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24 Nov 2014
Research & Ideas

Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes

counsel. "Sometimes they'll be a little more subtle and say, 'My wife's going to be in Hong Kong next week, and she's going shopping.' Either you say, 'That's nice,' and you pass on, or you say, 'What store is she going to, and can I give you an View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: ASIA - Alumni

of post-graduation career exploration funds that a HBS graduate may receive in their lifetime from all HBS and Harvard University sources is capped at $150,000 USD. Sources include, but are not limited to, the HBS Social Enterprise Loan... View Details

June 2017 (Revised August 2018)
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Making Target the Target: Boycotts and Corporate Political Activity (B)

By: Nien-hê Hsieh and Victor Wu

Supplements the (A) Case. View Details

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03 Apr 2012
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doubled effort within the competitive regime and increased effort by roughly half in the cooperative regime, while accounting for incentives. Our experimental approach and results indicate the importance of View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

24 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

accounting for both personal and social activity, and encourage customers to interact with each other postadoption. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54735 January–February... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

21 Jun 2011
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http://www.nber.org/confer/2009/EIf09/summary.html The Learning Effects of Monitoring Authors: Dennis Campbell, Marc Epstein, and F. Asís Martínez Jerez Publication: The Accounting Review (forthcoming) Abstract This paper investigates the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Dec 2011
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First Look: Dec. 6

wrong answer unless one takes into account the different ways in which firms compete (that is, their business strategy). Because macro-level shocks reverberate differently at the firm level depending on whether a firm has a cost structure... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2018
What Do You Think?

Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?

kinwun Summing Up: What are the Earmarks of a “New Economy?” Responses to this month’s column rightly focused on the need for measures and standards before deciding whether we are entering an era of social and economic change as... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Mar 2013
What Do You Think?

Who Should Manage Our Work Time?

laid the blame at the foot of "an engineer who had difficulty forecasting simple activities and (the) time to accomplish them." Joseph Mello commented that " part of the problem comes from the view of an organization as a machine as opposed to a View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

evolution of the organization’s attempts to grow its social impact in Brazil and beyond—including a loose network of sister organizations, social franchising, licensing agreements, and government adoption.... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

2021
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Shareholder Activism and Firms’ Voluntary Disclosure of Climate Change Risks

By: Caroline Flammer, Michael W. Toffel and Kala Viswanathan

This paper examines whether—in the absence of mandated disclosure requirements—shareholder activism can elicit greater disclosure of firms’ exposure to climate change risks. We find that environmental shareholder activism increases the voluntary disclosure of climate... View Details

Keywords: Shareholder Activism; Climate Risk; Corporate Accountability; Climate Change; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Shareholder Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Natural Environment; Environmental Sustainability; Financial Services Industry; United States

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14 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 14, 2006

http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781591841395,00.html The Costs and Benefits of Undoing Egocentric Responsibility Assessments in Groups Authors:E. Caruso, N. Epley, and M. H. Bazerman. Periodical:Journal of Personality and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Aug 2022
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Open Market

today. Through social media and the immediate connections people have to brands, customers are able to have direct dialogue with companies they love (or hate). We think about this when we look at our platform. We want people to feel... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Keith Negley; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

January 2024
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ECOALF: Fashion for the Future

By: Elizabeth A. Keenan, Diego Aparicio, Carlota Moniz and María José Satrústegui

ECOALF, a Spanish fashion brand and sustainability pioneer, aimed to tackle the industry's challenges of excessive consumption and production. The brand's mission was to create timeless apparel exclusively from recycled and eco-responsible materials, matching the... View Details

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07 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 7

policy solutions, a challenging proposition in a politically polarized environment. This paper focuses on how CEOs engage in the political process to encourage government policies that will foster sustainability transitions and address other View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 May 2016
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May 31, 2016

Experimental Social Psychology Visual Attention to Powerful Postures: People Reflexively Avert Their Gaze from Nonverbal Dominance Displays By: Holland, Elise, Elizabeth Baily Wolf, Christine Looser, and Amy Cuddy Abstract—This paper... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 24, 2009

Arabia's development strategy unfolds in the past six years, it is contrasted to social and political pressures within the country, volatility in global oil markets, and severe political problems in the Middle East. Purchase the case: View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

experts to discuss how researchers can impact a broader audience, by lending their scientific expertise to pressing social issues, current events, and public debates. The landmark Brown v. Board of Education case, in which the Supreme... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

02 Aug 2016
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August 2, 2016

households. The quality of the liquidity services provided by bank liabilities depends on their safety in case of default. Commercial bank debt is fully insured and thus provides full liquidity. However, commercial banks do not internalize the View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

January 2025
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Hippo: Weathering the Storm of the Home Insurance Crisis (B)

By: Lauren Cohen, Grace Headinger and Sophia Pan

Rick McCathron, CEO of Hippo, was optimistic about the InsurTech's path to profitability after navigating the financial uncertainties of 2022. By bundling their home insurance services with third-parties and established insurance incumbents, Hippo was adopting a... View Details

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Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes

Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: ASIA - Alumni

Making Target the Target: Boycotts and Corporate Political Activity (B)

First Look: April 3

New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

First Look: June 21

First Look: Dec. 6

Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?

Who Should Manage Our Work Time?

New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

Shareholder Activism and Firms’ Voluntary Disclosure of Climate Change Risks

First Look: November 14, 2006

Open Market

ECOALF: Fashion for the Future

First Look at New Research: February 7

May 31, 2016

First Look: March 24, 2009

New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

August 2, 2016

Hippo: Weathering the Storm of the Home Insurance Crisis (B)