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- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
April 2002, started providing its branch managers with customer lifetime value (CLV) information about mortgage applicants. The data allow us to gauge the effects of enriching the information set of these employees in an environment where... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
employee’s desk is only 166 meters from the clinic. Base proximity does not predict vaccination probability. Conclusions and Relevance: Minor changes in the environment can have substantial effects on the probability of vaccination. If... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2021
- Research & Ideas
What Does an ESG Score Really Say About a Company?
Receiving more information can clarify the complex, but not when it comes to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores. A recent study shows that the more information a company discloses about its ESG practices, the more rating agencies disagree on how well... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
commonly observed organizational pattern, review the empirical evidence, and conclude with open research questions. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49262 Forthcoming Journal of Economic Geography Return Migration and Geography of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Transforming Manufacturing Waste into Profit
It's been said that "one man's trash is another man's treasure." HBS Assistant Professor Deishin Lee, however, has taken that old adage a step further in her recent working paper Turning Waste into By-Product by showing how it's possible for companies to turn... View Details
- 30 Jan 2024
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Second-Generation Ethanol Production Help Decarbonize the World?
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
and the Global Economy" shows how China's engagement with the global economy has changed over time. These materials should be of interest to observers and participants of Chinese business and as a means to consider the bigger picture shaping the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
Organizational Behavior The Energizing Nature of Work Engagement: Toward a New Need-Based Theory of Work Motivation By: Green, Paul, Eli Finkel, Grainne Fitzsimons, and Francesca Gino Abstract—We present theory suggesting that experiences... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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The founding and expansion of new firms is central to innovation and economic growth, but the determinants of a new idea’s success are difficult to ascertain. The decision to form a new firm and its ultimate outcome are impacted by ownership structure, financing... View Details
- 21 Jun 2017
- Book
Meet the Oddball Entrepreneurs Who Invented Green Businesses
- 11 Apr 2023
- Cold Call Podcast
A Rose by Any Other Name: Supply Chains and Carbon Emissions in the Flower Industry
- 02 Jan 2024
- Cold Call Podcast
Should Businesses Take a Stand on Societal Issues?
Keywords: Re: Hubert Joly
- 28 Jun 2022
- Book
The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose
How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 23 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Strategy-Focused Organization
occurred early in 1995 that revealed the commitment of the executive leadership team both to the new strategy and to the Balanced Scorecard. The winter (first quarter) of 1995 was unusually warm in North America. Sales of home heating oil and View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
the conditions to thrive tomorrow. We argue that organizational sustainability depends on attending to strategic paradox, engaging contradictory yet interrelated strategies simultaneously. Drawing on our research and the work of others, we explore the paradoxical View Details
- 27 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11
identity, however, is extremely difficult when an organization’s environment changes. Following a profound external shock, an organization’s design must change, as must elements of its identity. But how do they do so? Do they both change... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 02 Nov 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Accounting for Organizational Employment Impact
- 27 Feb 2024
- Cold Call Podcast