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- 25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25
large sample of publicly traded U.S. firms over 15 years, we confirm that in the early 1990s, analysts issue more pessimistic recommendations for firms with high CSR ratings. However, in subsequent years up to 2007, analysts progressively... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 16, 2010
name Shoktidoi) for the nearly 50 million Bangladeshi children using an innovative social business model. The case describes the progress as of 2008 and poses questions regarding how the company might achieve sustainability. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
progress on these issues. One reason is that he keeps reminding Americans of our higher moral purpose. He doesn't get dragged down into the mud when people attack him on all sides. That kind of leadership is necessary to deal with... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
learning about the impact of business on poverty reduction, something about which we know surprisingly little today. Q: How much progress do you think has been made towards reducing global poverty? Are there other key components to... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
process of deep restructuring. Traditionally, indexing and active investment were mixed together in products such as mutual funds. The massive growth of cost-efficient indexing, derivative products and technological progress have made it... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
dollars, the world’s institutions are making scant progress toward the promise of diversity, equity, and inclusion. The central cause: top leaders lack the means to construct and implement comprehensive diversity strategies that are... View Details
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
know-how. A key barrier to empirical progress on this front has been a lack of direct measures of absorption. In this paper, we develop a novel measure of absorptive capacity that attempts to directly track the influence of external... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
opportunity to see both sides of the issue. When Hrad enters into a contract to create a new accounts payable system for Welsh toy distributor Tegan, the outsourcing firm from the Czech Republic views the project as another step in its View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Feb 2025
- News
Joy to the World
work in the community and a collective impact approach. It's using these pillars of joy that we talked about. For the staff, we do an annual staff survey where we ask questions about staff well-being and also looking at these domains of joy. And we've been able to see... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
hold. The goal of her work has been to see what happens if she throws a stone in a pond: “It’s not going to make grand waves,” Oishi says. “But if we keep throwing stones, then maybe we can get somewhere.” Introducing progress not with a... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
case:http://hbr.org/search/713013-PDF-ENG Blackstone's Investment in Intelenet Lerner, Josh, Sandeep Bapat, and Rachna TahilyaniHarvard Business School Case 213-036 Three years had passed since Blackstone's investment in Intelenet Global Services, their third largest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
theorized to be 1) normative or value-laden, 2) progressing in bursts of change over time, 3) socially constructed and culturally embedded, and 4) associated with logics that shape practices. We develop a framework, outlining the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
the institute's culture, which had previously allowed faculty scientists complete autonomy over their research. Center leaders are required to develop a business plan, adhere to agreed-upon performance metrics, and undergo regular View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
MaterialsKKR: Leveraging Sustainability Robert G. Eccles, George Serafeim, and Tiffany A. ClayHarvard Business School Case 112-032 The case describes KKR's Green Portfolio Program, one of the firm's environmental initiatives, which has achieved $160 million in cost... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
forecast for the next quarter's earnings. Although we cannot draw any conclusions about the impact of independent brokerage activity subsequent to 2000, our analysis prior to that time indicates that such brokerages were also characterized by persistent overoptimism.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
eye-opening account that challenges our preconceptions of identity as it shines new light on the long shadows of white supremacy and marginalization that continue to hamper progress for Black Americans. The Able Archers By Brian J. Morra... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
that was in scarce supply, as Khoja and his team worked under the six-month deadline. “We’d have a huddle session every day at 7 a.m. and say, okay, what do we need to do to get to launch?” he recalls. “It didn’t matter who did what—we’d assign that day’s tasks and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
forthcoming Academy of Management Discoveries Creativity, Artificial Intelligence, and a World of Surprises By: Amabile, Teresa M. Abstract—In recent years, progress has been made toward AI Creativity, which I define as the production of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
general of the Nigeria-based International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), is making progress toward two of his primary strategic objectives for the nonprofit research Institute: 1) to scale the impact and reach of some of the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
asteroid miner. Such visions are clearly not going to become reality in the near future. But detailed roadmaps to them are being produced, and recent progress in the required technologies has been dramatic. If such space-economy visions... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman