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  • 11 Oct 2016
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October 11, 2016

significantly larger nominal bond risk premia and borrow less in local currency. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51720 Tort Reform and Innovation By: Galasso, Alberto, and Hong Luo Abstract—Current... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

of the industry and the company itself may help us understand this decision. If their intended message was that several institutional stakeholders shared responsibility in waste disposal, then over-identification of its brand with the... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team
  • 22 Feb 2011
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The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

modular architectures, and good stewardship of legacy systems. It rests on multiple, complementary platforms. It requires intellectual property rights to be present, but not too strong. Finally, it requires participants—both users and producers—to be aware of the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2000
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Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management

of his week are devoted to fundraising, "it never feels like enough." Education and Outreach Education is a central element in any museum's mission statement. How each museum chooses to fulfill its educational duty in terms of its local... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; museums; marketing; management; nonprofits; education; facilities; Internet; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services
  • 01 Jun 1996
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Keepers of the Flame

of this bid attracted me to the cause. Under the leadership of Atlanta real-estate attorney Billy Payne, who is now ACOG's president and CEO, a small group of local people was determined to bring the Olympics here because they felt it... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 15 Nov 2011
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First Look: November 15

billion additional urban dwellers. Second, shared resources like clean water, clean air, energy, and places to put solid waste are already scarce and constrained. Urbanization will only exacerbate these pressures. Third, almost no local... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Patience Experience working with students and faculty What makes it challenging to work in the Healthcare Initiative? We are a small department with broad goals and high aspirations. Continuing to adapt to our stakeholders needs while... View Details
  • 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7

forthcoming Abstract A broad literature has emerged over the past decades demonstrating that firms' environmental strategies and practices are influenced by stakeholders and institutional pressures. Such findings are consistent with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

support functions. Rather than dictating the company-level measures down to the operating units, leaders encourage the operating units to define their own strategy—based on local market conditions, competition, operating technologies, and... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
  • 30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30

uncover unexpected effects of leaders' legitimation efforts. Leaders engaged in a set of legitimation activities aimed at helping external stakeholders understand and appreciate the firm and its industry. These activities had three... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008

on the political and institutional contexts within which opportunities for policy learning emerge. In particular, opportunities for policy learning are examined with respect to (a) agenda or priority-setting on environmental issues, (b) View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Mar 2016
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Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

far less open about revealing information about their activities. In many cases, it is extraordinarily difficult to find information about firms which are opaque to outsiders. In both countries, there is a particular distrust between the business sector and View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 May 2012
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First Look: May 8

consolidated and centralized all key functions, while their "My Macy's" initiative focused on customizing the offerings of individual stores to local markets. By 2011, Macy's had many advantages, including an energized, highly... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

signatories. Could the costs be minimized under a new agreement without reducing the benefits? Did buying local goods help create the most jobs in a country? What was the role of business? Everyone wondered what the potential... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53888 Racial Heterogeneity and Local Government Finances: Evidence from the Great Migration By: Tabellini, Marco Abstract—Is racial heterogeneity responsible for the distressed financial... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017

competing stakeholder demands, keep the business running, and ultimately paid back every dollar it owed to its creditors by selling the company’s core assets—its travel plazas—to its main competitor in 2010. Since that time, the company... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

shock that occurred when the agency expanded the scope of its ratings. Our study is among the first to theorize about the impact of ratings on subsequent performance, and we introduce important contingencies that influence firm response. These theoretical advances... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Jun 2018
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My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses

or a resource-based problem-- so that all the stakeholders can succeed. I've had an additional career in health care. I've been the CEO of my local hospital, and I took these same principles forward there.... View Details
  • 05 May 2003
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Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

even the appearance of impropriety if they are to recover America's trust.—Constance Bagley A number of states have gone even further than Delaware and passed "constituency statutes," which expressly give directors the right to take all View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
  • 27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27

headquarters to local plant managers in almost 4,000 firms in the United States, Europe, and Asia. We find that firms headquartered in high trust regions are more likely to decentralize, with trust accounting for about half of the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel