbler variety published a dialogue with a customer who questioned high prices in the company newsletter, replete with pointed attacks, some of which he admitted he couldn’t answer well. Status... View Details
- 10 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
Working for a Shamed Company Can Hurt Your Future Compensation
executives by examining how they are penalized in starting pay when looking for new work. The study, co-written with Eric Lin of the United States Military Academy at West Point, reveals these executives pay a steep price for guilt by... View Details
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
listed a pair of women's sandals on Flipkart's website at 799 Indian rupees ( ) and offered it on promotion at 399. However, upon close examination of the product's display photo, consumers noticed a 399 price tag printed on the strap.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
incumbent that faces a low-quality ad-sponsored competitor. In addition to competing through adjustments of tactical variables such as price or the number of ads a product carries, we allow the incumbent to consider changes in its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
borrowers likely involve fewer monitoring tools and weaker control rights. We evaluate these explanations of cov-lite contract provisions in a large sample of U.S. loans for the 2001–2014 period. Consistent with creditor-driven explanations for cov-lite issuance, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Unpacking Hidden Risk in the Trusted Treasury Market | Working Knowledge
Treasuries, hedge funds' rising influence, and what it all means for the economy. When economic fears take hold, investors seek safety in Treasuries—high demand raises Treasury prices and lowers their yields. But that’s not what happened... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
almost managerial malpractice if you don't make crowdsourcing part of your toolkit." What about the fear of losing the ability to monetize intellectual property (IP)? Those are valid concerns. It really depends on the crowdsourcing approach you use. With a contest, the... View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
Transparency with Costly Information Processing By: Di Maggio, Marco, and Marco Pagano Abstract—We study a model where some investors (“hedgers”) are bad at information processing, while others (“speculators”) have superior... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
one of the biggest personal backers of Bitcoin, having purchased about $20 million worth of the digital currency with his own money. (The price has since fallen precipitously, but Draper is unfazed: “I think Bitcoin is going to pay off,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna