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- 01 Apr 1999
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Spirit at Work
uncomfortable territory in an effort to respond to their employees' deeper yearnings. While spirituality is a highly individual and personal matter, managers and employees alike seem to find common themes emerging when they begin thinking...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 27 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 27
far more attention. In this compelling and authoritative new book, the authors document a rising chorus of concerns about business schools gleaned from extensive interviews with deans and executives as well as from a detailed analysis of current curricula and View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Computer Security is For Managers, Too
Companies need to have smart technicians who stay abreast of emerging digital threats and defenses, of course, but the technicians shouldn't be calling the shots. General managers need to take the lead in building processes that will...
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- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS
accounts. But, by the early twentieth century a large industry had emerged that provided basic financial services to the public. In the 1930s the modern regulatory framework for this industry was created. In broad terms, my research...
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- 03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015
November 2015 Quarterly Journal of Economics Behavioral Hazard in Health Insurance By: Baicker, Katherine, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Joshua Schwartzstein Abstract—A fundamental implication of standard moral hazard models is overuse of low-value View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
creating healthy lives, not just profits, from its medical products. Higher-ambition leaders craft a distinctive set of practices, outlined in our book, to enact the multiple stakeholder perspective." In addition to being the Cahners-Robb...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
challenge facing today's business leaders is threefold. While the old strategy-structure-systems doctrine was very effective at allocating capital, he explains, it has proven a constraint as companies try to manage information, knowledge, and expertise — the View Details
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Nancy O. Perry
- 17 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 17, 2007
transforming locally engaged citizens into viewers consuming programming from distant sources. In response to such concerns, many regulatory agencies, including the Federal Communication Commission in the United States, curtail the...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4
Publication:Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization (forthcoming) Abstract We discuss the birth of a new economy in a society that has only recently emerged from a 22-year-long civil war. The pace of growth so far has been fast...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
process, managing turnarounds of Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center, and three decades of leadership in international finance. He and two of his children recently launched Wolfensohn & Company, LLC, a private investment firm and adviser to corporations and...
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- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
unregulated regions and increase global emissions in the process. Carbon tariffs have emerged as a possible mechanism to address these concerns by imposing carbon costs on imports at the regulated region's border. I show that, when firms...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 27
and third, organizational filters will affect adoption of all practices. Using unique survey data from 161 F500 organizations, supplemented by archival and qualitative data, we focus on two Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practice...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
the world? And how do we make sure that our students, when they graduate, are equipped to operate in a global world?” Out of that questioning emerged a strategy that remains unique among US business schools. Beginning in the mid-1990s,...
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- 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
Responsible Mining. Assessment of four necessary conditions for SDG contributions (goal alignment, rule strength, uptake patterns, indirect effects) suggest weak contributions to date. First, only the weakest versions of standards are...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007
informativeness and credibility, we also document that the information content of management earnings forecasts, as measured by the strength of share price responses to forecast news, increased in 1993-1996 relative to 1983-1986. As...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2016
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July 12, 2016
with more children and those with children closest to college age. Taken together, the results indicate that the rising cost of higher education may be partially responsible for the decline in new business starts in the United States....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
efficiency? What if cars weren’t made up of 25,000 different parts? What if, instead of giant factories that operate on economies of scale, forced to produce millions of the same cars to make a profit, we produced cars in small batches, allowing us to be more View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
diversity issues, notes, "Even companies that once were mostly interested in hiring women and minorities either out of a sense of moral obligation or merely to comply with the law now see the value that comes from broadening the demographics of their workforce. "With...
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Garry Emmons
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
vision for the organization of the future; reveals the workplace innovations that emerged during the pandemic; and defines the new model of leadership for sustaining continuous change throughout the coming years of opportunity and...
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- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
variation. One of them might be some degree of turmoil in the group. Throughout the case, we see Paul trying on different leadership hats. A lot of them don't fit, in his estimation. It's remarkable how much doesn't work given the superb quality of what View Details