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Law, Management and Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog

Enhance understanding of the legal life cycle of a start-up including structuring and financing issues, tax considerations, founder/investor conflicts, liquidity and exit issues; and Consider what’s customary and fair in various... View Details
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders

several years ago in Asian Business magazine's annual most admired companies survey, Siam Cement Group (SCG) was one of the first firms in Thailand to develop its own written code of ethics. SCG's philosophy is rooted in the Buddhist concept of View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
  • 24 Mar 2023
  • News

Exploring Talent Markets; Aid for Turkey

turbulence in talent markets that isn't ending anytime soon. "There's been a fundamental shift in the marketplace, where employees have more power than they had in the past," says Kwok. "So companies are asking, ‘how do we attract and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 30 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

forthcoming Compensation & Benefits Review The Power of Workplace Rewards: Using Self-Determination Theory to Understand Why Reward Satisfaction Matters for Workers Around the World By: Landry, Anais Thibault, and A.V. Whillans Abstract—How can workplace rewards... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 09 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 9

leadership of former chairman and CEO Steve Reinemund who instituted diversity as one of the company's strategic imperatives. It demonstrates the ways in which Reinemund partnered with his leadership team and employees throughout the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • October 2014
  • Case

Teckentrup: A Door to Managing Difference

By: Clayton Rose, Jerome Lenhardt and Daniela Beyersdorfer
For Kai Teckentrup, the owner and co-CEO of the German "Mittelstand" door manufacturer Teckentrup, balancing competitive pressures, demographic realities and values were at the heart of the diversity program that he had started and championed at the company. Beyond... View Details
Keywords: Diversity Management; Corporate Values; Competitiveness; Demographics; Change Management; Transformation; Diversity; Ethnicity; Gender; Literacy; Nationality; Race; Residency; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Culture; Economic Growth; Fairness; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Immigration; Employee Relationship Management; Civil Society or Community; Manufacturing Industry; Construction Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Europe; Germany; Russia; Turkey
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  • 02 Jan 2019
  • What Do You Think?

SUMMING UP: Do We Need an Artificial Intelligence Czar?

incompetent entrepreneur that wants to steal from the better firm and distort the market is accountable only to his bank account and ethics. So we need someone capable enough to make sure markets remain free and fair an AI czar would work... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology
  • 28 Mar 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Sophisticated Investors May Be Harming Fintech Lending Platforms

School Assistant Professor Boris Vallée. “Platforms need to be attentive about this potential problem when thinking about their design. They want as many investors as possible, both sophisticated and less so, [and] they want to make sure it’s a sufficiently View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Banking; Financial Services
  • 12 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions

widespread skepticism for the possibility of fair regulation. The power of big business is limited by the need to work with a range of powerful but diffuse societal groups. In his new book, Strength in Numbers: The Political Power of Weak... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 01 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 1

Building on previous research, we argue that verifiability and conservatism, while detracting from accounting's role in equity valuation, are critical features of GAAP under efficient contracting. We recognize the advantage of using fair... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 15

taxes. I generalize the conventional model to incorporate multiple normative frameworks. I then show that if the principle of equal sacrifice-a classic, comprehensive criterion of fair taxation proposed by John Stuart Mill and associated... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Nov 2019
  • News

Keeping Red Lobster Fresh

brand. Well-known, right. How do you change people's vision of what that is? KL: So that is a really terrific question, because our brand is 51 years old and there are a fair number of people who may not have been to one in the past 20... View Details
Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality
  • 14 Nov 2006
  • First Look

First Look: November 14, 2006

for a historic opportunity. He became the third employee of Intel, working for the legendary Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce. As talented as he was as an engineer, Grove became an even better manager, as we learn from exclusive excerpts... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jan 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies

If you start a discussion about workplace diversity policies, don't be surprised if the hopeful topics of ethnic, racial, and gender heterogeneity lead to negative discussions about sexism, bigotry, and injustice. "Talking about and studying diversity is often... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Mar 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Is E-commerce at Risk in Apple's Security Dispute with the FBI?

gets slippery very quickly. Personally, I think it’s a fair thing for Apple to make it into a public debate and get a reaction from other tech people, as well as the public, especially given the stakes. As Bill Gates has already said,... View Details
Keywords: Re: Sunil Gupta; Technology
  • 21 Jan 2015
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Managing the Family Business: Market Basket’s Lessons About Buyouts

2014, when George's branch obtained control and fired the CEO—who happened to be a cousin, Arthur T. Demoulas. Management was outraged, and the employees walked out in support of their CEO. The company lost tens of millions of dollars as... View Details
Keywords: Retail
  • 21 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 21

for making CBA more effective, rather than eliminating CBA as a decision-making tool. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-001.pdf Reputation and Competition: Evidence from the Credit Rating Industry (revised) Authors:Bo Becker and Todd Milbourn... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Apr 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Will Women Leaders Influence the Way We Work?

objected to such generalizations and stereotyping, saying that "Typifying women as 'more sensitive' and 'consensus building' sets up expectations that don't fit women in leadership roles . In all cases, to be fair and accurate, you... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 05 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

which require full and fair disclosure of the financial performance of companies and of the risks associated with their business. This attitude is reminiscent of the Roaring Twenties when, according to Representative (and later Speaker of... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
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Improve Decision-Making in Hiring: Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them - Recruiting

not limited to venture capital but also expand to goods and service-based businesses. Addressing Unconscious Bias in Recruiting There are excellent resources to help train your managers and employees to confront unconscious bias, and we... View Details