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- 01 Sep 2020
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The Devil You Don’t Know
could have been—for creating a resolution mechanism to manage the failure of large financial institutions, for example—and by late summer, as you know, Fannie and Freddie were in deep trouble, and in September, Lehman failed and the whole... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
course of the last nine years, I have, pretty much, worked exclusively on the energy transition and addressing climate change. But continuously, by looking for ways in which business can be a force for good. And can be the scaling View Details
- 27 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
Karthik, David F. Drake, and Douglas Fearing Abstract—Mobile money systems, platforms built and managed by mobile network operators to allow money to be stored as digital currency, have burgeoned in the developing world as a mechanism to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2014
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First Look: May 20
likely to perform effectively those functions. We describe the concept of integrated reporting and why integrated reporting could be a superior mechanism to perform these functions. Moreover, we discuss, through a series of case studies,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25
a comprehensive sample of shareholder activism between 2004 and 2011, we find that directors are almost twice as likely to leave over a two-year period if the firm is the subject of a shareholder activist campaign. While it has been argued that proxy contests are an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 21, 2009
desire for a product when sweatshop labor is present. Furthermore, we present evidence for a mediated moderation where beliefs about sweatshop labor use moderates the impact of desirability on purchase intention, and moral disengagement mediates this process. Motivated... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
technology, but these results are driven almost entirely by heterogeneous effects by those with and without computer science and engineering (CS&E) backgrounds. Specifically, tests of underlying mechanisms reveal that unlocking... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
survival of only the most productive domestic firms. We investigate the roles of the two different mechanisms in determining the aggregate productivity gains by exploring their distinct predictions on the distributions of domestic firms:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2016
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February 16, 2016
Retail Chain By: Deller, Carolyn, and Tatiana Sandino Abstract—This paper contributes to an emerging literature in management control that studies employee selection as a mechanism to align employees with corporate goals and values.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jan 2010
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First Look: January 5
Involvement in Process Improvement Author:Anita L. Tucker Abstract Managers play a critical role in process improvement. However, research has found that many improvement efforts fail due to insufficient management involvement. Less is known, however, about View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
a multilateral agreement on foreign investment that parallels the World Trade Organization. This would create a body of "legislation" and a dispute settlement mechanism that balances the needs of both rich and poor countries. Previous... View Details
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
than ever before, says Paine. And boards now have the responsibility of continuously monitoring the culture and staying ahead of problems. “If you’re on a board, you should be asking: ‘Do we have adequate mechanisms in place to understand... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
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The City Solution
mechanism to make it clear that the atmosphere is a scarce resource, and we have to treat it that way,” he says. “That change would go a long way to creating incentives for the kinds of cities we ought to aspire to live in. Governments... View Details
- 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=43707 Cases & Course MaterialsNatural Gas Abdelal, Rawi, and Sogomon TarontsiHarvard Business School Case 713-020 In an overview of natural gas as a fossil fuel and traded commodity, the case describes various regional markets... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
chronically underperforming school. The environment in which public school districts operate includes the political and policy context at the city, state, and national level, the funding mechanisms that allocate revenue each year, the... View Details
- 26 Jun 2025
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The Vinyl Revival
in-depth playing, and it's sentimental. It says something about you when you own a record. Streaming is really a mechanism for discovery for a lot of these artists. I listen to a lot of digital myself and it's convenient, and has turned... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
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Clearing the Air
actually containing the CO2 molecules, then the economic mechanisms and the contracts about carbon trading won’t work. “We are at a tipping point.” “We are at a tipping point.” What makes Project Bison different from other DAC projects?... View Details
- 25 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 25, 2007
There is a temptation to explain the wide variety of approaches as a characteristic of the early stage of development in which the genre resides. Based on the evidence of three case studies, this paper explores the mechanisms that guide... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
3). We contribute to the literature on trust by examining trust accuracy (rather than mere trust levels), identifying the significant role of brief interpersonal contact, and revealing other-focused perspective taking as a key mechanism... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Jan 2017
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Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
immigration from certain countries has the potential to reduce the competitiveness of the US in the long run, as it mechanically restricts the pool of applicants (not only applicants from these countries, but also any applicants who... View Details
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